The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-03-18
A SPLICING. wRorHY EDITOR.

Had we read no more than certain para
praph in the Owyhee Wave of March 9fn we
should have been puzzled to determine wnetn'
or ;ts editor was overcome with whiskey or
underprovided with sense. But we happen 70
know something of him, and know therefore
that he is in the main very good SORT u "o"'-
bre. measurably afflicted with what IS termed
in coast parlance, the "big -head." In our H.
sue of March 4th we gave q small paragraph
to instance the outrageous dishonesty OF tpe
Radical majority in Congress. in the mat1er OF
the rejection of Democrats fairly electeo' ana
of admitting Radicals who claimed or con-
tested seats to which Democrats had been
elected. and in the course OF our remarks useo
this language at is almost certain that II l.
7 Rutler should contest the election OF Judge
shafer, the Radicals in Congress would ADMIT
Butler" We said nothing more on that score
Now. observe the effect this very reasonable
remark had on r. J. aforesaid. In his ware
of March 9th, after cavorting like splky cay
use. and kicking up loose dirt like mad OK IN
n "bull team" the frothy Butler says:
The suppostion that the editor OF the Tidal wave
could be induced to contest the seat OF Judge ohael
in Congress- after having been lalrly uelea'eo III tne
election is about rational as that congress- pe6
comnosed of rogues, would decide in our favor.
Mr.. hopping.mad 7. j.. who the deuce init
mated that you proposed to contest Sudge Sha,
fer's seat We did not, assuredly. But we
said that, if you should contest Judge Skaters
seat, the Radicals in Congress would give 1t to
YOU; and we have strong ground for the belief
that they would. They have given seats to
Van Horn and Dyer, of Missouri, both OF
whom were fairly and by large mai"rities de-
feated by Gen Shields aud Col Switzler; and
to make the matter more outrageous, they have
Given the seats t. Van Horn and Dyer III the
face of decision of the Supreme Court OF
Missouri, composed Of Radicals in case
brought to test the legality of the votes cast al
the election Congress has ousted or deprived
ed as Judge Shater was, and given their places
to Radicals as clearly and fairly beaten rs Mr.
Butler was. Accordingly, We do say that the
men in Congress who voted to do these acts oi
wrong and outrage are rogues,-and we feel
certain that they would Gust Shaier and put III
Butler as readily as they have ousted other
Democrats and put in other Radicals, y But
Ter would make the contest. But we have new
or thought so poorly of him as to harbor the
idea, for moment, that he could be induced
TO take SO dishonorablc step.
Keep away from that Boise City fusil OIL /
J., in future, and don't 60 off on halfcock
We are neither dyspeptic, soured disappointed
in life, nor unhappy. and it will greve us to
learn that YOU are afflicted in either particular
Give a Joke. man, and take one like a man
such ingredient; and, especially let us impress
it upon YOU, refrain from the use Of Intentional
abuse or of vile insinuatons in your language
towards us. You are in no proper way our
superior. and we will not patiently brook any
unprovokcd asSailmcnt.
Found MARES NEST-Thc Statesman OF
Saturday calls attention to the fact that on
Feb. 18th We stated that Mr.. Yates had never
joined in, nor made any report, on Stcrling's
books, &c, and yet on March 18th VIC admit
ted the existence of (socalled) report by
Yates and Armstrong. We made the state
ment of Feb Ilth on the authority of the two
Chairmen Of the Council and House Commit.
tees, and we admitted the existence of the
so-called (not Of an offcaD report in Yates
case, on March llth. And we now reiterate
that neither the Yates and Armstrong report
nor the Armstrong report. is an official report
and therefore of no virtue or account. This is
our position. Now let us look at the States,
mans position 1t first tried to claim Billy
Armstrong; production as a Report, and,
after having been driven from that most un-
tenable ground, it claimed the Yates and Arm.
strong paper as a Report. Yet all the while
Reynolds knew better-knpw that neither of
them were included in the Legislative Jour.
mails; and therefore knew that, when he stated
either of them to be Report, he most brazenly
and audaciously uttered talsehood
OwYHEE ITEMs.-We extract the following
local intelligence from the Silver City Ira-
ldnche and the Vdue: