The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1904-02-27

the committee appointed a sub-com-
4. mittee to bear the olive branch to
Mr.. Cobb of the Boise Statesman.
He represents the State Committee
as painfully anxious to find out
what allied Cobb, and hopeful OF
discovering remedy. 1t is some
what remarkable that the State
Committee should have been in ig-
norance of Mr.. Cobb's malady, as,
outside of the Committee, there
was probably not a moderately in
formed man in the State who did
not know exactly what was the
matter of Cobb. Indeed Cobb had
been industriously proclaiming his
disorder and the cause of it for
some months before the State Com
mittee met. We cannot, therefore,
understand how the State Commit
tee could know that anything was
wrong with Cobb without knowing
what it was and why it was. To
the outside world, it looked very
much as though the State Commit
tee wanted to apologize to Mr..
Cobb for going against his wishes
in the matter of Woolley's appoint
ment, and that Mr.. Cobb would
not listen to an apology until he
had first reduced the committee to
satisfactory state of humility.
Mr.. Thompson thinks that the
appointment of the olive branch
committee was a wise and polite
move. 1t certainly was if the COM
mittee felt that it owed Mr.. Cobb
an apology and earnestly desired
forgiveness. But if the committee
lad an inward consciousness of
having done no wrong, why should
it seek to conciliate man who had
attacked and abused it with the ut
most vindictiveness? The fact of
the matter is, the State committee,
after expressing by resolution con-
demnation of the Statesman, be-
came alarmed at its own temerity, !
and sought to discover some means
by which Mr.. Cobb could be in
duced to swallow the rebuke with
out gagging too much. Mr.. Cobb
not only refused to take his medi-
cine but handed back to the COM
mittee hot number.
In our judgment the appoint
ment of the olive branch committee
was entirely inconsistent and alb
surd. The State committee put it.
self in ridiculous attitude when it
assumed not to know the cause of
MIR. Cobb's disaffection. Every
body else knew, and so did the
committee, then what purpose was
there in playing ignorance? Mr..
Thompson says the committee
wanted official knowledge. Pooh!
SEST.
The committee had already taken
official notice of Mr.. Cobb and con-
demned him.
The State committee did exactly
the right thing when it endorsed
Senator Hepburn and Congressman
French for upholding its recon-
for Federal appoint
nent. Everybody knew what that
meant. 1t was an emphatic, dig
1ltled and justified condemnation of
he contemplate fight which the
statesman had made on Messrs,
"oolley, Hepburn, French, Stand .
cd and Cooling. It expressed ,
he sentiment of the Republican ,
'arty of the State. 1t said everv- ,
ming that needed to be said. But
when the State committee crawled =
IN its belly to conciliate Mr.. Cobb :
mlsrepresented and insulted the ,
Republicans of Idaho. =
In closing, Mr.. Thompson init
mates that the Statesman has nm -
'ertaken to discipline the Repubu- :
an organization. 1t has. It al q
Ways has, and has always succeed.
d. Not only that, but every Re- 9,
uhllcan State administration with Sc
he possible exception of McCon- g g
ellis has lived in daily fear and 4
of the Statesman. It is Z