Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-02-04
Making the Senator.


tor has been given to the world. What
was intimated In my last as T. possibil-
ity Is an accomplished fact. Those
forces that quietly aud effectively com
bined on the Goth ult, and of which
your correspondent seems to have been
the Onl v one allowed to obtain inside
Information, so natured their strength
as to compel Mr. Heitfeld's name to be
brought before the legislature in such
u manner that his election was ne
cessity. The democratic contingent
positively refused to consider Clagett's
name and the pOpulists would not ac-
cept candidate whose name the dem
Ocrats were the first To- suggest. While
this condition Of affairs continued Du-
bols. with his great array of foreign
and domestic strikers, was Orking as
siduously to spread disaffection among
the democrats. That the lab"rs of the
DubOisites We're fruitful was shown by
the final vote when Hayes, Clauson,
Bassett and Ballentine voted for the
boss hotter. Early IN the week Clauson
and Bassett united with many other
democrats In II Telegram to National
Chairman Jones, telling that gentle
man to mind his own business and re-
affirming their loyalty to the demo.
pOp ukICCluCul uuut lu5L SuIItIIltt NII .
Rasse!t aud Mr.. Hayes, before election,
signed u written pledge that they would
never vote for Dubois. Mr.. Bullentine
signed and circulated all over his
county a pledge that IL elected he
would vote first, last and all the time
for u populist for United States sena-
tor. The fact that these gentlemen
had determined to violate their pledges
and disregard their Oft-repeated ex-
;,ressions Of fealty to the fusion COM
pact was well known to those who
were most anxious to defeat Dubois.
1t was equally well known tc them
that such friction had been generated
among the populists that il IA few dem
ocrats took the lead in "A movement to-
ward Dubois enough pops would fol-
low to insure his return to the senate
On Monday and Tuesday futile at
tenlpts were made to get the friends of
Clagett to show up in sufficient num-
. hers, but 81 votes were all he could
muster and there were rumOrs Tues
day evening that the populists were
practically disorganized. Then the
opportunity for the coup d'etat nre-
scented itself and after IL long and bitter
caucus contest the pOpulists consented
to permit Heitfeld't name to be
brought out IA the choice of the caucus
SOME few democrats were informed in
the premises but they were too few to
control their caucus for the Wednes-
day ballot. The name was II new one
to the world and 1t was feared that the
Pops wouldn't stay with 1t. When,
however, the subject was discussed in
their caucus Wednesday night the ex-
IRENE gravity of their situation was
splf.e vident to those democrats who
desired to keep faith with their poltl-
cal bed-fellOws, and Us a result notice
WAS officially sent to the pOpulist eau.
Gus that the democrats would on the
next day, Thursday. support Heitfeld
II he were supported by the Pops. The
matter was settled by the latter in u
moment, all Pops being satisfied ex-
cept Mitchell, of l.emhi, Bryan, of
Ada, Randolph, Of l.atah and JONES,
Of Gilmore. These four walked out of
the caucus refusing to be bound ~ its
action. Before morning the party lash
was piled so effectively that JONES aud
Mitchell were forced INTO the harness
while Bryan and Randolph had al
lowed themselves to be hitched up
with the team On the understanding
that they would not baIk If their
strength should be needed on the final
pull.
TRYING MOMENTS.
TO al outsider the herculean efforts
Of the democratic leaders on Wednes-
day to hold their men IN line would
have been amusing had not their fear
Of disaster been 40 plainly depicted In
their faces a. to preclude any other
feeling than that Of sorrow aud com.
miseration. For once there was unity
Of action among democratic bosses In
the legislature, but such was the di-
vision which Dubois had created
among them that 1t was very late in
the day before eleven of them could be
brought around to n positive agree
u,ent to vote for Heitfeld. Democrats
who have not known for years what
Precipitation IL, went about with great
drops Of sweat dripping from their
faces. They felt that II Thursday did
not see the election of u pOpulist, then
blasted aud their arch enemy triumph.
ant. They had dallied with the pOpu>
list Delilah until their strength was al
inOat gone. The conviction was upon
aonle ii them that their paramOur had
heen cOnspiripg with the Philistines,
umd they feared that the ''lords Of the
phllistlnes had come up unto her, and
brought money in their hand" They
had lOst certain locks Of halr, but
enough remained to overcome the king
nf the Philistines aud today he il hum
hletl The escape was narrow one
While Nabal Jones remained In Wash
ington, Abigail Walsh came to Idaho
and almost made peace with the DEM
ocratic David here. In fact, when Ma
hsi seemed dead, after the Telegram,
that was sent by David. defying him.
Abigail came very near consummating
marriage with the David who was
ready to forget his first love, the pop
ulistic Michael.
The lamentations of the Duboisites
are something awful to hear. Accord
ing t0 them the end 1T all that is good
had been reached and the casting
down Of their Idol marks the begin.
ming Of an era Of misfortune to the
American people that will In all prob
ability he un-ending. To republicans
the result Is entirely satisfactory, the
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