The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-02-27
A FEW CATHODE RAYS. IT

exhales from its long used rendezvous
at the capital, and its decision to hole
the committee meeting at Weiser, il
conformity with this plan, has brought
our esteemed contemporary, the Daily
Statesman, down from its analyses oil
the ultimate results of the Siberian
railway and scientific researches on
the effects Of canal construction in
Mars, TO the entertainment OF the
fact that grave political dangers are
piling up around its very door Read
The calling Of the republican committee
meeting at Weiser will be something of a
surprise. II is an unimportant matter.
however, and so will be the determination
respecting where the conventions Shall be
held, excepting as the manipulation char
acterizng the decision of the questions
shall Indicate the character of politics
that is to prevail.
This initial move is small and If it in
dicates that we are to have small politics
1t becomes matter Of general interest.
III we are to witness an attempt on The
part OF any person or any faction to con-
troll the party and to carry out small per-
sonal purposes; il there is to be bossism
from the calling OF the committee meeting
TO the casting of the votes. the people want
TO know ii; and they will not be slow TO
detect it,
The republican party is too big for a
boss, and it will not have anything Of the
Kind. The republican voters expect the
party management to be conducted on
broad gauge principles. In fixing the
place Tor the convention there can be only
one legitimate consideratlon-the conven-
lence OF the delegates. II other consider
atlons are TO govern, it will be understood
that the party is not on high plane, and
that Il series OF moves are to be expected
intended to subordinate party interests to
personal aims.
or course it would be comparatively
easy matter TO take control of the party
machinery for wrong purposes, but il
would be another To satisfy the voters
that they should be dictated to in any
such manner. Party bonds sit lightly on
the shoulders of "A multitude of voters:
and, IL unwarranted dictation were at
tempted. those voters would lust rs lief
smashing From beginning to end they
want no small politics, and they will make
themselves heard in no uncertain manner
II machine management be undertaken.
Washington county has so long
been the "pull- chain" of those fell
lows that the rare phenomenon of the
party organization having found an
an available town on the main line of
the railroad, good hotel accommodate
tons and centrally located between
both ends of the state, but at least
eighty miles from Boise, in which to
hold its meeting, is thing so wild,
strange and startling as to excite the
most serious alarm for the continued
sanctity of the party gods which have
dwelt so long in the quiet and holy
precincts of Amounted Boise, conse-
Grated and guarded by the high
priests. This becomes the more
grave when we consider that the com
mlttee cannot battle after its political
work.
The Statesman has Travelled
From out its labour and pain is
oorn-the above. Its homily is
powerful Roentgen ray translucing
its own skin and flesh and LAYING
bare to the world all the delicate
tbres, nerves and vessels of its soul
Fhe skeleton in its closet is clearly
photographed through the walls of
hypocrisy. 1t breads this breaking
away by the sacriligious element, not
so much for this itself, but for the
direful things it portends as likely to
follow in the same line. 1t also
fears the spotless vestments, with
which Boise politicians have kept the
party organization clothed. will be
detiled if once removed from their
tender care mot to speak of A. p. A.
Irimmings). The virginia. raiments,
which have been the pride and glory
81 the capital city pillars of the party,
Ihe Statesman fears will be stat ned
md debauched by bosses, political
hugs and bunco steerers if this kid
mapping and carrying into the wilds
of the surrounding country, beyond
he pale of their protection, once
axes place. The laymen and hay
seeds of the balance of the state will
become the innocent prey of all man
Ter of cunning demons if they do not
gather beneath the wing of the hon
'st, wise, Doodle hating, intrigue
iespising, political-purity- upholding
politicians who abideth where the
Vat, the hotels, the Statesman and
ther things are.
The discovery of Weiser by the
central Committee you will observe,
y carefully reading the Statesmans
'ibroch, is dead sure sign of s'small
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