Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-27
PINCHoT DEMANDS THE NOMINATION OF
ROOSEVELT REPUBLICAN
BY CLIFFORD PINCHoT.

hOOSEvELT REPUBLICAN
BY CLIFFORD PINCHoT.
The country needs a Republican president next time
After the coming of the years
struction just ahead shall diff
fcut readusment at home the competition
abroad that we have ever known We face them sue
cessfuly only with the help Republican administration
and Republican policies of government.
To get a Republican president and enact a Republican
tariff. must nominate who be elected. To
be elected the Republican candidate be acceptable
to the great of Republican particular
he must appeal to the independent Republicans
Of the west who will decide the election they
did the These satisfied with
the nomination before they will the ticket
not win without Them
Correspondence with Republicans systematically
red for many months and extending into
and almost country in America. shows that the
large majority of Republican voters strongly
sve. They entitled they will demand, candi-
date and platform they without reservation
or regret
But from the day when Roosevelt died. the Guard
leaders have been actively nominate a man
their kind If they succeed, they will add third
Republican defeat the they produced already.
We facing the old question whether nominee
shall be openly chosen to win, shall be hand picked by
the old keep them, lose control of the
party organization
The old guard calls for harmony. I for harmony,
but with the Republican voters rather than with the
publican bosses. Harmony defeat has little
charm for Unless progressive Republicans are WILL
ing to see harmony made impossible made
evtabe by the nomination of reaconary candidate
OF touch with the voters, they
ton. and take it
CANNOT TRUST WILSON
1t is clear that Wilson plans again.
will be dangerous antagonist The he has
covered since his last slump autumn is one more
proof of that Neither position abroad safety
home be ted to he
neerng, secretive reversible terribly costly
ship of Woodrow Wilson We cannot trust him, and we
must defeat him-but need candidate and platform
that genuinely progressive to o it,
Less than month ago the Roosevelt permanent men,
oria committee appointed by direction of the Republican
Hays, is member unanimously decided to establish
and endow permanent organization with the purpose Ito
the development application policies
and ideals of Theodore Roosevelt the
American people," We it ourselves party,
country to choose candidate whose purpose will be
the
DEATH PREVENTED NOMINATION
Colonel Roosevelts death deprived country the
world of its bodest, strongest, leader and
the Republican party of the certainty victory
agreed that he would have been the Republican
in 1920 He would have OF course Since he gone,
it is than common o nominate a man who
will stand where Roosevelt would have stood. and who
will naturally act Roosevelt would have acted in his
place.
For these and because it Is time up
and be counted, wish to that at the pres
Dental primaries shall submit my Repub-
cans of Pennsylvania of the candidates dele
gate to the Republican national convention
for platform in harmony policies and ideals of
Theodore Roosevelt and for the nomination of a
Henry Allen, Hiram Johnson, Irvine Lenroot
ard Wood
shall oppose the nomination reactionary like Sen
ator Harding Jim Watson, any other supporter of
special privilege. Such be
all the people their great war
flee The people paid the price the interests
behind these ought get people paid
for.
call upon all republicans who look ahead, both n
Pennsylvania and the nation, join preventing the
who fought Theodore policies while
he living controlling and sacrificing the party
he would have led to victory is dead.