Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1894-09-29

tuaho. mas been, IN company with
Hon. Jim Hawley, stumping the
southeastern counties Of the State
and they have met with perfect
ovations at every point visited.
Gov. Stevenson does not have to
face the people and attempt to ex-
plain away rotten. corrupt acts
while in Office, like his opponent
McConnell--better known as PA
louise Bill" or Stranger Bill" or
"Shirt-tail Bill"-but takes the pc
litical stump with clear con-
science that he is man of the peo-
pie, with clean record. respected
and honored by all classes. while
his opponent for the gubernaiorial
chair is noted in Boise city and oil
over Idaho for his low bagnio ASSOC
ciates, his indecent language, his
scorn for virtuous people, and daily
habits that are too low to be made
public in print, il half the reports
circulated about him are correct.
In the language of the Boise Dem
ocrat: DO the people of Idaho
want a man for its chief executive
who has descended into q rowdv,
who carouses night after night and
rolls in all kinds of sin. whose name
is upon the lips of all classes as a
thing of disgust?' The BULLETIN
thinks not, and that they will at
test it in laundering tones at the
polls in November by voting for E.
A. Stevenson there is not shadow
Of doubt.
In the winter Of 1889 Governor
Stevenson sent message to the
Legislature that fully placed him on
record as true friend of the labor
ing man. Among other good re-
concentrations he said: 1.-THE re-
lations between capital and labor,
the rate Of wages, and the proper
distribution of wealth by honest toll
is one Of the great questions Of the
day. The honest wage-workers of
America do not wish to correct their
wrongs by violence, anarchy. or
communism, but by organization
and unity of purpose. They nat
urally and properly desire to benefit
their condition in life. and ii should
he our aim to study their wants and
listen to their complaints, and in a
kindly spirit to intelligently dis
tinguish their real and imaginary
wrongs. 1t should be our pride and
pleasure to more generally recog-
nize their claims to public Office
and public p' sitions than wealthy
men who obtain first. their nomina-
ton and then their election by the
lavish and improper use of money,
than any real merit Of their own.
This fact has a tendency to discour-
age men of moderate means from
seeking official positions, and Gre
ates the conviction in the minds of
workingmen that this distinction is
not within their reach unless they
are able to furnish the saloon keep
ers and the professional polital man
ayers with whatever amount of
money they may demand.
Poverty over-work, poorly re-
compensed, is one of the great
sources of discomfort among our
people, and also the knowledge that
labor does not receive its fair pro-
portion Of the rewards which in
dustry and honesty entitie it to
share; and the further fact contin-
ually staring them in the face that
with all their energy. diligence, fru-
gality and sobriety they are unable,
out of their scanty wages. to make
provisions for themselves and fam
lilies in sickness, reverses and old
age.
There are hundreds of good,
honest men who are competent to
fill any county or territorial office,
and would gladly take them and
discharge all the duties faithfully
and honestly for just and reason
able compensation. would recon-
mend such reductions in the sala-
ries and fees of all elective offices
that men of wealth can not afford
to spend two or three thousand dol
lars In wire-pulling and election
eering for county Office
Thus spoke Governor Stevenson
six years ago. and since then every
act of this grand, blunt-spoken but
conservative old war-horse Of De-
mocracy has been in favor of the
amelioration of the working classes.
while his dissolute opponent--now
known as "Shirt-tail Bill'-has
been aud is hobnobbing with and
aiding the Occur d'Alene mime
owners and all other combines to
reduce the condition Of the Idaho
laboring man to serfdom.
Little Gilmore will give a glorious
account of herself on the 9th of No
vember by rolling up a good ma
ioritv for II A Stevenson and the