Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-07-25
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r. J. SUTTON.

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There is an individual of this name who is
candidate for Representative on the so-called
"sPeoples''' ticket He has published in the
Boise City Statesman q long farrago of stuff and
charges against the Democratic ticket of this
county generally, and against ourself particu-
larly. The simple individual, T. j. Sutton,
| we should never waste ink upon but as he
figures as candidate upon the Spoilsmen ticket,
we shall momentarily lift him to the honor of
notice-to let him drop, however, into his ma
tive obscurity and worthlessness, the moment
we are through with him. .,.r si~at.,rr
This T.J. whether the initials mean footing
Jonah, Toe Jam, or Tremendous Jackass, we
know not, accuses us of being eek Know
Nothing, ex-member of the San Francisco Vi
glance Committee, ex-Showman, bolter and
deserter of his rour] party in Oregon; hire
ling scribbler for that most disreputable sheet,
the IDAHO WORLD, &c, &c" He alleges
also that we bolted Democratic Conven-
tion lin Oregon] in 1853" and that we were
in Northern California bargaining to support
Breckenridge and Lane for price," AS we
are not candidate for any Office, and because
we do not deem it necessary or Mt all worth
while to specially reply to the silly lies and ab-
surd SANDERS of.every picayune boter, or soft
pated, two-legged skunk, who is permitted to
squirt nastiness at us through the cess-pool
conduits of the Boise Statesman, we shall mere
ly say here that each specification charged up
on us by Sutton is q lie in itself, that the whole
list of charges are so many lies in the full ag
gregate, and that the man who utters them is
a slanderous unmitigated liar
| Now, as to Sutton's own conduct in connec-
ton with the Democratic ticket. and his can
didacy on the Spoilsmen ticket He denies
that he asked to have his name placed on the
Democratic ticket for Representative to fill
the vacancy caused by the decination of DR..
Golden, who has gone to Oregon. We re-as-
sert that on Friday, July 10th, Sutton did
speak to certain Democrats in this city with
view to having his name put on the Democratic
ticket in DIR. Goden's place Further, that
Sutton, on Friday evening, told here that he
had been requested to let his name go upon the
Peoples ticket but said he had about conclud-
ed not to permit the use of his name as
suaded to do so, for the next day, July 1ith,
We saw his name on the Peoples ticket
| Sutton says it is not true that each candidate
before the Democratic Convention at Center
a; f,,c ha {,n ctr oh
Democratic ticket in the August election
Sutton rather bubbles, however, than lies out of
this pledge. He ought to know that it is an
established and recognized rule of nomina ting
Conventions, of every party. that each candi-
date before the Convention, in the very act Of
candidacy. puts on the pledge of support of the
ticket, whether he be nominated or not and
every honorable man recognizes and remains
before that Convention as an aspirant for NOM
ination to the Office of Assessor. He got, ont
of the whole ftty-eight votes in Convention,
the immense number of sercn on the first ballot
aud of tro on the next, after which, we believe,
he was not voted for. 1t is clear, therefore,
that he had no show for nomination. although,
we have not 4 doubt, he got on the frst ballot
more votes than he could ever receive in any
Convention on his own intrinsic merits, and
quite as many rs he has of friends or support
ers in all Boise comfy. His very measrc vote
in Convention is very likely the raw spot which
causes him so to vince and squirm in his mcn-
tion of the Assessors Office, and of the '.over-
pay" which pertains to that Office. OF course,
had the reformatory, and economical, and
honest T.J. Sutton been nominated for Asses
sor, and then elected, he would, when installed
in Office, disobey and violate the law sooner
than receive the legal fees and pay of the AS.
SCISSOR. He would live on dry bread and wa
ter, put on only sackcloth and ashes, go bare
foot and penniless, and refuse to take from
taxpayers or the county penny beyond the
cost of his cheap food and cheaper raiment,
and permit all the scrip-holders and county
creditors to 90 unpaid, rather than to collect
taxes from the dear people, whom Sutton loves
SO devctedly; whose interests he watches so
scrutinizingly, and with such prodigious self
T. J. says eve lhimself] were Democrats
for principls when he Gus] was Democrat
for pay" .Ah when was that time, Sutton,
1aar1& TT carta;nlv could snot have hpnn nm