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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-24

MT do at all for us. who know better. to
support and encourage them IN their
heresy. That would only drive them
farther from the true faith. We want
to reclaim them; we want to save them
unto eternal salvation. We know they
don't thank us bit for it; but the
heather didn't used to thank the Chris
tian minister-except when the heather
was hungry ana wanted Christian
dinner. But the missionary kept on
Iaboring with the heather and on occa-
sion supplying fresh meat for the fam
lily until the heather finally saw the
point, and then the missionary had him.
We propose to keep right on laboring
with our Democratic and Populist
heathen-no, we don't mean that
right on laboring with our Dem ocratic
and Populist friends until they are con-
verted. They are worth thousand
lines more to this country than all the
Coolies in China and Bushmen in At
RIGA, so we feel that in trying to retrieve
hem from political heresy we are en-
gagged in a noble and humane mission.
they will all see the point after while
and then they will stand up and bless
US. In the mean time little cussing
will have to be endured with grace, hope
and charity. Of course there are good
men on all three tickets.
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litical code for candidates. We have
often heard intelligent people advocate
Tie idea that judicial offices should |
be bipartisan, but it always did
seem that the method advanced for &C
complishing the end was wrong The
idea was to utterly strip candidates of
all political principles and party atlilia-
tions. Now, that is y physical impossi-
bility About the first thing your
American citizen attends to after
teethi;ig is the absorption and assimi-
lation Of political principles. A young
ster is generally II rank Republi
can or Democrat before he ceases to
have a horror of clean water and
veneration for warts. Nine times out
in ten, he is confirmed and incurable
partisan before the odor of loves first
young dream is dissipated in the sweet
ness of maturer infatuation. In the
order of mental development politics
takes precedence and ranks dominant.
Do you think that corking man up
for six weeks pending election will
eradicate from his system any degree
of partisanship? Certainly not. Then
what is the use of sitting him? When
man receives a nomination for any
Office, he naturally and rightfully wants
to be elected Usually, he is not &C
quainted, personally, with but small
percentage of his expected constitu-
ency. Obedient to ancient custom, he
goes forth to show the people what
manner of man he is. 1t is political
times everybody is thinking and talk
ing politics people want to hear what
the judge has to say. In order to COM
ply with a popular demand, the judge
must talk, but according to the popu-
lar idea of non partisanship, he must
be dreadfully careful not to say any
thing. AS a natural consequence he
begins to stultify himself right from
the start and fires lot of
random platitudes that nauseate
the more intelligent classes and
leave the rest befogged and dis
satisfied. Why should you compel a
man to make mudsil of himself be-
cause he happens to be candidate for
Judge? Let him unbosom himself
freely and fearlessly; let him proclaim
his political faith from the house tops,
but let him all the time understand
that, in his case, your vote will be de.
termined by the measure of his ability
his integrity as man, and his particu'
lar qualifications for the office. Let
him distinctly understand that, and
then urge him to fire away so that you
may judge what sort of stuff he is
made Of That is our idea of the cor
rect way to eliminate the judiciary
from partisan politics.
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passed without further notice. But as
the I1ader has not only exposed but
Loyalty champiOned his frailities, we
may be excused for inquiring infinitely
into the causes which lead Mr. WITT
to abandon his convivial habits. We
accept as true the I,adec statement
that Mr.. WITT has not been maudlin
drunk for twelve month, and we are
sincerely glad of it. But, according to
all accounts, his continued sobriety is
not chargeable to any moral impulse or
reformatory resolution. 1t is asserted
that the same causes which now oper.
ate to keep Mr.. WITT sober would ban
ish the wine cup from the lips of the
maddest dipsomaniac. Is that true3
Does MIR. WITT refrain from inebriety
because he has not the money where
with to buy liquor? Does he not now
manifest disposition to spend every
cent he can get in qualification of that
unhappy craving? These are plain,
proper questions, which newspaper
having at heart the public veal, has a
right to ask and which an honorable
contemporary, in possession of the
facts, would answer candidly and truth
! fully without aspersion or peevish in
vective. If Mr.. WITT be wrongfully
accused, is it not better that he should
be publicly confronted with the charges
so that he may protect and exoneratt
himself? Would the Iqadec have a
friend exposed to the poisoned darts Of
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-24
4 TREAcHEROUs SENTIMENT.

An impassioned neighbor over on the
Payette is seized with fit Of exaspera-
ton because TIE TRIBUNE, i'll re-
spectful and moderate terms, gave pub
LEFTY to alleged imperfections in the
character of one WITT, Populist nomi-
nee for county commissioner. While,
on it's own acknowledgment, our con-
temporary is hired to defend the prin-
ciples and shield the personality of
Populism yet, its mercenary obliga-
lions need not carry it beyond reason
able loyalty and honest zeal Will our
querulous neighbor kindly inform us
what there is morally or ethically
wrong in giving publicity to the vices
as we'll as the virtues of public men?
We represented on reliable information
that Mr.. WITT was addicted to the
pleasures of the cup, and that, obedient
to natural laws, he had ripened into a
harmless and hopeless dotage. We did
not accuse Mr.. WITT of possessing a
dangerous appetite, nor charge on him
the unhappy consequences of age and
dissipation. We simply related that
such indictment was publicly made,
but falsely, we hoped. Neither Mr..
WITT nor any adherent Of his, whose
devotion is not a subject of barter and
sale, will censure THE TRIBUNE for it's
generous and manly treatment of po-
litical opponent. Had we been dis
posed to do Mr.. WITT an injury, or in
deed, to do him vigorous justice, we
would have published in detail the par
ticulars of the rumors against him and,
had we been hired censor, we would
have dwelled on them with vindictive
pleasure. But that is not the policy of
this paper. We hold every man inno-
cent until the proof of his guilt is mat
ter of absolute certainty. But the sti-
pendiary is neither as tender nor as
just towards it's chiefs weakness as we
were. Hired devotion is a treacherous
sentiment. The TRIBUNE did not &C.
cuse Mr.. WITT of impaired faculties,
but his sponsor assures us that his
memory has lost retentiveness and
that those things have passed from his
memory which most people retain with
ease and certainty. The TRIBUNE did
not even accuse Mr.. WITT of tipping,
but the I'ader gravely informs us that
the gentleman has not been helplessly
drunk in year, and, singularly, &C.
counts his intemperance rare vir-
tue which, in moderate form. renders
him unusually capable. If the Imde.r
had not, with more zeal than judgment.
rushed to the rescue of its employer be-
fore even a threatened danger con-
fronted him, Mr.. WITT might have
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-24
SOUND SENSE.
A Nampa correspondent in tn

A Nampa correspondent in the
Progress, says:
ton that Iuay some day be turning the wheels Of q
thousand spindles, notwithstanding Payette with
It's tons Of fruit and hops and Its magnificent do
nation, how can the people Of the Junction City
think Of supporting place at a distance when
there are places nearer.
We call that sound sense. That is
the whole proposition in nut shell so
far as effects the people of Nampa. Why
should they vote for any town other
than their own or the one most con-
veniently situated? This thing of put
ting up the county seat and selling it
off at auction to the highest bidder
looks to us like the rankest kind of
folly. Caldwell is located just right.
Her people have generously said to the
taxpayers, if they desire to continue
the county seat where it is, they may
have the court house free of cost.
Caldwell does not lay any particular
stress on it's sO-called donation. We
do not pretend that it ought to inhu-
ence single voter and, indeed, it will
not. What we claim is that, all things
considered, Caldwell is by far the best
place for the county seat.
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Realizing how little there is to be ex-
pected from the candor OF the public
mind, especially in the heat OF political
conflict, is it to be wondered at, that
there are so few outspoken and fearless
papers. We have in mind another pc
.uliarity in the composition OF men
which adds materially to the malodor-
Gus reputation of the press when it is
least at fault. There is class OF pre-
tcntious gentlemen who are afflicted
with an uncomfortable desire to mag
nify their own importance and inf1u
euce. One of their weaknesses is to
assume that they dictate the policy,
suggest the thoughts and, on occasion:
actually write the editorial views OF
the editor. Perhaps, there is nothing
vicious in the vanity of this gentry.
but the effect upon the paper is quite
as damnable as though vindictiveness
itself had prompted. THE TRIBUNE
has not suffered much frOrn this sort o.
plagiarism, but it has suffered; al
though, we shrewdly surmise that NJ
one will hastily or vaingloriously as,
sumo paternal relations to this article
We have listened carefully and with
out tinge of prejudice to the arraisn-
ment of the first judicial officer of the
third judicial district. The indictment
was presented by gentleman whose
integrity we are not at liberty to ques-
ton. The counts were many and couch
ed in vigorous terms. Uncontradicted
and unexplained they were sufficient
on which to find a verdict of guilty.
We have also examined into the deten-
sive side of the case, and we have lis
tened with impartial mind to testimony
in rebuttal. We have tried to weigh
the evidence for and against with care
and Justice. We have felt that not
only was the reputation of an. individ-
ual at stake, but, in large measure,
the public welfare was involved. At
ter due and careful consideration, we
are compelled by justice to emphatic
ally declare that, in our opinion, the in
dictment against Judge EDWARD NJ
GENT is not true bill. We do not be.
lieve that the vote of any man ought
to be influenced one way or the Other
on account of the presentment made
by Mr.. CATALAN.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-24
THE VERDICT.

One of the greatest difficulties which
q newspaper has to contend with these
days is growing suspicion in the
hearts of men that all papers are the
mere mouthpieces Of the communism
of pelf," or the chiefs of political par
ties. 1t is seldom, indeed, that paper
receives measurable credit for integ-
rity of expression, honesty of purpose
or independence of thought. We believe
that the Susceptibility of people in COM
mon to those questionable influences is
much at the root of their suspicious.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-24
TOO CUTE.

Now we don't believe anybody In Nampa Is SER
iously aggrieved. TRIBUNE.
Not at all. but the people of Nampa
are amused at the adrOitness OF THE
TRIBUNE in saddling the Caldwell
scheme onto the people of Nampa.-
Progress
That's too cunning friend Progress.
You know very well Nampa is playing
tricks with Middleton. You know
there are not dozen people in Nampa
who now would, or ever intended to,
vote for Middleton. You know that
Nampa is engaged with visions other
than railroad dreams. Looking far
a-field, beyond the curtain of futurity,
the Nampa man sees another scheme
of county division. In fancy. Orchard
county with its capitol at Nampa rises
up before him and lures him onward.
But we wont divulge any of the secrets
of the inner council. This hint suffices
to show that we understand some of
Nampa's projects irstrate and make
no mistake when we say pointedly that
Nampa, to considerable extent, is in
collision with Payette; that the propo-
stion is to keep Middleton in the field
80 as to detract as much as possible
from the natural support of Caldwell.
No doubt the Middleton people are
sincere. That is the trouble. We
never accused them of anything else.
We are sorry that we can't say the same
for Nampa. Now, we would not be
construed as attaching blame to Nam
pas movements. The county seat fight
is on and every community has per-
feet right to act in line with what seems
to be its best interests. We think
Nampa is making serious mistake
and we know Middleton is being
tricked. We can't correct the error in
Nampa's judgment but we can open
the eyes of Middleton to the true situa-
ton and Nampa will not blame US for
doing it. We know that Nampa is al
ready figuring on futures. The calcu-
lation designs the establishment of
Orchard county which is to include all
of the present county lying in the Boise
Valley and that portion of Ada county
south and west of Ten Mile creek.
That will include Roswell, Lower Boise,
Caldwell and Middleton and Nampa
will be the county seat. That's the
vision that fills the Nampa orb; that is
why Nampa is scheming to throw the
County seat to Payette. Cute isn't it?
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-24
GOOD NJ =N7 YES!

Are there no good men except those
on the Republican ticket? Most as
suredly there are! There is no better
man in the state of Idaho than JOHN
c. RICE. Democratic nominee for CON-
missioner of the first districss. He is
very young. it is true, but the world
long ago abandoned the idea that youth
is crime. Besides, Mr.. RICE is rem
edying that difficulty just as fast as he
can. Then there is WILLIAM e. Dun
BAR, Populist nominee for district
clerk. a man against whose moral worth
a breath of scandal was never breathed.
A good, honest man is WILLIAM Dun
BAR. There may be other frstrate
men on the Democratic and Popu!ist
tickets; we believe and hope there are.
Come to think about it, we know there
are. Instance Commodore r. J. HUFF
and Editor FRED &. Mock. N6w,
these, too, are good men and The THIB-
UNE is big and broad enough to frankly
and cheerfully acknowledge it. We
would hate to think that our Republican
candidates had nothing to contend with
put lot OF scrubs That would be a
libel on the intelligence and patriotism
OF the whole county. You ask, then;
why doesn't THE TRIBUNE support
those good men for election? Well.
Tor about the same reason that a good
Christian doesn't care to build Chi
nese pagoda. We don't believe quite
as they do. Their hope and desire for
is about the same as ours, but
their creed is all out of joint. It would
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-10-24
concealed and cowardly foes, or woule

concealed and cowardly foes, or would
it compel those foes to meet him in
open. honorable conflict? 1t is the IN
der that has done Mr.. WITT a notori-
Gus and irreparable injury, because it
has thrown about him a suspicion from
which the public mind can fairly draw
but one conclusion namely, that Mr..
WITT can not pass public inspection
without arousing public contempt
Hired devotion is a treacherous senti-
ment.
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NO OCCASION FOR ALARM.

cause the gentleman withdrew his pat
ronage from that paper. Possibly the
grounds upon which Mr.. CowDEN
acted are not excusable from a newspa-
per standpoint, but if they were suffi-
cient for Mr.. CowDEN he certainly
acted within the purview of personal
rights. Scarcely a day passes in The
TRIBUNE Office, or in the Office of any
fearless and outsp0ken newspaper,
but that some patron takes exception
to something said or contemplated and
withdraws his patronage. We con-
cede every patron an unquestionable
right to do so. Why, little more than
a year ago, the Central Lumber COM
pany withdrew their patronage from
this paper for precisely the same rea-
sons complained of by the Indec.
Having heard of the political inclina'
lions of the publisher, they did not
even wait to ascertain the policy of the
paper. Yet, our opinion of any men,
Der of the firm was not in the least af-
fected by that act. To have abused
them for it, would be ungenerous and
mean; to have complained, would be
childish. We believe that business
men are blind to their own interests
when they refuse to patronize paper
because it differs with them politically
or otherwise, if that is the only reason.
But we just as firmly believe that pub
fishers commit a blunder far more
egregious when they assume that news
papers have superior claim on the in
diligence and generosity of business
men. The attitude of country news
papers towards communities and other
business enterprises has too long been
that of supplicating beggars. Their
columns have been laden with pitiful
representations of their own poverty
and abject appeals to the bounty and
charity of the rest of the world. We
don't think any voter ought to be in
tluenced in the least on account of Mr..
COwDEN's business relations with the
Emmett I1ader or any other paper. If
an advertisement in the I1ader was
profitable to the Central Lumber COM
pany and Mr.. CowDEN took it out be-
cause the paper talked Populism, then,
in our judgment, Mr.. CowDEN exer-
cised poor business sense but that is
his affair. If the advertisement did
not pay, it would be the worst kind of
business sense to continue it. The In
dec also hopes to create sentiment
against Mr.. CowDEN because two
years ago, the gentleman, acting in the
capacity of legislator, opposed some
sort of printing bill. We do not
know what the bill was, and the Iaader
fails to tell us that it was a good bill.
If Mr.. CowDEN opposed printing, or
a painting, or a physicking bill whose
legal enactment was essential to the
peace and prosperity of the peo-
pie Of the state of Idaho. he displayed
a lack of craftsmanship inexcusable in
a candidate for reelection. But the
mere fact of opposing printing bill
will scarcely arouse the wrath and con-
demnation Of the state press. Mr..
CowDEN may be afflicted with grave
imperfections of character but if the
defects never manifest themselves in a
more malignant form than taking an
lad" out Of Populist paper or oppos-
ing dubious printing bill, the people
of Canyon county may continue to vote
for him without fear or trembling.
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We Have Money to Loan at 6 per Cent.

On Farm or city Property in any sec ton OF
country where property has y fixed market value
Money ready for immediate loans where security
and title is good. No Commission. We solicit
applications. Blanks furnished upon request.
ALLEN & CO., 70 - Broadway, New York
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I'VE, the democratic club of Elem.
ington, Marion county, duly assem-
bied, deem 1t expedient to give for
mai expression to convictions upon
questions OF public and party interest
therefore be it
Res0fvsd, That we reaffirm our faith
IN Democratic principles, obedience Ia
party law, order and decipline, and
enter our most earnest protest against
any deviation therefrom. We believe
the democratic party fully able and
competent 10 establish IFS reform
through the recognized channels oil
party organization and notify unwise
nflamm atoPy methods Of self ap-
pointment in the effort 10 array one
class of conference.-the citizens against
another. BE ii further
ReSoiUed, That we deem it to the
public good to establish a railroad
commission, a law just and fair both
TO the people aud the public carrier
that we firmly diselaim any desire TO
fas'en upon any enterprise, indivldu-
al or corporation, vicious aud sinister
legislation, or lend ourselves to meth
dds that tend TO tear down established
industries in order to build political
structure for any body of selfish men,
and that we are willing to trust the
democratic party in its aggregated
and organized wisdom to give us legis-
lation for our material good, co-opera-
tive and mutual. BE it further
Resolted, That we regard our pres
entelection law as a better and fairered-
ucational qualification than the Aus
tralian system, and we are opposed TO
any change unless it be as to dividing
representation upon the boards of in
spectors OF election. Be it further
R,s0tUed, That we favor the nomi-
nation of our candidates by the con-
vention plan, which, under the time
honored lwo-thirds rule, generally Sc
cures the best class of nominees and
avoids the bitterness usually epgen-
dered by the primary course
L. L. COOPER, President.
j. nj. MATTHEWS, Secretary.