The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1896-12-19
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COMMENT OF THE PRESS.

Idaho will have q Pop in the United
States senate and pop Gum in the
lower house. The pop-Gunn is better
fitted for justice of the peace at the
north pole than he is to represent the
fair minded and progressive people Of
Idaho, in eongress.-Shoshone Journal.
The newly elected congressman OF In
diana have been bothered so much with
petitions from local politicians who aided
in their election, that they have decided
that when = vacancy occurs in the post
office they will have the citizens of that
place select the postmaster by popular
vote. This is the correct idea. The
people of town or precinct who have
their mails handed out to them or thrown
in the waste basket at the will OF the
postmaster, should have something to
say about who serves them.-Salubria
Citizen.
Among the decisions recently rem
dered By the United States supreme
court was one OF particular interest to
states within whose boundaries are 10.
Gated Indian reservations. The supreme
court holds that the state has jurisdic-
ton OF crimes committed on these re-
serves by persons other than Indians.
1t is altogether likely this decision will
throw a number of cases OF different de-
grses OF Importance that have been here
tofore heard in the federal courts into
the states. The jurisdiction is one the
average state has not been DESTROYS of
securing, and which it will not be at all
zealons in neutrality-suspicious. States
man.
May suffering public pardon rs for
mentioning it, but it does seem to take
the gold press a long time t.. kill off and
bottle up this silver agitation. 1t is hard
er than killinga rebel In Cuba. The in
fernal thing, like an impudent marion.
cite, will bob mp at the most inopportune
time, tho we understand it was deep, deep
under the ground long before election
time. Here's the Lewiston Teller.
Grangeville Republican, Idaho Register
and others, all drawing their substance
from Hanna's golden pumpkin vine,
still whacking away at it. giving it biff
here and bang there, but however hard
they strike with their golden bludgeons,
Truth will rise in grander majesty and
with irmer Purpose.-Nez Perce News.
Great promises we're made to the PEG.
pie by the peoples democratic party
| about the economies they would intro
| duee If their candidates we're elected.
The salaries OF county officers, they PROM
ised to reduce about one-haIi; the indi-
gent list they promised to put on a pay
/ ing basis, and reforms withou. end, they
promised to introduce. The Enterprise
hopes that all these promises will be
conscientiously kept and that the result
will be mighty reduction in taxes.
We confess our inability to see how off.
! GERS salaries can lie materially reduced.
because the compensation 10 mostly
fixed by the constitution and legislature.
and does not come under the manage
meHt OF the county administration. But
as promises Of reduction were repea :edly
made, it is only fair 20 presume that they
will De strictly kept.-Malad Enterprise.
Senator Dubois has resigned bis
place as a member OF the senate rrpubli.
can steering CO mmittse. He has done
likewise as to his position as secretary
Of the republican senatorial caucus.
None Of the silver republican senators
accepted the invitation TO attend the
republican caucus. II is evident that
they intend to act entirely independent
in the future. This includes Dubois.
Teller, Mantle, Cannon, Pettigrsw and
Squire. Their action is communicable
in the eyes Of all true silver people.
ldahoAns will nItice that while SEN
ator Dubois is calamity upholdinz the
Silver banner at the nations capital
Senator Shoup is devoting his energies
toward looking after spoils, having gone
down 10 Washington with trunks full Of
applications for office. Behold the spec.
iAcls Can Idaho afford to turn Dubois
down? IL would hardly seem 30 under
the eircu mstances.-kOOtenai Herald.