Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-04-23
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Up FOR LIVELY
CAMPAIGN
GO INTO NEXT FALL 'SsBATTLE OF
BALLOTS WITH COMPLETE
COUNTY TICKET.
GIBSON TALKS OF MOVEMENT
Meets With Local Party Leaders and
Maps Plan Of Action--Finds SEN
timent Strong in North.

Launching sweeping state and
county wide campaign, with a full
county ticket in the field, is the mission
of State Chairman James H. Gipson, of
the Progressive party of Idaho, who is
paying his first visit to Idaho county
this week by two days. stay in
Grangeville. Mr.. Gipson arrived here
last night and was met at the Imperial
by delegation of Progressive leaders
with whom he was in conference until
late hour in the evening. At this
session the Progressives decided to call
a meeting at the court house tonight
when the campaign will be formally
inaugurated.
While as yet the details of the cam
paign have not been formulated it is
practically certain, Mr.. Gipson states,
that complete county ticket will be
placed in the field in Idaho county this
fall. Throughout his present tour, he
says, the Progressives in practically
every county are uniting for an aggres-
sive, determined battle and will go
down the line to put in office, not only
the candidates on the state ticket, but
Progressive candidates for county Of
fiees. This certainly argues well for
the sincerity OF the Progressive cause
in the Gem state and, as Mr.. Gipson has
pointed out, it appears that the party
has much larger following over the
state and in Idaho county than in 1912.
Organize Progressive Club.
AT tonight's meeting the first step,
according to the program, is the forma.
tion of a Progressive club in Idaho
county to conduct this fall Is campaign,
Speaking of the Progressive move
ment in general Mr.. Gipson said to-
day:
II have held conferences of Pro.
gressives in every county of the north,
and in thirteen Of the most thickly
populated counties of the south, cover
ing all that section which has at least
three-fourths of the vote of the state.
At every meeting l have endeavOred
to get at the actual facts as regards
the present strength of the movement
in this state; ! have wanted to find
the weak spots and the strong spots
to get at the actual conditions SO that
the campaign could be handled to the
best advantage, and additional effort
put in any section where we are weak
In the course of this work / have
talked with between six and seven
hundred members of the Progressive
party, and with almost as many others
who were not Progressives, and it is
the belief of practically all with whom
| have talked that the party is much
stronger today than in 1912.
Get Under Progressive Banner.
" In those counties where an organi-
zation has been perfected and some
work done since the last election, the
| m hos l.
it, as for instance in Minidoka county,
where the Republican party has van
ished. and those present office holders
who have made good records and de-
serve reelection have announced their
candidacy for reelection on the Pro-
gressive county ticket In. the great
agricultural counties of Canyon, Ada
and Twin Falls the farmers are with
us almost to man, because of the
stand we have taken for a reduction in
taxes, and / shall rather. expect to poll
majority of the vote in each of those
counties.
In practically every county so far
visited the Progressives will have a full
county and legislative ticket. 1t is
virtually impossible to get good coun-
ty organization without county ticket.
and the question of success in Idaho
depends absolutely upon our organiza-
tions in the different counties.
Based upon most careful investi-
cation of conditions, it is my Judgment
that the Progressive state ticket will
come up to Idaho county leading the
Republicans by a small margin, and
with the Democrats third, on account
of the bitter factional fight in that
party. What will happen in the north is
more difficult to predict at this time.
unquestionably we will get a very
large vote here in any event, and there
are indications of Progressive land
slide.
Boosts for Northern Governor.
cit seems to me that the fact that
the north will have an opportunity this
year, for the first time in more than
20 years. to set northern man in the
governor chair, and in addition to
secure more than fair representation
in the other state offices, should make
a very great appeal to the people Of
the north, independent of party affili-
ations. With good organizations in
every county, and we are starting in
right now, six months before the cleo
ltion, to effect and perfect these organi-
zations, with ticket made up Of good
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