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Gwin Falle Ulmes
Published every Thursday in the Gaut
Holohan Building, Main Street
WILBUR S. HILL
Editor and Publisher
INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN
Entered as second class matter May
6, 1905, at the postoffice at Twin Falls,
Idaho, under the act of Congress of
March 3, 1879.
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DEMAND THIS LABEL
On AH of Your Printed Matter. It rep
resents Good Workmanship, Good
Wages, and Good Conditions.
The Independent ticket started at
Filer last Thursday, ought to be roped
and branded before somebody steals it.
As near as can be learned, the
Statesman's attempt to defeat Lansdon
and Hastings, is just the necessary
stimulas to boost those men into office.
Any ambitious candidate should try to
get the opposition of the above paper.
It would insure election.
For several days, an advertising
agent worked among the business men
to secure their support for a traders'
day. After canvassing the field the
man left without closing the deal. If
an outsider can get up a trader's day,
it seems possible that the merchants
here can very easily get together and
plan a traders' day and raise the mon
ey necessary to have some local man
take charge. A great number of towns
have adopted a similar scheme and in
every case the merchants have been
benefited by the crowds attracted to
the town.
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The campaign is to open in good
shape next week and it is expected
that the Republicans will have some
very good orators during that time.
The line up of the candidates for the
most part is good, and with men like
Sweeley, Guthrie, Shields, Hunt, Har
lan, Hahn, Mull, Potter, Newbry asking
for votes, there ought to be a pretty
generous response. Taken as a whole,
the ticket presented is a strong one.
The fact that such men have come be
fore the people for the county offices,
is a good guarantee that the general
conduct of county affairs could not be
in safer hands.
The high-handed methods adopted
by the King Hill Irrigation promotors
in driving advertising agents out of
camp at the recent opening, might go
in Cripple Creek, Colo., but the citi
zens of Idaho don't, as a rule, do busi
ness that way. The King Hill official
certainly don't leave a good impres
sion with the believers in a square
deal. If King Hill land is better fruit
land than Payette and the Boise val
ley the promotors should not be afraid
of a comparison and fair competi
tion. If on the other hand it will not
compare favorably, then they have
certainly falsified.
Through some error the name of H.
E. Hunt was omitted from the county
ticket as a candidate for coroner. The
name will appear in a another column
with the rest of the ticket. Mr. Hunt,
as a candidate for coroner, should
meet with the approval of the voters
because of his fitness for the office. He
is a man of education and his profes
sion as undertaker peculiarly fits him
for serving the people in the office
which deals solely with his profession
and business. A long acquaintance
on the tract, making his character
well-known, should give Mr. Hunt a
large majority when the polls close
November 3.
There seems to be an opinion pre
valent among Republicans that a man
can be a Republican and vote the
Democratic National ticket. If it were
a case of state or local politics a man
should not be condemned for picking
out a better man for public office if he
happened to belong to the other party,
and especially is this true in county
politics where the man stands out
above party and rightly so. But on
the other hand, with men of equal abil
ity striving for the presidency, it
should make the party platforms stand
above all else. Not a breath of sus
picion is attached to Taft's public or
private record. He stands on a plat
form practically the same as that
which made Roosevelt the greatest
president of the nation. Taft stands
pledged to carry out that platform and
no man can accuse Taft of breaking
a promise. With this fact confronting
the voter there can be little excuse of
any Republican failing to vote for Taft
and the Republican policies of indus
trial protection.
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THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN—THE
PARAMOUNT ISSUE
The Outlook bas asked Mr. Edward
M. Shepard to tell Its readers why, In has
his judgment, they shcnld vote for Mr.
Bryan, the Democratic candidate; and
it has asked Mr. Janvs G i sham Phelps
Stokes to tell them why, in his opinion,
they should vote for Mr. Debs, the So
cialist candidate, and it hopes to print
these articles in following issues I
propose in four articles to tell the
readers why, in my opinion, they the
should vote for Mr. Taft, the Republi
can candidate. In these articles I of
shall consider successively:
The Paramount Issue.
The Foundamental Issue.
The Constitutional Issue.
The Personal Issue.
The Moral Issue is the Paramount
issue. The first question for the vot
er to ask himself is What can I do to
promote honesty in public and private m
life? This is more important than
rallway rate regulation, control of the
trusts, tariff revision, currency re- n
form, colonial administration, or pub
llcity of campaign finances. These iu
polltical questions are chiefly import
anly as their solution involves the pro
motion of public and private honesty,
Law cannot make a people honest.
But law can, as Mr. Gladstone has
pointed out, make virtue easier and y
vice more difficult. Because I believe
the election of Mr. Taft will give an
added strength to the partially awak
ened American conscience, because I
believe it will promote public and
private honesty and make public and
private dishonesty more difficult, I
hope to see Mr. Taft elected.
The latter half of the nineteenth
century was one of appalling and ap
parently increasing corruption, both at
home and abroad. In Russia it was
almost as pestilential as in that of the
Ancient Regime in France. It was not
so gross in other European countries;
but in England alone was it brought
under control and made a diminishing
vice. Local causes, superadded to
world conditions, contributed to in
crease corruption in America. The era
following a great war, always charac
terized by a lowered public con
science; the influx of a great army of
immigrants, untrained either intellec- 0
tually or morally for self-government;
the sudden enfranchisement of mil
lions of ex-slaves, who had never
learned in slavery, Thou shall not
steal; the unprecedented growth in
population and in wealth, inciting to
gambling in all its forms; the experi
ment of partnerships between the gov
ernment and the railways, entered into
for motives sometimes of patriotism,
sometimes of pelf; the discoveries of
gold, oil, and copper, and the intense
struggle for possession which the dis
coveries incited in unscrupulous men;
and the inheritance from a motto, "To
the victors belong the spoils"—all
tended to intensify the forces of greed
and to lower the standards of integ
rity. Public corruption reached its
apparent climax during the second ad
ministration of President Grant, but
the house-cleaning which followed
was spasmodic and superficial. What
President Garfield might have done
but for his tragic death we can only
surmise. President Cleveland raised
the standard of public morals, but he
was better fitted to oppose the en
croachments of new dishonesties than
to ferret out the old ones. President
McKinley was as honest a man as ever
sat in the president's chair; but Pres
ident McKinley's time and energy were
all absorbed, first in a vain effort to
secure international bimetallism, next
to keep the nation from lapsing into a
disastrous and dishonest silver mono
metallism, and lastly to carry to a
successful issue the Spanish war.
When, therefore, Mr. Roosevelt suc
ceeded Mr. McKinley in the presiden
tlal office, he inherited with that of
flee the results of half a century of
growth In commercial and political
corruption, partly due to world condi
tions, partly to local conditions. His
experience as United States Civil Ser
vice Commissioner had given him a
knowledge of the nature and extent of
political corruption and the methods
of the corruptionists which could have
been gained in no other way so thor
oughly. His experience as police com
missloner of the city of New York had
brought him into direct conflict with
probably the most skillful and the
most corrupt political organization in
the country. His experience as gover
The Times believes that every man
or woman has a right to think and act
as his or her conscience dictates with
regard to political views. That right
is a heritage and should be guarded.
But just how some of the men who
participated in the lone movement at
Filer last Thursday could hold that
heritage, is a puzzle. True, there were
In that convention men who had not
participated in any convention, and
who went into that convention as the
proper avenue of their political ex
pression and to these men ,few though
they be, the Times accords a full mea
sure of respect. But for the men who
entered that convention after either
taking part in one or the other of
the old parties' convention, it has no
respect whatever. They are by their
own confessed act, non-respectors of
political promises and by the same
confession not entitled to confidence of
men who keep their word.
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vlnced him that the corruption was
commercial as well as political. He six
had not been in the presidential office the
six months before he saw clearly—
probably he had seen this before—that
to purify the public service It was nec
essary to bring first to the bar of the
courts of justice and next to the bar
of public opinion those politically fav
ored corporations which were corrup
ting both the public and the private
life of the nation. In his fall cam
paign, following his Inauguration, he
declared war against them.
It is not necessary to recite here the
story of that war. In It the adminis
tration has regarded neither section,
race, class, nor party. It has prose,
cuted with equal vigor the riotous min
ers in the west and the coal barons in
the east; In has been equally ready to
protect negroes from peonage, Indians
from confidence men, and the country
at large from timber thieves; It has
been equally ready to prosecute or
ganizations in restraint of trade
whether of laborers or capitalists; it
has proceeded with equal vigor against
senators of the United States, against
railway officials, and against great
shippers; and it has never discrimin
ated in favor of political adherents or
against political opponents. The pres
ident has given the following list of
what has been achieved, and a subse
quent statement from the attorney of
the Inter-State Commerce commission
shows it to be only a partial statement
of one class of criminal prosecutions,
those for violation of the anti-rebate
law. It does not include the peonage
cases, nor the timber-stealing cases,
nor the land fraud cases, nor the In
dian robbery cases:
"As regards suits to suppress rail
way abuses, under the last Democratic
administration there were no indict
m ents against shippers for securing
rebates or secret rates. Under my ad
ministration there have been forty
n j ne indictments for secret rebates,
resulting in eighteen convictions, and
iu on i y f our cases have these indict
ments failed. The other twenty-seven
cas es are still pending. Among the
railroads which have been convicted
are the Chicago and Alton, the Chi
cag0 , Burlington and Quincy, the New
y or k Central, the Chicago, Rock Island
an( j p ac ific, and the Chicago, Milwau
keen and St. Paul, while scores of
cases are still pending against leading
I railroads. Among the shippers that
have been convicted are some of the
greatest corporations in the United
I states, as, for instance, the American
Sugar company, the aggregate fine ac
tually paid being more than $150,000;
swift & Co., Armour Packing com
panyj the Cudahy Packing company,
Nelson Morris & Co., each of whom
were fined $15,000, and the cases have
now been carried to the supreme
court. The Standard Oil case is still
pending."
This has not been Mr. Roosevelt's
to personal work alone. It has been the
work of an administration of which
he is the head, but of which Mr. Taft
has been a loyal member. In these
prosecutions, conducted by a variety of
of district attorneys, in different parts
0 f the United States, the administra
tion has had Mr. Taft's constant sup
port and legal counsel. He has shown
his spirit, not only by his co-opera
tion in the general movement, but by
in his special activity in his own special
to field. He has made all the Americans
w ho were exploiting the Philippines
his bitter enemies by his consistent
vigourous maintenance of the doctrine,
The Philippines for the Filipinos. He
of has done much—how much history
does not yet tell—to clean out the
corrupt elements that had flocked to
p an ama, and to make that pestilential
spot compare favorably in sanitary
conditions with our northern cities,
And those who know him, as I do,
know that he is as "fighting honest"
its as Mr. Roosevelt himself, and abhors
ad- a n forms of fraud, falsehood, and cor
but ruption with as eager an abhorrence,
Finally Mr. Roosevelt has with charac
teristic candor indicated Mr. Taft as
his candidate. He has been criticised
for doing so. I am glad he did so. I
am glad to know whom he would
he choose to to complete the work so well
en- begun. If the president had removed,
or threatened to remove, from office
any man for not supporting Mr. Taft,
or had appointed or promised to ap
point any man to office as a reward for
supporting Mr. Taft, I should be as
to quick to criticise as any of my read
ers. But there is not the slightest evi
a dence that he has ever done anything
of the sort. He has simply told the
a country whom he would choose to fin
j S h the work he has begun. For that
I am obliged to him; I urged him to do
so before he did.
of- If Mr. Taft is elected president, I
of am sure that this policy of prosecuting
law-breakers, big and little, in every
section of the country, will be as vig
His orously maintained as it has been vig
orously initiated. The government
a will continue to ferret out frauds and
of to punish the perpetrators already de
tected. If Mr. Bryan is elected, this
whole policy will be halted for a time
—necessarily halted. Mr. Bryan can
not help the halt. There will be a new
had attorney general and a new staff of
assistants in Washington. There will
the be new district attorneys in every dls
in trict In the United States. The pres
ent district attorneys, who are familiar
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district attorneys will require at least
six months to acquire familiarity with
the facts. Even if officers as able and
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as honest as the present Incumbents
are appointed, there will be an inter
regnum. That in all cases officers as
honest and able will be appointed is
too much to hope. President Roosevelt
has had time, in his seven years, to
weed out the less competent and ho
has done so. That Mr. Bryan, if elect
ed, would appoint some who would af
terward ned to be weeded out will ap
pear certain to all who do not impute
to him an infallible judgment of men.
That he is even a good Judge of men
appears to me to be at least doubtful.
If I could think, as some writers for
the newspapers appear to think, that
all the corruption is in the Republi
can party and all the honesty in the
Democratic party, I should be ready
to vote "for a change." But clearly
that is not the case. If Philadelphia is
one of the most corrupt cities in the
country and is governed by a Republi
can ring, New York City is at least a
close second, and it is governed by a
Democratic ring. Thieves have no
party prejudices; there is corruption
in both parties. Mr. Roosevelt and the
men whom he has gathered about him
are fighting corruption first of all in
their own party. It is not true that all
the men in his party who hate Mr.
Roosevelt are corrupt, but all the men
who are corrupt hate Mr. Roosevelt.
If they do not hate Mr. Taft as bitterly,
it is only because they do not know
him as well. But all the corrupt ele
ments in the Democratic party do not
hate Mr. Bryan. Some of them are his
ardent supporters and apparently
trusted counsels. We know who Mr.
Taft's asociates in his administration
would be, for we know who they are
now. We do not know who Mr. Bry
an's associates would be, and when 1
consider some of the men whom he
has apparently chosen, or at least ac
cepted as his advisors in the campaign,
I cannot avoid apprehension as to the
probable character of his advisors in
the administration, if he were elected.
The paramount issue, then, appears
to me to be this: Shall we continue to
the end the campaign against political
and commercial corruption which Mr.
Roosevelt has initiated? To that ques
tion I can give but one answer, Yes!
I am sure that it will be carried on
with as much vigor and efficiency by
Mr. Taft as by Mr. Roosevelt. He is
Mr. Roosevelt's choice. He is fighting
honest. He is a great lawyer, pecu
liarly fitted for such a campaign. He
is familiar with the facts because he
has been one of Mr. Roosevelt's trust
ed counselors in that campaign. He
has shown his ability to be a com
mander-in-chief in such a campaign by
the work he has done as a division
commander. It is always hazardous to
swap commanders on the battlefield. I
have no assurance that Mr. Bryan
would be able to conduct such a cam
paign with success. I am sure that,
however good his intentions, for the
first year or two he would be at a
great disadvantage. And I am more
than willing to postpone all merely po
litical and economic questions until
this campaign against corruption is
brought to a decisive issue.
REV. LYMAN ABBOTT,
Editor Outlook.
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THE DEPOSIT GUARANTY ISSUE.
The Republican writers and speak
ers evidently think the bank-deposit
guaranty is the weakest point in the
Democratic platform, to judge by the
way they are going at it. Candidate
Taft, Governor Hughes, and all the
other stump orators, big and little, are
banging it without mercy or let-up;
and when the bankers held their na
tional convention in Denver last week,
the very hall where Bryan was nomin
ated echoed with speeches denouncing
the scheme that is intended to relieve
banking of its worry and let the bank
ers sleep nights. The charge that the
guaranty plan would encourage reck
less and wildcat banking is the main
one urged by the Republican editors
and orators, but not by any means the
only one. Mr. Taft answers one of
Mr. Bryan's arguments thus:
"Mr. Bryan says that as the govern
ment has security, why should not the
individual depositor have security?
The government usually has a large
fund. The law requires that it exact
security for its deposits. It is so large
a fund that the banks can afford to
give good security to obtain it. It is
to be observed, however, that the se
curity given to the government is the
security of the bank which gets the
deposits, and not the security of every
other bank in the community. If the
deposit is of sufficient benefit to make
it an object of the bank to give secur
ity, that is one thing; but to require
every other bank to give security to
that depositor is an entirely different
thing."
Governor Hughes, in his speech in
Indianapolis on September 28, told
how he thought the guaranty plan
would have worked in New York last
winter:
"Now let us see what the situation
has been in banking matters in New
York during the last four years or
nearly four years. Since January 1,
1905, down to June 30,1907, there were
four failures of banks in New York.
"Two of them have since paid their
depositors in full. A third has paid
80 per cent., and 10 per cent, addition
al Is to be paid.
"The fourth has already paid 87.5
per cent, and the claims for the other
12.5 per cent, are to be satisfied by an
assessment levied upon the stockhold
The entire loss occasioned by
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET,
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those failures amounts to something
over $14,000.
"In the panic which started in Octo
ber, 1907, the weight of which was
felt in the City of New York, ten State
banks and trust companies closed their
doors. Those institutions had a capi
tal and surplus amounting to $30,000,
000 and deposits aggregating $92,000,
000 .
"If we had had a guaranty fund Im
mdiately available of $44,000,000 we
could not have paid 50 per cent, of the
deposits of the institutions that closed
their doors. The knowledge of that
fact would have expediated the run up
on the institutions.
"Of those ten institutions that clos
ed their doors all except one have
since reopened with provision for the
payment of their depositors in full.
"Is that a reason for establishing a
guaranty fund of $44,000,000, locking
up that amount of money, with an im
mense loss, and departing from the
true theory of banking, and making
the prudent suffer for the imprudent
and the honest for the reckless.—Lit
erary Digest.
For President,
WM. H. TAFT.
For Vice-President,
JAS. R. SHERMAN.
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
United States Senator—Weldon B.
Heyburn, Shoshone.
Justice Supreme Court—Judge J. F.
Ailshie of Idaho.
Congressman—Thomas R. Hamer of
Fremont.
Governor—James H. Brady of Ban
nock.
Lieutenant Governor—L. H. Sweet
ser of Cassia.
Attorney General—D. C. McDougal
of Oneida.
Auditor— S. D. Taylor of Bonner.
Mine Inspector— F. C. Moore of Sho
shone.
Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion—S. Belle Chamberlain of Ada.
Presidential Electors—Edgar Wil
son of Ada, John Lamb of Owyhee, A.
A. Crane of Kootenai.
COUNTY TICKET.
Senator, M. J. Sweeley.
Assessor, Geo. E. Harlan.
Treasurer, C. J. Hahn.
County Attorney, W. P. Guthrie.
Probate Judge, J. W. Shields.
Sheriff, John Peters.
Surveyor, Chas. Mull.
Superintendent of Schools, T. W.
Coroner— H. E. Hunt.
Potter.
Commissioner, 1st District, E. T.
Newbry.
Commissioner, 2nd District, C. A.
McMaster.
Commissioner, 3rd District, E. R.
Sherman.
As Socialist candidate for represen
tative from this county, I wish to an
nounce that I am and always have
been a strong advocate of temperance.
I believe in local option and shall vote
for it if I have an opportunity.
C. E. McCLAIN.
Special Announcement
1,
Mr. A. Miller, Idaho Representative of Car$ten$on and
Anson Co., Salt Lake City, has established his headquarters
at the
SPRAGUE PHARMACY
And will have a display of their Pianos in the "Ladies'
Music and Waiting Room," and give recitals at dates subse
quently announced. Mr. Miller will make his headquarters at
Calkins and Boott's Pharmacy for the sale of Everett, Fischer,
Ludwig and Bradford Pianos.
The Victor, Graphophone with genuine Victor Records,
may also be heard in the "Ladies' Music and Waiting
which is being rapidly pushed to completion.
room,
PUBLIC SALE
Of Farm Machinery, Household
Goods and Chattels
At Hansen, Idaho, Oct. 28, at 10 a. m„ at which time the undersigned
will sell to the highest bidder, the following
described property i
8 head of horses, 28 head of cows, heifers and steers, nearly new farm
machinery, household goods, 100 hens, 1 dozen Leghorn roosters and
many other articles. Free Lunch will be served at Noon.
A
TERMS OF SALE—810.00 or under, cash; over 810.00, six months' time
with secured notes without Interest If not paid at end of six months,
interest at rate of ten per cent will be charged from date of sale. All
property must be settled for before removal.
Dean & Morrison, Owners
W. H. TURNER, Clerk.
H. G. MUNYON, Auctioneer.
JAMES W. SHIELDS.
Republican Candidate for Probate
Judge.
James W. Shields was born in tha
Buckeye State, In 1847. When five
years old his parents took him to In
diana. In his sixteenth year he enlist
ed in the Eleventh I. V. I., and served
in that regiment and the 130th I. V. I.,
until the close of the war. He took
part in the siege of Vicksburg, the
battles of Chicamauga and Missionary
Ridge, and the nine pitched battles
of the Atlanta campaign. Leaving
Sherman's army at Atlanta, he return
ed with his regiment under General
Thomas and saw the destruction of
Hood's army at Franklin and Nash
ville.
For seventeen months of his army
service the boy Shields was lieuten
ant in command of his company. He
received two wounds, a saber stroke
and a bullet wound; was in prison at
Libby and Salisbury five months.
While in prison he with two of his
comrades drew death warrants, which,
account of the intervention of Sec
retary of War Stanton, were not exe
cuted.
At the close of the war he made a
circuit of the globe in the secret se
vice of the United States.
Judge Shields went to Colorado kn
1877. In 1880 he was elected judgelff
the Rio Grande county court, a court
having concurrent jurisdiction with
the district court in common law and
equity matters up to $2,000.00. He re
mained on the bench for fifteen years.
After retiring from the bench he con
tinued the practice of his profession in
Colorado until his removal £o Idaho in
1905.
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J. W. Shields, the Republican as
pirant for Probate Judge, comes be
fore the voters with an enviable rec
ord for faithful service in whatever
position he has been placed. As a
veteran of the Civil war Judge Shields
can point with pride to a record re
plete with courage and efficiency. His
years as circuit judge in Colorado in
which re-elecion was heartily given,
show that to whatever task the man
has been set it has been accomplished
with credit. His life since coming to
the Twin Falls tract has been an open
book and his record as a citizen has
shown that he is a man of the people,
always on the side of civic improve
ment. If elected to the office of pro
bate judge, Mr. Shields has determin
ed that it shall be run in the interests
of the people.
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