| Show WHY WE SUPPORT JOHN HAILEY There are several reasons why the DEMOCRAT advocates the election of John Hailey as Delegate to Congress from our neighboring Territory of Idaho He is a sound Democrat and as a general rule we prefer men of that political complexion complex-ion as members of our National Legislature Legisla-ture He is an honest man possessed of more than ordinary ability is industrious in-dustrious and painstaking in his Congressional duties and an old resident of the Territory which he aspires to continue con-tinue to represent He knows its resources re-sources and needs and the legislation and Executive action necessary to advance ad-vance its interests He is opposed by a man far his inferior in every essential qualification for a useful Congressional representative a person whose brief residence resi-dence in the Territory in which he has nothing except an officeseeking interest renders him morally ineligible to comprehensively com-prehensively represent the people or their interests A man without legislative experience ex-perience and who has never developed any qualities which would manifest his fitness for promotion from a National policeman to a seat in the popular branch of Congress Notwithstanding all of these reasons it is not probable that the DEMOCRAT would have taken more than ordinary interest in Mr Haileys election but for the unjust bitter and parti zan manner in which ho has been assailed by a portion of the Republican Repub-lican and Mormon press in his own and this Territory It used to bean be-an old frontier saying that when Pawnee and Snake get their heads together to-gether white man look out for your scalp When Republican and Mormon newspapers join hands in a warfare against a Democrat it is pretty good evidence evi-dence that some extraordinary devilment devil-ment is purposed and that the alliance bodes an unusually sinister design towards to-wards the object of their united wrath which should rally all friends of justice and humanity to his support and protection pro-tection The Saints are boiling over with rage because Mr Hailey was instrumental in-strumental in the ousting of their delegates dele-gates from the Democratic Convention the formulation of a platform denunciatory denuncia-tory of their institution and his outspoken out-spoken opposition to their methods and practices The Republican organs or-gans are green with envy and hatred because the Democratic candidate has appropriated what they consider exclusively ex-clusively their own thunder turned their biggest gun against them and their allies and is i creating fearful consternation and slaughter in the ranks of both The gallant gal-lant manner in which the brave old frontiersman fron-tiersman is defending himself against the cross fire of false and malicious charges bitter invective and fierce denunciations I from the allied forces challenges the admiration ad-miration as it excites the sympathy of all friends of truth and justiceand that is the principal reason why the DEMOCRAT manifests more than ordinary interest in his election |
