The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-23
WEST SHOULD OPPOSE NoMINA.
TON OF ROOSEVELT.

Colonel Roosevelt is candidate fol
the republican nomination for presi-
dent. The fact that he has not per-
mitted his name to be filed as can
dldate in the various state primaries
should not be construed to mean that
his hat Is not in the ring. He is not
only a candidate, but there is grave
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
campaign 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 candidate
should stand for, all of which, reading
between the lines, spell Roosevelt. An
eastern paper correctly analyses the
colonel's position when it says that
he considers his best chance to land
the nomination is to stampede the
convention at the psychological NOM
ent, 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 Clifford
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 it's
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 people
Of the mountain states, are the out
growth of the iniquitous system con-
ceived by Pinchot and foisted upon the !
west by Roosevelt. Pinchot is now de-
voting his time to lobbying in the in
terest of measures before congress
which if enacted into laws viii 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 effect say
that our natural resources, the title
to which passed to the states by act of
and which form the basis of
our growth and prosperity, do not be-
long to us, but to the federal govern
ment, and that we are not capable of
administering the estate, and that we
are not entitled to the benefits that
follow the development of our natural I
resources. ,
The entire west is aroused in pro- |
test against the enormity of the wrong '
that has already been done and in on &
position to the leasing bills which will /
further strangle western progress. In a
view of this situation it is inconceiv- I
able that western republicans will lend V
their support to the nomination OF /
Roosevelt the man above all others S
who is responsible for the vicious con- (
servation system, and whose first c
move If again elected president would S
be to enthrone Pinchot at the head of t
4 department or chief of a bureau with e
power to further harass the S
west with his fads for conserving re- e
at the expense of settlement a
md development of the states. To o
support Roosevelt for the nomination p
$ to endorse Pinchotism and invite a il
'eturn of Pinchot's ruinous rule, and /
would be Reputation of the earnest c
protests that have been made and are