Show I THOSE NORTHERN SCOUNDRELS No doubt the Republicans on the committee com-mittee that is investlKiitlng the Cocur dAJeno trouble have discovered by this time that the whole business Is Intended simply for political effect In the cornIng corn-ing Presidential campaign and they will see to It that Mr Lents after he gets In all the lying testimony that he can will not be permitted to check he I I investigation then they will see that the whole business Is brought out j They ought to keep In mind that Gov I Stcunenberg Is a Democrat that all his life he has been a labor union member that all his sympathies are with honest labor and that he only moved In that case because he realized that a gang of Incendiaries and murderers had stolen the honorable name of a labor union over which to perpetrate their incendiarism and to multiply their assassinations as-sassinations It was a Democratic State I administration that took those feces sary steps to uphold the law and Its 1631 course was Just legal and patriotic It Is a shame for Democrats to assail and denounce Coy Steunenhergs course It Is very pathetic to read that when a trainload of masked rufllans debark from a train and are called in the ranks by regular com panlen when they proceed to destroy by dynamite property worth half I a million dollars when they ransack i ran-sack first the boarding and I lodginghouses of the works to try to find that they may murder the I I superintendent and all employees when they find a poor clerk who Is I I guilty of nothing except that he has been trying to earn a living find him retreating from the property and morel I lessly kill him and then when they j aro run Into a corral for safe keeping j 1 It Is very pathetic we say that the innocent in-nocent could not be separated at once from the guilty that the accomplices could not in a moment bo separated I from the original conspirators and re i slcased It Is a lasting pity of course that this gang of murderers that had madu chaos over all northern Idaho for seven years were finally brought to book and their deviltry stopped But tho Republicans will be recreant to their duty both to their party and to I the country If they do not Insist upon bringing out the full facts and showIng I show-Ing the world what is true that there was a gang of men up there compared I with whom the Mollle Magulres of Pennsylvania wero elegant gentlemen There are witnesses enough if they will I send for them there is testimony enough they will bring out to show that the treatment those men received was very gentle compared with what they deserved and what they had given others and we wish the absolute facts could be called out that the ringleader of the whole might be brought to trial and made to dance on the air at the end of a rope and other ringleaders brought to justice that they should no more Impose oh their foolish dupes It would be a better thing for honest laborers l in the West than has ever happened and we urge Senator Shoup and the Senators from Washington and Montana to take interest In-terest enough In the business to see that the honest facts be brought out and that the right may be vindicated Eight years ago the Democratic party made their campaign chiefly on the terrible treatment of worklngmcn at the Homestead works After the election elec-tion was over the Democratic Congressman Con-gressman who had the committee In charge to investigate the matter declared de-clared that he never heard In his life of workingmen that were receiving such pay as were those Homestead rioters But the business load served as a campaign cry and had done its work This In Cocur dAlene must not be permitted to be a repetition of that Tho Democratic party Is Just now anxious anx-ious to picture those scoundrels as martyrs for the effect on the campaign to arouse tile prejudices of worklngmen throughout tho country Republicans will be recreant to their duty If they I do not make it clear by the testimony that can easily be obtained thatthose men merely stole the title of the labor union through which to perpetrate perpe-trate their murders their Incendiarism and to keep the whole region In a state of chaos and fear for seven long years and that their real indictment against the authorities came when they were dangerously near feeling the halter draw |