, 1889-01-31
IDAHO ANNEXATION.
BulldOzing and UsurpatiOn ut
Lewiston.
SOUTHERN METHODS CARRIED OU
The Majority Ruled Out OF Order and or.
EaniEs Another Meeting-Annexa-
tion Rssol utions Adopted. .
LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. %. 1889.

LEWISTON, Idaho, Jan. 70, 1859.
EDITOR REVIEW; The movement for
statehood for idaho was attempted to be
set on foot here last night, but most sig.
nally failed II numbers count for anything.
A call adroitly worded by the projectors
was signed by sixty-eiRht persons, which
wss as follows:
statehood for Idaho-Call for Public
Meeting. The updersiRned citizens OF
Lewiston and Nez Perce county, desirous
of securing the admission Of Idaho terri.
tory as a state into the Federal Union in.
vite all their fellow citizens
OF LIKE MIND
to attend public meeting to be held In
the Grostein and Bernard hall Tuesday,
January ed. 1889, at o'clock p. NJ. for
the purpose of taking action to aid in &C.
complaining statehood for Idaho"
Kfess j. w. Reed. G. p. Coourn, and
sixty-four others. At the meeting j. w.
Poe was chosen chairman and G. +. Mon.
tieth, secretary. |. N. Maxwell stated
the object of the meeting and invited a
free discussion Of this question, pro and
con.
committee on resolutions being ap.
pointed, 1t retired to the rear Of the hall
where set of resolutions. already pre-.
pared, were quickly approved and reported
by Mr.. Reed, the estimable author. favor.
BY the way, Ia q type of the fine southern
statesman, and has resided here just long
enough TO have his over.weanin9 vanity
tickled by the assum ption of being o 0Riant
among pigmies, fathered the movement
and in . Ane speech OF considerable
length, portrayed the advantages of state
hood.
DR.. Kelly, Judge Buck and others took
opposite grounds 80 far as North Idaho Ia
concerned, unless attached to the state of
Washington. MIR. Reed protested that
Idaho, indicating his bent that opposition
would not be tolerated, that the call was
Intentionally 80 made. as to shut out this
very thing, making it at once apparent
that public meeting, designed to commit
the whole community to a scheme affecting
public interests. was held to consider q
series of private resolutions concocted at
private caucus and presented by an ap.
parently foreordaned committee, to be
passed by packed assembly after method
seldom practiced north of Mason 4 Dixon'e
line, and which south of that line
is familiar under the term of
bulldozing. DR.. Kelly asked then whether
or not all present would be allo wed to vote.
The chair replied that while the call did
not contemplate a negative, yet under the
circu IN stances it would be permitted.
Upon putting the question the chair was
left in doubt, though to dispassionate
mind the negative was heard to be largely
In the majority. A division was about to
10 called when Mr.. Reid, catching the
true import OF that vote, and startled at
the danger to his scheme, insisted his
point of order, that under the call, unless
Ill 4, La, khn r~t "a
not be taken.
The chair of course sustained the point,
whereupon j. M. Howe arose upon the
question of privilege. stating that being
denied the privilege of voting upon q
question of SO great interest to our COM
nunity and as he believed inimical to our
Welfare, he could no longer countenance
sny further proceedings of the meeting,
aud amid repeated calls to order by the
coair and general uproar. called to all who
agreed with him to withdraw to the new
ball across the way, TO take such action ai
might be de.irable. At once the stampede
became general and soon the larger por'
ti,n by far, at least two.thirds, withdrew
and convened across the street aud held q
rousing annexation meeting.
DR.. NJ. A. Kelly was chosen chairman
and w. A. Flemmin9, secretary. A com'
mttee (not forordained) on resolutions
presented the following, which were
unanimously adopted
Resolved, That the vital interests oi
North Idaho demand its annexation to
Washington territory when admitted as q
state.
That we condemn the opposition oil
Delegate Dubois against the measure.
That we condemn any effort looking to
the statehood of Idaho. which includes
North Idaho within its limits. That we
urgently request congress to submit this
question to the vote ofthe people of North
Idaho.
During the disorder of the statehood
meeting, occasioned by the application oi
name had been surreptItiously obtained on
the call, stated that he had been Misled
into signing it, believing 1t to be for the
purpose of taking action either for OF
against the movement; that he was In
favor OF annexation and opposed to be-
coming part of the state of Idaho. Quite
a number of Others ct ite the same thing
of being missled as it was a call for pub.
lie meeting.
As matter of course, after the depart.
ure of his obstructionists, Mr.. Reid had
plain sailing for his Vaccinations which,
"a is believed, had their inception at
Boise City, whence he recently returned as
an emissary to spread them as an infection
into the veins Of annexation and to give il
another stab designed to be the home.
thrust. Their next act In the tragedy to
be the erection over its grave of a tablet
upon which Is engraved, "Perished in its
own home, stabbed to death by traitorous
hands within its walls; the brightest hope
of q great people,"
It is encouragement to know, as is prov
en- BY the result of this schism, that vast
majority of our people prefer to go inte
the state of Washington and are disposed
TO keep up the fight until the last spark ol
hope 10 gone.
Had the opposition been as belligeren'