Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-10-26
DIRTY POLITICS.

ever run in manner more satisfactory
TO the people Of the county. Demo
Gratis admit this. But stop just mo-
ment and recall the manner of cam
naign that was made against VIM. Rob
bins by jim Keane and his democratic
friends. They resorted to the most
contemplate methods and told the
most malicious falsehoods their malig-
nant tongues could utter and their
minds conceive. They said VIM.
Robbins was drunkard, a gambler
and thief. They slandered him be-
vond point where decent men dare
tread, and pictured him as an incom-
petent and brute. They told Of him
kicking a poor helpless drunkard while
he was chief of police of Moscow and
even worse, if worse were possible.
Was there any truth in any of these
charges? Not semblance of any
thing that had the appearance of truth.
Republicans by the hundred voted
against the republican candidate be-
cause they listen to the tongue of SLAM
der and were influenced by democratic
lies.
Now the same kind Of campaign
has been started against Frank Robin
son, republican nominee for sheriff,
and for the purpose Of getting republi-
can votes for jim Keane. They charge
Mr.. Robinson, just as they did Sheriff
Robbins, with being saloon man,
while as a matter of fact no man who
ever ran for Office in Latah county
ever played harder for the saloon vote
or made half as much of whiskey cam
paign as did aud will Jim Keane,
whose efforts to mix whiskey and re-
ligion have been so successful in the
past. There scarcely was not before
and probably will not this time be a
saloon in the county that will not have
on tap Jim Keane whiskey and cigars,
while his friends will again go into the
churches and attempt to stampede the
voters by crying that the republican
nominee is "a whiskey man and
gambler" The News is making no
fight on the saloons, but we do hope to
call to the attention of the voters the
doubledealing methods used by Jim
Keane and his democratic boosters.
1t is not pleasant to be forced to
talk as plain as we are now talking,
but just as long as Jim Keane and his
boosters practice such unfair and ques-
tionable methods it is plain duty to
denounce them for the people have a
right to know the manner Of campaign
Mr.. Keane is making. The News
will not fellow democratic tactics and
SANDER Mr.. Keane. We will not, even
though we could, resort to methods
calculated to bring shame and humilia-
ton to either Mr.. Keane or his family.
We will not drag out and display any
skeletons that may have been sealed
up in the family closets, nor urge
against the democratic nominee past
sins. All we urge is that James Keane
go before the voters on his merits as
man, and conduct his campaign along
decent lines. He has no right to do
things decent, self-respecting citizen
cannot honorably do, and justify his
action on the ground that all is fair in
politics. We expect Mr.. Keane to
keep above the dirty politics Of past
campaigns, and if he does not the
News will give him dose OF his own
medicine. II he thinks a whiskey
campaign is the proper one to make
we will not dispute his right to make
it that way, but he cannot at the same
time pose as a moralist and pass him
self off as the only candidate fit to re-
ceive the solid support of good chris
tan people. We ask the voters to
think about this matter. We want them
to recall some OF the things that were
told against the republican nominee
two years ago and compare them with
the facts in the case. You, voters OF
Latah county have had for the past two
years as the sheriff of this county the
man Of whom all those untruths were
told and you are now asked to judge
as to their truth. Has not VIM. Rob
bins made sheriff of whom you are
proud? And is there any reason to
believe that Frank A. Robinson of Cen
esee, nominated by the republicans OF
Latah county, will not also make as
good sheriff as any man the democrats
Of Latah county can name? The News
Knows Of no reason why the republicans
should not stand by the man their
party has seen fit to place upon the re-