Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-10-12

Senator Dubois, who had taken
every dynamite delegate in all the
other counties into his camp, made
the fight for the seating of the dyna.
mite delegation from Shoshont
county and was successful. Th.
alliance thereby secured control Of
the convention, taking control Of
the party organization from Cover.
nor Steunenberg and his friends and
nominating the state ticket from.
top to bottom.
That ticket was elected, and one
of the fruits of that election was
the pardoning of Paul Corcoran, the
one man who had been convicted
for participation In the murders il.
the Occur d'Alenes in April, 1902.
The legislature elected that year
was in full control of the alliance
II elected Mr.. Dubois senator and
elected a dynamite sympathizer
speaker of the house. The latter
named dynamiter as chairman of
the finance committee, and through
the two desperate effort was made
to defeat payment of the expenses
incurred by the state in suppressing
the insurrection. Though that was
the plan, it failed because of
great public agitation that occurred
when the plot was exposed, but II
disclosed fully the dangers to which
the alliance exposed the state.
From the hour IN which the tic
ket was nominated by the alliance
that year 1t was hinted In certain
quarters that Corcoran would b,
pardoned if the ticket were, sue
cessful. The hints gradually swelled
INTO boasts very soon after the candi-
dates named at that convention
were elected and sworn into Office.
and the correctness of the boasts
was demonstrated In the subsequent
pardoning Of that man.
1t was thereafter the proud boast
of the Western Federation that there
was not man serving any kind of
sentence for crimes committed under
Its banner. 1t became more defiant
than eyer; 1t boasted it would win
back all it had lost through the
dreadful, bloody outbreak. 1t glor-
led above all that Frank Steunen-
berg had been repudlated by his
party under the leadership of Sena-
tor Dubois
II had never been denied that
such political alliance was entered
into that year between Senator
Dubois and the dynamiters until tie
Salt Lake paper came out charging
the Statesman with falsehood in it's
reference to TIE fact.
Moreover, everybody in this state
has understood the effect of that
alliance upon the interests of law
and order. Everybody has known
that it largely or entirely neutrallzed
the effect of the lesson taught the
lawless by Governor Steunenberg,
fol it encouraged them to believe
that future officials with political
ambition would not dare interfere
with them under any circumstances.
Let the Statesman add that the
people of this state are not now
going to repeat the mistake of 1000.
There has meyer been day since
that alliance of 1900 bore fruit in
the pardon of Paul Corcoran when
the combination through which it
was brought about could elect a
candidate for governor of this state,
or control the legislature on sny sub.
ject. The pardon shocked every
law abiding person and opened the
eyes of ali who had been blind to
the character and effect of the
alliance.
The same old question is up today
In another guise, and the same old
dynamite element Is working with
tireless energy to defeat Governor
Gooding because of what he has done
to bring the murderers of the CHIEF