Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-08-30

The newly appointed republican
county central committee is called to
meet in the office of Attorney w.
c. Howie at 2 O'Clock this after
noon, for the purpose of organizing
and issuing a call for the primaries
and county nominating convention.
There has been some talk among
republicans that the selection of
this committee was irregular, in
that the call for the Glenn's Fer
ry convention, at which it was
named, did not state that that
was one of the purposes of the con-
vention. Mr.. Howie says that the
action is sustained by precedent;
further, that the call above men
toned contained the saving clause,
land to transact such other busi-
ness as may come before the con-
vention.
Mr.. HOWE is the republican
wheelhorse of the county and is
authority on party practices. 1t is
to be hoped, however, that this
point may be contested to the extent
of raising row, that some interest
may be worked up in political cir
cles, thereby adding something
to the gaiety of the nation.
Chairman Wolfe, of the democrat
ic committee has issued call for
meeting at his office Saturday.
The committee requested the last
convention, which nominated dele
gates to Occur d Alene, to name
the time and place for the county
nominating convention. 1t selected
Mountain Home as the place, but
did not designate the time. At the
committee meeting Saturday the
call will be issued for the primaries
and convention, there being little
or no other business to be attended
to.
No interest has yet been aroused
in either party; even the various
candidates who emerged from their
hiding places during the short-lived
excitement incident to the state
conventions, have retired to obscur-
ity. This excitement will doubt
less be revived, now that local
politics will occupy the boards
In the realm of state politics,
preliminaries for the contest are
being arranged, opposing candidates
are shaking hands, exchanging
courtesies, publicly avowing per-
soual friendship, and declaring that
they intend to make a clean cam
paign, preparatory to swatting each
other below the belt, on the solar
plexus, in the back, anywhere they
think a blow will do the most good
and the most damage. Boise papers
report that the chairmen of both
parties are opening headquarters
and will call time September 1.
Mark Hanna Brady, of the Repub-
1ican committee, has notified
Maverick to change the address of
his paper from Pocatello to Boise
after that date, so it seems to be
a pretty sure thing that he is about
to play ball.
w. E. Borah, who thinks he
has a cinch on the senatorial toga,
has been up north-which means
Spokane, of course-fixing things,
issuing signed statements, procla-
nations and denials that he has
done business with the beehive
temple at Salt Lake. In fact, there
seems to be considerable rivalry be-
tween those two towns as to which
one shall dominate Idaho politics.
He says in his ''signed statement ,
that the Mormon issue will play
only second fiddle in the campaign ;
that it. doesn't count, anyway.
After disposingsof that trifling sub
ject with a careless wave of his
hand, he says: ''The paramount
issue in this campaign, as view
it and as l shall undertake to pre-
sent it, will be whether or not
President Roosevelt is to be per
mitted to finish his work with his
full party support behind him"
Following this statement, signed
with his own hand, be it remem-
bered, the Spokesman-Review
makes a few remarks on its own
account, as follows, to-wit:
No less than a dozen well known
Idaho politicians, both democrats
and republicans, were registered at