The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1867-01-26
something tor Reynolds.
We find the following in the Boise City
Statesman of Tuesday:

j Statesman OF Tuesday
j He Twel is evidently mad because Page was
convicted and punished for making bogus dnt
1 The curious can draw their own inference. He is
also fool enough to believe the kilograms from
| Secretary McCulloch were bogus, because some OF
his political friends said so in hopes to create a
riot. That idea is exploded. Nobody ever believed
! it or now believes it except Jimmy. He don't
know any better. Those who started the idea
laugh at his gullibility.
Now, Reynolds, we have you. AS to that
Page matter: Firstly, We have never had
any bogus dust; We have never seen Page.
You have. Secondly, You censured Justice
Turner Ia Democrat, of this city, for admit
ting Captain" Murphy (your own particular
friend) to bail in so low a sum as $1,000 !;
yet you found no fault with Judge Cummins
"a Radical] for letting Watson loose on a
nolle prosequi, although Watson was the
worst OF the bogus dust operators. Thirdly,
The Supreme Court has very clearly expressed
its disapproval of the conviction and sem
tence of Page by granting him a new trial,
and thus condemning the action of Judge
Cummins. -st v~.rssx ~, rerrr..t, 4 <rg
Now, Reynolds Tor Slim Jim) as to that
bogus telegram of old Howlett's. ION init
mate above that we are 'fool' enough to be-
lieve that it was bogus, and you say that
nobody" except us ever believed it was.
Stick a pin there, Slim Jim, while we utter
some facts that YOU know of: Secretary
IT, 11ofk do hn min nf Erid
January 18th, that be had that day received
dispatch from Secretary McCGlloch, in
structing him not to pay the members of the
Legislature unless they had taken the oath
of allegiance. On Saturday night the gen.
tlemen who had constituted the Democratic
element in the Legislature held meeting in
the Legislative Hall. James s. Reynolds,
editor Of the Statesman, begged permission
to come before that body to ''explain about
that telegraphic dispatch to Hewlett" and
to show that it was bogus. He also stated
that Hewlett was "the biggest old thief in
the Territory" and said that, for that reason,
he (Reynolds) had not spoken to him for
months. ~ a
Perhaps, by this time, the friends of Rey-
nolds can distinguish who is the STOOL"
(knave) in the matter. They can also dis
tiuguish the 'nobody" that does not believe
that Secretary Hewlett received that dis
patch. They who laugh last laugh longest,
and as to gullibility, Reynolds, it will be
strangeif any will accept that "foop trait
as excuse in the case of a person who says
that certain Federal Territorial officer is
E'the biggest thief in the Territory one
night, and the next says, after several hun
dreds of dollars in greenbacks are paid to
him, that that same Federal Territorial off,
GER is not dishonest. No, no, Reynolds, you
are caught. Caught as badly as you were
when you and Judge Kelly and ellison were
discovered ransacking the papers and effects |
Of Secretary Smith, deceased caught as |
badly as you were when you swore that Smith
had only about ST., 1000, and yet knew that he
had about $4,000. Reynolds, we have you.
This is simply primer exercise. We shall
progress.