Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-10
ASSURANCES OF !.
SUP PORT Given
HUGHES ALLIANCE
Acting Chairman Gipson Re-
ceives Letters From Many
Former p Progress YES
From All Parts of State.

Assurances of support from all parts |
of the state are being received daily |
by Acting Chairman ]. H. Gipson of
the Hughes Alliance and many prom |
inent Progressives are numbered
among the first to write the chairman
they are glad he was willing to make
a personal sacrifice to join in the fight
to elect Charles Evan Hughes.
Rev. ]. G. Cowden of Caldwell, in
letter to Acting Chairman Gipson
said among other things: Il see moth
ing of politics but only yourself sac
rificing desire for the country's good
in the stand you are taking, for Hughes.
1t is the best embodiment of progress
iveism now possible. 1 am hopeless of
Wilson with all his we'll meaningless
when I look at his exasperating folly
in meddling with Huerta, Mexico's
lawful choice and furnishing worse
men with United States munitions of
war to Kill Americans"
| READY TO SUPPORT HUGHES.
Il voted every time Theodore Roose-
Welt was up for president and it near
ly broke my heart to think he did not
| get the nomination, but l believe we
got a man who will fill the bill,' wrote
! w. A. Hodgman of Tikura. Justice
!
can be; suits me, and l believe suits
all the progress re Replfblicans."
H. B. Lorain of Filler wrote Acting
| Chairman Gipson as follows: Your
letter received with pleasure. I am in
accord with every word. Roosevelt is
today the greatest man with the great
est mind of any man in the United
States. He gets a hold of the right
end of the handle every time. I am
going to support Hughes with all my
might l believe he is next to Teddy"
Although he was sorely disappointed
over the outcome of the Chicago con-
vention, w. A. Power of Twin Falls
says that if Roosevelt wal big enough
to come out for Hughes he feels he can.
Just a line to tell you how sadly dis
appointed l was at the proceedings at
the Chicago convention. 1t will be
very brief in stating where | stand.
If Teddy can be American
enough to say will support Hughes.
why can't smooth over my old sores
and say: 1 will too"
Isle PRAISES GIBSON.
Charles j. Isle, well known news
paper man, magazine writer and for
years close to the Idaho political situa-
ton, says in a letter to the chairman:
In your announcement as chairman
of the Hughes Alliance for Idaho you
have written in one of the finest things
in Idaho political history-or any other
! state-for that matter. You will OF
course recall that 1 wrote you just af-
ter the convention hoping that you'd
get into line for some better Americans
than we have been having officially fol-
the past four years, and you then
thought you couldn't do it. 1t Is a real
pleasure to me to know that you have
) seen as you do, to help do something
for our country Our Country'-that is
very near to my heart; and for any
one to sink ones self as you have
done politically, in a movement for the
betterment of our national conditions
) is the same as taking ones gun on his
shoulder and going out to war. It's
more than that; for the soldier goes
with his own unqualified approval
while one changing his course as you
} have had to do forces his flesh to obey
a very hard and bitter humiliation for
the general good. Roosevelt did the
one thing needed to show him a great
American when he came over; under
r the circumstances he could do no less
but he could have done less If he had
1 been smaller man-one ready to lei
2 his personal vindictiveness stand above
his patriotism
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