The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-05-02
Historical Notes
Early Day Campaigning.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Steunenberg was candidate tor reelection, Joseph
H. Hutchinson, then of the Trade Dollar Mining
Company in Owyhee County, candidate for
lieutenant governor Steunenberg was demo-
crat and Hutchinson silver republican. During
their itineraries they brought together once
and only once at public meeting, This was at
Albion, in Cassia County
Those who knew these two gentlemen will recall
divergent peculiarities, in that Steunenberg never
wore a neckte, while Hutchinson always wore the
largest and sometimes the ashest sort of neckties
The governor spoke first at the Albion meeting
and made his easy, logical, getting talk in
versation tone, which always characterized him in
public meetings Hutchinson followed, and in his
usual way INDUCED in logic we'll few flights
of oratory In his closing peroration he said:
Ladies and gentlemen, it is urged against
inee for governor that he has a personal aversion
to neckties Here in the presence of this august
assembly, voters of a sovereign commonwealth, |
pledge the people of this state that if elected to
office will wear the necktes for the administration
This joke of Hutchnson's became the topic of fire.
quent merriment between the governor and the leu-
tenant governor, both of whom were elected,
many occasions afterwards when they were both as
they were prone to be, given UP to joshng; until
once upon time after both were out of office they
met in Pittsburg and the topic came up again they
the Governor turned to the acknowledgements and
said: "See here Joe have stood about all the JOSH
ing propose to stand about neckties Come with
me-" The governor led him to by clothing
store and upon entering said: Nov Joe, here's
the best store in Pittsburg. Pick out your tie Al
ways ready to call bluff, Joe walked up to the
counter where young clerk was standing and said:
II want necktie." The clerk glanced at him care
fully pulled out case of ties upon which was tag
which had on it: cites 25 cents" Hutchinson
looked at him and said: "Do look like man who
wore a two bit tie?" to which the clerk replied:
Step below to the counter, the Is cent ties are
there" Governor Steunenberg had the joke on
Hutch.
The Goldfeld (Nevada) Chronicle OF the 18th
inst gives the following appreciation OF Mr. Hutch
inson:
He's called Hutch" or just plain "Joe," but his
real name is Joseph Hutchinson, and that was his
name before he came to Nevada.
| don't know where he was born and I'm not delV-
ine into ancient history But I'm he's older
than was Ann and not quite really not quite, as
old as Major William Augustus Stanton. Neither
age youth matters, anyway except with wine
and women, why PROFOUND puzzle to Hutch!
| asked him one day what he enjoyed most and
he said laconically Bombs" So found out that he
used to breakfast bombs in Idaho, and that's why
he's been sizzling ever since. One day real anarch-
1St hurled a DOmD at I1ulCI, WHO calmly cduShI ~
pinched out the fuse and just laughed. He's always
playing good-natured jokes upon his fellows
He likes to talk In fact that's his principal pas
time He can't eat because it interiors with his
speech He used to talk and talk at political
and the only way the politicians could
defeat his purposes to move an adjournment
Even then he'd let loose line OF protest worthy OF
anv democrat He talked so much time that they
made him lieutenant governor up in Idaho, but it
wasn't really his fault He wanted to be governor.
And the only reason he didn't have page in "Who's
Who in Nevada" was because he didn't have the