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Show TEDDY WIRES IDAHO CHAIRMAN H Characterizes Action of Supreme H Court In Gem State as H Infamy H llolsc, Idaho, Jan. 4. J. 11. alp- eon, Progressiva stato chairman, to. H day received tlio following telegraph H nicssago from Colonel Iloosevclt, nt B New York: H "I am confident that I express tlio H feeling of every decent American clt- H izen when I say that I urn outraged H and Indignant beyond mcasuro nt the B lnfnmy that has been perpetrated In H "In Its essence the nctlon of the coart is In the first place to deny to H a very large minority, possibly a plu- B rnllty of tlio voters of Idaho, the fl right effectively to express their do- BBH slro ns to who slml! b0 tlio chief BBB mnglstrnto of tlio nntlon, and In the BBB second placo to. punish those who BBB protest against this denial of justice BBm and thereby seek to Intimidate all HBh men who may hereafter desire to BBl protest against similar outrages. BBl "No anarchist agitator could ever BBJ do anything against the courts com- BBI parablo in effect to these actions of BBI tlio highest of oiio of our state courts BBl "Thcro could bo no bettor proof BBl that we need in many states at least BBl tho power to recall judges from the BBJ bench when they act badly, and that BBJ everywhero wo. need to give to tho BBl people themselves the right, expcdltl- BBJ ously to mako their own constitution and to bo in every net tho master of BBB their own destiny. BBB "I have communicated with Sena- BBfl tors Dixon, Dorah, Polndexter and BBfl Brlstow to ask if something cannot BBB bo done, in tho United States Sennto BBb at any rate to call attention to tho BBB BBl "Let mo know if there Is nnything BBI in which I can bo of any assistance BBl Meanwhllo I wish to extend to the BBb Progressives of Idaho and partial- BBl larly to tb0 men who have been lined BBl and sentenced to jail, not merely my BBJ heartiest sympathy, but my heartiest BBl admiration. The)' are in every act BBl proving by their conduct tho truth of BBb their profession. They liavo made all H good citizens their debtors. They h havo made great sacrifices for tho J cause of popular government, of good H citizenship, and of tho right temper- H ntcly and truthfully to say what Is H vitally neccssnry In tho interests of 1 good citizenship to havo said. H "I admlro them nnd respect them. H 'THEODOUE ItOOSEVELT." decade, and the political ideas that Herbert S. Wgclow wns helping Tom Johnson to dlsseinirfatc, though they wcro flouted and scorned then ns heretical, her-etical, Insane, and wicked, have Blnca become, by the Inevitable nnd monotonous monot-onous operation of tho universal law of prog-038, conventional, rcspcctablo orthodox, and popular. "Herbert Illgelow was then not many years out of Lnno Theological seminary strange spcctaclo In Ohio that or a minister nuilt easing Democratic Demo-cratic meetings! nnd ho was pastor or tho Vino street Congregational Church in Cincinnati. "It Is nn Interesting story not to bo told hero In detail, of how Herbert Her-bert Illgelow struggled or how they tried to get him out of his pulpit, nnd of how ho worked for n long timq without salary, until Daniel Kio-for Kio-for devised means or financing tho Institution, so that It lost its ecclesiastical eccles-iastical atmosphere, becamo n Pco- i pie's Church or forum, for free speech, nnd moved, into n theater whero radicals preach their various and conflicting heresies on Sunday afternoons, nfter moving pictures . hnvo Illustrated the progress of tho ' species. ' "Meanwhile Herbert Illgelow was increasingly prominent in political re- i form movements; ho lectured oven-where, oven-where, wrote nrtlcles for radical publications, pub-lications, organized tho Ohio Direct Legislation Lenguo nnd poured all his energy Into tho propaganda of tho Inltlntlvo and referendum. Tho privileged interests opposed him, of course, nnd still oppose him. Ono way they did it was to call him Hev-erend; Hev-erend; whenover It was necessary to frighten 'good' people by holding up his Imago, they printed tho Reverend |
