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Show IDAHO DEMOCRATS MAY BE IN TROUBLE Special to The Tribune. ; WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S. The two i candidates for congress in Idaho are al-: al-: leged to have laid themselves open to ', conviction for failure to comply with requirements re-quirements of the campaign publicity law and if prosecuted and convicted will be liable to a fine of $1000 or a sentence sen-tence of one year in the penitentiary or both. Representative Addison Smith, it is said, today discovered that neitherL. J. Purcell of Weiser, Democratic and Nonpartisan Non-partisan league nominee, who is opposing oppos-ing Representative French, nor C. I. Jet-teson Jet-teson of Moore, his opponent, have filed the preliminary expense statement due September 2, and it Is said thev have failed to fill the final statements which should have been here September 18. That a man cannot be the Republican candidate for senator and retain office as federal fuel administrator was made plain today by announcement from Fuel Administrator Ad-ministrator Garfield that C. C. Anderson J of Boise had been named fuel adminis-I adminis-I trator for Idaho to succeed former Governor Gov-ernor Frank R. Gooding. The official statement recites "that Gooding having entered the race for senator could not any longer serve with propriety as a government official." |