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Show GIUI EPiEiuti HOUSES HIS. SORE TOE Says He Will Support Republican Republi-can Ticket, Imt Is Greatly Disappointed. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Ida., Sept. 5. Congressman B. L. French, who was defeated las,t Wcdnesdn3' for a rcnominatiou in the Republican Stato convention, left for his home in Moscow late yesterday, but before ho departed he essayed to talk politics for a few minutes. While he said ho would support tho Republican ticket and would tike tho stump for it, ho did not hesitate to say that ho was very much disappointed over s"omo of the work of tho convention. First of all, be was disappointed over tho manner in which ho was handled han-dled by tho convention, and ho ex- Jresscd great surprise that twenty-ono elegates in Nez Perce, twelve in Shoshone Sho-shone and iivo aud five-sevenths in Blaine should violate their county convention con-vention instructions and vote ngainst him in the Stateconvcntion, they having hav-ing entered tho new combination at tho instance of Secretary of Stato Lansdon and State Treasurer Hastings, who dictated the last slate made tor tho G. O. P. of Idaho at Boise this week. Mr. French also said he was very much disappointed over tho defeat de-feat of the direct primary plank in the original draft of tho platform by tho Republicans, and ho dcclnrcd that the question of a diroct primary law is still an issue in Idaho, notwithstanding the fact that his party had turned down a pledge to that end, aud thnt two yoars heneo it would bo "a real livo wire. Senator Ilcybura's own county, Shoshone, Sho-shone, went back on Congressman French, even though it had instructions to vote for tho Moscow man. His action ac-tion is also (lifiicult for tho Congressman Congress-man to understand. Tho deal was made by Secretary of Stato Lansdon and State Treasurer Hastings. |