The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-17
GIBSON LETTER
CALLS FOR REPLY
Former Progressive Head Would
Turn Moose To Elephant
NOTED FOE OF ORGANIZED LABOR
OPPOSES ADAMSON LAW.
Was Violent Critic of Hughes-Asks
For Reply to Letter In Favor OF
Republicans and Gets II.

Former Progressives throughout
Idaho during the present month have
been receiving communications from
J. II. GIBSON, former state chairman,
urging them to support Charles e.
Hughes for president Before going
east to attend the Chicago convention,
Mr.. GIBSON gave out an interview in
which he scored Mr.. Hughes. After
his return he was quoted as being
deeply dissatisfied with conditions. A
short time after the passage of the
Adamson bill. the people of Idaho were
informed that he had accepted the
craftsmanship of the Hughes Alliance,
and was endeavoring to secure the
support of ali former Progressives for
the Republican national ticket. In
the letters which he has sent out, Mr..
Gipson has laid stress on the alleged
evil involved in the passage of the
Adamson law. though he has dwelt
at some length on conditions in Next
co. Mr. GIBSON has had trouble with
the labor unions, and union men say
that this fact may have influenced his
action
One of the letters was received by
H. M. Sims, editor of THE TIMES, who
I'm response to an invitation to reply,
did so in the following letter:
Twin Falls, Idaho, October 49, 1916
MIR. ]. H. GIBSON, Acting Chairman
Hughes Alliance, Room GIT Idaho
Bldg. Boise, Idaho.
My Dear Mr.. GIBSON: l am in re-
ceipt of your recent communication
asking me to set forth fully my views
with reference to cooperating will
the Hughes Alliance of this state il
furthering the interests of the Repub
lican presidential candidate
You proceed this request by a Ions
and fervid statement of the reasons
which you say impelled you to become
a supporter of Mr.. Hughes. You tel
dramatically about the work of thu
two conventions in Chicago, abou
your work in opposition to the nom
ination of Mr.. Hughes, and about tn,
state of decentralization and menta
anguish in which you returned t
Idaho after the steam roller had beef
run over you and Colonel Roosevelt
by the bosses and the instruments o
the trust-after which you offer ex
plantations for your remarkable deter
mination to support the very man il
whose interests that same steam role
was engineered
Your reasons seem altogether unsat
isfactOry to me.
The Progressive party was organ
lied for the purpose of furthering lee
islation in the interest of the peopl
of the United States and securing sc
cial justice in this republic, and dre'
its personnel from the ranks of all 9th
er parties. To very great extent thi
platform has not only been adopted
President Wilson and the Democrat
party, but what is more to the poin
has actually been put into effect b
them. 1t would be the height of al
surdity to put the enforcement of tn
splendid progressive legislation Ell
acted by the Democratic party into tn
hands of set of men selected by tn
bosses and the trusts which control I'll
bosses, and to place in the hands {
the same reactionary forces the powe
to not only prevent further advance
ment but to undo the great progressiv
measures which have been adopted.
You say that you have followed til
utterances of Governor Hughes sine
his nomination and that it is evident I
you that-"whatever objectiOnal ell,
ments brought about his nominatio
in Chicago. he owed allegiance to n
bosses, and had no sympathy wit
half-Americanism" Your case seen
to be a common one. The Outlool
which is bitterly anti-German, fine
him an ideal candidate, from its poir
of view in regard to foreign affair
and is sure that he will deal severed
with Germany if elected The Father
land, which is enthusiastically pre-
German, is equally certain that he wi
deal leniently with Germany and wi
be more severe with the allies tina
President Wilson. Pro-suffragist an
anti-suffragist writer's both point
him as their ideal. Theodore Roos,
welt and the army league want him b'
cause of his supposed leaning towar
a big army. Senator Norris want
him because he thinks Wilson has gor