The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1903-03-28

oOHoolIHeS ny WulCu uller lHCOmpc
tents are whirled into little briet
: prominence and authority. 1t wa
disappointing not to say disgusting
J to the average citizen regardless O.
} politics and especially to the republi
cans whose political future to large
extent so far as Idaho is concerned
it held in the hollow of it's hand.
1t was delivered body and soul by
Jenkins in the house and O'Neil in
the senate to the capatalistic an6
monopohstic influences in the state.
This spirit was shown from the out
set by turning down the champion of
the republican masses, whose genus
and eloquence breathed into the dead
and disintegrating corse, the republi-
can party of Idaho, the spirit of life,
and brought once more energy and
power from the valley where the dry
bones lay untombed and bleaching in
the sun, and putting a corporation
lawyer in the United States senate.
at the bidding of the corporations
here and elsewhere. 1t is an open
secret here that Borah was beaten at
the behest of the corporations and
the mastery inactivity, if not the
positive hostility, Of Governor Nor
rlson, who owes his nomination very
largely to the efforts of Mr.. Borah in
his behalf, and who welded against
him, so it is said, the Joab blade
most effectively at a very critical
time in the contest.
1t was shown all through the ses-
sion. Whenever the interests of the
laborlng masses or the people in
general stood opposed to those of
corporate greed, the trust-riddep.
corporation loving legislature welded
by Jenkins and O'Neil, true to the
instinct of modern republicanism
stood in with the monoplies and turn
ed down the people.
The puerile plea of the party organ
IN this city that the people should
not hold the republican party respon-
slble for the acts of the slipperv
seventh, is ridiculed all over the state
The organs logic has slipped an &C.
centric 1t looks to a man up tree
That II the party is to receive honor
Tor all the good acts of the legisla.
ture, 1t should receive censure for its
BAD acts, only in this instance if is
not unlike the boys essay on Snakes
IN Ireland, " who said by wav of
preliminary that ''There wasn't No
snakes IN Ireland" and the good acts
Oh the seventh, why, it requires the
ald OF a powerful microscope to find
Them.
The organs position is like that Of
he hunter who wanted to shoot Of
certain animal so as to hit it if it was
deer and miss it if it was a calf. II
wants the party to be praised if the
ct of the legislature is good and to
'e relieved of all responsibility m
ase the act is unpopular.
NO one can successfully deny that
lie democrats gave the people a good :
economical administration. Trne :
mere were some deficiencies, but thew :
segregated less than forty thousand :
ollars' and were no particular dis. :
redlt to the administration Evoru ;
ear tne republicans were in power :
ldaho, they ran $4,000 behind +:
ieir appropriations and that without :
'oo cause. The total deficiencies :
the democratic administration for I:
70 years is less than half of what !:
e republicans squandered in excess !:
lneir appropriations in one wear I:
no IL should not be forgotten that I:
e democrats turned a round million !:
mars into the treasury at the close :
'neir Term. What will the re. :
loilcans do with this patrimony? :,
AT time when careful economv :
ould characterize party admins. +:
''lon The republican legislature :
We increased the salaries of state (:
icers 81, 600 per term. They have +:
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