The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-27
RUick and Rounds.

Falls Post is of the newspapers that pays at
tention to the disturbance 1t comments
The removal of United States Attorney Ruck and
United States Marshal Rounds by the United States
assistant attorney general caused considerable
ment, and no little trepidation among certain poll
tcians The removal of these federal officers is
looked on by being the result of overactvity
in politics. but calm consideration of the proposition
would hardly lead one to believe anything of the
kind The Mormon anti Mormon scrap could
have had nothing to do with it, and it is difficult to
see what figure the present situation cut in the mat
ter 1t dates back to the time when the timber fraud
charges were made against Senator Borah, and as
Ruck failed to make good on his counts-of went
his head.
1t is not certain that little hierarcha revenge
did not creep into the affair John Henry Smith is
an apostle of the church and large among
the earthly representatives of the quorum of heaven
Mr. Ruck upon an OCCASION met Apostle Smith at
Boise hotel and charged him with interfering with
the politics and legislation of Idaho and with an
attempt to take the test oath out of the constitu-
ton. He scored the apostle numerically that the
listeners still have a lively recollection of the scene
and John Henry is doubtless among those who
have not forgotten it. So there may have been some
Mormon influence behind the scenes.
Concluding its offering of opinion the Idaho Falls
paper says
They played politics against the wrong man when
they picked Borah for loser Events seem to point
to the junior senator from Idaho having pull that
is something fine and oily
Another paper glores over the triumph of Senator
tor Borah-the Pocatea Tribune, which proudly
remarks
Out of the fog of the shakeup the light of Senator
Borah shines brilliantly. Proof positive has been
submitted that it doesn't pay to tread on his toes and
the incident serves likewise to establish the fact
that the Junior senator's standing at Washington is
nothing if not altitudinous.
Altitudinous, fine and oily and careful of his toes.
Idaho has surely found itself possessed of stateman
The Pocatello paper comments further:
The removal from office of United States District
Attorney Ruck and United States Marshal Rounds
came as no surprise to the people of Idaho who
since the unsuccessful attempt last year to mix Sen
aor Borah in the Boise basin land frauds have been
expecting a shakeup in the federal roster. When
Judge Whitson virtually decided that Attorney
Ruick had been trife too active in securing an in
dlctment against Senator Borah, the tenure of office
OF the district attorney became at precarious
While display of zeal on the part of any federal
official is commendable, yet Mr.. Ruick it seems
overstepped the bounds. Becoming too Jealous, he
lost his head" in the grand jury room and now,
as quite natural consequence, has lost his official
The dismissal of Marshal Rounds while an
nounced as based on the charges as those pre-
terred against Mr.. Ruck, is more easily explicable
by desire on the part OF the department of justice
to promote complete harmony as between the dis
trlct attorneys and the marshars office.
1t is proper to remark that the two papers above
quoted from are allied to the machine and are of
course more or less politically irresponsible-that
S, they would not care much about the merits of
light that brought victory to the machine boss
The C9ur d Aene Press is reminded of hostility
etween the hierarchy and Mr.. Ruick that dates
ack couple of years and The Press expresses
self follows on the subject
There is more significance to the removal of United
tates District Attorney Ruick than the mere excuse
nat he has not shown proper loyalty to the Roose-