The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-29
THE BATTLE IN IDAHO.
LULL BEFORE THE STORM IN FIRE.
MONT COUNTY.
Mcconnell Speaks at Rexburg-The
Fight Over the County Seat
Kenner's Good Work-Interest In
the Utah Election.

Rexburg, Ida, Oct 21-The political
pot has not been boiling the past week
with its usual briskness in this part of
the state. There have been but two or
three meetings in the county, one of
them being on Wednesday evening when
Governor William J. Mcconnell held
forth in this place, but the audience
was so small that he cut his remarks
short indeed, and what he did say was
in the usual stereotyped style peculiar
only to Republican orators-that of max
ing assertions without proving anything.
The present quiet in such matters seems
to be the maneuvering for position just
before the battle.
What is agitating the public most at
present is the county seat question.
Rexburg justly has the best claim upon
it, as it is situated nearest the centre
of popula ton and is therefore most con-
venient for the people. st. Anthony,
the temporary county seat, also has
hopes of a victory, but it has very few
claims for the permanent seat. 1t is
situated fourteen miles north of this
place, and from there straight north to
the Montana line, a distance of about
fifty miles, there is not single habita-
| tion--a vast waste of sagebrush. To the
northeast and northwest there are few
small settlements but outside of these
the population of the county is all south
ing recognition in this line is Market
Lake, a railway station twenty-five
miles west of here. which depends upon
the south end of the county for it's sup
| have the best chances for winning the
election, but the result is extremely
doubtful: st. Anthony and Market Lake
are working in a quiet way, while the
ReXbTrg people have been going all over
! the county for week past with a brass
band and wagons bearing streamers, on
which are painted the words: "A 4, n !
/ for ReXburg for the county seat! At
each place visited a meeting is held IN
the evening, after which a dance is
given. That is the way the work goes
on.
! Fremont county was originally part of
old Bingham, which comprised the whole
of the eastern part of the state, except
Bear Lake and Oneida counties at the
south end, but in 1893 the legislature d1-
vided that county into three and named
temporarily county seats. Permanent
ones were to be established by the vote
| of the people at their first general cleo
ton. which takes place on November 6
next) The southern part was named
| Bannock, with Pocatello as the county
seat; the centre remained Bingham ana
retained the old seat, Blackfoot; whlie
the north end was made into Fremont.
Each of the new counties were appor-
toned a certain amount of the old coun-
ty debt, our share being in the neighbor.e
hood of 100000, but under two years of
Republican rule our county dept has IN
creased to about $4,000, and all we have
to show for it is few bridges and
! common Jail building. which Judge
Hawley says no man need stay in if he
wants to get out The building used for
i a court house is an ordinary lumber
! affair for which the county pays S6O per
month.
To give your readers some idea of the
vaStness of this county it is only neces-
sary to state that Fremont county is al
most twice as large as the state OF
TS1a nd RinPham
nearly as large as Massachusetts,. Con
necticut and Rhode Island Combined:
There is plenty of room here for more
settlers. that is if the Democratic party
is successful this fall. otherwise they will
be unable to stand the Republican taxa
ton.
this county tonight at Menan. He has
made some thirty speeches during the
campaign, and different from most
stumpers, gives new one at each meet
ing. He goes from here to Bear Lake
and Cassia counties and them home in
time to vote
Sometime ago the wife. of Wyman
Parker r proprietor Of tt the RyeT51de
to njure her leg while dismounting
from a horse. The limb became para
lyzed and blood poisoning set in which
necessitated amputa ton: The operation
was performed last week: The affair is
all the more sorrowful from the fact
that the lady is enciente, but is is pleas
ling 10 note IIldl SHe Is progressing hiSc-
~.
The Rawlins-Cannon contest is being
watched here with almost as much In
trest as in Utah. The writer remem-
bers that two years ago during the cam
paign down there Frank j. Cannon stood
before an audience drssed in a fine suit
of clothes of foreign-made goods and
implored the people to support home in
dustry In fact he seemed to be fighting
the campaign upon his fine neat-fittins
clothes. If he is doing the same this
year the words of the old Tennessean
!, would be appropriate:
"You may notch it on the palm
AS a mighty risky plan,
To put your judgment on the clothes
That kner up a man,
For I hardly need to tell you
That you often come across
| A fifty dollar saddle
On twenty dollar boss"
Sitting in the sanctum chair
Through a dark and dismal day.
Sat an editor so fair
That he seemed not long to stay.
He'd been striving hard to write
On some strong e. o. p. themes,
For on the preceding night.
Mcconnell kissed him in his dreams.
Mcconnell, Mcconnell,
Mcconnell kissed him in his dreams
Rain fell all last night and this morn