Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-27
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the club.
Any member of this club who shall
be proven to have voted for any can
dldate for delegate to the political
conventions in the jurisdictions of
this organization, whose candidacy
had not been approved of in conven-
tons of this club, shall be deemed
guilty of violation of his personal
honor, and shall be declared expelled
from this body"
Not much serious comment is nec-
essary. Such unmistakable outcrop-
pings of a disposition to rule or
ruin the Republican party carry with
them their own condemnation. This
organization is we'll named. 1t is a
''club"-a club that will beat out it's
own life. Don't understand that we
are bitterly opposed to such organi-
zatlons. This is free country, and
men have right to make fools of
themselves if they see fit, individual
ly or collectively. But we do kick
when they drag the grand word Re-
publican, which stands pre- eminently
for universal freedom, patriotism and
Amercanism, A into the organization
that does not embody a single senti-
ment of Republicanism. 1t is self
evident that it was not organized for
the purpose of advancing the grand
principles OF the party, but to dis
rupt the party-municipal, county
and Territorial. tit had been named
the Political Hack Club, the Great
Conglomeration of the Disgruntled,
the United Band of Sewers of Seeds
of Dlscord, Consolidation of Polit-
ical Outcasts, or a Mutual Aid So
ciety, to aid principally the plumed
Sachem whom political conventions
seeketh not, it would be all right
enough. When this little, insignifi-
cant club takes upon itself the her.
culean task of supplanting the party
of the whole Territory, doing away
with the work of conventions, and de-
claring itself a center around which
the Republican party of the Terri
tory must revolve, it presents spec
tacls that calls forth more pity than
contempt. 1t is sad to see anything
doomed, and especially thing SO
young and hopeful. But it must sue
cumb to the inevitable, and will be
buried III the dark of the moon, in
a wee little hole in the ground, where
the bundle bee buns, the June bug
huns, and the straddIe bug straddles
around.
The constitution and by laws were
forwarded to Delegate Dubois (whc
is chairman of the Republican Ter
ritorial Committed by J. w. Daniels
Secretary of the imperial club. Du
bois addresses an open letter to th,
Secretary which was published in the
Statesman. The letter embodies true
Republican principles, and is fillet
with good advice to the so-called Re
publican club. 1t is too long for pub
lication, taking up nearly three col
umns in the Statesman, but we will
make short extract. He says:
"Republican clubs should be organ
lied in the interest of the Republican
party, and not in the interest of an,
individual or individuals within o
without that party. The very momen
the purposes of the club are change,
from the legitimate work of aiding TIA
party on its way to success, and ar
turned into the smaller, unnatura
channel of attempting to build up o
tear down individual Republican:
that moment it becomes an instrumen
!; of harm rather than power for gooc
, | call your attention to Article l
q Of the Constitution of the Republica
/ League of the United States. Th
article reads as follows:
This League shall not in any mar
b ner endeavor to influence the actio
: of any national, state, county or mur
q icipal convention; nor shall it indicat
. as League any preference for an
:, candidate before any political conveI
# ton; nor shall it as a League recon
mend any person as an applicant f'
Il any official position"
If 1t has been stated that this club w
organized for the purpose, amor
% other things just as sneaking, of dow
N ing Dubois, and to attempt the equal
n impossible task of raising their ov
H. Sachem, who has been buried beyoi
,e any reasonable hope of resurrectio
ne OF course the few members of Il
e, club will oppose Dubois, but tn
81. cannot uaLa their onDOsitiOn mo