The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-10-19
Independent
Rally
Opens the Campaign with
Rousins Meetings
Makes Straight Talk

lAe 4IuucpeHutuO OltllcHb OlChct
had the town on Wednesday evening
and in the Temple hall proceeded to
give the reasons for their being.
The party OF candidates came up
from JuliaeLta Wednesday morning,
part of them, attending an auction
sale on Fix ridge.
The meeting at Juliaetta was a
rousing one at which there were over
$50 in attendance, and where the
speakers OF theevening, A. B. Towne,
w. r. Trull and w. NJ. Morgan gave
convincing talks on county affairs,
on the necessity for reform and on
the quality Of the candidates which
the citizens ticket were presenting.
After the speaking, a number OF the
candidates held an informal recep-
tion and had q heart talk with the
audienceI
In Kendrick, after the playing Of
several pieces by the band, the can
didates appeared and the speakers
were escorted to the stage. Mr.. A.
B. Towne was the first speaker and
he neatly explained to the audience,
THAT true republicanism consisted
not in following the machine rule,
but in voting according to the dicta-
| ties of conscience, and as free and in
dependent citizens and invoking the
name OF Roosevelt, declared that
were he a Latah man, he could not
help but support the Independent
ticket.
w. r. Trull was the next speaker
and he concisely controverted the
statements of Oversmith, showing
that ring rule does prevail. that the
only hope for the true republicans is
in supporting the independent ticket,
that the party lash must not
be swung round the people to force
them to take unacceptable men, and
that the republicans are loyal and
true in this section, even If they do
vote against the machine ticket; that
the taxes OF this county are out OF
;. proportion and the fault lay with
the ring.
The next speaker. who made
y the address OF the evening, w. M.
Il Morgan gave graphic account oi
s. the true conditions OF county affairs,
s. ably recited particulars as to the tax
sale certificates, and the ring met.
. hods of avoiding an expert on the
IL county records, the necessity OF q
new administration and the best
u :, method of securing it. He called at
= tention TO the necessity of avoiding
70 the ring at the top of the ticket.
i' one wished to avoid voting contrary
" to the dictates of their conscience
y and the methods by which Mulall!
- in the legislature, had secured tn
ring law to prevent a free expression
of the voter (this same Mulally Il
asking for another term in the stat
legislature ON the republican RIM
1t ticket Mr.. Morgan showed how tn
r assertion of the correctness OF tn
IT books by an expert who spent A
le uOuE6 OA OuChA w 0o AOO W 0C CACdAV
re cd, and called on all citizens, whet
ID her republican or democrat to breal
from the collar of machine rule, an
n- enlist with the Independents I'd
Is good government gave the records c
the candidates present, and with til
h; chairman OF meeting invited the aud
~ ience to meet them and Judge Of thei
RS qualifications by personal contract
The audience was the largest ye
es present to a political gathering, wa
evidently in sympathy and accor
with the speakers, and was abb
attentive and interested; and as a
Indication OF the public opinion "
would state that tie only one
able to coniure with the nam
Of Roosevelt were the speakers {
III the Independent party; who whe
In they pronounced R0osevelts mani
rs brought forth applause.