The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-11-04

The Panhandle News in it's last is
sue. is wilder than ever in it's charges
of corporation influence over the Re-
publican party in this county, and
some of it's statements are so ridicul-
GUS and so absolutely false that one
is inclined to doubt the sincerity or
the sanity of the esteemed editor of
that great paper. AS, for instance, he
calls the attention of the people to
what he is pleased to call the great
Hoffman Primary fight" in which he
says that every lumber corporation
and interest in the county fought on
the side of Chas l.. Hoffman. If Mr..
Logue does not know the facts about
this primary fight, he ought to know
them before making such rash state
ments If he does know the facts,
then he is deliberately trying TO de-
ceive the voters of the county. 1t
is well-known fact that during that
primary fight. letters were sent from
the outside to the lumber men OF this
county urging them to work and fight
against Chas. L. Hoffman and his
friends. Mr.. Logue knows that this
was done, because prominent Demo
Gratis in his town were aware of this
and so advised Mr.. Hoffman and his
friends. Let us see, for Instance, who
fought Mr. Hoffman in this primary
fight. The lumber corporations at
Harrison were against him; H. M
Strathern's big mill at Post Falls was
against him; the B. r. Lewis Com
pany and the Occur d'Alene Lumber
Company at Occur d'Alene were
against him, and the only lumber COM
pany which kept its hands out Of the
fight was the Humbird Lumber Com
pany of Standpoint. This company, be-
/ cause Mr.. Hoffman was it's attorney,
refused TO take hand in the fight at
all. Mr.. Logue knows that the result
of those primaries was overwhelming
ly in Mr. Heitman's favor, and tnat his
great strength came, not from the
towns, but from the country precincts,
where the lumber companies had no
influence, but where honest farmers
were in the large majority.
He also talks about the activity of
the lumber corporations and big tim
Der holders in the Republican county
convention, and says that they fought
for and secured the nomination of War
rem Flint for Assessor, and charges
that he is friendly to the lumber
gang" There is no proof that War
rem Flint was the nominee of the lum-
Der corporations. His name was pre-
sented by the Harrison delegation
where he resides, Mr.. Flint was
not the candidate of Mr.. Hoffman and
his friends in that convention. Every
oodv knows that the influence OF the
Rathdrum delegation and of the dele
cations working most closely with the
Rathdrum delegation, supported d. r
Adams of Rathdrum for that position
md he was defeated by Mr.. Flint by
the narrow majority of two votes.
Mr. Logue's assertion that the Re
publican convention was dominated b!
the lumber corporations, viewed from
the actual facts, is a statement alb
surd to imbecility.
Mr.. A. A. Sage, of Athol, whom Mr.
Logue calls the calf raiser of Athol,
and who, he says, for that reason il
not competent to go to Boise to MAKE
laws for the people, is a rancher by oc
cupation. He raises COWS and ais
} calves. Mr.. Sage was the candidate
in that convention of Mr.. Hoffman an,
his friends. His name was placed be
fore the caucus and before the con
vention by Mr.. Hoffman himself, VIII
advocated his nomination as a suitabl
3 man to represent the farming interest
of the county. The opponents of MI
Hoffman in that convention, placed il
nomination in opposition to Mr.. Sage
the president of lumber corporation
3 doing business at Harrison. This Re
2 publican convention which Mr.. Logu
4 says was dominated by lumber cor
porations, nominated Mr.. Sage, tn
rancher, over Mr.. Connelley, the pres
dent of the lumber corporation, by
! vote of at least four TO one. Does thi
look as if the Republican conventio
was dominated by the corporations
Again, Mr. Geo. o. Dart, of Pos
Falls, was supported by Mr.. Heitma
and his friends as their candidate fc
County Commissioner in that CONVEX
ton Before the convention met. tn
D opponents of Mr. Hoffman advocate
The candidacy of H. M. Strathern, tn
big mill and corporation man OF Pos
Falls. This fight was settled in III