Show ABOUT IDAHO Fairly good news continues to come from daho The Republicans are making a d lashing compaign They are indulging In more fanfaronade than was ever before I put into a political contest They are nightly harrjngulng the people Every town village hamlet and camp are visited in I turn by the orators and brass bands processions and red lire are heard and seen on all occasions and everywhere The party also seems to be well supplied with money which it spends freely and sometimes some-times recklessly It is a show campaign in every respect on the part of the Republicans Re-publicans whose effort seems to be to dazzle daz-zle tho public with display and induce a forgetfulness of reason On the other hand the Democrats are dong do-ng nothing in the hurrah line They are making very little noise But they ire working all the same and work lug hard They are covering the ground thoroughly and reaching the people Their speakers are logical and convincing in this respect being the direct di-rect opposite from those of the enemy who indUlge largely in claptrap Tf the Democrats Demo-crats do not win it will be because the intelligent in-telligent thiiiUing men are in the minority in the new state and the argument of the bass drum and the torchlight are more convincing con-vincing than truth and logic Tho Democrats Demo-crats realize that they are contesting with an unscrupulous foe which in tho past has not scrupled at ballotbox stuffing and other crimes asainst popular government They know that all sorts of fraud are contemplated con-templated and will bo practiced unless they can be prevented by close watchfulness Democrats are on the trail or the scoundrels scoun-drels and doing what they can to have the election conducted honestly so that the result re-sult wiU be the truthful expression of the I popular will A good sign is the persistent declaration on the part of the Republicans that they are united and working together harmoniously whereas it is known that the party is racked and torn with dissensions friction everywhere asserting itself to the discom lituro of the campaign managers who long since despaired of smothering the jealousies jealous-ies and subordinating individual ambitions to the welfare of the party Notwithstanding Notwith-standing his declarations to the contrary there seems to exist a settled determination determina-tion to shelve Mr DUBOIS His only chanco for getting into the Senate it is said lies in kniiing Governor Snotri who is conceedcd one of the senatorships by common consent in the event of the Republicans carrying the legislature The convention declared that ono of the Senators should go to the northern part of the state and nominations to tho legislature were made with the un derstandinc that the conventions instructions instruc-tions would be obeyed Governor Snout belongs to tho south and as all admit that he has earned and paid for a senatorship and must have it Dotoifc who hails from the southeast will be left out in tho cold Snoti accepted the nomination for gov ernorwith the perfect understanding that in tho event of the election of a Republican legislature he would be chosen Senator I I and the lieutenantgovernor would become chief cxecutivo Suocidld not want the gubernatorial nomination and only consented I con-sented to take it because his party said that only he could bo elected and his personal strength might carry the entire ticket If then had been no doubt as to the success of the Republicans Suotr would have held aloof and been free to take the Sen atorship A decidedly weak man was nominated I nom-inated for heutenantgoernor and it I transpires that Itinis engineered the nom I j j inatjou his sinister motive having since appeared As a strong and popular man is i on the Democratic ticket for lieutenant governor it is expected that ho will be elected even if tho rest of the j ticket fails Then Governor Sunup j I could not resign and make a Democrat J governor and oemg compelled through I i loiality to his party to retain his ollico the 1 legislature would be Jiee to confer thoSen atorship intended for Snort upon Dellols C the other one going to a north Idaho man1 The tricky hand of the esDelcgato having I been discovered In toe scheme tho honest I men in the party are disgusted withDcuois rtand i saying he should be punished for I scheming against tho party and in his personal per-sonal interest I The Democrats are not claiming every Ithintr but they are working for everything I every-thing and are hoping to win They are united as never before and say that fraud being kept down they believe they will be victorious May their hopes be realized I and the young state about to enter upon a severe tiial l start out right I |