Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-07
EXPECTS TO SEE
FACTIONS UNITE
ON THE COLONEL
Idaho Progressive National
Committeeman Sees the
Possibility of Union of
Parties This Year.

If the Republican and Progressive
parties agree on a platform, Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt will be the presi-
Dental nominee of both. This is the
opinion of Colonel j. NJ. Ingersoll of
Pocatello, national committeeman for
Idaho of the Progressive party, who is
just back from a trip to Chicago whore
he attended the meeting of the Pro-
gressive party national committee. In
an interview given on his return to
Idaho he said:
Il returned from the east last night.
Found business generally prosperous,
with every one optimistic as to the flu
ture. A wonderful change from last
year.
Nov, as to politics, l found that the
presidential campaign is really on
right now.
"Our party had a very interesting
and enthusiastic committee meeting in
Chicago. There is much interest as to
the possible union of the Progressives
and Republicans and who will be their
candidate. | found that Colonel Roose
Welt is gaining very fast; the general
talk is that he viii be the candidate, if
the two parties can agree on a plat
form.
while in New York City, l put in
considerable time at the Progressive
headquarters and found things hum
ming, with dozen or fifteen type
writer's constantly running.
People are surprised and amused
by President Wilson's very recent ad-
vocacy of the Progressive party nom
partisan tariff commission plan.
"Then, too, President Wilson is now
advocating Colonel Roosevelts pre-
paredness policy, that he denounced so
Vehemently only few weeks ago.
Since President Wilson has aban-
doned the Democratic party tariff pol
isy of a hundred years, by adopting
the Progressive party tariff plans and
has at last Endorsed Colonel Roose-
velts preparedness policy, there is
nothing left to agree on but equal suf-
frage, national prohibition and the
choice of candidates.
Unusual Campaign Promised.
but if the Bryan wing of the Dem
ocratic party still holds to the Demo-
cratic tariff policy of a hundred years
(and they probably wild, We can eX-
pect split in the Democratic party
that will make the 1912 split in the Re-
publican party look like mole hill to
a mountain in comparison.
president Wilson is now drawing
crowded houses advocating the same
public measures that he only a few
months ago bitterly denounced Colo
mel Roosevelt for advocating.
"As a political dodger our president
is bowling success.
Then, too, he recently abandoned
the Democratic tariff policy of a hun
dred years, in a letter to Congressman
Kitchin (who is now Democratic floor
leader in congress) in a lengthy state
ment and finally in another para
graph in the same letter, he asserts
that he has not changed his belief as
to the tariff.
our president at times makes one
think Of a lightning change vaudeville
artist who we can see in any common
every day movie for a dime.
1T viii he intensely interesting anC
amusing to watch Bryan and his fol-
lowers in tho next Democratic nation
nj convention, While Bryan is trying tC
unhorse tho man he handpicked anc
made president in 1912.
Indeed this campaign threatens tC
he very unusual with a possibility o.
four presidential tickets in addition tC
the Socialists and the old line Prohi'
bitionists.
1T makes me think of the celebrated
campaign of 1850, when the Democrats
had two candidates, the Republican,
one and the Union party one in thu
field, and it resulted finally in thu
election of Abraham Lincoln, the bes
man of ALL
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