Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-10-01

A DisappOin ed Ofyice-Secking
Democrat SPEAKS i'm Grange
Vile for DubO 8. and
FOrnins:' HALEY.

Hon. H. w. Smith, of Blackfoot, the
home OF Dubois, harangued large au
dience at the Grange hall last Saturday
night in the interest of Dubois. The
Hon. Smith received but little encour-
agement from his co-laborers in this
end of the republican vineyard. as they
are not breaking their necks in mani.
Testing their enthusiasm for such a
"dood" standard-bearer as Dubois.
The Hon. Smith was not discouraged
at his reception, and at the appointed
time he was introduced to an audience
largely composed of democrats hot from
the county convention, and who for
two mortal hours listened patiently to
a vigorous denunciation of democracy,
Cleveland's administration, Mormon
ism and John HALEY by the Hon.
Smith, who up TO very few months
ago had been life-long democrat and
a candidate for office under the admin
istration which he is now so viciously
denouncing. The Hon. Smiths address
was quite mastery mis-apprehension
of the current political issues of the
day, and his evident delight in mis-
stating the rulings of the general land
Office was grandly independent of
utility. After the delivery of few
preliminary platitudes on government
the Hon. Smith commenced his TRADE
against the administration, finding
fault, as be proceeded, with every item
of national democratic policy, accusing
Cleveland among other things of reduc.
ing the price of silver and causing q
wholesale closing down of silver mines
The Hon. Smith also stated that this
administration prevented settlers from
borrowing money to pay for their land,
and of making them pay for the publ
cation of proof notices in the newspa-
pers. BY such childish argument did |
the Hon. Smith endeavor to persuade |
the intelligent people of Camas prairie
TO vote for Dubois, when they are bor-
rowing money TO prove up on every |
week in the year. and the settler has
had to pay for his land 'ad' ever since
the public lands have been for sale |
The Hon. Smith further complained |
that men can no longer make a busi-
ness of selling wood cut from govern
ment land, wherein the assertion of the |
Hon. Smith is directly opposed to the
experience of this people. The Hon
Smith also blamed the President foi
the Chinese massacre at Rock Springs,
in Wyoming. The Hon. Smith will
regard the reelection of John HALEY
as Il national misfortune because it will
mean an endorsement of HALEY and
the democratic administration by the
people of Idaho, wherein the Hon
Smith hit the bnlPs eye of truth Il
center shot. The Hon. Smith then fed
his audience some ancient history
about the election of 1868 in this terri
tory. touched gingerly on nexatiou
and claimed that Dubois WAS friendly
TO the panhandle but opposed to annex
alton. Thus by easy stages the Hon
Smith brought his hearers down to the
consideration of the great big bug-a- boo
of Mormonism which the republican
party of Idaho are fraudulently and
falsely endeavoring to thrust into our
politics. The Hon. Smiths dissertation
upon Mormonsm was a melancholy
drivel of dismal and time worn plati-
tudes, all of which finally dissolved
into one common undercurrent of COM
plant that the wicked Mormons voted
the democratic ticket, and therefore
they ought to be disfranchsed. The
balance of the Hon. Smiths address
was devoted to an analysis of Hailey's
official career, which unsuccessfully en-
deayored to show that our democratic
Uncle had done nothing in congress
The Hon. Smith towards the close of
his address electrified the congregation
out of their slumbers by the astounding
assertion that he--the Hon. Smith
was still a democrat and that Dubois
was also democrat