Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-12
KREBS RECALLS HIS 0CALL -

The ZINES is in receipt of a printed
slip, dated Boise City, August 10th
1t is 2 recall by krebs, "Secretary'
Krebs, Of what he intended for cal
for the Republican Territorial Contra
Committee to meet him at Caldwell
next Monday, to do what the Com
mittee had already properly done.
1t is evident that krebs sent GU,
thS recall Of bis call because he had
become aware that nobody would all
swer or pay any attention to it, except
himself and his running mate, Kelly
The TIMES would not stoop to no.
tice this matter now if it we're no,
true that in the slip wherein he prints
his recall he has published falsehoods
IN relation to the people of Wood
River and has libeled the entire Re-
publican press of the Territory-ex-
cept the Statesman, which he and his
runn'ng-mate are said to edit, and
which no statement, that even such a
man as krebs has shown himself to
be could make, would libel.
Ie states that his "call" has met
with opposition "from a few jealous
spirits" He knew he lied when he
wrote that, for every Republican news
paper in Idaho except his own has be-
spoken the opposition of the people IN
the localities in which the papers are
published; and it is also false that this
throng OF opposers could do anything
calculated to "disrupt the party"
krebs, in this connection, mlswrote
these gentlemen for himself and run
ning.mate.
The gentlemen in Alturas county
who "rushed into print" denounoing
that silly and impudent call, did so
actuated by determination to save
the party from the designs of "Secre-
tary" Krebs and his associates of the
Boise ring. Krebs himself is the hero
OF "notorlety;" so were Benedict Ar
mold and Judas Iscariot, and both
went down to the grave under the
execration of mankind.
But despicable and impudent as all
this was in Secretary Krebs, he has
reserved for himself the superlative
infamy of charging the press of Idaho
with being ''subsidized." Krebs is
member of the Idaho press. He claims
to be an honorable editor of a news.
paper published at the Capital City of
Idaho. He, of all men, knows that
the press of Idaho has not been and
cannot be subsidized. If it were all
managed by such men as Krcbs, posi-
bly, it might be, but fortunately it is
not, and recent events have shown
that he and his associates cannot in
flaence a single paper in the Territory
except their, own. There is no money
available, even if the press could be
so controlled, aud surely the men who
openly signed thoir reputation of
Krebs's treason to the party have no
money to pay even Cor such sheet as
krebs's Statesman.
The TINES never published any
body's card or denunciation of his
call, yet it was the first to expose and
denounce Krebs's attempted treason
in terms that would make the flesh of
a corpse creep and the hide of rhi-
noceros writhe. And when krebs. as
Secretary, says that any paper in Idaho
that denounced his plot was paid for
1t, he not only publishes a falsehood,
but he shows himself an unworthy
member Of the press and a political
traitor at heart.
The Republicans of Idaho will not
weep if all such as this thing, who by
some accident became Secretary of the
Committee, should gather their friends
around them and move to the Demo.
cratic camp. VIII the Democrats
permit them to enter ?