Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-08-05
LET Us REFLECT.


GLIDING negro votes,) imposing in appearance
lis yet inwardly rotten to the core. five are
TO believe its own prominent leaders in the
Ecouaeils.ef the natisn, as they speak of and t.
leach other, they are a set Of infamous scoun
drcls, liars, thieves aud murderers This il
their own choice language. They certainly
ought to know one another by this time, if the
people generally don'tRnow all ofthem. Their
own testimony is certainly conclusive against
themselves. But the people generally do know
to their.own sorrow, deep, and heartfelt, that
these charges are all true, even outside Of the
admissions OF the feculence of America now
dominating the Congress of the United States.
1t is so plain to every thinking mind in Boise
County, that the Republican party here, once
strong and powerful, carrying the first election
in this county, Cat least on paper,) has dwin-
died away to SO small a thing in the shape of
political organization, that it can no longer
stand alone, and the little remnant left, seek
the aid Of men claiming to be Democrats, to
help them 10 make show at all for political
contest. They have succeeded in procuring
the assistance of a few trimmers, and perhaps
in deluding from private aud personal motives.
q few others, enough in number to form the go
called Peoples ticket. Tom Wilson, and few
others in this town, once runa Miners' tick
Ct" not man upon the ticket ever having been
miner. or knowing anything about mtnins.
OF course it was defeated Miners arc no
fools, andnot to be duped. So with THE " Peo-
pies ticket" Not a man upon it Was selected
BY my vote or voice of tho people" of any sol
ttary preciIct even, in Boise County. Ii is
very much like few old Connecticut church
deacons in tue 6rst settlement OF that Colony,
getting rery sanctimouiously together aud pass
ing the following resolutions, sugar-coatcd"):
Resolred, That the earth. and the fullncss
thereof. belongs To the SAINTS OF the Lord"
Resolved That re are the Saints OF The
Lord"
The candidates upon this Peoples ticket so
meeting in secret midnight conclavc, by their
acts resolve tina, the people of Boise County
need . ticket OF county officers That We are
tide people. and will make on. tho ticket. That
is precisely tho way they are b,iure the vo;iHg
public. The tickr, is claimed U DC kasf Re.
publican snd halt Democratic Now. the cleo |
tion of ihose claiaing to be Democrats upon
tina. ticket. can 10 40 sense be claimed tn be !
. Democratic victory. The election Of any Re- |!
publican upon that ticket, is mos. certalnl, .
T. Re- he Pc
publicans Anew they were poaerlrss BY |
forming combiRa.ioa with ruy outside u1c /,
eace % assist them. they had nothing TO lose. !
aaa eSeryihing 10 via. The succrss of any
bc claimed a., but will BE-. R<pxbiicsE r.ctory.
Now let Us see some Of the effects of Rcpubli. |
can rule in this county in former days. In !
1853. .ha. party held the rcins oil power in this
County, and also until January is;. 1855. The
revenue derived Tor the eighteen months from !
July LIST. 1863. to January Ist. 1865. actual, |
made. and collected. and paid IN. was over four
times the amount of reveaue COLLECTED FROM
January let. 1855. TO August LIST. 1853. Yet.
at the outgoing OF the Republican County Off
Gals. the County debt oi Boise County was
greater than it ia 20 day. votrrs will rcmctu-
Der the grinding and oppressive system Of tax
alton enacted BY Republican Territorial Lee
,islature. 1851. and how vigorously il was
enforced throughout Boise County-thcn in.
,luding Al.uras, Owyhec. Oneida and Ada
counties within lis bonadaries--not Demo.
:rst. however 1t might be with Republicans.
escaped the rigorous enforcement OF that law
The placer mines in Boise Basin. were then
new. and paying fabalausly rich. and better
turing the year 1864 than during tho year
I563 Since then. however. placer mioing in.
crests have declined. the country has met with
disasters by destructive fires: all classes mare
been compelled to struggle harder. to make
much less. The Republican party found Boise
County free Of debt; collected moro than four
lines the reveaue the Democratic party has
lone. and that too. in the short space of eighteen
months, to three years and seven months of
Democratic rule. and len the County more In
iebt than it is at the present time, yet having
collected twice the actual necessary revenue
% pay an economical management ot County
interests. With this record. and the peoples
Of it. ut two successive elections q
or County officers. they seek 10 obtain control !
r. Co,,nfv affairs nnw under thu snarians