Show POLITICS ll IDAHOAn IDAHO-An Able Review of the Status of Both Parties THE HERALD AS AN EDUCATOR Irthe Bepnbllcan Organization Does Not Reform Re-form the Democratic larty Will Destroy It This Wood River region was largely settled set-tled and devoloved by Salt Lake men and capital and naturally wo still feel some interest terest in the concerns of Utah They affect us still financially socially and to some extent politically We understand terri tonal vexations and appreciate remedies for the thousand ills that afflict the people who live under that nondescript for a government rnment If the organic act of Idaho in 853 had been based upon the common sense principle and home rule and fixed with the skill and fairness of the Faulkner Caine bill things here would have gone smoother and more prosperously than they went for nearly thirty years We should have had enjoyed the substantial rights common to American citizens elsewhere at less cost and fewer hara feelings among ourselves T think THE SALT LAKE I HERALD was wise in its expression that the Faulkner bill should be made the basis of ill future acts organizing the territories hereafter incorporated in this countryif indeed we are unfortunate enough to ever acquire or require any additional territories territor-ies holding a subordinate position The justice and business advantages of such a system are so obvious that it is strange hat any combination of men can be found I there to combat it It is rumored that SENATOR DUBOIS WILL FAVOR THE MEASURE If ho does he will be sustained by his Idaho Id-aho constituents of all shades of politics and Senator Shoups common sense ought to induce a like action There will be another an-other Congressman to be chosen here next fall a matter which Judge Sweet probably bears > In mind He will loso no friends in Idaho and may gain some credit by also giving that bill his assistance He will discover when he returns here for reelection re-election that changed circumstances have changed many ideas among the people and that he will lose nothing by dropping any old prejudices he may entertain on the subject sub-ject among the driftwood of dead political and personal conflicts This allusion to Idahos representatives recalls the fact that this elate will elect an entire state ticket and Legislature as well as county tickets next November with tho exception of two supreme judges the dis trict judges and attorneys A successor for Chief Justice Sullivan who unfortunately fortunately for himself drew the short term will also be elected Three presidential presi-dential electors will give the election some national interest There is much reason to believe that important im-portant political changes threaten Idaho politicians Standing clearly out of the present confusion one of two events will occur The present state officials cannot be reelected either the Republican leaders lead-ers will bo forced to drop them or the Democratic party will give them a deadly drop next November At the best Republicans Re-publicans estimate the prospects of carry t ing tho stateas gloomy Many changes nave occurred wiiuin me past eignteen months and they have all tended ono way The winds have been unfavorable and still blow from tho north A hitter bitterness was left in the mouths of muny staunch Republicans over the senatorial wrangle and it still hangs about the lips of many in Alturas county The last Legislature Legisla-ture did nothing to redeem itself afterwards after-wards by adopting a code of laws adapted to the requirements of a state constitution We are yst under the old territorial laws AN ILLSORTED COLLECTION OF OBSOLETE ODDS AND ENDS to which a wrongheaded legislature and executive confuse by the addition of unwelcome un-welcome license and incorporation enactments enact-ments unwise and unpopular everywhere There were a few able men in that legislature legisla-ture but they were there to elect certain United States Senators only and the mass of the thirdrate representative comprising the remainder knew little or nothing about legislation and cared less How little they were identified with the state was shown a few weeks ago when Governor Willey schemed to convene an extra session this winter and found that a greater portion of the old members had loft their counties and COUIQ nownero DO discovered within the state Tho governor himself is conceded by his political associates to be incompetent incompe-tent and only useful to the Shoup faction blowing that Senators horn during his absence ab-sence boosting his personal friends and breeding Republican discord anil Democratic Demo-cratic derision The accident of the hour his political life will die with his present term There are some able Republicans in North Idaho who feel that they were misplaced mis-placed in Idaho politics by the makeshifts that led to Governor Willeys nomination for lieutenantgovernor and that official will hear from them later Alturns county got more than its share of the state officers when Gen Roberts Secretary Pinkham U S Mursbal Jo Pinkham Warden Mack and some of their assistants and dependents walked into business at Boise City and they seem to have succeeded admirably by their contributions contri-butions to the general discord there is a growl sometimes amounting to a howl over the alleged MISMANAGEMENT OF THE STATE INSTITUTIONS controlled by the commissions composed of these identical state officials Those commissions com-missions are state monopolies of the worst description furnishing dickering opportunities oppor-tunities offensive to effective management and the text of general comnlaint Of course tbo Republicans who are notin it are noisy and denunciative Their wild assertions are to betaken with some grains of salt but a conoral distrust or disgust is not to be sneered at on the morning of an election From this miserable condition there is one releaseif the Republican organization organiza-tion floes not reform it the Democratic purty will destroy it Some one is bound to take that contract The entire outfit will be cleaned out when the next state conventions meet or next November Even Alturas county strongly onesided OB It is may be restive dissatisfied and threatening in high Republican quarters They rage for n change at least oven if it includes themselves Their own angry words can be taken for that Moodys educational bureau with its endorsed bogus circulars and penniless school teachers have contributed to paint this hightoned state administration in any but fancy colors The majorities in Idaho are too small and insecure to be trifled with Two years ago Sweet had a majority of 2171 over May hugh Shoup for governor a little more and others less down to 1457 majority for attor ey general The average was something some-thing less than 2000 This was no fair reliable reflection of public sentiment on any enduring question then and much less now To say nothing of the hundreds of voters disfranchised outright many intimidated by threatened prosecutions since abandoned some were offended and revengeful with or without cause for Democratic acts of omission or commission in tho constitutional convention conven-tion and previous legislatures All the passing winds that blow about that time contributed to the federal programme rind the hurrah for statehood expanded the sails Sliver went up to 121 to tumble to 91 In 1892 as THE SALT LAKK HERALD afore told when the silvor purchase act was passed The unthinking and mercenary mer-cenary found ample excuse for joining the crowd Politicians of every nondescript quality shouted glibly In the lively hope that lightning would strike somewhere in the neighborhood to their advantage under a new government Big and little went with the rush How attractive that velvet backed vacant chair in the governors room cBig red seals and commissions how many I Sumptuous state apartmontsclerk ships galore deputies ad Mbei tm state funds and bonds roads lands asylums prisons university superintendents and commissioners Omreof capued by n S Senators until the weary people couldnt sleep onlghts I Everything goes IUBLIC PLUNDER ALL AROUND THE SKY As a considerable number of the patriots got leit those inlandish and outlandish tribes have immensely enjoyed scalping each other ever since All things come to an end the brass band subsided the bonfires grew cold the politicians poli-ticians unfriendly Miners who went home to sell silver and lead ores to pay for the spree quickly learned that McKinleY protection pro-tection does not protect Idaho miners any bolter than the Mexican border The total vote polled in the state was 18008 The governor shortly before statehood claimed a population of 115000 sure with some magnificent figures beyond The census marshal when he tried to call them byname by-name found 84229 He claimed afterwards that ho did not find them all Perhaps not an excessive population might have been Inconvenient to handle While the tide was on the flood Alturas county swelled the current with Its hundred majority This may be repeated once or twice In a quarter of a centuryscarcely in 1892 Students of the history of the new states have observed that the party which won the first state fight usually lost tho next First in the race that lead to glorys goal they won and passed away Perhaps it is one of the laws of natural evolution Gods whose shrines no longer burn Even gods must yield religions take thoir turn THE SALT LAKE HERALD has done good work in Idaho It Is found almost everywhere every-where alert reliable intelligent and rend by all conditions of men Its just and conservative con-servative views are making a lasting impression im-pression among the sensible voters which will count greatly to Democratic advantage hereafter Idaho ought to have u newspaper newspa-per like it but printers assert that they Cannot afford it under the present administration adminis-tration It will not be for want of pohtical information if political changes do not come Democrat did not expect to win In 1890 but they look for something different this year Democratic success will not be insured in-sured however by pursuing the irresolute shiftless methods that have been followed in this state for several years There are many good Democrats on Wood river ana I many very poor ones hero and 11 tn the uuuuquuricib rjuisu iiy iuu lu uiau have seen such in your recent experience There has been too much of a cowardly disposition shown to follow in the trail of the Republicans rather than the courage to break a Democratic way and keep it too much trafficking hoggishness apitowork the leadership of shallow minds with contemptible con-temptible devices The Democratic stato c2ntral committee has ovinced little vigor unity understanding of late years Personal jealousies shortsighted legislation and a general spirit of carelessness and uncharitable nesd have weakened and divided the once ardent Idaho Democracy A presidential I election ought to develop faith and worn Whether it will or not we shall see Idaho was bought by a price and the purchasers will demand the goods but the Presidential Presiden-tial vote can bo made uncertain at least and the state ticket secured by active work The Republicans have issued a call for a meeting of the state central committee to prepare lor a aelegation to Minneapolis Governor Wiley has stated this stale is FOR DLAINE FIRST HARRISON SECO DIn D-In this he mistakes the wishes of the federal fed-eral officeholders and their dependents for public opinion Harrison is not the first or second choice of the Republicans of Idaho Ho is not popular in the mining counties and has no especial friends except ex-cept manufactured ones If nominated he will be a I heavy load to carry among the miners but the machine will send Harrison delegates The Democratic central committee has not bten heard from yet A call may be issued soon for the selection of the six delegates to the Chicago convention of Tune 2L How those delegates shall be chosen will be an important matter The suggestion that the state central committee Appoint them will be generally condemned They might be chosen by a meeting of the members of county committees but the nearer they are taKen by the direct action of the people the better Any other course will lead to dissatisfaction There is little said hero about a Presidential choice A western west-ern man would be preferred but that is unlikely to happen Clevelands position on silver operates against him in mining counties Hill and Whitney are talked about favorably Such a ticket as Hill and Boies has been referred to as a strong one but there appears no decided choice That will come later Tho confirmation of Judge Beatty was expected and is generally satisfactory He and his rivals lived here and accept the result re-sult as a peace offering if nothing more Idlers are now cut down to a discussion dis-cussion of Mr JlapROtts chances in the Senate Of course none credited the telegraphic tele-graphic tale of his change of political base or of any official action among Democrats at Boise City to induce an apostacy on his part The bitterness which has entered deeply into the heart of the Jopublican party to which 1 have alluded above was atrikiugiy displayed at Washington in the attack upon Claggetts character coming from the Republican state central committee com-mittee Seine of these letters will be found in the printed argument of Mr Price on behalf of Mr Dubois Not content with assailing the contestant with political accusations ac-cusations they attacked him personally in language TEKOCIOUS AND UNSEEMLY IN ANT CASE Reading the appendix in the pamphlet one would not be astonished if Mr Clagcett did turn Democrat rather than continue to associate with men who express such intense in-tense virulent hostility Joseph Pink ham chairman and S J Pritchard secretary secre-tary of the committee assert that his character vegarlcs and course of life has been such that no reliance can be placed in him It Is the common feeling that tho interests of the state would be inconstant in-constant danger if entrusted to his care Warden W S Mack writes that his character char-acter is such that no dependence can be placed in him Ho is smooth of speech and plausible vhich renders him a dangerous man for he looks to no interest save his own Mr Elder says he is Ia political adventurer without stability of character or purpose Mr Reed declares that he has no scruples us to the means used to further his own selfish ambition His reputation is not good at all he cannot be trusted says another And so they go with a load of like complimentary certificates certifi-cates We did not imagine that the object of all vituperation was much of a Democrat when addressed the Hailey ratification meeting in 1890 and amid Republican applause ap-plause assailed the motives of Thomas Jefferson Jef-ferson but at that time he did not expect to be invited to such a lovofeast as this > provided by the party to which he has long been devoted Whatever may be tho outcome out-come Washington this home attack upon i his character by his own associates will be felt hereafter in this state where his personal per-sonal friends are numerous and Influential Influen-tial It will go into the common pot with tJ many other matters awaiting future retribution retri-bution Having devoted so much space here to general stato offairs reference to more local lo-cal matters must be postponed by your correspondent to another time The times are quiet and two feet of snow do not incite in-cite new enterprises Idlers sit about stoves interested in discussing tho probabilities proba-bilities of the sale of the Minnie Moore mine the durability of a Red Cloud strike the number of men employed in the Red Elephant and its good prospects the number num-ber of judgments paid off on the Gold Belt the closing of the public school here for want of revenue and proposed opening of a private school during the summer and at night the young people swing away the evenings in the merry dance at the Alturas A baptism of the Emery brothers in the river last Sunday afforded a diversion to the daily drudgery and monotony of life that patiently awaits the sun of March for another season of success or disappointment disappoint-ment BABYLON HAILEY Idaho Feb 10 |