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Show POLITICAL STRIFE I M FIERCE Factional Differences Among The Republicans Give Democrats Dem-ocrats a Chance. Special to The Tribune. BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 20. Charles L. Hltcman, of Rathdrum,' was choson as chairman of tho Republican state committee com-mittee of Idaho today, unanimously, but with much ill-feeling, owing to his timber connections and his previous association with the Western Federation of Miners, in his legal profession In the defense of Stevo Adams. Ex-Governor Frank R. Gooding won in his demand for platform plat-form pronouncement for a straight-out railway commission, by tho assistance of Governor Brady, Senator Borah and Candidate Can-didate for Congress French, all of whom wero called before the state committee and made vigorous speeches for tho railway rail-way commission plank. Tho Democratic committee refused to embody the demand for a railway commission com-mission in tiieir platform, but gave a square Indorsement of the present county unit local option law and pledged Its en-forcoment. en-forcoment. State Land Board Roasted. The Democratts passed a bitter, scathing scath-ing resolution of condemnation against the grafting of the present state land board, two members of which, Brady and McDougall, are renominated, and promised prom-ised to prosecute criminally If they are given charge of the state affairs. Many Republican members of tho committee admit ad-mit the probable defeat of Brady and McDougall, based chiefly on the mismanagement mis-management of land board affairs. Senator Sen-ator Borah Is expected to open the Republican Re-publican campaign In a speech at Twin Falls on tho twenty-ninth, while Jim Hawloy, candidate for governor, open3 here tomorroow evenlncr. Hawlcy Is expected ex-pected to make a bitter attack on tho inefficient management of the Idaho state land board and tho record of tho Brady administration of land affairs, with espe. cinl reference to Carey act matters. |