Show I AMERICAN AND A MAN Under the above heading the New York Sun has an editorial that I ought to be copied by every nenspaper In the Union It Is I as follows There con be no cerislve apureclailon of the h < > rolc and manly llguro that looms up in the polltlcnl I life of thin country Just now in the Kr on of CJov Frank Sttunenborj of Idaho For over a year Iho mooting places of certain political orKunlxatlons und the columns of certain newspapers have re sounded with denunciations of lh 1renl drnt or thc IliHctl i StnlPH for what Wild declared to bo his tinconstllutli ar bitrary nnd cruel UHO > f the Federal uov er In aupprvslnf disorder I In the I Co iir iJ lime mining dlatrlrl In Idaho H I was charged that tim tyrannical capitalism who owned the mimics owiud the 1rosl donl an well Tlf Pivident and Jen Mifilam eonimuiullnB the troops won only the tools of til octopus They over rode the civIl povir V of the I Slate pro claimed martini law und treated the strik lug minors of Idaho with ImrshncHs and eonlumc V For some Weeks a committee of ton I srifs hi8 been Jnveytlgalln the Idaho Htrlkes mil thin conduct of nil Federal ofncurH who dealt with them Two or threo dnvH ujjo flov Sleunonberg took hun I stand lie was elected Governor of Idaho by a good majority aa a Democrat and a Populist and ho In we underMtnml n member of a labor union Therefore there were those who expected thin the Governor would indeavor to mollify or excuse the part which ho played III pro serving the pence In Idaho and throw I the responsibility and the blaino If any for tIme acts of lip military there u 1on upon tIme shoiildcrs of President McKlnley hut a bluff hearty German HO unconvention I al In manner that ho appeared before tIme V commlltuu without a necktie ho narcd in undisguised contempt upon Loniz I the hlRthorHkliP who has oten Lndunor I hug to cat odium upon the Chief Kxerti the and told wltut Impponed in Idaho In V Htrilghtforwini aiHeeh fllforlot of the Btrlktrw had axumcd so crave t form that It amounted LO levy Ing war nRuinyt thr State and HIP Nation Thf HtrlkTu burned hulldliiR In id up railroad ualnr and murdered men Law and orler wore hnnHlud The mill tla of Idaho were In the Philippines and the mud forces of the Slate were gIn g-In the emergency Then the fJovernnr called upon the sldint for aid The troops when thev arrived under the command com-mand of Gen Alerrlum worn subject 10 the Governors orders So for from the civil j > owor beliiK subordinated to the I military the reverse was the case The martini law that was procallmed wns proclaimed I pro-claimed at tho Governor InHtanee It was tho Governor who arrested and Imprisoned I Im-prisoned miners and placed thorn In n I I I I stockade In lieu of n belter place of deten J I lion It wns the Governor who declared thnt the strikers should not be permitted I to return to the pluoes they t had dcvne tut oil unless they puv uuarnnte for I thcr future good conduct ll I was time I Governor who took charge of the bUHlneyB I nf mippresMlnff the entire lnnuir ctlon and whatever was done as done bv him nnd I at his order No one who remimbers what happened there can deny for an In I Htant hill all that wax don was dono I V rightly md properly DeHpIln hits loam I hauL ami f Is I InlJJrl1nlolll < lI llc I Goornor protected tho property nnd the other rlglits of the people of his Stale like a I bravo and honcsl man A weak or dlshoneal man If Governor of lilnlio would have unncuied before tho I Coiwrosslonnl committee and endeavored I to besmirch the President and make po I hllcal capital out of time newspaper howl i lhat has been raised Not no with FnnU J I I Suuneiibers lie told the truth and ap I peixled to tIme good Judgment of all solf rthpocllny citizens for the ipprovtl of I what ho did Every r American worthy of tho namo will smy all honor to him I That is a fair statement but even that gives no Idea of the manifold at rocllies that led tip to the necessity of calling In Federal help This Is slowly slow-ly coming out as the Investigation drags Its way through the commllleo The Sun has done tehl in catching the full V I spirit that ruled but the acts add much I to the forbidding picture Contrasted V with the attitude of a local Democratic I shoot the Sun shines luminously but It does not reveal the actual horrors i I I AVhen Ihey are fully brought out we J know of but one Democratic paper In i tho land that will try to make party capital by simulating sympathy for those northern assassins and that Is the Sail Lake Herald |