The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-03-31
WEST SHOULD OPPOSE THE
NOMINATION OF ROOSEVELT
(Wallace Miner.)

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Colonel Roosevelt is candidate for
the Republican nomination for presi-
dent. The fact that he has not per-
mitted his name to be filed as can
didate in the various state primaries
his hat is not in the ring. He is not
danger that he will be the Republican
nominee. His absence in the West
Indies at this time when candidates
are being considered is part Of his
campaigns for the nomination. His
friends are exceedingly active in every
state, and the Colonel keeps in close
touch with the wireless, and at oppor-
tune intervals sends messages of dis
interested concern outlining the par
ticular things the Republican cand.-
date should stand for. all of which,
reading between the lines, spell
Roosevelt. An eastern paper correct
ly analyses the Coloneps position
when it says that he considers his best
chance to land the nomination is to
stampede the convention at the psy-
Geological moment, and that is what
he and his friends propose to do.
There are many reasons for oppos-
ing the nomination of Colonel Roose-
| Welt, but there is one in particular
that should appeal to the people OF
| the west The western states have
already and are still suffering meal
culable injury from the policy of con-
servation which originated in the
Roosevelt administration with Giffor 1
| Pinchot the trusted adviser OF the
president in all matters in connection
with the conservation of natural re-
sources. 1t was then that conserva-
ton was forced upon the west in its
most offensive and damaging form,
and the leasing bills that are now be-
ing forced through Congress by the
Wilson administration, and which are
being vigorously opposed by the peo-
| pie of the mountain states, are the
outgrowth of the ubiquitous system
conceived by Pinchot and foisted up
on the west by Roosevelt. Pinchot is
now deyoting his time to lobbying in
the interest of measures before Con-
gress which if enacted into laws will
Be a barrier to the development OF
the west and rob the western states
of the rights enjoyed by all other
states. These proposed measures in eff
feet say that our natural resources,
the title to which passed to the states
by act of Congress and which form
the basis of our growth and prosper
ity, do not belong to us, but to the
federal government, and that we are
not capable of administering the es-
tate, and that we are not entitled to
the benefits. that follow the develop,
ment of our natural resources.
The entire west is aroused in pro
test against the enormity of the wrong
that has already been done and in op.
position to the leasing bills which will
further strangle western progress. lr
view of this situation it is inconceiv,
able that western Republicans viii
lend their support to the nomination
of Roosevelt. the man above all other:
who is responsible for the vicious con
servation system, and whose frs
move if again elected president woulc
be to enthrone Pinchot at the head .
, 4 department or chief of burea,
with unlimited power to further har
ass the west with his fads for conserv
: ing resources at the expense OF set
tlement and development OF thu
states. To support Roosevelt for thu
{ nomination is to endorse Pinchotisn
and invite a return of Pinchot's ruin
: Gus rule, and would be Reputation
, of the earnest protests that have beer
made and are still being made t
: Congress against the passage of tn
{ leasing bills, and other measures I'M
mical to the prosperity of the west.