The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-11-01
TO TIFF VOTERS.

nothing short of our duty to stand
up for honor and integrity. We are
always for the people and what we
believe to be right, and we could not
stand idly by and watch a clique of
schemers attempt to tear down the
chastity of our courts. This issue is
largely taken up with Judge Nugent,
but the bitter onslaught of body of
tin-horn lawyers generated by big
legal light, has forced us to meet as
many of their attacks as possible in
this our last issue before election and
we leave the rest with the voters with
the hope that all the printed vilifica-
ton that may yet emanate from the
Boise ring will fall on needless ears.
Also, we have mentioned Mr. |. F.
Smith as being, in our opinion, the
proper man to put in the auditors
office for the next four years, on ac-
count of the most gratifying manner
in which he has filled the office, and
we do not deem it any more wise in
the people of county to discharge
an employe who has placed every
thing in the line of his duty in such
perfect shape that it is running like a
fine piece of clockwork, the most eco
nomically, elegantly and smoothly
conducted affair in all the system of
county government, than for an indi-
vldual to discharge the man who has
placed his fine farm in the neatest
and most fattering order, perfect in
every detail, and replace him with
man who will tear it all down, let
the fences become full Of gaps, loose
boards on the barn to swing in the
wind, and the buggy to stand in the
sun and become weatherbeaten into
shabbiness.
AS to the other candidates we have
had no preferences to express in
these columns, leaving that for the
voters to decide for themselves. We
hope they will look well to their in
terests when they render a verdict.
One last word then to the people of
this county before the election comes
Off. We would call upon them to
reflect on the dangerous extreme to
which party love is carried. Don't
be one of those who will vote for q
yellow canine if he is on your ticket.
The terrible extent to which party
/ lines are adhered to in local matters
is an open threat to all social pro-
gress and all public prosperity. Men
become blind to home, country,
friends, fireside and all else in the
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wild scramble for party success.
Shame on the man who says, "The
man on the opposite ticket is a good
friend, an honest citizen and an able
gentleman who, | must acknowledge,
would best serve the interests in
volved in the Office to which he
aspires, but he is on the wrong ticket;
his opponent is weak and | have no
respect for him, but he is on my
ticket and | must vote for him" We
would not be republican if we must
take the same grounds that some re-
publicans take, because we would
virtually carry our politics into our
social relations, and into our private
life, to dampen the cheerfulness of
our home. We would not be a dem
ocrat, if we must carry our democra-
cy almost to the point that would say
that we cannot buy pound of sugar
of that merchant because he is a
republican, we must never enter that
mans house because he is a populist.
We would not be a populist if we
must not allow our children to 90 to
a school taught by republican ped
agogue, or would not allow our wife
to borrow a drawing of tea from her
neighbor whose husband was a dem
ocrat We do not say anything of
the like occurs, but often when we
have observed the blind folly and alb
surd partisanship of some men about
campaign time, the thought strikes
us that ii is but a childs step to the
condition we have expressed. 1t is
evidenced on the streets almost every
day in the present legislative contest
We could name several men who do
not know that the property they own
is situated in Weiser; they do not
know that they live in Washington
county or that Washington county is
in Idaho. There is only one thing
they know and that is, 'THERE is
GOING TO BE A UNITED STATES SEN