Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-07-05

ton from the collie and pauper labor
of foreign countries but we will make
you pay that profit to the more favor
ed factory interests through the pur-
chases you may make of fence wire,
plows, harvesters and other farm ma
chinery and household necessities"
In both instances the farmer stands
to be robbed. Why should it concern
him essentially which of the two rob-
bers he may favor?
Moreover, in the main result--the
| success of Progressive princip es and
the application of Progressive policies,
it again becomes a matter of supreme
indifference to us whether the Re
publicans shall win or whether the
Democrats shall continue to hold
offices. We have nothing to expect
from either. Neither offers any hope
for the future as both are today con-
stituted. No party can exist half
progressive and half reactionary.
If the Democrats Fail.
If the Democratic party, again In
power, under the leadership Of a man
whose impulses, next that of our own
Theodore Roosevelt, we firmly believe
are more nearly in harmony with the
aims and desires of the masses of the
people than any other president we
have had within the last half a cen
| tury-if the Democratic party shall so
fail of the fulhllment of it's duties and
of grasping it's opportunities, as to be
retired from office, what hope could
there remain for those Democrats = no
still cling to the hope that the Demo-
cratic party may be made the great
leader of progressive thought in this
| nation? The answer is obvious and in
the event of the defeat Of the Demo-
cratic party at the coming election. we
nay expect to receive wholesale &C
cessions to the Progressive party from
amt ng the rank and ne of that great
party whose sympathIes and aims are
with the struggling masses of the peo-
pie and against thu arrogance of tic
dominating special interests. Where
else shall taey 60" 10 remain with
a party which will have shown such
incapacity to accomplish the high
aims that these citizens have as
would have been shown by thrit de-
feat at this time; to continue to afflli-
ate with the reactionary Underwoods,
the O'Gornans, the Ciarks, the Sui
livans, the New Jersey Nugents, and
the other elements responsible for the
inability Of the rank and file of the
party under such a leadership rs that
now looked to by them to regain their
party's former prestige, would be abb
surdly futile, and the only political
refuge for these millions of honest
toilers would ne with the Progressi We
party just as the proper haven co. the
reactionary element of that party
would be with the Republicans
If the Republicans Fail.
II, on the other hand, the Repub-
lican party shall continue to go down
to the defeat it's leadership deliberately
invited two years ago for the purpose
Of crushing the annoying and pesti-
lential "insurgent7 Republicans, now
parading as Progressive" RepubN
cans, where shall the two elements
still comprising the membership OF
that party go? Between these two
elements there is a conflict as IRE
conciliable and as wide as that be-
tween Carranza and Huerta in odI
sister republic to the south. if they
be honest, and we shall give then
that acknowledgment, there can be
no harmony between them, any more
than there can be between the ele-
ments Of the Democratic party that
are today bringing the national ad-
ministration of that party into dis
repute and leading it to a blunderer's
defeat
TIL Republican party cannot sur
vive without patronage. 1t is fed
nourished and sustained by reason Of
its past and prospective service tc
seekers after special privilege. These
services can only be endered~througf
the action to official power of member!
t of that party. If the party shall fail tC
secure that power, 1t must necessarily
fall to pieces If 1t shall secure thai
power it must of equal necessity con-
tinue to be the reactionary. conserva-
tive supporter and dispenser of thu
privileges and advantages demanded
of it by those from whom comes it,
chief support.
1t Is a matter of the most supreme
, Indifference to the Progressive party
} whether the Democratic party shall
continue in power to become the ma
tional party of the conservative anC
reactionary elements, or whether tn,
Republican party shall return t.
t power to become, in the same mannel
and to a like degree, the servant o
the conservative and reactionary spe
= cial interests; or whether the Demo
cratic party shall go down to defeat
a failure and a broken and disrupted
I party, one of whose elements will fnt
e harbof within the ranks of the re
dictionary Republican party, the othe
within the ranks of the Progressive
Z party; or the Republican part con
> tinue in defeat a broken. disruptei
E impotent remnant of a once prouc
! power in the nation, whose remnant
= shall dispense, the one TO find welcom
/ within the reactionary ranks OF tn
: Democratic party and the other t
2 find harbor and happy home with tn
4 Progressives.
Can Republicans Come 5ack2
But can the Republican party com
back?
S Can Penrose come back in Pennsyl
4 vania? Can Barnes come back in New
S York? or Gallinger in Vermont? o