Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1906-10-12
DIRTY POLITICS.

to the people Of the county. Demo
Gratis admit this. But stop just a mo-
ment and recall the manner Of cam
paign 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, gambler and
a thief. They slandered him beyond
point where decent men dare tread,
and pictured him as an incompetent
and brute. They told of him kick
ing 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
charges7 Not semblance of any
thing that had the appearance of truth.
Republicans by the hundred voted
against the republican candidate be-
cause they listened to the tongue of
SANDER and were influenced by demo
cratic lies.
Now the same kind of campaign
has been started against Frank Robin
son, republican nominee for sheriff, and
for the purpose Of getting republican
votes for Jim Keane. They charge
Mr.. Robinson, just as they did Sheriff
Robbins, with being a saloon man,
while as 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 and will Jim Keane, whose
efforts to mix whiskey and religion have
been so successful in the past. There
scarcely was not before and probably will
not this time be 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 sa-
looms, but we do hope to call to the
attention of the voters the double
dealing 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
questionable methods it is a plain duty
to denounce them for the people have
a right to know the manner of cam
paign Mr.. Keane is making. The
News will not follow democratic tao
tics and SANDER Mr.. Keane. We will
not, even though we could, resort to
methods calculated to bring shame and
humiliation to either Mr.. Keane or his
family. We will not drag out and dis
play 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 mer-
its as a man, and conduct his cam
paign along decent lines. He has nc
right 10 do things a decent, self-re-
speeding 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 2
dose OF his own medicine. If he
thinks a whiskey campaign is the
proper one to make we will not dis
pute his right to make it that way, bu
he cannot at the same time pose as Z
moralist and pass himself off as the
only candidate fit to receive the sole
support of good christian people. W.
ask the voters to think about this mat
ter. We want them to recall some o
the things that were told against thu
republican nominee two years ago anC
compare them with the facts in tn,
case. You, voters OF Latah county
have had for the past Two years as tn,
sheriff of this county the man of whom
all those untruths were told and you
are now asked to judge as to thei
truth. Has not VIM. Robbins made
sheriff of whom you are proud2 AnC
is there any reason to believe tina
Frank A. Robinson Of Genesee, nomi
mated by the republicans of Latal
county, will not also make as good
/ sheriff as any man the democrats o
Latah county can manner The New
knows of no reason why the republi
cans should not stand by the mar
their party has seen fit to place upoi
the republican ticket in Latah county