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Show Tke Figlit In Idako BLACKFOOT, Ida., March 2. Poll-tics Poll-tics In Idaho are becoming rampant. Up to the present hour the list of candidates for the various State offices of-fices In the Republican party resembles last year's polling list. And like the celebrated march of Gen. Cbxey, Is still accumulating flotsam and Jetsam. A perusal of the llHt reminds one of Fal-staff's Fal-staff's army, and contains as much humor aB a Mark Twain lecture For Instance, the youthful and verbose ver-bose Avery Moore Is out for the Congressional Con-gressional nomination. Barring a slight Impediment of speech he can't listen the Honorable Avery Is as promising a statesman ns ever girt up his pipes, and. in the language of Burns. "Gnrt them skirl." Last heard of Avery he was whipping the contaminated contami-nated air of a Democratic convention with his coat-tails in a vain efort to dodge nn anti-polygamy plank. Then comes J. H. Brady, of first Hen and Jack-Mormon fame. The Hon. James H. is an aspirant for the Senatorial Sena-torial toga of Fred T. Dubois, nnd his campaign will be conducted largely at the throne In Salt Lake, and afler tho mannpr nnd style that David Graham Phillips ascribes to Chauncey Depcw in his abject devotion to tho Vanderbllts, namely, with a greasy tongue, a greasy knee and a greasy splno. But In this respect the Honorable James differs little from the clamorous and hungry host that are tearing each others' oth-ers' clothes for recognition. For Instance, In-stance, the Stnto house has resembled a Mormon conference ever since the election of Gov. Gooding. Ono rambling about the State house grounds might easily Imnglne one's self approaching the temple, for an oily Ben Rich, a Kimball, or some equally qualified or as enthusiastic an emlssnry of the church Is ever on tap. It Is the Dubois scalp that the hle-rarch hle-rarch longs for and will do anything to get, but what with the State administration's adminis-tration's spineless sycophancy to the hlerarch In Its appointments; Its reckless reck-less squandering of public funds and Jobbery in the Interest of private Individuals, Indi-viduals, honest folk, outside of the political po-litical ring, are beginning to awaken. Added to this. Dubois's splendid ability has made the beefy sage of Spokane, the man who was to work such wonders won-ders In the United States Senate, look like a Jose of Peruvian bark to his own party. Common folk can see little necessity of administering the affairs of Idaho from Salt Lake, even though the telephone tele-phone and trnln service be good, and Mormons as well as Gentiles are openly denouncing the fiagrancy of the Utah domination. In any event, the fight will be an open one, and In the southeastern counties there Is a probability of an American party; If not, the Democrats will have an American party platform. E. E. KELLY. |