| Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I believe that Idaho people will yet realize that they have made a mistake In allowing the State to be placed In I tho Democratic column said W P Woodruff of Blackfoot at the Walker I yesterday The election has carried j them out of all sympathy with the national na-tional Administration for the next two J years anyhow and the friendly Influence i Influ-ence of the general Government Is likely like-ly to beof great help III the early history his-tory of any Slate Idaho la f a growing I young State with strong Indications of future prosperity but such an election as was held on the Cth of this month t I will not hurry Its prospects any 1 If the Democrats stick to the Pocu I tello agreement of course Dubols will I be elected But If anything happens to I give the Democratic legislators an excuse ex-cuse for breaking loose from the agree i mont Sleunenberg will be chosen j I United Slates Senator Dubols Is a politician pure and simple and hall no l other calling I Blackfoot people are greatly pleased r I over the prospects of a new Hno from Blackfoot to Arco and If this h 1 once I started It means a road clear through Ito I-to Cuslcr some 200 miles This w ill I bring u gicat deal of trade Into Blackfoot II Black-foot and aid materially in building up the town We have not had any winter to speak of so far the weather has been pleasant and our crops abundant I The Short Line Is doing a good business I I busi-ness in hauling out our products and hauling in I merchandise But Idahos I going Democratic well 1 dont know I fear it has given us a setback 1 Robert D Grant the It mining man who has returned from a Butte trip I said yesterday Utahs step In entering the Republican ranks has given it de cided jucstlge In lie financial centers f of the country and In allying herself with the best Inloresis the Nation I the Stale has Increased I Its chances for bringing money In from outside Investors In-vestors have more faith In Utah now it has gone Republican The Republicans Republi-cans In Butte were delighted to hear how Utah went 40 C M Bell the wellknown traveling man returned yesterday from a New I York business trip and is at the Knuts ford happy oer the reelection Qf Mc l Klnlcy hI was in the First icglinent armory at Chicago on election night I he said yesterday There were 15000 people packed In there and suddenly I the name of Utah appeared on the bul S letinsheet with the announcement that It hud gone Republican by 3000 I shall neVer forget the shout that went up and Good for Utah was heard on all sides The fact seemed to give genuine satisfaction to everybody The clothing business Is GO per cent better than It I was a year ago at this time of year and retailers are calling for better grades of goods than usual Wear for next spring and summer run to fancy worsteds In subdued or modest colors In checks and stripes plain and I broken Fine catslmercs arc also having hav-ing a good run so are striped llrfnnels I and box bell and military Backs There hag been no Interruption of business by the campaign and Jobbers and retailers have been buying right along Just ns though it were Presidential year Railroads are short all over the country in construction material but there is an Improvement over the previous previ-ous year In rolling stock said W E Clark of New Hampshire at the Ken yon yesterday The B 0 Southwestern South-western had to borrow 100 locomotives last year from the Union Pacific and other roads and railroads generally were reaching out for all ot the motive I power and rolling stock they could get hold of This year It Is better as the great shops throughout the country have been turning out engines and cars I at a rapid rate so that a long atcp has been taken toward supplying the deficiency defi-ciency In referring to the clpctlon Mr Clark said that New Hampshire Democrats Demo-crats were born In that political faith they came to It through inheritance In-heritance At the same time at the Democratic State convention in 1S9G ninety of the faithful walked out of the convention rather than Indorse the Chicago platform Bill Chandler characterized the element that remained re-mained as the brainless remnant of the party It was true that the best and strongest element of the Democratic Demo-cratic party In New Hampshire left It at the time and has remained out of it itWe A We got frightened In New York before be-fore the election lest there might be a show for Bryans election and the Republicans turned In at the last and did some heroic work said C E Benton Ben-ton of Utica N Y yesterday at the Kcnyon The result was a landslide for McKinley and Bryan and Croker were burled out of sight It was Cro I kers downfall and he knows It hence I hIs sudden turn about to aid In making a crusade against vice In New York It is another case of When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be1 Tammany has suffered a great blow In the lessening of its Influence Business till through central New York Is rushing and many of the factories fac-tories are working night and day Mr Benton has brought his son West for tho benefit of the latters health and will spend the winter with him on the Pacific coast Harry M Cushing of the Denver Rio Grande returned yesterday from a Denver trip All Denver was stirred up In wild excitement over the lynching of the negro boy Porter he says The local lo-cal papeiT got out special editions every half hour or less and the most was made out of the sensation There was a great mob waiting for the boy at tho union depot and had ho been taken to the train there I doubt If lie could have been got through alive But the officers drove him to a station cast of the city A special car full of reporters report-ers wont out with the train from the union station and they spread themselves them-selves In great shape |
