Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-10-14
ORGANIZING
PROGRESSIVES
HUGHES ALLIANCE SENDING LIT
ERATURE FROM BOISE
HEADQUARTERS
jill. GIBSON AT HEAD
FORMER STATE CHAIRMAN OF
MOOsERS is HANDLING
CAMPAIGN IN IDAHO

James II. Gipson of Caldwell, for
mer chairman Of the Progressive
state central committee, has accepted
position as Idaho organizer Of the
Hughes alliance, an organization OF
progressive voters who favor the
ca didacy of Justice Hughes, and Is
sending out a circular letter to pro
gressives all over the state in which
he outlines his position i'll the cam
paign. The letter is in part as
follows:
= = In the preconyention cam
paign | fought, to the best OF my
ability, for the nomination of Theo-
dore Roosevelt by the Republican
and Progressive conventions. / re
garded him, and still regard him, as
50 manifestly the man of the hour
that it emed to me an incredible
act of folly TO name any other man,
and in this pre-conyention campaign |
opposed, to the utmost, the nomln-
alton of Governor Hughes, because
he Sc med to be the only candidate
who could possibly beat the Colonel
| was present at the two Chicago
conventions, Witnesse ed the rejection
of* Roosevelt by the Republican
bosses, and participated in the
historic sessions Of The Progressive
convention, probably the most won
derful gathering OF it's kind ever
held in America, and | returned to
Idaho with a heart full of bitterness
over the death OF the Progressive
party and the humiliation of our be-
loved leader. 1t then seemed TO me
as if no condition could arise which
would justify me in the Chicago con-
ventions was RooseVelt's defeat, and
as it seemed to me, the irreparable
loss TO America, at time when
there was the greatest of needs for
the leadership of this super-Amercan.
/ followed with care th
utterances of Governor Hughes in
the campaign, and the fact became
evident to me that whatever objec'
tonable elements brought about his
nomination in Chicago, he owed ale
glance to* no bosses, and had no
sympathy with haf-Amercanism, and
when he took his clean-cut stand in
opposition to the AdamsOn Wage-fiA-
ing law, a measure adopted by con-
gress through the insstence of a
President too proud to fight, not after
due investigation and deliberation
but under threat and dures5, it was
manifest to me that my duty, and
the duty of every Progressive was
to give his candidacy hearty and
unqua led support. Governor Hughes
stand on the Adamson bill marks
him as a great man and a great
statesman. Every motive of political
expediency called for pussy-footng on
his question Hundreds of thousands
of voters We're at stake, but Cover
nor Hughes never hesitated or STAN
mered
hope, fellow Progressive that
you will enroll with me in this
Alliance, and that you see as | do,
the supreme importance of actively
Governor Hughes Students
of International affairs are agreed
that the next four years are very
likely to be the most trying in the
history of this government. Pro
blems involving the very life of the
nation will be before us, and while
leader ship in national affairs has
been rejected can we not as good
citizens forget everything else but
our country's welfare. We have to.
choose either Wilson and Bryan and
Daniels to protect America during
the next four years or Hughes and
Roosevelt and Borah. What one Of
as can suk in his tent or hesitate
at making the deciS on2