Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1883-06-21
AFTER THE BATTLE.


evening after the election But the smoke
of the battle had not then all cleared away
and it was almost impossible to sec the
hayoe made in the ranks of the enemy.
As time has rolled on for some days we
now begin to scs the r,angiod bodies Of
the slain, and yet we hear the groans
Of those. wounded, who survive. The
Eight has been an expensive enc to the
voters and tax payers Of the county, the
full estimate of which expenses cannot
yet be fully determined. The auditor
Of the county has not yet been able to
gather in all the expenses of the election
that will have to be paid out Of the
county treasury direct. But they will
not fall far short of 1900, in foes of
officers, per diem and mileage and other
expenses directly chargeablc to the county
There were ! ,56l votes polled. 1t would
be low estimate to say that each Of the
voters expended on an average Of one
days time in reaching the polls and vot-
Ing, and that time to the voters generally
at this season of the year was worth to
each man one and one half dollars per
day, making an aggregate of $2,3i6 for
lost time, add to this the time and money
expended by those most deeply interested
during the canvass, will swell up from
$4,000 to $4,000 more, add the expenses
Of the parties in Moscow in sending a
special messenger to Boise to log-roll the
Relocation Bill through 81 900, add that
of those who went there to defeat the
bill $500 and to all these add $500 more
Of useless expenditures incident to the
election and We have the approximate
cost to the people Of Nez Perez county
the full sum Of sl3,546 which they have
had imposed upon them by the bad faith
Of the restless spirits Of Moscow and their
willing tools--Couneilman Taylor and
Representatives Toner, Buchanan and
Larson, and Moscow Mirror, which, to
Discerning minds, at FIRST and in every
subsequent issue reflected the rottcnness
Of the whole scheme Of relocation. What
has all this accomplished? 1t defeated
al o., I.a
Legislature. It distracted the purposes
and oounsels of many Of the true friends
Of annexation in that Legislature and in
Nez Psroe county and disappointed them.
Il detractsd from the force of one Of the
arguments VIC have used in our appeals
70 Congress TO be annexed to Washing
con, namely, the necessity for annexation
b enable our people to form county boun-
daries, with suitable centers for the con-
veniencc Of the people 1t engendcred
bitter local warfare between different To-
calities in Neg Perez county, as well as
between individuals, which will not be
healed for years to come. 1t has robbed
several poor fools Of their time and money
in and about Moscow in unwarranted en-
deavors to bolster up the scheme when
once started and now they are not only
ashamed but sick at heart, aud II they
don't soon rally they will skip the country
through mere chagrin and disappointment.
1t has spoiled the high aspirations Of
Councilman Taylor for Congress and laid
him completely on the shelf, where the
dust is liable to gather upon thicker than
it is in Lewiston after hard wind storm.
Il robbed Toner and Buchanan of the
reputation Of being men of honest con
science and greatly lcssened their chance
Of doing good US religionists. 1t is likely
TO remove Larson out Of the county upon
the Northern Pacific as postal agent on
the railroad unless remedy is soon APP
piled to prevent tho calamity. 1t sent
Mcdonnell and the elevator in haste back
to Oregon bowling fraud and illegal vot-
ing Of the Mes Perez tribe of Indians and
threatening all sorts of dire penalties upon
agent and Indians, and made an apparent
minnie out Of him who once had the cred
Il Of being quite shrewd man and poll
ticiaA and weakened his future chances
Of promotion in Oregon. The number
Of iaferior casualties resulting from the
battle are very many and some of them
ars very gricvous. But We have cited
enough to convince the most skeptic that
that relocation bill was conceived in sin
and born in iniquity and happily crushed
out Of existence with complete slaughter
of the great majority of its principal aid
ers and abettcrs, and no man can be found
who will publicly wear mourning or lower
the flag at half mast on account Of the
dead. But Neg Perez
county still survives and her life has de-
pended upon the steady nerve and aim
Of the great majority of her people. Those
who were led to FIRE at random now see
their mistake and will hereafter be found
in the ranks of the keen sighted sharp
shooters who have saved them from a
t,tal wreck and kept the county ship
afioat during the raging of the storm and
the FIRE Of the enemy. You need have
no fear Of the good people Of Nez
Perce county. when once they become
aroused to sense of the dangers that
beset them or the traitars that are among
hem. Lewiston too will bear her part
md b will Palosse, Genesee and the Pot
|Atch districts. The Clearwater hill. the
Did log jail, the bed bug court house are
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