Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-20

crust to the deep sentiment under
meath"
That is the way Ben P. Allen Wash
ington correspondent for the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, quotes United States
Senator William Z. Borah of Idaho
when the latter was discussing the an
nouncement that an aggressive cam
paign for Colonel Roosevelt for the Re
publican nomination for president was
to begin in Massachusetts,, Illinois and
other states.
Continuing, in an article in the Feb.
10 issue of the Plaindealer, Mr.. Allen
says:
Senator Borah conspicuously is the
representative of the progressive Gle
ment of the Republican party. There
Is no longer any doubt here that the
hat of Theodore Roosevelt is in the
ring for the 1915 presidential nomina
ton, and in the ring to stay.
- National political circles have sell
dom been so stirred as they were to-
Way by the opening of war on Sen
ator Weeks in his home state, and that
this war should open in the name of
Colonel Roosevelt and be backed by
one Of his most bitter opponents four
years ago.
There we're conferences and whisper
ing all day over the announcement
of the four Bay state Republicans
that they intended to make an open
campaign as Roosevelt delegates re-
gardless Of whether Colonel Roosevelt
would approve their course or not.
These whisperings and conferences
got back to the same question:
What Will the Colonel Say2
what will the colonel say about the
Massachusetts declaration?'
As the colonel with Mrs. Roosevelt,
was sailing the high seas, somewhere
between New York and the Bermudas,
one guess was as good as another. And
that put the gentlemen most concerned
in what the colonels answer would be,
? the standpat crowd most concerned at
keeping him from being nominated, as
completely at sea as Mr.. Roosevelt
himself.
The first effort Of the anti Roosevelt
Republicans was to md out how much
Colonel Roosevelt knew about the
Massachusetts announcement, whether
he had given in any way his assent to
It. The result of this was that even
Colonel Roosevelt's most bitter enemy
was convinced tonight that Colonel
Roosevelt had not been consulted; that
he sailed without knowing anything OF
the plans: and that they had been tim
ed for his departure in fact. Repre-
sentative A p. Gardner, one of the foul
to announce as Roosevelt delegates
from Massachusetts, admitted the an
nouncement had been planned to have
the colonel out of the country at the
time.
Backward in Discussion.
Most of the Republican senator's anC
house members were backward abou
discussing tho announcement. In the
first place, they expect Colonel Roose
A Welt to say something about it and are
waiting for that; in the second place
they are waiting to see if similar an
nouncements of Roosevelt delegates
will follow in other states. Colone
Roosevelts friends say he will no
permit his name to go on the ballot il
any primary state, that he is not {
candidate.
But there are many states lik
Massachusetts,, where the delegate
are voted on in the primary ant
there is no way of preventing dele
gates running as Roosevelt delegate
" they desire to.
The first effect of the announce
ment, apparently, has been to put
complete puncture in the boom o
Senator Weeks. Where a few week
ago it was almost a certainty that tn
Junior senator from Massachusett
would have New England almost solid
= today it is even improbable if he cal
garry Massachusetts.
Rumors that Weeks would step on
OF the race and throw his support t
former Senator Burton of Ohio, wit
whom he has been working closely
we're denied today. At the same tim
1t can nov be set down as a practica
certainty that Senator Weeks Will b
completely out of the presidents
equation long before the assemblin
of the Republican national convention
In the meantime the friends of Nj
Burton, Mr.. Fairbanks of Indiana, Nj
Cummins of Iowa, and the others ar