Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-11-23

it, the Wilson vote in California us not due TO any one cause
but to many: i
California believes in progressive policies Some voted
for Wilson, believing he progressive than hughes
Others voted for Wilson because they dstrusted some Oh Tue
they Beloved to be back of Hughes The labor vote
for Wilson because of the eghhour day The women
largely for Wilson, alone because OF the claim that
kept of the but because OF child labor and ote
humanitarian legislation Yet with all of this Hughes still
might have had he remained and not visited the state
ALL having California if either he or the National
State Committees managing his had had the wisdom not
permit Mr. Hughes to be used for the personal political ad
vantages of small group of California reactonares who make
much noise but cast few votes.'
AS Utah of the States carried by Taft in 1872
there than little surpze when appeared this year
in the Democratic column Our request for an explanation
brought this rather cryptic reply from the Republican Salt Lake
Tribune:
oo Smoot probably is the explanation for the large
Wilson in Utah The people determined to repudae
him and all his works He fatal handicap to Hughes not
only in Utah but in the other Western States assigned to his
political management by the Republican National Committee
There other elements the situation but they of
minor order
According to the summary of Mr. Henry j. Allen of
the Wichita Beacon (nd the situation Kansas as fol
lows:
'Frst there was fat rich cushion prosperity and the
farmer uled upon it, he refused to think Secondly the
attracted very largely by the quavering
slogan kept of war; they refused to think Thirdly
the Republican State could believe there
real DANGER they refused to thnkor worry So went
Democratic by default because neither hungry, in
dgnant, scared In Kansas, not victory but
symptom 1t does not the regeneration of Kansas Demo
cracy but the fattey degeneration of the Kansas spirit
In marked contrast however the explanation offered by
Mr. Victor Murdocks Wichita Eagle prog Rep which finds
that cit Kansas deasm that Woodrow Wilson the
electoral vote of Kansas:
"For Kansas is deaistc 1t always has been from the
days of John Brown and the fight for free State down
through Grange Popust DAYS. battle
Progresvism of to-day There those who Kansas
for it's pacfsm Those who take that position little know the
Kansas spirit The fighting spirit of the old days is not dead
in Kansas Kansas will fight again, if need bebu Kansas
wants worth fighting for Kansas has found that
in the proposed against impoverished revolution torn
Mexico Kansas troops the first to reach the Dor
der when the call but everybody Kansas glad they
did not have to into Mexico and ideastc Kansas
voted for the deasm found Woodrow Wilson, and which,
with the friendes will in the world it failed to find in Mr.
Hughes Kansas glad that Wilson has kept out of
1t reoices prosperity has before known but above
ese Kansas voted for Woodrow Wilson because recog
nzes in him who in spite of all vaclaon and many
takes yet does appreciate the fact that American people look
to something beyond dollars and that the supreme pur
of the United States is local justice for
within the nation and to take the lead in the great effort
to secure a lasting world peace"
1.-The Wilson vote in Minnesota is the Vests Endorsement
of the high moral courage of the Presidents firm
peace and humanity according to the Duluth Herald nd,
which adds:
1T is the Vests vicious assaults made upon
President during the campaign that close the
derne of dsoyay to mild term and it's declaration
confidence in the Presidents WISDOM patriotism and
championship of the plain people,
Thus thru the grouping of opinions expressed, it will
to the reader that the diversity and wide
opinion among editors little different from that the
intelligent and thinking voter The fact that the
West is settled by citizenship of independent thinking people
who retain the of reasoning for themselves There
doubt but that the voter who his for
Wilson the West knew his therefore, was not
parzan reason, it influenced by mythical
sectionaism Thinking people of political belief
pecve of party designation made their choice which record
ed 1t just possible to ascertain what the results
going to be in campaign to discover all the
the results after it has happened
BUYING THE PRESIDENCY
The American people cannot longer tolerate political
unde the no