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RICHARD STORY SHERIDAN.
Entered at the Poet Office at Boles. Idaho, an 8econd-claaa Ma ll Matter.
234; Society Editor. 1201-J.
Phonee— Business Office, 234; Editorial Kooms.
BOI8E, IDAHO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1912.
HIGH TREA80N.
Oh. often, as 1 dance and sing and gambol up and down, I wish this
country had a king, with sceptre, throne and crown. A monarch, when
he takes his throne. Is settled there for life; he lets the campaign graft
alone, the whooping and the strife. The stately monarch he er appears
on platforms hero and there, the dust of travel In hls ears, and ctndtrs
In hls hair. He Isn't called on to defend hls course to unwashed dubs,
antagonists be doesn't send to Ananlus Clubs. He doesn't make the
welkin throb, but In hls throne room sits and learns the fine points of
hls Job, while others throw the fits. Serene, remote, he does his stunt,
attends hls kingly grind; no noisy grand stand Is In front, no bleachers
are behind. He doesn't have to promise things he knows he cannot do;
lie plugs along like other kings, his pledges mighty few. He doesn't
have to knucklè down to please this clique or that; he simply wears hls
derby crown and knows Just where he's at. But we, who have a brand
new chief elected each four years, are always plunged In noise and grief
and rancor to our ears. When business gels to running straight, and
quiet falls on men, we dig up some fool
candidate, and rip tilings up again. y»
Copyright, 1912 by George Matthew Adama •
FOR THE STATESMAN TO ANSWER.
Once more to the Statesman: Will not the Moores, the
Cunninghams, the Clintons, the Johnsons, the Fletchers
and the Grunbaums, representing in Boise the lead trust,
the timber syndicate, the wool trust, the liquor interests
and the Oregon Short Line in Idaho permit you to come
out in the open and fight? Do they really insist that you
must conduct a bushwhacking campaign 'whereby you
must stab in the dark one of your oldest friends, a man
whom you have so often praised and lauded? Does not
your manhood revolt at such a method of fighting an old
associate who has been so close to you.
Now, if you dare to do it, tell us your answer to this
question:
Do you really desire the re-election of Senator Borah
to the United States senate and will you work to that end
by supporting the Republican legislative ticket in Ada
county as it now stands personally pledged to vote for
Senator Borah? _
JUST BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION.
Suppose, for instance.
•That your electric light company should refuse or
neglect to give you good service, should charge you exor
bitant prices, should refuse to connect up with your house j
without an unreasonable contract, or should otherwise
give you just cause for complaint.
What are you going to do about it ?
Of that your telephone company should give you in
different service, should fail half tile time or more to give
you any service at all, should take your money aud refuse
to install a telephone for months afterwards and then
laugh at you because you complained.
What could you do about it ?
Or that your water company should give you impure
water, or none at all much of the time, or should charge
you for connections which the courts have already decided
they should pay themselves or should charge you more for
service thau is right and proper.
What would you do about it?
Or that your railroad should charge too high rates upon
every article you use as well as upon every article you sell
and should thereby make more money out of you than
the courts say is legitimate for them to take from you, or
suppose they fail to give you the service you are entitled
to receive, or make rates that discriminate against you.
your property aud your community in favor of some other
community and should take your wealth to build up a
great city in another state to reduce taxation in that state
at your expense, and then suppose that same railroad
should dictate your politics and the politics of your state
and should sneer at you for your very protest.
What could you do about it?
Go into court for your rights ?
Yes, that is one way. But now, candidly, how many
of you are able to go into court and buck a great corpora
tion like one of these even if you know you are right and
even if you know the law and the courts would be with
you? It costs money to go through court. Your lawyer's
fees alone would be more than your light or telephone bill,
or the bill for connecting up water mains or more than
your individual loss because of railroad discrimination.
So while the courts would give you relief, that remedy is
impractical so far as most of us are concerned.
What can you do about it?
The Progressive party of Idaho promises a speedy and
simple remedy and it is the only party that does promise
one and it is the only party that will ever give you a rem
edy, too, unless the others are scared into it.
You know that most of you could not educate your
children even in the simple rudiments of education, if you
had to bear all the expense yourselves. Few of you could
employ teachers in your families, provide school rooms
and bear the other expenses. That is recognized and has
been for so many years that most of us have ceased think
ing about it. So what is done? Why, the state steps in
and does for you what it is manifestly impossible for you
to do. It employs the teachers and furnishes the school
houses and pays for all other expenses and makes every
body pay a reasonable proportion. The result is that the
burden is comparatively light on any one.
Now, that is just what the Progressive party promises
to do with these other difficult questions. It proposes to
j
let the state do it for you. If yoür telephone company
doesn't treat you white, the state will unake it do it. If,
your electric light company holds you up, the state will
make it stop the robbery. If your water company wants
to charge you for doing what the courts have said it should
do itself, you won't have to hire a lawyer and fight, but
the state will do it for you.
The authority of the state to do these things and many
others of a similar nature would be placed in ,a public util
ities commission. If you think such a state organization
would be a good thing for you and your neighbors, sup
port the Progressive state ticket whose candidates are the
only ones pledged to g ive it to you.
EVIDENCES OF PUBLIC SENTIMENT.
Much as they were convinced that the people were
with them in the Progressive movement, the leaders in
that movement have been simply overwhelmed with re
cent evidence of the sympathies of the people. Their nom
ination certificates were circulated in all counties of the
state. To date returns have been received from enough
of them to show that in the various counties and in per
haps three hundred precincts in all parts of the state the
petitions were presented to nç less than 2500 voters who
did not vote at the July primaries and that no less than
95 per cent of this number showed, not merely a willing
ness to sign the certificates, but an actual eagerness to
do so.
Now, what does this mean?
In the July primaries there were, in round numbers,
50.000 votes cast, this being approximately divided evenly
between the four candidates, Hawley, Haines, Clagstone
and Morrison, each receiving a small number more than
12.000 votes. There are, in round numbers approximately
45.000 or 50,000 voters in the state who did not vote at the
July primaries. If the ratio discovered by the canvass
made in seeking signatures to the-nomination petitions
should hold good among all these voters, the Progressive
state ticket would receive 43,700 or 47,500 votes from that
source alone, which will be sufficient this fall to elect that
ticket.
it may be expecting entirely too much to believe that
this ratio would hold good throughout, but it is certainly
not expecting enough to believe that the Progressive state
ticket will receive more than one-half the stay-at-home
vote of the primary election. As matter of fact it was
largely because of dissatisfaction with the lack of progres
sivencss among the candidates that caused much of this
stay-at-home vote. This would give the Progressive can
didates 25,000 votes from that source, while the other
25.000 would be divided more or less equally between
Haines and Hawley. It seems to be a certainty that the
candidate who receives 35,000 to 40,000 votes will be
elected, so that the Progressive candidates need to attract
no more than 10,000 to 15,000 votes from the 50,000 cast
at the primaries to win out with a good plurality. More
than half that number will be received for that ticket in
Ada and Canyon counties alone while considerably more
thau half the number will come from among the voters
of the north who voted for Clagstone and Morrison in the
July primaries.
Two remarkable things stand out in connection with
the nomination certificates filed with the secretary of
state and that is the number of women signing the peti
tions and the number of ordinary citizens—laborers, small
property owners and others of that class. The signatures
show that they were made by men and women not much
accustomed to signing their names. In other words, they
show that the great rank and file of the people is in sym
pathy with the Progressive movement and want an oppor
tunity to vote for men who are willing to stand out for
doctrines that are more progressive thau have been given
in the past and who are not satisfied with the declaration
that they arc progressive only as the record of one or tho
other of the old parties has shown itself progressive.
If the women, the laborers, the clerks, the small mer
chants and small property owners are with us, we shall not
fear the great corporations and the privilege-seeking
special interests and their hosts of paid and hope-to-be
paid retainers.
f The Evening Chit-Chat
i_
By Ruth I
|E able to be alone."
—Sir Thomas Browne.
Are you good company for
yourself?
A young woman in the course
of a vacation trip was left alone for a
few days in a strange city where she
did not know a single person. When
the friends for whom she was waiting
joined her, they were loud In their ex
pressions of sympathy for tho terrible
boredom she must have suffered.
Tho young woman opened her eyes
In amazement. "Why, I had a lovely
time," she said.
"What did you do?"
"Well, I went shopping and then went
out to the park and looked at the ani
mals. Then I walked up and down the
avenue and watched the people, and
thought about them and what they were
doing. Altogether, the time Just lew
by."
"And you weren't lonely?"
"Not a bit," said the young woman
frankly. "I suppose J could have made
friends with some of the women at the
house, but, do you know, I didn't really
care to. I guess," she concluded with q.
smile, "that I'm pretty good company
for myself."
Wasn't she a lucky woman, or more;
likely, a wise one?
"Be able to be alone," says Sir Thom
as Browne, thereby recognizing that the
ability to be content with only one's
self for company le something which
can and ought to he cultivated.
There are a great many people to
whom there Is no prqspect more terri
fying than that of a few hours with
only their own selves for company. To
escape that terrible catastrophe, they
will make friends with ths most fearful
bore or read the most stupid story.
I wonder If they realize, when they
do that, what a commentary they are
making on their own boresomeness?
If such people are marooned a few
hours, not only without human com
panionship, but even without a book or
magazine with which to screen their
own stupidity from themselves, they are
'airly frantic. "The surest way of not
having any thoughts of your own,"
someone has said, "is taking up a book
every time you have nothing to do." In
these days of cheap and copious reading
matter, that Is exactly what three
fourths of us do.
Is It any wonder, then, that most of
us do seem to be rather short
i thoughts of our own and not very suc
cessful as companions for ourselves?
Could you enjoy Just watching
crowd of people pate by?
Could you be happy alone In a strange
city?
Could you enjoy a long walk In the
country by youruelf ?
In short, are you "able to be alone?
PRESS COMMENT
Senator Borah and Republicanism.
(Richfield Recorder)
Every citizen of Idaho should read
Senator Borah's Meridian address, set
ting forth hls views of national poli
tics.
It Is a masterpiece. To some little
souled men It is not "regular;" to
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If Thia la Your Birthday
Be especially considerate of those
above you In position, giving them no
excuse for using their power against
you. You will make a Journey or make
some change which will benefit you.
Those born today will be quick and
alert and will start out In life with
bright prospecta. To great a scatter
ing' of forces will sometimes cause
their failure.
some alarmists on either side, It Is not
explicit enough for their present po
litical party name. But to the great
mass of sober, independent voters, who
want a MAN and not a dancing puppet
worked by a string, it Is one of the
strongest, most satisfactory, most help
fully revolutionary political docu
ments since Lincoln wrote the emansl
patlon proclamation.
Pretty strong praise?
Yes, but true. For 40 years, both the
great political parties have been largely
what a few powerful leaders declared
them lo be. To follow their lead, was
"regular;" lo declare one's own rights
after the leaders had spoken, was
treason. There is not on record any
where else, the Inevitable protest of
any really great man against this In
tellectual slavery wltliln one's party.
No man. though lie steal a thousand
delegates and make It unanimous, has
a right to say that he Is the party. The
Recorder lias vehemently challenged
tile snobbish belief that In the will or
the favor of a few powerful political
leaders, lies the real wish of the Re
publican—or the Democratic—party;
both of them made up of sovereign
American citizens, without king or
serf among them. But the Recorder
wasn't a United S' -tc3 senator, going
before the people on a partisan elec
tion. There have been many who re
volt, by going to other parties; none
who go directly to the people for ap
proval, There have been broken
hearted quitters; there have been sol
emn, sepulchral oysters who sal l noth
lug. whatever they may t.r.ve thought.
But there have been no Martin Luthers,
defying the sellers of papal Indulgences
though revering the church; no po
litical John Wesleys, standing out
alone against a form-ridden ritual
hateful to the Individual conscience.
Bornli's speech is the plain American
citizen's first war er/ arçainst privilege
masquerading as patriotism, against
personal arrogance that steali the peo
ple's rule.
What would you have—an Intellec
tual slave? The senate has been
cursed with the Clarks and Guggen
helms ami the Standard Oil Baileys and
the Burtons and an unutterable list of
"regulars '—so "regular" that a perfect
rectangle would look wabbly and zig
zag in comparison; men to whom a
theft or a betrayal was a virtue, did It
but bear the party name put there by
one powerful boss. Would you have a
moral leper, flaunting the shameful
badge of a man whom he In hls heart
knew was wearing stolen honors? Or
a mental derelict, doubting the evi
dence'of Ills own eyes and saylnj that
what he thought a crime was after
all a i redit, and shifting the matter or
conscience over on to "the party, as
Pilate shifted hls respt nsiblllty on to
the Jew bosses? Or do the other side
expect him to leave the party of hls
youth, of his splendid manhood, as a
play-vlllian would force a maiden to
desert home or lover to save life or
honor? He does not wish to leave the
Republican party where he has donFall
hls great work—would you have him
forswear himself to another party?
Would you have a senator who would
sit up like a trained bear with a brass
collar around his neck, and beg for an
office at the hands of a few political
peanut venders?
NO! The people of Idaho want a
man, not a slave, not a parrot, not a
criminal, not a hyprocrltc, to represent
them. A man to whom theft Is repug
nant, whether it be jteallng the Idaho
farmer's market through reciprocity, or
the Idaho homesteader's life through
harsh laws, or the Idaho stats landa
through ill-applied conservation, or a
presidential nomination by the bene
ficiaries of a thousand thefts. Senator
Borah has a right to his opinion on the
presidency; when he says that the
I 'hlcago convention was stolen for
Taft, he can never again be an honest
man and support the theft. "The man
who steals for you, will steal from
you;" and no honest friend could wish
him to prove so mean a thclf as to beg
for office at the price of honor.
The Rec order does not know, or care,
who Borah supports for president. It
is enough to know that he Is a national
figure for hls senatorial ability, Integ
rity. and sanity; that lie got hls power
from the people, and that he is the
strongest people's advocate the west
has ever sent; that he will neither
steal, nor lie. nor beg nor turn traitor
for office; that ho has the courage to
refuse to wear any man's badge; that,
disbelieving in a score of the principal
acts and In the honestv of the nomina
tion of the president, he is able to see
that to Indorse the man Is to dishon
orably indorse his acts; th*t he has
made more good legislation than any
man ever sent from the west; and that
the people KNOW It. The effort to
make him wear a servile livery will
fall: for he will welcome defeat rather
than degradation.
It Is for Idaho to honor hersalf by
again choosing a real man; or to de
grade herself by a shameful "regu
larity."
Vote only for the legislators who
pledge to vote in the legislature for
Borah for senator.
Dentlet, Dr. Carpenter, Idaho bldg, tt
The Evening Story
THE MAN WHO
WAS PEART
Bf M. QUAD
Copyright, 1913. by Associated Lit
erary Fran.
the Jedglnent day!'
The old possum bunter of tho Ten
nesses mountains was sixty years old.
but was so strong and bale and hearty
that I knew bo must bars been a won
derfully tough man In hls younger
days. I triad several times to draw
Mm out. and one evening as wo aat
smoking, with hls good wife on the
other aide of the fireplace, be began:
"When I got married I thought I was
Jest the pearteet thing on the face of
the nlrtb. I could uutjump, outboller
and outfight anything 1 earn across on
these yore mountains. I had never
been licked by b'ar or man, and If any
erttter was shoutlu* when I hove In
sight he abet up mighty sudden. Yes,
I was tbe hull thing, and It kinder
makes me lonesome to think back to
them days."
"To tho times when you was mäkln*
a fuie of yo'aelf!" said Mr*. White
without raising her eyas from her knit
ting.
"Arter I had got married," continued
Zeb, with n wink at me. "1 thought to
steady down, but folks wouldn't let me.
If I didn't bare a fuss with somebody
about no often they talked that 1 waa
looln* my Band. Mind yo*. ! didn't go
howlin' around like a ragin' Hon lookin'
fur trubble. but the critters who wore
achin' fur Hekla's cum to me. I bad to
tackle six different men right yere to
home In one week."
"And you was glad to do It!" said
Mrs. White.
"Waal, I was no man to run for the
bresh when n man cum along and sed
be wan most dead for want of a
whoopin'. I took It to be a kinder way
to turn to and give him what be want
ed. One night In the summer, as I bad
Just got to sleep, a yellin' starts np
about a half a mile away. It was s
noise betwixt tbe roarin' or a lion and
the growlin' of a bulldog, and aa It
drawed nlgher the old woman sot up
and oaks:
'* 'Zeb White, but what In the name
of all creashun Is that?*
•"It's a bullglno got off the railroad
tracks and maktn' Its way across tbs
kentry,' says I.
'• 'It's mithin' of tho kind.' says she.
'Itfa Gabriel soundin' hls trumpet for
We waa both mistaken, however.
The noise came nlgher and nlgher. and
blmeby we mad» out that it was a
man. He had come to lick me. He
bad come fifty miles. It was a moon
light night, and I got up and looked
out tbe winder at him. The sight
made my hair curl. He waa nigh
seven feet high and as broad na^a
i barn. He was aa big as a giant In a
! sideshow. When be eaw my head at
I (he winder he gives s roar that goes
jecholn' over the mounting and says:
" 'Come down. Zeb White!'
" T haln't got no furse with you.'
aaya I.
" 'But come down and obleege me
and make me feel that life ia worth
livin'!*
" 'I'll come down.' aaya I. and not
withstanding tbe old woman bung on
to me with tears and said I'd be kill
ed I went down.
"'Ar* this Zeb White?' he asks In a
purrin' voice.
** Tt ar'.'
" Then I am the tbankfulest man In
all Tennessee! Zeb. I'm goin' to
squash yo* all to squash!*
"I made up my mind that I was a
dead coon." continued Zeb. "but would
do the best 1 could. We squared off
and went at It. and In about two min
utes I was a surprised man.
"So was the stranger. He was mith
in' but a windbag. He was as flabby
as a goose and aa soft ss wax. and I
believe I conld have licked blm wttb
one hand tied behind me. It was over
In five minutes, and he was hollerin' for
mercy. When I let blm up he said :
" 'Zeb. It waa squar' and fair, and I
haln't no complaint to make. Did you
ever see a circus?'
" T never did.'
" Then go down to Bristol on Wed
nesday and aee ona. Tbsr'a all sorts
of animate, and one le* called an ele
phant He kin lick you In two min
ute«.'
"Me'n the old woman had a deal of
curtoatty about that alephnnt, as we
had never seen one. and so we got
ready and went to town. Tbe circus
and tho elephant was tbar, along with
a heap of other things. Wa pays our
money and goea tn, and I says to the
feller Inside:
" 'What's that critter they calls the
elephant If you pleats T
"Ha pints the way. and we go over
and look at him. He was the biggest
livin' tbhig I ever saw. but after look
in' him over I says to tbe old woman :
T reckon be'a achin' to be walloped,
and I reckon I'm the critter to do It.'
*'8ho begs and pleads with me not to
try It on. Rbe pints out the fact that
be'a bigger'a our new shed and that I
don't stand no show, but I differed with
her. Tbe stranger had put me on uiy
mettle."
"'And bow did It end?" I asked as
Zab asade n lang pause and Mrs. White
giggled In bar thront
"Wbar was I whan t come to my
oensoa swain, mar* be aaked.
"Right*yef* to home."
"And bow many days had passed ?"
••Fire.''
"And how long did I baft to lay
a-bad?"
"Six weeks, but you «me poorly for
tbret month*"
"That's all. stranger," Mid Zeb aa
be turned to me and than refilled hls
pipe far another smoke.
IDAHO PROGRESSIVE TICKET.
For President—
Theodore Roooevolt of New York.
Fop Vice President—
Hiram W. Johnson of California.
For United States Senator—
William E. Borah of Ada county.
For Congressmen— .
Burton L. French of Latah county.
P. Monroe Smock of Canyon county
For Governor—
G. H. Martin of Bennar county.
For Lieutenant Governor—
T. O. Boyd of Twin Falls county.
For Secretary of State—
O. V. Badlcy of Canyon county.
For State Auditor—
C. C. Miles of Nex Parcs county.
For State Treasurer—
John E. Yates of Ada county.
For Attorney General—
Adam Barclay of Lincoln county.
For State Mine Inspector—
F. H. Skeels of Shoshone county.
11/100,000 to Invest,
After ten years' experience I have
secured the agency for one of the best
loan companies In the United States. I
can loan you money at 8 per cent either
on ferma or city property. Frank C.
Woodford, Yates building. eod tf
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