Evening Capital News

free country, save possibly the actual theft of the presidency for Hayes in 1876, the sole test of loyalty to party and for the purpose of combining the votes of all these Republicans so as to whip out of the party those very candidates and other persons who hope to effect a reformation within the party, which they propose to do by effecting the defeat at the polls of all candidates holding progressive views.

We have no quarrel with Senator Borah because he cannot as yet see that he has undertaken an impossibility, neither have we any quarrel with any other candidates or members of the Republican party, but that does not restrain us from pointing out to them their mistake, nor does it restrain us from urging patriotic, honest and loyal members of the old Republican party when it was in its honest and most glorious days, to give up the vain hope of accomplishing the impossible and come over while there is time to accomplish results, and help to defeat, bag and baggage, the enemies of Republican principles, of the people and of the government.

If the old Republican name can be retained at all, it can best be retained by defeat of all reactionary candidates, not Taft alone, but Haines, Taylor, Smith, Gifford, Peterson and all of them, by the election of well known, avowed, outspoken progressives like Martin, Borah, French, Smock, Boyd, Badley, Miles, Barclay and Skeels.

Such an act would show most unmistakably the progressive sentiment of the people of Idaho and it would still leave the way open to reform the Republican party from within at the next primary election, which can be more certainly and more easily done following such a defeat of the reactionary element in control of that party now and the consequent discouragement of those agents of special privilege and corporate wealth, than can possibly be hoped for by sustaining and encouraging them by voting for and electing to office the candidates they have picked out to thrust upon the people.