The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-12-27
NOT IN A SPIRIT OF ANGER.
Thinks il Is Hard That Shoup stepped
Into His Life.

AhihhS ~ - iidi0 iudt onOup DtNDDS0
Into His Life.
Nothing in this letter is written in a
spirit of anger or resentment. am frank
to say that think 1t extremely hard that
you should have stepped into my life,
wherein l was content, pursuing a work
in which l was deeply interested, and
with which l think the people were salts
fed, suggest that l transfer that work,
with my hopes and ambitions, to another
sphere, and then, after 1t was too late for
me to resume the old position, not only
array yourself with those who are fighting
me in the execution OF the step which you
advised me to take, but also furnish them
with the good name and character, with
out which they could not fight at all.
understand, of course, that you have no
senatorship to give, and that any man in
the state has n perfect right to aspire to
the position. I am only discussing the
question as to you and me under the rules
that govern men, not in the business af-
fairs of life, because then you bind men
down by bonds and forfeits and over their
own signatures, but by that which is
higher than bond and more precious to
men of character than wealth or position
their personal honor.
CASSIUS AND CAESAR.
When Cassius conceived the scheme of
numbering Caesar, he found himself with
out sufficient character in the enterprise
to convince the people that the pretended
motive was sincere. He therefore per-
suaded Brutus to enter into the plan. 1t
was not that he loved Brutus more or
| less, but because it was necessary to have
| a name and a character around which the
| people of Rome would gather, and in
whom they had some personal confidence.
| Cassius convinced Brutus that the people
| wanted him by sending men to his house
| at night and having them pass letters
| through the windows to the effect that
| the people We're expecting great things of
| Brutus. Brutus was flooded with these
notes until he came to the conclusion
! that Rome was wild to have him do some
| thing, and he did not know what Ii was
until Cassius presented his scheme. Bru-
| tus fell an easy victim to the Vaccinations
of the very willy Cassius.
Now there may have been many good
! people in Idaho who favored some per
son other than myself for senator. How
| ever that may be, there are those who
are using your good name, and your well
earned character with which to defeat me
not because they love you more or less
but because, first, they desire to defea
me; second, to advance their own inter
ests If the people of Idaho demand you
selection, 1 think you ought to take 1t
but do not believe they do. will be per
fectly frank about it. When the election
was held it was not supposed In the stat
that you would be a candidate. Indeed
it was supposed that you would not be
candidate, and the legislature was chosei
upon that basis. You might have beef
elected had you been candidate, and Il
our conversation at your rooms in tn
Cochran hotel, ] said to you that 20
could have my loyal support If you wer
in the field. 1t is not therefore, anythin
to your discredit that this Legislature wa
not chosen with the understanding tina
you were a candidate. II is simply re
cognition of the fact that the people c
the state wanted a republican legislator
and a republican senator
SHOUP'S STANDING IN THE STATE
Your personal standing and characte
; in Idaho perhaps no person appreciate
more than /. You have lived in ths
5 state many years and the path of vol
] life has been strewn with acts OF gene
e osity and kindness that have, and ougl
} to have, made you world of friends.
] doubt If any many in our state has MOI
I patriotic acts, more generous acts, mol
| kindly acts recorded to his credit tina
] you. You are generally loved by the pc
] pie, and / have always extended to you |
h much respect and affection as any 9th
e man in the state. l looked upon you n
J. only as a friend, but almost as a fathe
s | have called upon you as / have calf
= upon father, and you have always r
r sponded as a generous father would r
r spond to a son. l have always felt that
i could talk to you, or any other man wi
a wore upon his coat the badge you wea
u with credit and honor. alike with freedo
J. and sympathy. In our section of the sta
o there are many men who were conrad
d of yours and my father They have
# ways been very loyal friends of mir
t. and ] assure you that IT Is much more
l. sorrow than in anger that feel oblige
IT in defense of my own integrity, as w
Dl as in justice to my friends and to myse
l. to insist that your position and mine
is this senatorial matter be made right.
le 1t is more important to me than the Sc
{. atorship. A senatorship, honorable as
N position is, must be, II seems to me,
~ burden to any man who receives 1t at
~ sacrifice of that which Is worth me
le than the wealth Of Croesus or the pow
At of Napoleon; namely, sacrifice of
1? own conscience. / now believe that ;
or advice bad logic, and bad principle on
a part Of selfish schemers; and the Ill;
st vised but earnest pleading of those "
re sincerely love you, have persuaded }
Nv against your own sense of justice, and
C. promptings of your big heart, into TAX
the step so burdened with injustice to
and mine. But IL seems we are In fo
fight; and let us settle 1t inside our o
C. lines, quickly, honorably, and to the ere
OF of the republican party and the sta
&c Very truly yours,
l WILLIS SWEE,
ed ---
ng Frank Trumbull. the attorney who '
ire present In the Council Bluffs bank
'or which the clerk shot two detectives