The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
Conversation Overheard.

NC loiloWlnS conversation be- |
tween two farmers that came from
Iowa III 1894 and settled in the
Snake river valley, was overheard
by friend of theirs from Iowa
making a visit and seeing the
country.
A neighbor, Bill Jackson, comes
over to George Aliens house. Bill
says, "How do you do, George"
George replies pretty well' and
says, II come to see if you could
help me thresh my oats, say after
tomorrow
Bill says 81 am crowded in pick
ing my fruit but will have to man
age to help you anyway" Bill
says, 'Have you sold your oats?'
George replied: 81 have contract
ed them at $1.25 per hundred. "
Same price sold mine for" says
Bill, 'and they averaged 65 bush
els per acre machine measure and
weighed out 40 pounds to the
bushel. l tell you, George, we
certainly hit it by comm to Idaho. -
George says II haven't saw you
since we heard that Senator Hey
burn talk. Bill says eve have
heard Senator Heyburn and Dubois
make speech, and if l amt agit-
tin little suspicious that both Of
us has been gol darned fools in the
past in follering that Senator Dn-
bois.
He has got something new all
the time, and we have bin believ-
in in him. You know, George,
we always voted the Republican
ticket in Iowa, but when Dubois
bolted that National Convention in
St. Louis on the silver question we
jist follered him and bin adoin SO
all the time since. l tell you,
George, that Dubois is slick chap
guess nothing real bad about him
but is wantin' to jist keep in Office
all the time, and have us fellers jis
change whenever it suits him
When he bolted that Republican
Convention in St. Louis we jist al
took off our hats and hollered TO
him. His silver ideas have pannet
! out that he didn't know what h
was a talkin about, but he got t.
be senator by it agin and l be go
i darned l am jist a comm to believ
e he is maxim play to be senate
: agin. In him sayin' no issue il
6 this lection but the Mormon ques
ton I was a little suspicious whe
l first heard that he was agin tn
Mormons for he was always befor
:, havin' them with him.
!, "Well, Bill, have bin think
y in over these politics myself. Bi
:. hearin the speakers of Duboi
il party and the Republican speaker
II When I heard that Senator He,
burn prove we had been a votil
agin our interests by staying
lie with Dubois on free silver al
# maxim us Democrats. That Sen
: tor Heyburn's speech proved
> the past our mistakes. Bin a VIC
l. in agin our own interests all Il
Id time and didn't know it. +
N showed the Republican party w
the reason we are gettin' mllllo
of dollars spent in Idaho on go
Il eminent irrigation. The Dem
ne crates are now for gold standa
ad same as the Republicans.
adj GAS to this tariff question, it i
;, darn hard thing for me to jist I
" derstand, but one thing sure Bl
at we haven't lived fifty years a
to not know every time the Democr
nd ic party got in power and co
menced to lower the tariff we
into hard times. This ought to
ur enough argument for us.
ey "Now, as to this imperialism
al? don't know a single Teller "
he wants to have a king and TO
-, family, so that question is OF
concern to us.
a. "But Senator Dubois seems to
alo a maxim big thing out OF
ne Mormon talk jist like he did
her silver. was like you, Bill
thought Mormons was always
Dubois. There was a niger
les the wood-pile somewhere and ]
the COL darned if I don't begin to tn
sed that there isn't anything in
r+v Democratic party after all, and
Senator Dubois knows it
oe That's why he is maxim high.
ear Mormonism a thinkin' fellers
was us will not see he is agin tryin
and be 'lected senator. Oh, he
,,rd slick Teller. If the Mormon POI
are so bad seems Senator Du
i'aA ought to knowed it long time
we're I tell you, Bill, we are tryin' t
me. fooled once more.
to ''Well, George, | am glad
have talked so freely. have