Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-07-13
WILL REMAIN A PROGRESSIVE
oregon chairman Be Led About by
Roosevelt No More.

Portland urnal:-Emmett Gala.
nan, chairman of the progressive
county central committee of Multi.
nomah county, is going to vote for
Wilson.
L nave no yellow streak,' he saws.
am going to stay in the progressive
party. | am going to vote for the vice
presidential nominee of that party. |
am going to write in on my ballot, at
the head of the ticket, the name of
Woodrow Wilson, and / am going to
do more than that before the campaign
is over.
Il followed Roosevelt out of the re-
publican party in 1912 and into the
trenches of progressivism, in a fight
for principle against fight for priv
ilege. L followed Roosevelt into the
convention at Chicago few days ago
to forward those same principles; for
they are just as alive today as they
We're in 1912, when the same old guard
played the same old game that they
played in 1916. | am not going to fol
low Roosevelt and his milkwhite flag
back into the trenches, ready dug by
Hitchcock, Crane, Penrose, Smoot and
all other generals of the old order of
things, to fight in the battle of the old
guard against the hopes and aspirations
of 100000 loyal Americans who fought
a good fight four years ago.
-Four years ago the progressive
party won its fight Chairman Gala
han continued. cit followed Roosevelt
in battle of protest against reaction
and special privilege and the domina-
tion of the country by those who sought
to control the nation and is resources
for special purposes, and dethroned
them.
''Those same principles confront us
now, as they did then. The republi-
can party, behind the entertainments of
the old guard, could not survive another
defeat. And then, the same men who
drove us from the republican party in
1912, bearing the same purposes they
did in 1912, tricked us again in 1916.
Chairman Callahan told of his ex
perience in Chicago, as delegate tc
the progressive convention, and ridi
culed the idea that Hughes was forced
into the nomination against his desire
"You can not understand unless yor
were there he said. "You cannot
feed me on this foolish talk about the
aloofness of Justice Hughes.
"They put a blanket ON him before
this year dawned and began to groom
him for the nomination. If they die
not, why did Murry Crane, and Roo
and Depew and all the other member
of the old line fighting force drag hin
from the supreme bench to address th
bar association in January last? Why
when they go him there, did they fec
the papers with the ovation he go
from Crane and Root and the restR
t'Let me tell you why they did it.
met Bishop Nibley of Utah in the Au
ditorium hotel at Chicago two day
before Hughes was nominated and sal
to him that the delegates did not seer
to understand; that they did not knoy
where Hughes stood or for what h
stood, and this is what he told me:
j" You delegates from Oregon ar
bound to support him. But we knoN
what he stands for. He is opposed t
conservation. He is all right. Rec
has seen him every often. We kno'
where he is
creed? Don't you know who he is
Smoot is his last name. Smoot ha
seen him often. Smoot said he was a
right. And if Smith said he was
right, am going to write the name
Woodrow Wilson on my ballot in NO
ember and l am not going to abando
the principles of the progressive part
and get back under the battle flag {
Murray and Reed, Boies and Uncle 10
Chauncey and the rest OF the old boy
whose principles and purposes are NJ
those which L can countenanee.