The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-06-29
A Day AFTER THE FAIR

THE Examiner, as is usual with that redoubtabc
advocate OF an internal policy in the matter
OF the military excuses in the neighborhood OF
Waidner, Idaho, is day after the fair. In It's
issues OF Monday and Tuesday it devotes its front
page to the subject, which, in every conceivable
peer and with the anplest details OF fact, has been
thoroughly explained and is fully comprehended by
the people OF the United States
The attack upon property a. Wardner by number
OF dsafected miners supposed 10 be connected with
the Miners Union, occurred on April %, 1859 On
May ) The Call expressed the opinion that the law
should be indicated and the guilty rioters punished
the ground that, in the United States there but
one law for rich and poor alike. On May II under
the head OF Military Imperialism, The Call, adher
ing its Uniform position III favor OF equality before
The law expressed the popular indignation because,
under the pretext OF SURPRISING riotous demenstra
tons the Federal and the State constitutions, within
the district around Wardner in the county OF Sho-
shone. Idaho had been substantially trodden under
loot and practical illustration OF imperialism fur
nished within the limits OF an autonomous State 1t
further brought to the notice OF the authorities the
provisions OF the Federal constitution relating the
writ OF habeas corpus and while relieving the Wash
rgton administration from any possible completely in
the ntolerable despotism that had been temporarily
established in Idaho, demanded interference, 10
the greatest practicable extent ii order that the usual
conditions might be re-estabished and the supreI-
acy OF the ordinary law OF the State restored.
In these references The Call has no desire to
itself It simply performed is duty the public.
only in the expression OF opinion but in supplying
the news not single item OF which OF any mate
rality in spite OF the censorship OF press dispatches.
has failed TO reach its columns.
There is also reason to believe that the adminstra-
ton las performed its constitutional obligations that
the military situation has been gradually ameliorated
and that even the State authorities have been made
TO comprehend that there are limits they must not
pass.
After all this work has been done and these
suits achieved through independent and enterprs
ing press vOicng the true sentiments OF American
citizenship. the fossilized Examiner has discovered
that there are few questions be settled in the
neghborhood OF Wardner and has twice devoted its
first page TO rehash OF facts which every one has
known for weeks Indeed il is now probable that the
redress OF the grievances OF various that have
been so glazing in Idaho Tor nearly two months has
become part OF the internal policy OF the organ OF
Bourbonized fusion that has recently discovered the
LEGITIMACY OF the political abortion it produced last
year The ordinary reporters OF the press having
completely CLEANED the Idaho field and now simply
furnishing the fresh news OF each day, commits
soner has been dispatched who has succeeded, after
much labor in verifying the historical records con-
tanned in the columns OF The Call, and, it may be
added large part OF them original and exclusive.
The political influence OF the Examiner, il it ever
had any, about gone. It's relation 70 the world OF
rapidly accumulatng news seems to be also in process
OF dissolution