The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-03-07
NO PARTISAN TICKET FOR
IDAHO REPUBLICANS.

spondent of the New York Tribune
President Wilson may be expected tt
give his endorsement to republicans il
congress who have supported the wal
policies Of the administration, as he
has already done in asking Minnesota
democrats to name no candidate tc
oppose Senator Nelson. The non par
tisanship displayed by the president
toward the candidacy of Senator Mel
son may be compared with that which
might move a republican president to
advise republicans of Mississippi or
some other state in the solid south to
refrain from putting up a candidate
against a democrat. A democrat has
no more chance of beating Senator
Nelson in Minnesota than has re-
publican to win out in Mississippi,
by the chief executive. Evidently he
is prepared to display the same mag
unanimous attitude toward the senator
ial election in Idaho, for the Tribune
correspondent further says:
"The administrations representa-
tives have approached the republicans
OF Idaho with the suggestion that Sen
ator Borah and Senator Nugent should
be chosen from that state this fall on
a combination ticket Many Idaho re-
publicans believe that a partisan fight
should be avoided while the war is on,
and it seems likely that the Borah- Nu-
gent ticket will be accepted. The Far
mers' Non partisan league, which has
become strong in Idaho, favors the
Borah- Nugent plan"
There are very few republicans in
war policies of the president and this
will be true of those who are elected
this fall. The people are going to win
the war and in order to do 1t they
know that the president must have the
support of congress. This does not
tatives to accept every war measure
proposed by the administration with
out question or criticism, but it does
mean when the administration has
adopted a definite course of action, il
will have the support of congress as
dent has nothing to fear in a repub-
lican congress so far as the war is
concerned, What he does have to fear,
though, is the weakening of the politi-
cal power which he now Yields so eff
fectively through appointment to the
great number of positions created in
connection with the war
His appeal for partisan sena-
torial election in Idaho is on a par
with the Minnesota case The re-elec-
ton of Senator Borah is absolutely |
certain, while the reelection of Sena-
tor Nugent is very uncertain. Thus
by adopting the proposal to nominate
Borah and Nugent without opposition
means that the democrats would there
by gain a senator which they stand to
lose If an opposing candidate is nam
ed. In other words, the administra-
ton figures that If this non-p partisan
senatorial election bait is grabbed by
the republicans and democrats of Ida
no, 1t gives the democrats a sure thing
on half loaf which is better than run
ming the risk of getting no bread.
But why this non partisan talk at ,
this time? There is no division be- +
tween the two parties on the great :
question of winning the war; republ- y
cans and democrats are as one on that :
uueStioH WHICH ONeTSHduOWS all Otn- a
ers. But the questions which have al .
ways divided the two parties are stl .
with us and must be the subject of q
legislation. There are many matters -
Of vital interest to the country which q,
must be dealt with by congress and $,
Upon which the two parties are direct b.
y opposed to each other. Are these to
,e abandoned by republicans and the
democrats given free hand in dispos- a,
ng of them? Hardly. The fact is m
hat there is greater need for a repub- lie
lean congress now than ever before, VI
or the questions growing out of the =,
var will require the highest states III
to solve. and this is not sa
ound in the democratic party. And ma
While the war lasts republican con- y
yress would exercise a most whole 10,
'ome influence upon the administra- w