Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-10-01
IN SPITE OF SHORT ANNOUNCE
MENT OF HIS COMING HE
HAS FAIR AUDIENCE.
WILSON IS OUR PLATFORM"
The Ex-Governor at the Close of Ad-
dress Was Pledged the Support
of Several Republicans.

| III was rare treat to those who
heard the Ex-Governor at the opera
house last Thursday evening. The dis.
tinguished speaker came almost un,
heralded, owing to failure to give
timely notice but those who heard him,
fair sized audience, were more than
pleased with the address.
We are only able to give brief re-
sumo of some Of the many telling
points the speaker made in his urgent
plea why he ought to be elected to the
senate and why the democratic state
ticket ought also to receive the On.
dorsement of the voters at the polls in
November.
Opening his remarks with a brief
reference to his long and active resi-.
dence of more than forty years in the
territory and state of idaho in his
various pursuits from miner in the old
Florence diggings in the early sixties,
after years as a successful lawyer and
advocate, and rounding out his long
course of years by hrs election to the
office of governor of the state, it was
more than gratifying to hear him re-
late his experience during the stirring
"days of old; the days of gold, the
days of '49''
In speaking in behalf of his own
candidacy and the certain success of
the democratic ticket, he said:
81 was asked before starting on the
campaign if 1 had in my grip for
handy reference, copies of the democra-
tic state platform and of the democra-
tic national platform and replied that
| had neither, that shall promulgate a
platform greater than either-that of
our great leader and president, Wood
row Wilson. In him IS embodied every
great democratic principle from JEFF
ferson to the present. 1t is difficult
to refer to this great man and great
president without being fulsome in his
praise, for certain it is that he is the
ideal of the American people regard
less of party, in that he is a great
American who has accomplished more
in seventeen months with democratic
congress back of him than all the
presidents combined for the last fifty
years. There is list of achievements
to his credit in this time that is with.
out parallel in legislation and diplo-
macy. In the accomplishment Of this
record he has met with opposition in
every step from predatory wealth to
a venal press, but Notwithstanding he
has insisted on his policies and today
stands triumphant in spite of the op-
position, and the tide of popular ap-
proval runs higher each day.
He stands as pure embodiment Of
democracy, the greatest platform ex-
tant in the world. His platform is
good enough for me and for every
American who desires the policies Of
the president to succeed, and what
good citizen does not desire thisf
Then sustain him by voting for q
democratic senator and for members
of congress who stand pledged to up
hold his hands. 1t is poor support Of
the President to vote for republican
members of congress who are not in
accord with him, and who during the
present congress have voted strenu-
ously in opposition to his policies.
Will you do thisi 1 do not believe
you will. The President has given
new freedom to the American people,
and new foreign policy that has for
its object the welfare of humanity.
It is not possible in the brief time
here to recount more than few acts
of the President put through by con-
gress, and through every one Of which
shines forth his greatness.
First. The revision Of the tariff
which has given new freedom to the
consumers and the producers Of the
country not known in forty years.
Second. The great piece Of con-
structive legislation, currency reform,
that absolutely makes II impossibls