Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1867-09-25
THE GOVERNORsHIP.

pOlnLm6nL OF GOV. GlDDS, is 0qudlly FIulCuAVus,
abiect and indefensble- In its review of the
Presidents action in the matter, it uttered
most silly and palpahe untruths to sustain ats
own attitude, seemingly without the very COM
mon order of prudence which would have sug-
gested at the time that, when the facts 1t Ut
tered were proven untrue, the argument reared
upon them must fall to the ground For sIl-
stance, it says:
The people of Idaho Territory have been Tor tnree
years advocating the practice OF appointing ne5 oMn
citizens to the Federal Offices and have succeeded IN
btanng an almost universal recognition OF the pan
After repeated attempts to get JUDICIARY mere u was
finally accomplished when judges were appointed
who lived here. 3
We clip the above from a copy of the Weekly
Statesman, of last Saturday. Now we give also
this clipping from the same copy of the paper:
FEDERAL OFFICERS OF IDAHO. s1a 81
Governor and Superintendent Indian Affairs, Da-
gid W. Ballard of Oregon; Secretary, s. R. Hewlett,
of Idaho; Chief Justice, John r. Mcbride OF Oregon;
Associate Justices Milton Kelly of Wisconsin and
In addition to this list we might give the
name of J.. G. Geer, Internal Revenue Col
lector, who was citizen Of Oregon when az 4
pointed. But the StatesD.Gn's own statement
in the last of the two extracts gwen above SO
completely exhibits the nntruths contained in
the first extract. so far as concerned the al
most universal recognition of the plan" of APP
pointing citizens Of Idaho to the Federal Off
GERS in the Territory, and the appointment of
Judges "who lived here,' that we are spared
the time and task of proving the falsity of
these quoted assertions from that paper We
: az + 3
have simply to use its own columns against it.
self to make out an unanswerable case. 1t
shows that Gov. Ballard was appointed from
Oregon, and that only one of the three Judges
was resident of Idaho. a 6....5 J.
- But we ought to ask our Radical cotempo-
rary who seems to be so exceedingly wrathful
at the appointment of Gibbs, who is not a res
ident of Idaho, why it did not exhibit little
of the same humor when Gov. Ballard appoint
ed the Rev. VIM. R. Bishop, citizen of Ore
gon, to the Territorial Controllership, when
the death of the Hon. HI. b. Lane caused va
cancy in that Office a few months ago, and
when unexceptiOnablc men of his own party,
like the venerable Judge Gilmore Hays of
Owyhee, and Mr. Lamkin of Boise City, and
others of equally honorable character and un-
doubted capacity, were put forward by party
friends for the position We ask again, why
did not the Statesman protest against the APP
Fointment of Bishop, not citizen of Idaho, |
and not competent man for the office, if it is
on principle opposed to the practice of ap-
> pointing men who are not citizens to fill thcl
Territorial offices Before our contemporary
/ rails at Others for noncompliance with this
principle. should divest itself of all just cause
for similar censure. Itapparently defends the
appointment of Gov. Wallace some years ago,
yet he came fresh from his expired term as
Delegate in Congress from Washington Terri
tory to assume the GHTies of Governor of Idaho,
and while here lie did little else than plan and
plot for his own election as Delegate to Con-
gress from this Territory, a place he noto~
riously obtained by means of the most shame
less frauds, in which the perjury and forgeries
Of his Marshal, Paine, bore conspicuous posi-
ton. Yet, with all its pretended horror of dis
honest and corrupt officials, the Statesman
comes to the praise and endorsement of Wal |
lace, who has never set foot within the Terri |
tory since he discovered that his reelection as
Delegate was impossible
Toprejudice the people of Idaho against
Gov. Gibbs the Statesman lets loose all regard |
for self-respect, and all claim to reputation,
decency or just bearing, and has recourse to
+ the manners and vocabulary of the depraved
rough who plays the bully at the lowest order
Of hurdy houses. It applies to the new Gov
ernor the opprobrious names of " drunkard,"|
loafer,' hummer "bestial tool, I &c |
Yet its editor does not know Gov Gibbs, has
never seen him, and has no other information
of his character or habits than that derived
from persons who dislike him, and whose in.
I terests viii perhaps be affected by his Execu-
tive position here. Outside Of whatever esti-
+ mate of the man the editor gets from these in
formants, he has recourse to the turgid and
sloppy and scurvy enanations of his own mind,
to befoul, abuse, and grossly misrepresent the
newly appointed Governor. While we shall
not undertake to defend the character of Gov.
.Gihha against the .stGtesnaR's most blackguard-
like assaults-foF obvious reasons-we will say
here chat, besides the vindeation of his char
acter by Judge Hough, and Mr.. John B. Boul-
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