The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-15
THE POLITICAL POT.
How 1t Bubbles and Sizzles in
Idaho.
THE OPPOSITION 10 FREDDY.
TIE Coming Struggle VIII Be More Than An
Ordinary onc-Some of Dubois Cute
Tricks-The Outlook.

BOISE CRY, Idaho July II, Especial
correspondence of THE HERALD. THE pc
l,lcai circus has commenced. The Repub
licJn club viii meet his evening at Good
TeiDplar hail, which they have leased for
the campaign. 1t comprises about one hun
sired and eighty members, opposed to the
aspirations of Dubois TO the United States
Senate and favorable TO Governor Shoup
and W. j. Mcconnell, of Latah. These last
names should not be connected as political
friends. The governor is very discreet,
and has thus far shown no preference Tor
any one, unless it be social tendency TO
Dubois. Mcconnell is totally unfit for the
senatorship socially, morally and other
wise; as much as Dubois, himself, but ne
has money, which he has already been pass
ing out Iavishly to obtain the organization
of the new state in his favor and it Will
have its effect. He went to Bingham,
Dubois own county, and effected an
organization against him; he visited other
localities presumed to be favorable to that
gentleman, with like effect. This county
has never been favorable to Freddy. In
his aspirations for the Senate it will be
lost to him in either one way or the other.
1t will be Mcconnell or Democratic. Talk
to a Dubois Republican, and he viii tell
you that he will vote for n Democrat before
a Mcconnell man. Talk to a Mcconnell
man and you receive the same answer The
fight is
NOT AN ORDINARY ONE.
1t arises from the leaders accusing each
other of uanamable crimes. Thus the
Statesman stigmatizes d. p. b. Pride as an
outcast and new Republican paper which
VIII issue in less than week, will retallate
with interest. There is no use of
making efforts in the direction
of Cancellation. 1t would be utter folly.
Both sides admit it. If it were possible to
patch up peace, it could notlast an hour.
Neither side has confidence IN the other.
1t is not new fight. 1t had its origin when
Billy Bum, the editor Of the Philadelphia
Transcript, a very disreputable Sunday pa
per, was governor Of this territory six
years ago. The libels against Pride, made
by political enemies and confined to them
exclusively, were investigated by The
knights of Pythias. The report of the local
lodge yirdicated him. Upon appeal his ac-
cusers were expelled for wrongfully ma
ligning brother. From this mas arisen
other complications which it will be left to
the gentlemen of the Republican persuasion
to ulravel ana make amicable, not the best
of which is with large number of voters
who are Hebrews and members Of the *.
of p.
THIS MANNER OF DOING BUSINESS
at Boise in the formation of clubs has been
followed all over Idaho, even in little towns
of scarcely three or four hundred popuia-
ton. After the anti-Dubois men had got
ten in their work in this manner and the
guilelesS Freddy had ascertained its true
inwardness he goes to j. M. Thurston, OF
Omaha, of the Republican National COM
mittee, procures his opinion of the proper
manner of forming Republican clubs and
occupies whole issue of the Statesman IN
giving his opinion and Thurston's. 1t fell
dead here, as it did all over the state. The
members said they were forming club in
the west, not one dictated by railroad at
1orneys or anyone else, and when the Re
publican party assumed to expel them fol
exercising 4 clear right they had as Amer
lean citizens, they should know what to do
WHEN FREDDY WAS IN WASHINGTON,
"doing great work for Idaho" simply be
cause he was in the train of the party ant
they had use for him in the attemptto raise
the majority of the Republicans in thu
Senate TO fourteen, he had plain sailing
He is expected in this city to-day. He may
be a terror in the House of Representative.
the Senate of the United States may
United States may say unto him: ''Com'
here, thou son of the friend of the martyre(
Lincoln: place your head upon this, ny
guileless bosom: ask what thou wilt, ant
ii shall come unto thee,'' still he will stanC
no more chance of running Republican
club formed before his arrival, than hi
would of being struck by lightning in
snow storm.
There are other influences more poten
but less noisy than that of the Mcconnell
element against Dubois, One is the rail
road influence of the north controlled b.
W. B. Hazburn. Freddy has never beef
popular with the railroads, though the.
have had no more abject supplicant TO
their favor. He had trouble with the off
GERS of the Oregon Short Line and Uta
Northern the year he became candidat
for DELEGATE the first time on account of a
ANTICIPATED riot at Eagle Rock and G
United States marshal, he refused to az
point some of Pinkerton's men as deputies
For this he will never be forgiven. Thes
corporations understand their men prett
well The man who has kicked once ma
do so again and when he is most needed
The son of the friend of Lincoln'sn wa
not sufficiently subservient-
IN sHosHoNE COUNTY,
one of the largest in the state, lives gen
tleman by the name of William II. Claget
He is one of the purest men on the Paciti
coast; a splendid orator, quarter Of
century ago delegate from Montana,
called by Dubois friends ''erratic," is
fine LAWYER and splendid gentleman c
good family, your correspondent havin
known his father, a wealthy gentleman, G
keokuk, Ia, when thirty years ago he wa
chairman of the Democratic central con
mittee of that state. This gentleman ha
a large following for United States seni
tor. but would not think of machine polite
to bring the Office to his doors If til
state should go Republican the office mus
seek Clagett. He Is perfectly incapable {
meanness or trickery in any form.
But the new state will not be Republi
can. Great changes have taken place
its political complexion, which it might
i..,rar-ndent here To mention. The thrf