| Show AFTER HUNTS SCALP Bitter FightNow On Among Idaho Democrats MANY ELEMENTS DISCORD Hunt Is Accused by Avery C Moore of Idaho County Who Is Seeking tho Congressional Nomination With Giving Him the Double Cross This Hns Lost the Governor Thirteen S Thir-teen Delegates Dark Horses for Governorship Numerous and Indications Indi-cations Arc One Will Bo Chosen TRIBUNE SPECIAL Pocatello Ida Sept 3 Idaho tho battleground of political turmoil is likely to see in the convention which opens tomorrow the hottest political fight ever waged in the State That It will all be within the ranks of one political po-litical party will evidently not detract from Its bitterness The fight at the present time seems to bo on the Governorship between Hunt and Martin but other elements of discord are promised nnd other men besides Hunt and Martin want to be Governor While theymay not be able to control the votes necessary to nominate nomi-nate themselves it is conceded that they can Control the votes that arc necessary to secure the nomination to Hunt or Martin MARTIN HAS POLE A careful canvass of the situation tonight to-night as between Hunt and Martin gives tho latter 10S against 06 for Hunt This excludes Boise Washington Nez Pence and Idaho counties Washington is for Orchard Farm Jackson first and last and all the time and Ihls delegation delega-tion will stay with their man until he tells them where to go Jackson ia not telling any one where his delegation Ingoing In-going when he Is through with it Boise ha Llppincott and the delegation delega-tion say that they will be for Lippin cott after the convention adjourns whether he Is nominated or not Nez Pence will arrive tonight and comes with peculiar Instructions They arc that It first secure Hunts scalp and then vote as It pleases I Is seventeen strong and will carry some weight In the convention MOORE ON THE WAR PATH Idaho counts came down here solid for Hunt but it Is different now Idaho Is Avery C Moores county and Avery wants the Congressional nomination This Hunt had promised to him but when Avery arrived In Pocatello he was shown some letters from Hunt to friends here which plainly proved that ho had been giving Avery the double cross Moore Is nothing If not aggressive aggres-sive and he immediately tuyiijiculhir teen out of the fourteen Idaho delegates Into the Martin oamp Hunts lieutenants lieuten-ants have been striving for a truce all afternoon but Moore wont listen HUNT IS FOR HUTCHINSON This light has brought out the fact that Hunt is for Hutchinson for Congress Con-gress Hunt is In accord with the ever growing sentiment against the conventions conven-tions nominating 0 Senator and in this he comes Into conflict with a strong element ele-ment of his support for the Populists will demand that the convention nominate nomi-nate Heitfeld Hunt thinks he foreseen n legislative deadlock next winter ahd with Hunt n Governor ho thinks it would be an easy matter to have the Governor appoint Hunt to tho United States Senate He is not yet nominated for Governor and there are strong speculations that with tho four counties coun-ties that arc yet an unknown quantity neither Hunt or Martin can secure tho necessary votes Tills phrase Is giving the numerous dark horses much com S fort FIGHT OVER CHAIRMANSHIP Late tonight It develops that there will be a hard fight in the convention tomorrow over the temporary chairmanship chair-manship W H Watt ot Hale is the choice of the Martin men hut Hunt wants a friend of his own and the State committee has been dragged into the fight I will be urged that the Stale commlllco has the right to nanie the temporary chairman and to take action on this supposition it was called together tonight I postponed its ac ton until tomorrow when the question ques-tion is to be settled The fight Is sprung by the Hunt men their hope being to get n certain resolution reso-lution before the convention making nominations for Governor the first order or-der of business The meeting of the delegates has revealed the fact that Hunt has promised everything in sight to every one whose support was necessary neces-sary to him Such a revelation he thinks might have t bad effect on his candidacy If other nominations were made ilist and ho hopes to railroad his nomination through before his failure to deliver to each and every candidate the support he his promised shall be apparent The Hunt forces are now In caucus on this question Aside from this they claim to be gaining strength their clalmn Including the invasion in-vasion of the Bannock and Bear Lake delegations both of which have been regarded as solid for Martin MARTIN DENIES STORY Mr Martin tonight denies that the making public of tho penitentiary scandal scan-dal which involves Warden C E Ar ney and the penitentiary physician who is a brother of Senator Dubols had any political significance or that he had any hand In the mater This was In reply to n charge circulated by Hunts men that It vas sprung by Martin Mar-tin at this moment for the effect that It would have on Hunts cajididacy Mr Martin stales that it wan a matter that handled entirely by the was cnlrel t county coun-ty authorities and has no more bearing bear-ing directly than the investigation of any other crime would have |
