Show r REPUBLICANS OF IDAHO Their Campaign Opened Vigorously Vig-orously and on Time IS NATURALLY I REPUBLICAN I JEho People Need and Bolievo in Ke puhlican Principles Benefits Those Principles Have Conferred Democrats Demo-crats Lack Confidence in tho Success i Suc-cess of Their Stato TicketA Review Re-view of the Alleged Democratic Economy Prosperity of the Nation and the Part Idaho Has in It f TRIBUNE SPECIAL Boise Ida Sept Zillth something akin to military precision the Republican Republi-can carnpalgn opened on tho night of the 15th inst at both ends of the State with Mr Morrison tho Gubernatorial candidate at Bonners Ferry Kootcnal county and Mr French tho Congressional Congres-sional candidate at Malad Oneida county The dispatches reaching here from all sources not only glvo substantial substan-tial evidences of great enthusiasm but there seems to pervade the meetings to be floating In the air that same feeling feel-ing of confidence that permeated the convention upon Its meeting here last month And why not STATE NATURALLY REPUBLICAN From 1SSG to 1E36 the Republican majorities i ma-jorities or pluralities ranged from about 10D to over 3000 and It was only when the silver storm came Rwcepjug l the Stale I from I in accustomed moor I Ings that the party went down leaving scarcely I a rack behind Sincr then however the State has been rapidly returning re-turning to her ancient anchorage an shown In tho marker falling off of tho Democratic or fusion pluralities To Illustrate The fusion plurality In 1SOC i was JGSGS In 1SOK FC13 whil > fn 1POO It was reduced to 2iro Applying the customary Democrat I rule of percentages percent-ages to the Republican situation tho State ought to give a Republican plurality plu-rality this fall of nbout 3300 Under these reasonable and encouraging conditions con-ditions It IK not surprising that the Republicans Re-publicans are confident and determined deter-mined while their opponents In their private conversations and confidential Interchanges of opinions arc distressed and despondent This obvious hick of I Democratic confidence at least In tho success of their State ticket aaldo from the remarkable break the Republican have made In their pluralities since 1S9H Is further emphasized by the strong undertone of serious opposition lo tho renomlnatlon of the Governor Secretary Secre-tary of State and Congressman threatening threat-ening at one stage of the proceedings of the Pocatello convention to develop Into open revolt But finally It dawned upon the Insurgents that they could not with either dignity or political common com-mon sense cast their Governor overboard over-board mid sail Into the campaign singing sing-ing hosannas for the courageous and economical State administration and leave the head of It stranded like a whale In the surf So amid much Inward In-ward profanity and outward jubilation the Governor was renominated In the hope that the same cohesive power wHich had gained them the State In the past two sections might keep the Populists Pop-ulists In line long enough to again land them In possession of the State Government Govern-ment DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY If there Is any one virtue In which the average Democratic orator or editor has a monopoly It is the art of juggling with figures It Is the usual supposition supposi-tion that figures never He but It they happen lo have behind them a lurid pyrotechnic liar figures can be made to present an array of misstatements as flamboyant and fiH seductive as a house on lire We have recently been entertained I enter-tained with some pregnant evidences of this quality In their comparisons of the extravagance of the McConnell J regime with the wire and economical administration of Gov Hunt Of course no account Is taken of the increase In-crease of population from about f HIiS5 + In 1SOG to Ocr 200000 nt present with 1 the consequent impiovomontc and In crraspd valuation of properly oC every kind and character in the Stair naturally nat-urally reducing t th > rate of tnxallon td thc credit of the later administration The Bolso Statesman commenting on this feature of the case says In the platform adopted at Pocatello a striking llluMrallon of this Democratic Demo-cratic habit Is furnished by the lollov I InS InSWe We call attention to the fact that tin tax levy for Stale purposes has boon reduced re-duced under Democratic lulmlnlHtnitlon The levy amounted to SC cents on the 3100 for th1 yrur 1S03 the sixth and last your Republican administration In this Suite while In the pry sent It amounts to only 115 cents on the t J1CO Believing tho people of this State favor in honest eftlclcnt and economical administration of Stuo government gov-ernment yO appeal with confidence to the peoples BUfTra ei and promise continue the Hue of conduct which had reduced taxation tax-ation and expenses In tho past The person who did not have some close knowledge of the fads might very easily be led by that utterance to suppose sup-pose that the Democrats had been reducing re-ducing taxation during their control oC tho State Government It Is a very clever use of figures for thc purpose of deception In 1S93 the assessed valuation of the State was In round figures 29000000 At that time tho amount to be raised for maintenance of the State Government Govern-ment was about 231000 The assessed valuation of the Stale has risen until It now stands at 50JOOOOOO The amount to be raised for the Stale Government Is 215000 The levy Is made on last years assessment when the total was 551000000 It wll readily be seen that as the assessed valuation has Increased the percentage of tax levy has decreased The assessed valuation on which the levy 1 Is based Is nearly double consequently conse-quently tho percentage can be nearly cut In two and still raise as much money As a matter of fact the levy has not been decreased as claimed by the platform plat-form hut has been Increased The amount now being raised for State purposes Is greater than In 1SH5 though the percentage Is I less That platform like all those of the Demo I cratic party Btoopi to Jugglery dint In not very cnvllkiblo when It la I exposed Brloiiy the fact Is that the marvoloiui Increase of prosperity In the United Stales cluing the past tAvnnly yon is and particularly In the pint four yams has ovcrflovpil I I lilt > Idaho blpidiiicrIt despite the fierce and pcralslonl oftorta 1 of the Democratic party of the Stale to either destroy or VCN It I PROSPERITT OF THE NATION In tho past twenty year the population popula-tion of the United States has nearly doubled Itself while Its jvoallh has much more than doubled And an an i Inevitable consequence debts have do cioascd In about the same ratio or to be moved by material considerations the per capita debt has been reduced In the past twenty years from 3827 to 1102 INCREASE IN VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL AGRICUL-TURAL PROPERTY The same exceptional ratio of Increase In-crease manifests Itself In the remarkable remark-able Increase In the property and products pro-ducts of the farm as in all the I other departments of material wealth In the former the Increase has been over eight billions of dollarsmore than three and onehalf times as much aa our national debt amounted to at the conclusion of the Civil Will In the value of farm products the yearly Increase has risen from two billions two hundred thousand thou-sand dollars to nearly four billions of dollars and farm animals from one billion bil-lion eight hundred millions of doliixru lo nearly three billions of dollars IDAHOS SHARE IN PROSPERITY That the farmer and small rancher horticulturist and dairyman merchant and miner artisan and dally laborer of Idaho have each and all shared plenteously plen-teously In this prosperity can be seen In the smiling fields and wellfilled granaries gra-naries and bins and busy packinghouses packing-houses df our farms and arohards In the warehouses of our merchants In the enormous Increase In our ralltoad traffic In the remarkable development of our great mineral wealth In the increased In-creased Immigration to our State and In the notable increase In our building operations in every city town and hamlet In the State OTHER EVIDENCES OF OUR PROSPERITY PROS-PERITY One of the most tangible evidences of a nations wealth and l progress Is always al-ways found In the condition of the sav Itign banks of the country In ourn the Increase In the past twenty yoara 1S2 to H02ln thin deposlfn In our pavings honks have increased from over flCOoOfl 000 to over 52097000000 and the Increase In depositors has risen from nearly 3000000 fo nearly 7000000 Why there hOIl des hungry and povertystricken mortals over whore suffering the incomprehensible Bryanlc orator roars aloud and thunders In tho Index could pay oil our national debt buy at Ills own valuation all tho Came ls Rockefellers and Morgans from Maine to California and then have money enough left to begin business over at the old 1 stand And yet we arc being told from every stump and schoolhouse and crossroads In the Stale that all this prosperity In our State Is I a fiction of the Republican imagination that It Is an exaggeration that It does not exist al all thai It Is due to the wise and economical ad mlnlBliatlon of our present State Government Gov-ernment and that It will disappear entirely unless wo reelect this same remarkable re-markable Stale administration A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT But when a party has not policy of UB own with which to appeal to the confidence and business sense of tho public for political preferment or continuance con-tinuance in ofllce It must needs pull down and dcsttoy never to build up or aid In repairing So we will find the Democratic party from now to election day grasping at straws In their wild 1 effort to save themselves from the swelling flood of Republican votes which promises to engulf it on the Hh day of November next Hence It naturally follws as a property proper-ty of easiness for such eminent Democratic Demo-cratic luminaries as the Evening News of this citya recent and disinterested Importationas well as those to the manner born to see In the usually quickened < contests between candidates of the same party where a nomination practically means an election discussions discus-sions and divisions and sand s-and spoils when only an unusually awakened competitor was aroused the fruitage of an abundance of confidence In Republican success this fall So our Republican friends all over the State can abide In the assurance that there Is nothing In II despite the usual Democratic Dem-ocratic clamor to fright the Isle from Its propriety or lo lessen Ada countys accustomed Republican majority |