The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-20
More Heads in the Basket.

Ruck United States attorney TOR Idaho, has taller
and his head has tumbled into the bloody baske
held by the delighted Mr.. Borah, of the United
States senate.
When Mr. Borah who has to be known in
political literature as Timber Bill" through the at
tentons bestowed upon him by the federal attorney
emerged from his troubles it was presumed that his
vengeance would satiate itself in the due of
time. The presumption verified last week. when
a representative of the department of justice to
Boise and peremtorily removed Mr.. Ruick from the
Office he has held during term and part of an
other term.
The act one of spectacular effect, for Mr..
Ruck might have been supplanted by a successor in
the ordinary way, the business being transacted at
the Washington end. Monte Cristo prefers to write
the score-"one," in the full effulgence of
the search light. Washington came to Boise when
the late surveyor general was guillotned
In the forecast that accompanies the obsequies of
the federal attorney it is announced that number
three" will shortly adorn the tablet of vengeance
and it is conjectured that the United States marshal
will follow his predecessors into the obscurty of
official death
After these lessons, let the servants of justice be-
ware. No man can tell who possesses the plans to
the inner recesses of the magic island where the
treasure of political spoil lies concealed.
Thus far has power triumphed over faithfulness
and there yet others to relieve for maverick
grand jury recently at large among the branded
steers of vast political range and some choice fav-
orites bear the marks of its horns
In the final outcome the people of Idaho will be
moved to conclude that the administration regretfu
OF hasty impulse and its consequences is tempering
the wind of its wrath to the shorn corporations and
will lead them to the still waters of safety while the
party has power to atone for its early vsitaons upon
time-tried friends
Corporation influence, temporarily rejected. is
again enhroned and while there was recent slip of
few indictments the inadvertence is not likely to
cause It's victims much inconvenience War upon
the despoilers of the public domain zea1ousy begun
has terminated III ignoble surrender that party NAV
once more rise triumphant right and that power
may remain III the hands of those that trihe with JUS
tice in their final conclusions
While Mr. Borah appears on the surface as the
regulator in this local political drama it will not be
seriously questioned that corporation influence is
again exhibiting the mailed hand in the departments
at Washington 1t is choosing for its victims those
who acted upon the conviction that the government
was IN earnest when declared war against offenders
OF consequence in the industrial commercial and
political world
The attorney general based his demand for the res
lgatlon OF the federal attorney for Idaho upon GER
tam incidents attending the Indictment of Senator
Borah although his department has not earned a
reputation tor Directing to the methods by which
people are brought to trial for alleged offences
against the laws of congress. The "incdents" of
which the attorney general complains were fully and
mpartialy investigated by grand jury. which de-
,lared Mr.. Ruck blameless
All that has been offered i'll explanation of the
arbitrary of the department. of Justice does NOT
emove the impression that the late federal attorney
offended in securing the Indictment of SO dis
lnguIShed nerSnnaoe limited