The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-10-18
The Contest for U. s. Senators.

LAnyOuo VINO lma&lneS tnat The
/ political campaign in Idaho is over
is badly mistaken. 1t has only be-
gun. The bitterness, the venom,
now manifested, at home and
abroad, over the Senatorial matter,
is so intense that nothing but the
overbearing hand of final election
can squelch or qucnch it.
It is a fight among the republi-
cans themselves, for they have two
thirds of the legislature; but some
times an oyerlooker sees more OF
the game than the players. The
democrats in that body have no
lively cards to play, but they are
not uninterested observers of the
scene about to be enacted; and it
will be an interesting tragedy, or
comedy as the next ninety days
will show; one in which, if those
democratic legislative members act
together with understanding, cor
diality and prudence, they will yet
play no Insignificant part.
The republicans are entering the
Senatorial contest like savages.
They tomahawk and scalp each
other without conscience or re-
morse. A vile and thunderous
season of vilification has been in
augurated, such as Idaho has hap
PLY been spared from in its prior
history, and is now happily con-
fined to only one political family.
When the Boise Statesman calls
J. W. Mcconnell a guerrilla ad-
venturer," one "who during the
campaign had no place in the or
ganized, working forces of the re-
publican party in the State, and no
recognition at the hands of a loyal
republican," the Statesman insults
not only its own party but the in
telligence of the State. Few men
have done more in the State, and
for the State Of Idaho, than Nc
Cornell. He was here when Idaho
was baptised by its name. Is such
a man an adventurer? He has been
in business here twenty-seven years
actively and honorably. Is such
a man q guerrilla?
1t is such abuse as this that fills
the columns of the republican or
gan at the Capital daily. 1t is with
abuse of this character that the
confederate organs howl, making
the night hideous with vituperation
and defamation. The emissaries of
of the South Idaho senatorial league
are spreading their poison any
where and everywhere. We hear
and see it daily in Alturas county.
We saw it in the late election when
more than one good republican had
the ground taken from beneath his
feet on account of it. The last
county convention of Alturas was
controlled by an element that had
only one master, and it recognized
him, or rather them, for there were
two, in bonds of brotherhood that
never intended to know Clagett or
Mcconnell, or any Senator from
Northern Idaho. Mr.. Bruner, can
didate for district attorney of this
judicial district, felt that secret,
venomous influence on the first of
this month-and all the friends
who worked with him. He did not
belong to that clique. He and many
Of his friends were friends of Nc
Cornell. Hence he must be downed.
He was downed by his own political
associates in this district. "Venge-
lnce is mine," saith the Lord; and
f that section of the republican
party, here and elsewhere, does not
remember and repay, we mistake
human nature. They will remem-
Der the defamer of their friend, and
The connubiators who maliciously
pursued them from the primaries
Ia the last day.
If Shoup and Dubois are the only
men in the republican party, some
warm-hearted republicans desire to
know it. If North Idaho is to
have no representation in the U. S.
Senate they will take hand to as
certain the reason why. The State
Convention pledged it; but there
is clearly now an attempt to ignore
The resolution, and to ignore both
Mcconnell and Clagett-such is
the apparent, significant drift-the
evident determination of those who
in the pride of temporary triumph
now rule the counsels and dictate
The programme for the coming leg
stature.
There will be no democrat elected
Senator; but the whole people of
ibis State ore interested in seeing
fair play. One of those Senators
should come from the North. &c.
ography. wealth, population and all
hat enter into political calculations
Or ordinary honesty, require it.
Selfishness may prevail for the day,
but time repeats itself and equalizes
all. 1t is not by abuse of Judge
that the Statesman, or
is confederates, here or elsewhere,
IAN make their cause good. Nc