The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1904-11-04
CORPORATION INFLUENCE.
Republican Candidates Not
Dominated By 1t.
CHARGES ARE FALSE.
Statements Of Opposition Are
Misleading.

The Panhandle News, in its last
Issue, Is wider than ever in Its
charges of corporation influence over
the republican party In this county,
and some Of its statements are SO
ridiculous and so absolutely false that
one is inclined to doubt the sincerely
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 Aght'', In which he
says that every lumber corporation
and interest in the county fought on
the side Of Chas. l.. Heitman. Ii
Mr.. Logne does not know the facts
about this primary fight, he ought to
know them before making such rash
statements. II he does know the
facts, then he is deliberately trying
to deceive the voters of the County.
1t Is a 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.. Heitman
and his friends. Mr.. I.ogue knows
that this was done, because prOmi-
| nent democrats in this town were
| aware Of this aud so advised Mr..
Heitman and his friends. Let us see
for instance, who fought Mr.. Helt-
man in this primary fight. The
lumber corporations at Harrison,
Idaho we're against him; ii. M. Stra-
thern's big mill at Post Falls was
against him; the b. r. Lewis CON-
papy and the Occur d'Alene Lumber
company at Occur d'Alene were
against him; the Bonners Ferry Lum-
Der company was against him, and
the only lumber company which kept
its hands out of the fight was the
Humbird Lumber company Of Sand
point. This company, because Mr..
! Heitman was its attorney, refused to
take hand in the fight at all. Mr..
Logue knows that the result of those
primiries was overwhelmingly In Mr..
Heltman's favor, and that his great
strength came, not from the towns,
but from the country precincts, where
the lumber companies had no in
huence, but where honest farmers
were in the large majority.
lie also talks about the activity OF
the lumber corporations and big tim
ber holders 10 the republican county
convention and says they fought fol
and secured the nomination Of War
ren Flint for assessor and charges
that he Is friendly to the ''lumbel
gang" There is 40 proof that War
: rem Flint was the nominee of the lum
ber corporations. His name wa
7 presented by the delegation from
Harrison, where he resides, the towl
where Judge Morgan resides, an(
y where Mr.. Logue's present friend
!. County Attorney Wilson, resides. Mr.
Flint was not the candidate Of Mr.
V Heitman and his friends In that con
. venton. Everybody knows that th
inhunce of the RaLhdrum delegation
y and OF the deleg ations working mos
closely with the Rathdrum delegation
supported d. r. Adams of Rathdrur
for that position, and he was dcfeate'
by Mr.. Flint by the narrow majorit
II Of two votes.
e Mr.. Logue's assertion that the re
d publican convention was dominate
e by the lumber corporations, yiewe'
o from the actual facts, is a statemen
'e absurd to imbecilIty.
'e Mr. A. A. Sage, OF Athol, whom N
T. Logua calls the 'calf raiser of AthOl
le and who, he says, for that reason
re not competent to 60 to Boise to max
laws for the people, Is rancher b
occupation. He raises COWS and ais
DR. calves. Mr.. Sage was the candidal
er 10 that convention of Mr.. Heitma
"a and his friends. His name was. pla,
Ir ed before the caucus and before II
ye convention by Mr.. Heltman himsel
1e who advocated his nomination as
is suitable man to represent the farmir
eu interests Of the county. The opp
A. ueuts of Mr.. Heitman in that cOnve
yo ton, placed 10 nomination in Oppos