The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1905-07-15
APPLAUD AND CONGRATULATE.

PO4AS uG9SANO AOHS ouo S1A
nest applause. From the bot
tom of our heart we congratu-
late them, not because they wonthe
election, not because all their can
didates were successful; bat because
they have nobly land intelligently
asserted THAR manhood and woman
hood. For many years, in the
name of civic purity, they permit
ted. themselves to be deluded and
terrorized, whipped and juggled in
to all manner of foolish. cowardly
fantastic performances. Periodical
ly. the best of them have been made
to figure before the whole State as
the willful or ignorant accomplices
Of gamblers, saloonkeepers and
prostitutes. Against the leading
Republicans Of Boise, for years al
most unchallanged, the charge has
stood that they were in league with
the worst elements of society for
Entertainment of selfish and sensual
ends; and that in the pursuit of
their sinister ambitions and beastly
lusts they had grown insensible to
every virtuous impulse, viewing
with sodden composure the whole
sale degradation of youth and the
general deflement of home. The
charge, we say, has stood almost
anchallenged, and in very strik-
ing sense it has. 1t has been regu-
larry made by Bosses chief expon-
ent Of Republicanism, and repeatedly
submitted to a jury of Republicans
who have repeatedly returned a
verdict of guilty as charged.
So notorious had this thing be-
come that outside people, uuac-
quainted with the facts, began to
look forward with morbid curios-
ity to the biennial exposition of
Boise Republican vices. 1t was
more realistic than "Ten Nights in
q Barroom" and more salacious
than a variety show. The last per-
Torrance was the raciest in a long
and unbroken series and caused the
revolt which has brought emanci3
patton.
TO those of Us who more or less
iutimatly know Boise Republicans
and recognize their worth, AMI are
familiar with the ability and integ-
rity of the more prominent among
them, the situation has been mex
plicable. If those men had been
slandered and aspersed by political
enemies, that would have beed un-
iustifiable but not remarkable. If
their conduct in public life had been
subjected to extravagant and vim
dictive structures, even by fellow
Republicans, that would have been
understandable if not commendable.
But the traducers of Boise Republi-
cans have not been political enem-
les; their public lives have not been
seriously attacked; but, on the
other hand, the defamations have
sprung from pretended political
friends and the slanderers have aim
cd only to besmirch the private char
aeter of their victims. 1t is not
charged that the public lives of
Boise Republicans have been such
In the past as to render their future
service dangerous to the public
veal. That, in a measure, is impli-
ed but it is not a count in the in-
dictment. The charge is that the
moral fiber of Boise Republicans is
so rotten, their finer sensibilities
so benumbed. their secret lusts so
overpowering and degrading that
their private characters are vitiated,
aud void of virtuous en-
ergy, and to such deplorable ex-
tent is this true that they uniformly
band themselves with social out
casts of every description, indifer-
emit to the baneful influence upon
themselves and reckless of the
effects upon society, the
degradation of their children and
The corruption of their homes. And
these wicked, baseless calumuies |
have been fabricated, published and
disseminated with vindictive zeal
a.