The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-09-29
REPUBLICANS AT SEA
The Party In Idaho Drifting About
Without a Pilot.
A Description of the Tangie Into
which the Grand Old Party Has
Been Twisted by Unscru-
pulous Leaders.
Special Correspondence ofthe Standard.

seized upon the souls of the republican
managers in this section of the state. The
party is drifting aimlessly around upon
the political sea and there is no pilot who
can be relied upon 10 guide the shattered
wreck safely into port. In all the ac-
counts have sent you of republican dis
sensions and discortls not one word has
been an exaggeration. Indeed il would
not be easy 10 fully describe the tangle
into which that party has been twisted by
It's INSCRIPTIONS leaders. The whole
trouble arises from the well-known fact
that there is not in the coterie of republi-
can bosses a single man whose reputation
for ability and integrity is enyiable. Not
one who commands the confidence of the
general public and who is capable
of unifying, under his leadership
the countless factions into which selfish
ness and trickery have shattered it. The
party is literally composed of rowing
bands of political marauders, each
handled by political brigand, whose
claims are based upon his ability TO stuff
ballot box or manipulate election re-
turns.
Not that there are not many good, true,
clever and public-spirited citizens i'm the
republican party Of Idaho. There are
many of them, but unfortunately they are
not at the head of the party-the loyal re-
publican citizens of Idaho, who, with
their democratic brethren, have assisted i'm
the upbuilding of this great state, and
whom the citizens of both political parties
would be glad to honor and follow, are
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Doodily and in no pleasant frame of
mind. the herd of fellows morally and in
tellectually their interiors. Carpetbag-
gers and political hucksters whose
bad hearts and brainless heads
have been the fangs which
have fastened upon the great party in this
state and which is surely pulling il TO po-
ltical ruin.
Yes, there are many republicans i'm
Idaho of much ability, noble purpose, and
honest character, and many of these will
be found on election day marking their
ballots for the democratic candidates.
They will do this not because they are in
sympathy with the principles of the
democracy, perhaps, but because they
are good citizens of Idaho, and they real
is their duty to their state, TO their party
and to themselves TO break the rule of the
disreputable bosses whose policy of pros
tituting every public trust to their own
selfish ends threatens to involve all i'm
hopeless ruin. They will vote with the
democracy for the credit of the state, and
in the hope of securing the republican
party from the hands of the federal pap
suckers who now control il and who make
Il.
living from her treasury.
You have seen, in my former letters, how
these political parasites, in their un-
seemly scrambles TO obtain good place
at the public crib. have been engaged in a
disgraceful war with each other. IL is not
an edifying sight for any man who has at
heart the good name of the state, but IL
by any misfortune these factions should
secure control of the legislature what ad-
dtional disgraces would be heaped upon
this state!
Her Legislative halls would be turned
into private ring. Her legislation would
be neglected for the schemes which these
political flim-fiammers would devise for
the purpose Of advancing their own inter
ests. Does any one doubt this and believe
the picture overdrawn? III so, let him con-
suit the court records of Ada county where
he will find incontestable evidence of its
truth. He will find that the enmity be-
tween the republican bossess is not all in
the Imagination of their opponents. He
will find on file there an indictment
against the leader of one of the two main
factions of the republican party of Idaho
for bribery and corruption. Let him not
fail TO observe that that indictment was
procured by man who is to-day candi.
date on the republican ticket in this
county. Let him continue his searches
and he will find on file there an affidavit
subscribed and sworn to. In that atiida.
Wit, the truth of which, so far as | eau
learn, has never been questioned, the
sworn statement that Fred Z. Dubois
whom the people of tins state have twice
sent TO congress, took part in debauchinl
the state by deliberately stufiing the ballo
boxes with spurious ballots. That Affidavit
has remained uncontroverted for seyera
, years. Not a man in the state doubts the
truth of the statements contained therein
that Dubois is a political pirate. Ant
, yet these are the men whom many goot
men in the republican party have beer
blindly following for years. Is ther,
cause for wonder that they have at las
revolted? 1t is these men who have dis
heartened exertion, disqualified tru,
, merit and debilitated the state.
Ii Is not pleasant to discuss these un
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harpy hand OF the carpetbagger and tn,
/, ballot-box ravisher is upon the throat o
the state, IL is no time for purile plati
tudes. Ii means a continuance or an en-,
Of their disreputable rule. 1t means tha
Idaho will come into the union with til,
white banner Of political Righteousness
Haunting proudly and unsullied, or drag
!, gled in the mire Of public corruption
Ii means government by good
clean, honorable men, or govern
ment by men with tarnished reputation
who publicly boast Of their sickness il
, political knavery. 1t is about time tina
: the brave, generous, intellectual, zealou
, citizens who built this state should b
1 given a chance 10 control her affairs AM
/ the imported band Of shysters relegate'
10 the rear.
Eight years ago there came into ldah
from somewhere in Illinois Fred L. Du
bois. He was even then feeding at th
public crib and drawing a salary for som
sort OF federal clcrkship. From that da
till this he has never been out of oilic,
has never paid dollars taxes in Idaho
has never owned a dollars worth Of he
land, has never done days mauu5
labor in the state, and has never added 1
her wealth by investments Of any kline
and yet he has twice succeede
in having himself elected 20 III
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