Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-02-28
Tough on Steunie.

We clip the following editorial from
"a from an article headed Looks Like |
Jobbing," in which the writer quotes
from an article written by Chas. Leary
and printed i'll the Freeman's Labor
Journal of Spokane, of recent date. The
Tribune says:
at brings out in bold relief some
strong points, but is mainly significant as
disclosing political trend respecting
which nothing is known III this section
of Idaho. Mr.. Leary says that more than
5000 labor votes are in arms against
Governor Steunenberg' and that in the
next campaign the real struggle will be
between the republican party and the
Labor party. While we suspect that Mr..
Leary has exaggerated the situation, yet
those who are most familiar with condi-
tions in North Idaho confess that the La
Dor party there is a powerful factor.
That it will solidly oppose Steunenberg
and the democratic party there can be
no question. That this fact has mater
ially softened Steunenberg towards the
Mornons is scarcely to be doubted, Mr.
Leary also brings ont another point
| which should not escape attention. He
says that Steunenberg talked himself
| red, black and green in the face over the
ruthless way Grover Cleveland sent the
soldiers of the federal army into a sover-
egn state to murder poor workingmen
trainpling the great constitution in the
dust Well, he went into the trampling
business himself in the Occur d. Alenes.'
| That is a correct statement of the case.
Further, MIR. Leary says, "be tSteunen-
berg) has extended the infamous permit
| system SO as to include men who
| own their own claims, and thus drove
| voters from the state" In the last month
or six weeks there have been constant
rumors and many direct assertions that
Governor Steunenberg was using the per
NIT system to drive his political oppo
nents out of the state, and it begins Il
look as though there was at the bottom
some considerable truth. Now, the Trib
une wants it distinctly understood tina
it holds no sympathy with the crimina
element III the Miners union or else
where. Every man who went to tn,
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mills with in
tent to destroy property should have beef
punished; but that crime is no justifica
ton for an equally monstrous one. w
have from the first suspected the SO
called permit system, which, in word
makes it impossible for any workingma
to exist in Shoshone county without tn
consent of Governor Steunenberg. W
understand that a workingman is nc
even allowed to ask for work unless h
gets permission from Steuneuberg. W
can not see the necessity or justihcatio
for that kind of thing, and we do not b'
lieve il is altogether an honest propos
ltion, coming, as it does, from man, VIII
il is said, promised in 1896 to disban
the state militia of Shoshone county.
the inception OF Governor Steunenberg
movement to crush out the Occur d'Aler
gang of dynamiters, we heartily a
plauded his sudden and unexpected a
tachment to law and order. But the W;
in which things have since draggt
along, the shameful failure of the sta
authorities in the matter OF securing co
yictions, the broad intiination that Il
mine owners were putting up vast sur
of money, the establishment of a perm
system, the flimsy excuse for it, all Il
business from beginning to end, contiri
in us deep suspicion that there Is mo
iobbing than anything else in connecii'
with the Occur d'Alene affair.