Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-01

Republican party of today"
The Spokesman Review of Spokane
says: Mr.. Whitla brought with him
from Occur d'Alene informal announce
mentof the candidacy of Circuit Judge
r.. NJ Dunn OF Occur d'Alene for the
supreme bench, to succeed Judge l. N
Sullivan. whose term expires 1t is
understood, however, that Judge Sui
Ivan will be candidate for re- cleo
ton.
Judge Dunn. before removing to
Kootenai county, was prosecuting at
torney in Shoshone county,"
Can you name him?
He has always supported local OPP
tion or prohibition, the public utilities
commission and other measures that
have received the popular approval
and he is now and has been since the
proposition was first heard, an earnest
advocate of the more rapid sale of
state lands. He has always been on
the right side of every question that
have come up for decision since he
has been In office"
The Wood River Times at HALEY
says all this, and more. of Lieutenant
Governor Herman H. Taylor. Appar-
entity the Times editor has forgotten
that the present lieutenant governor
has never been known as dry, that
he admitted when fighting the public
utilities commission act before the
senate that he was a paid attorney
of one of the transcontinental rail-
roads passing through north Idaho.
ST had very gratifying trip in
every way" said George e. Crum. one
of the numerous Republican guberna-
torial candidates, speaking of his cam
paign trip to southern Idaho. my
reception everywhere was. most COR
dial and return home confident of Sc
curing the nomination for governor at
the coming primaries"
The Benewah- county central COM
mittee. elected six delegates to the
Democratic state convention to be held
at Pocatello and instructed them for
Robert H. Elder for national commit
teeman. The delegates so elected and
instructed are C. r. Reynolds, Edward
S. Elder, Jess Elliott. ]. J. Nichols, A.
A. Holsclaw, George Cornell
The committee on resolutions pre-
scented set of resolutions which were
unanimously adopted These resolu-
tions Endorsed President Wilson and
Governor Alexander in ringing tones.
They also commended the services to
the party of Stale Chairman Pence and
National Committeeman Elder and in
structed the delegates to vote for the
re- election Of Elder as national COM
= IL -. lie
instructed to vote as a unit on all mat
ters coming before the convention.
Roosevelt, Borah and Progressive
ness" This is the slogan that the
Wood River Times, one of the con-
sentative Republican newspapers of
south central Idaho, is flying at it's
masthead.
Monday. the 10th inst--two weeks
ago-the Times put at the head OF its
first page the slogan, Roosevelt, Borah
and Preparedness says the Times.
The same day it sent to Theodore
Roosevelt the following telegram:
Roosevelt, Borah apd Adequate.
Preparedness should be the Republican
rallying cry" Three days later@Thurs-
day, the 13th--the New York Tribune,
which HAS always been leading Re-
publican newspaper, and which OPP
posed Roosevelt in 1912, declared for
him at this time because of the need
OF his vigorous Americanism."
The unreliabi1ity of the morning
paper in reporting the Twin Falls
convention is against shown in the fol-
lowing statement made by l.. L. Par
sons, Latah county delegate to the
convention upon his return to Moscow:
Press reports to the effect that the
Twin Falls convention was Bull
Moose aggregation are erroneous.
There was no opportunity to fairly
test the sentiment of the delegates.
The name of Roosevelt was mentioned
only twice. The first time when son1e-
one sung parodies on Idaho political
leaders, one paragraph being on Roose-
Welt. 1t was difficult to determine
whether the applause was due to the
mention of Roosevelt or to the popu-
larity of the singer
Other members of the Latah delega-
tion declared that the Borah sentiment
for president was the sole topic of in
terest in the convention and but, for
the expressed wish Of Senator Borah
that no instructions be given the dele
gates to Chicago, the convention would
have adopted such instructions. AS 1t
was Senator Borah was placed at the
head of the delegation and viii be
guided solely by his wishes.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt seems to
be very popular among the Republi-
cans over in the state of Washington.
In the presidential primaries in Spo-
kane county he outdistaneed all eondi-
dates. securing a lead of 727 votes over
his nearest competitor, Justice Hughes.