The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-07-14
HEARD AT THE NATIONAL
CAPITAL

washington, july lZ-(Spec1al cor
respondence).-The developments in
Mexico which made it necessary TO
mobilize the National Guard, served to
call attention to the enormous war
order business this country has been
doing in the sale of horses. One Of
the first disclosures. was that our army
is short of horses and that there will
be difficulty in securing the animals
desired, largely due to the heavy ex-
ports made to meet the demand in
Europe. In an effort to minimize the
importance of war orders in the re-
storation of prosperity, the administra-
ton has not been CHASING horses as
war commodities. Now that our own
government needs horses for war
preparations and finds shortage, it
must admit the effect of foreign pur-
chases in bringing foreign money to
revive American industry.
Not only is the administration
forced to admit that horses and mules
are munitions of war;, but it must
make the same acknowledgement as to
blankets, cots, harness, saddles, hospi-
tai supplies, auto trucks. gasoline, etc,
for our own government is now buy
ing these supplies just as foreign
countries have been buying them from
us. In some instances the National
Guard was so short of blankets that
citizens organized relief movements
and collected blankets ior .he guards
men who had been mobili.ed for en-
listment in the demonstration against
Mexico. This forced admission as to
the war-order character, is rather dis
we have been enjoying, is rather dis.
concerning to the campaign managers
of the Wilson administration, as their
previous denials are not only discredi-
ted but suspicion is cast upon all their
other political assertions.
Every senator and congressman re-
turning from a visit home after the
national convention brought to Wash
ington the cheering news that the Re
publican ticket had been everywhere
enthusiastically received. From Maine
to California comes the same welcome
news of a reunited party. In every sec
of the country nearly all the former
Progressives have returned to the Re
publican fold and others are sill com
ing. There will not be state in the
Union where the Republican party viii
not be united and working in har-
mony by the time the campaign get:
under way.
81 recently returned from Illinois,
said Representative Thomas 5. VIII
Jams, a Republican member of tht
house from that state. II stayed Owe
about a week or ten days after thu
Chicago convention and came in con
tact with large number of people il
my district and throughout our state
| never saw the Republicans NOR,
pleased and more enthusiastic. Every
body is pleased with the ticket. Thu
Progressives in Illinois have CONF
back and are just as enthusiastic as w
are. This means that we shall win a
the polls in November. Illinois vii
go overwhelming for the Republican
ticket Hughes and Fairbanks are win
ners throughout the country
''If the Republicans put some Wig
orous work into North Carolina, w
can carry the state i'll November ant
make a gain in the congressional dis
tricts of at least two said a residen
of that state to a group OF congress
men at the capitol. Il feel quite con
fdent that Claude Kitchen can be beat
en- and that we can carry the distric
in which Representative Page (Dcmo
craft lives. He has declined to be
candidate. North Carolina has be
come a great manufacturing state. TIL
state has been carried by the Demo
Gratis on the race issue, but the PEG
pie are not going to be moved by sec
tionalism much longer. They ar
waking up to the fact that the Re
publican party is the only one tina
Stands for the principles that keep tn
industries of North Carolina running
and its full labor employed