Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-08-14
THE PRECINCT ELECTION.


The election in this precinct on Monday, for
Justice of the Peace and Constables, resulted
in the success Of the combined Independent"
ticket-=Jonas w. Brown for Justice, r. IL.
TurnbulI and John Wilson, for Constables.
The Democratic ticket was defeated, and we
accept The situation. We can stand it as read
lily as can the most eager partisan friend OF
the successful candidates The affair amounts
to just nothing in political aspect, and the IN
iury to flow from the result is more likely to
fall upon the friends than the opponents of the
victorious ticket. There is no Democratic de-
feat involved in the matter, for we saw several
who were in the meeting which nominated the
Democratic candidates very actively Logging
for the Independent candidates How they
can reconcile their conduct in doing so with
anything akin to common fair play or rightful
action is thing for them to settle, not for us
to care about. We do not impeach the De-
mocracy of some who thus acted, on general
or vital issues or oecasions-for we are very
certainethey will be found true to the ticket in
all important contests,-but we think they stul-
tilted themselves somewhat In pursuing the
course they have pursued. If they did not IN
tend to be guided by ordinary party rules IN
the small precinct election, they ought to have
abstained from committing themselves to the
support of the regular ticket by sharing in its
nomination. But there is one feature connect
ed with the Independent ticket which is, after
all, more amusing than important. It's makers
called it the Miners Ticket" Now, in all
conscience, how did it deserve that title ?
When did Jonas w. Brown play the miner
Is John Wilson miner Did either of them
ever work one day in the mines 1t will sur
prise their most intimate acquaintance If
either of them can show that they ever did.
But we know why they called it the miners
Ticket" It was purely and only to humbug
the miners to vote their ticket. Those who
made that ticket care nothing for the miners !;
they seek merely to use them, as they use. ev-
erybody else, to their own advantage. We
saw one of these miners Ticket men who
was very active in procuring voters to it on
Monday, and he is so true Miners friend"
that he discharged a number of Irishmen who
worked in his claim, short time ago, and
hired Cinnamon to fill their places. No doubt
there were more just like him-who protested
on Monday to be the Miners friends also
We hear. of one or two of the Independent
ticket supporters, who claim to be Democrats
that say the Democratic Primary meeting In
this city was held in the afternoon instead
of the erening, purposeIy to deprive the miners
of an opportunity to be present at it. The
men who say this very well know that they
state falsehood The meeting was held in
the afternoon for obvious and good reasons,
which, we will warrant, every fair-minded
man, be he miner or whatever else, will APP
prove when they are told to him. But these
howlers seek only to rule Or ruin They think
they can dc, either to the Democratic party.
They will find, in good time, when an occasion
worthy of struggle shall happen, that they
can do neither. They have, perhaps, fooled
the miners as well as the Democrats for the
last time. Let them enjoy their little, imna-
terial triumph, obtained by an abandonment
of every rule and usage of party action and
principle, for it is likely to be the last one they
shall enjoy. While it is no trick to unite with
the enemy to win one contest, it is more than
these we allude to can do to gain anybody to
their confidence second time. Revenge is
not Democratic principle, and when the
Democrats of Boise Basin begin to understand
that it is revenge against certain persons and
not devotion to Democracy itself which ac-
tuates these underground workers, they will
not consent any longer to act with or vote for
them.
Democratic Triumph in Ada County.
BY mail stage yesterday evening we receiv-