Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-10-25

1t is remarked that Mountain
Home and Elmore county takes less
interest in state politics than any
other town and county in the state
Perhaps the reason for this is that
the machines of neither party give
it any consideration; its citizens +
have no hope OF spending two
years in official life at Boise. Its
population is small, but it is i'm
creasing rapidly and before many
years the bosses will be forced to
sit up and take notice.
However this may be, it is fact
that the people here are thinking a
whole lot more about meal tickets
and coal than they are about state
politics. Let an outsider come here
to tell us how to save the Gem of
the Mountains from either the Du-
bois dynamiters or Gooding's splen-
did business administration, if the
band is engaged, the crowd will
assemble, listen to it play a few
! pieces and then go on about its
business. So it was Friday and
Saturday evenings of last week, at
Garrett's opera house.
On the former date Hon. Ogden
Hiles, of Salt Lake, heralded as a
top-notcher, held fifty or seventy
five listeners while he talked OF the
Mormon menace. 1t is said that
fifteen or twenty years ago he was
something great as a campaigner; (;
but he can't make his record now.
His voice is weak and his words
were heard with difficulty by the
audience.
Saturday evening Colonel Hamer,
from somewhere over in the Nor
mon infested counties in the south
east, opened up with perhaps sea
of scant hundred upturned faces.
Early in the game, however, he
hooked up God Almighty and the
republican party as the team that
had yanked this country along the
road to prosperity, and of course
such rotten blasphemy occasioned q
disguised exodus. He then exhib-
tied the additional, inexcusable bad
taste of putting up ''holler' be-
cause of this seat emptying move.
2 ment.
Tuesday evening, however, W.
I E. Borah, republican candidate fol
I the United States senate, filled th'
: Hungerford opera house. That Il
o on account of the gentleman's per
sonal popularity in this town-h'
- could draw a crowd here even a
the announced leader Of a praye
meeting. What he said from th
rostrum is of little interest or i'm
portance. OF course, he juggle'
with the issues; but not in nj
II customary, characteristic facile
able manner. Mr. Borah's friend
are panied to note that he is carry
ing a too heavy handicap for eve
his broad shoulders, figurativel
4 speaking. What he said in hear
III to heart talk with friend durin
the day is, however, both interest
ing and important. This friend OF
served that ne manifested no er
thusiasm over the outlook; SCENE
to be rather discouraged and state
frankly that the republican mar
ayers had made more mistakes, ran
errors, to use a base ball expression
during this campaign than durir
all the others combined within II
is limit of his experience.
ed This man Walters, who, by IL
Mt way, bears a striking resemblan'
of to that other distinguished freal
w Jo-Jo, the dog-faced boy, was all
an present at the Tuesday evenir
ne meeting. When the speakers al
i'll the prominent local lights of Il
C republican faith solemnly filed
be and took their seats on the stage,
man present whisperingly ennuir'
I'D of his neighbor: whats that ne
as to Borah, that looks as if it III
in just been received through Il
m mails from Montgomery, Ward
lis Co?'' He referred to the republic;
IL candidate for judge of this distric
is And speaking Of Walters, judi
al Stockslager, democratic nominee
gvo governor, was in town Saturd
at night. In speaking of the judici
an contest in this district, he sal
ms Honest, had rather be defeat
myself than to see Guy Barnum f;