The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1904-09-02
FOR DEMOCRATIC VOTERS.

your nOuSe lOI tiC Pun POo rs
stroying the peace, quiet, harmony
and prosperity of your household,
you would be justified in opposing
him with all the strength at your
command, and the fact that he
should actually gain an entrance
and should begin to carry his pur-
poses into effect, would not be
deemed reason whereby all efforts
on your part to dislodge himshould
be discontinued.
Much greater then would beyour
justification should your old enc
my, who had opposed and fought
you for years, coming with plead
ings of forgiveness, confessing bis
wrongs and asking your friendship
and support, be taken into your
household and elevated to the
highest seat of honor, and should
then Immediately set about with
false pretenses and designs and
misrepresentation, to disrupt the
household which had received him
and to lead estray members of the
family to their detriment and your
own, much greater then would be
your justification for fighting him
even to the death.
This is the identical position the
democratic party is now in. Sen
ator Fred T. Dubois, the ancient
enemy Of the party, who has
fought it down to defeat when he
wore the garb of the opposition
and who never found a word OF
praise for it until such time as he
wanted to use it for his personal
gain, came to the party with con
fessions Of his wrongs in the past,
and with promises of good for the
future, begged to be taken into the
party. Contrary to the best judg-
ment Of many he was not only re-
ceived on his pretensions and
promises, but was at once reward.
ed with the best place the party
has in its power to bestow.
No sooner had he been received
than he began to conspire and tc
devise means whereby he might
lead astray large numbers of the
members of the party. The frs
year he was received, in spite O
the fact that the party machiner,
was in the control of reliable dem
ocrats of years devotion to the par
ty and in whom the people hac
confidence, the opposing party wa:
raised from a minority party o
over ten thousand two years pre-.
vious to only two thousand tina
year. Then after the party wo1
by this narrow margin and Dubois
had been elected United State,
senator, he again applied his de
signs against the party and wo,
the head official of the state from
the friendship of the men VIII,
placed him there, and caused hin
t. place in positions of trust ane
honor, those close to Mr.. Duboi
himself, with the result that til,
administration was filled with scan
ial and dissension and at the mex
election, still manipulated by Du-
ools, was defeated by over 7, 900.
Not satisfied wi Ii leading tn,
party from a ten thousand major
lty to seven thousand minority il
the short space of two years, he i
now determined upon driving from
the party the sympathies and vote
Of more than twenty thousand O
the inhabitants of the state. Tbi
he succeeded in doing by deceptio,
and deceit or some other means a
the recent convention at Lewisto,
IN spite OF the fact that a respect
bile majority of the conventio,
had said that they did not wish t
iirther experiment with his dan
gerous and undemocratic doctrines
BY personal leas and blandish
ments and BY promises of poss bl
ofhcial appointments he induced
sufficient number of misgu de,
members OF the party to revers
thei own cool judgments and I,
'd'pt his policy of disrupting til
party for the sake of venting hi