The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-03
rHE IDAHO STATE COMMITTEE
what Those Suppressed TcIcErams
Contained.


publican county convention Of this coun-
~ completed nominating the county and
legislative ticket today. The ticket IS
made up about equally between demo
Gratis and silver republicans. For the
legislature, John Bledsoe and Robert l..
Ford, democrats. and ID. ID. Williams and
E. V. Druly silver republicans. We're
nominated.
The nomination for state senator was
passed and referred to the county com
mittee. This was passed with u view TO
indorsing Ballentine, the democratic-pop-
ulist nominee for the same place. Ballen-
tine has been an open supporter OF the
silver republicans, and has demanded
that his party should give proper recogni-
ton to Senator Dubois and his assOci-
ates, and he will probably be indorsed
by the committee.
Chairman Patrie of the state commit
tee appointed the following advisory
board today, consisting of prominent
democrats throughout the state James
II. Hawley and Ralph Bledsoe of Boise.
II ID. Haight of Oakley, John NJ. Burke
OF Occur d Alene, w. {. COnnaugnton OF
Boise county, w. Il. Krutz Of Weiser,
John Il. Stearns of Nampa, a. o. Ingalls,
Of Murray l.. X. Walters of Pearl, Frank
w. Beane of lBackfoot, w. S. Hopson CT
Pocatello L. 9. Hattabaugh of Moscow,
Ed. Moffat of Wallace, Il. Donnelly OF
kootenai, o. Z. Johnson of Bliss, led.
Helfrich Of Mountain Home, Barry n.
billiard of Murray, S. W. Gallagher OF
Pocatello G. Fletcher of st. Anthony,
Thomas Elliott of Reedburg and William
Burke of American Falls
The correspondence given out today
shows that Chairman Butler. curing the
pCpulist state convention, was pleading
with the populist leaders to recognize sill
yer republicans and that all of his dis
patches were suppressed. In d letter
to Mr.. Ruick, late chairman Of the pop
ulist state committee dated September S,
1896, Chairman Butler referred TO Sena-
to1 Dubois as follows:
or course do not understand the local
conditions in your state, except as it has
been given to me in three or four letters
within the last few weeks. But l do
know the prominent, active and import
ant part played by Senator Dubois in the
senate last spring in preventing the pass
| age of the tariff bill unless a free coin
age bill could be passed at the same time.
lie was the active force in organizing
the revolt against the mandates of the
republican senatorial caucus. The action
was bold snd Of the greatest Importance.
Probably no one thing has done more
TO force the financial question to the front
and to cause a cleavage in the republl-
can party on that issue.
HIS was also the most active man in
organizing and planning the bolt from
the republican convention. In fact, his
bold stand in these matters has so com
mended him to the peoples party and 10
! silver men generally all over the coun-
| try that feel that 1 should say to you
| that the general sentiment, as l get it
from our peoples party in every state
is that he and his friends ought to be
recognized by the peoples party in max
ing cooperative fight in your state
! this year.
| In the same letter Chairman Butler Ie-
| ferred to the evil effect the exclusion OF
! silver republicans in Idaho was having
| on other states, as follows:
| 1T is no doubt true. you say, that
there is no danger Of your combination
! ticket being defeated in Idaho, whether
| the Silver republicans are recognized q
not yet 1 must say to you frankly thai
l can not feel, from the information thai
we have, that it is right to ignore them
Besides, this action on your part is haV.
! ing a bad effect on other states where the
cooperation of silver republicans is alb
solutely necessary to insure the success.
| of the ticket"