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Show SENATOR BORAH IS OUT FOR. ROOSEVELT Special to The Tribune. Hnm01r1Enldllr Ma,rcn Senator WII-&BE'i.B?Tah. WII-&BE'i.B?Tah. today announced to the P,ye,t"?orft,h ,eafirue nerc through a telegram to County Chairman WlTilum Tb2rtoryS0jds' Vmi hc Is f0r CoIo"el iTllfid70rSiIloosevo,t for President of the United Mates, and indorses tho plan to send an Instructed delegation from this inlymand4fVom tho. stato for the colonel. col-onel. This tclogram Is tho first outspoken outspok-en pledge of Idaho:s junior sonator declaring de-claring himself against President William Wil-liam Howard Taft. It ha.s opened a wide breach between tho Taft imd Roosevelt supporters In Tdaho, and launched what is believed will be one of tho most bitter fights between the rank and file of the party In the history of the slnte. Senator Borah's telegram Is as follows: W. D. McRcynolds, Roise. Ida.-t Ida.-t ?CP;. M,c contest had to come. I think it Important that you send a Roosevelt delegation and all c-ffortn in that direction have my earnest approval. Personal friends who arc supporting Mr. Taft have wired mn that my stand against the president will endanger my personal interests. Perhaps this Is true, but It does not change the situation and cannot be permitted to deprive one of his right to urge his choice prior to the nominal nomi-nal Ion. I am for Roosevelt and hope Ada county will send a Roosevelt delegation to Lcwlston. W. 15. BORAH. Senator Borah's tolcgram was received hre with great enthusiasm by the anti-Taft anti-Taft workers, who are boosting him as the "dark horse" Republican presidential candidate or the compromise candidate of the Republican party. Tho Rooscvclt-Botah Rooscvclt-Botah league lenders declare that tho organization or-ganization of the Taft club and the selection se-lection of General Roberts, u well-known anti-Borah man, was for the. purposo of antagonizing the junior senator and discrediting dis-crediting him in his own state by showing show-ing that his influence; politically was slight. This accusation the Taft people deny. . They wired Senator Borah Intimating that his personal interests here, so far as re-election is concerned, might bo endangered en-dangered by his failure to support tho president. Bitterness Is shown on all sides. Ada county has tldrty-one delegates In the "Lowlston convention, to be held May 10, and this number Is conceded to be tho balance, of power to control that convention. The primaries hero will be held Thursday, when delegates to the county convention will bo elected, The county convention Is to bo held Saturday. Satur-day. Tho contest Is over the Instruction Instruc-tion of the thirty-one delegates who will be elected at the. county convention and the Borah movement is to prevent an Instruction In-struction for Taft. |