Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1882-10-24
THE HON GEORGE AINSLIE.
Wood River Times.

county Will be guided by the person
al qualifications OF the respective can
didates, rather than by their party af-
filiations. 1t therefore behooves us to,
axamine carefully into the character
of the candidates before the people
and to do this the claims of each can
didate must be considered separately
The Democrats having been the first
in the field, their nominees are entitled
to precedence.
The first nomination on tho Demo
cratic ticket is for Delegate to Com
gress. Hon. George Ainsle is the
nominee. Mr.. Ainslie has already
been in Congress for nearly two terms.
During that time he has not been of
the least benefit to this Territory,
while he has endea, ored to do us
great deal Of harm. The only two
measures Of any Importance which he
sought to promote were the Bedrock
Flnme bill, for Boise county, and the
Snake river Irrigation bill, which was
intended to apply to much wider ex-
tent of country.
BY the Bedrock Flulne bill scores of
poor placer miners who have been
struggling with their placer claims
for years, would have been irretrieva-
ply ruined and all their property
would have passed into the hands Of
few men who would have reaped all
the benefits Of the years and years Of
hard labor Of the poor miners.
By the Irrigation bill company
would have been given the monopoly
of every drop Of water flowing into
Big and Little Wood rivers, Lost riv-
er, the Big and Little Smokey, and all
their tributaries. The bill would also
have given the company the monopo-
ly of every acre of arabic land on both
sides of the Snake river between
American Falls and the Maheur res
ervation, besides every acre of timber
land IN all this region OF country. If
the bill had passed, not drop of wa
ter not stick of tmber-not even
Tor cord wood--in the vast section wa
tered by the two Wood rivers, by Lost
river and by the Smokes, could have
been used without the pre- payment of
heavy royalty to the company which
MIR Ainslie's bill was intended to ere
ate. This bill would have driven all
the people now in this section out of
it, and would thus have ruined every
man in it.
On the Mormon Church question
Mr.. Ainslie's stand is well known-for
he not only admits it, but unblushing-
~ boasts that he considers the adhe-
rents OF that pMygamous crew entitled
to equal privileges with those of any
other creed. His reelection. two
years age, was mainly due to Nor
mon votes and influences, and his re-
nomination this year was accomplish
ed by disgusting coalition formed by
nine polygamous Mormons with an
equal number of sympathizers, while
the seventeen dele aates to the convcn.
ton, unable to withstand the nauseat-
ing alliance, Withdrew from the con.
vention in disgust
The people of Alturas county are
anything but mtoleraut in religious
matters. and they would be the last in
the world 10 object to the practice of
any form of religious belief; but when
that practice involves the denial of the
sanctlty of the marital relation. and
the open avowal Of practices revolving,
to modern thought, it is asking too
much to expect them To do more than
tolerate its expenents and sympath,z-
ers.