Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-10-16
TO GET EXTENSION.


timber companies will this year go
before the Legislature and GET timber
extension; that these same interests
will GET boom franchises on our log
ging streams, and GET absolute mon
opoly Of the avenues that belong to the
people, and ought never be relinquished.
Ii these charges are not true the timber
companies owe it to themselves to come
out and deny the accusations. Are
they doing it? No. and the charges are
true. The companies do in end to re-
peat their dishonorable and dishonest
methods of four years ago, and have
already begun to carry them into execu.
ton. They began in Latah County by
getting control Of the primaries, and
showed plainly their hand in the Troy
convention. They did name the legis.
lative ticket, and if you doubt this ask
any one of the republican nominees to
the republican county convention to
state his position on timber extension.
Will F. G. MCGOWAN stand for the peo-
plei against the Weyerhauser timber
trust? Will he vote against giving the
timber companies extension? Has
Stillinger announced his intention on
these very important questions? How
will these men vote? Where will they
stand il an effort is made to steal from
the people the peoples rivers? Where
do the other gentlemen on the republic
can legislative ticket stand? There is
no question where the democratic legis-
lative ticket stands. If you think so ask
any OF them. The question has been
put up to Mr.. Brady, and Mr.. Brady has
refused to state his position. And it is
known that the Potlatch Lumber Com
pany want Mr.. Brady elected governor
Of Idaho this year. WHY? Why did
the Potlatch Lumber Company take
particular pains to have Jim Brady goto
Deary and there meet him by special
train and escort him to Potlatch? Why
did the Potlatch Lumber Company
spend 800 and send special train to
Moscow and take the Moscow band all
the way over to Potlatch and back to
Moscow in honor of Mr.. Brady? Why
didn't they extend Mr.. Alexander, the
democratic nominee for governor, the
same courtesy Because the Potlatch
Lumber Company know that they don't
own, and cannot control, Moses Alexan-
Il - L. Al
sers do know what to expect if Mr.
Brady is elected, 1t would clear things
up considerably if the Weyerhauser
timber trust, through their local COM
pany at Potlatch, would come out and
assure the people that they will not
this year attempt to rob the state of its
property. Let them say the charges
now publicly made are without founda-
ton, and let Mr. Brady make the same
public declaration that Mr.. Gooding
made four years ago. If he don't do it
dom t vote for him under any consider
alton. And to make his defeat certain
don't thow your vote away. Vote for
Mr.. Alexander.
If you have any doubt as to the kind
of public official NJ. Alexander OF
Boise will make, write to his home city,
the capitol of our state, and inquire
what kind of a mayor he has made
Write to republicans, like Judge Rich
ards and w. E. Borah; write to the
Roise Daily Statesman the LEADING re
publican paper in the state, and ask
about his public and private career.
Then write to the Oregon Short Line
railroad and ask that corporation, the
most dominant and corrupt force in
Idaho politics today, why they don't
want Mr.. Alexander elected governor
of Idaho. And then vote for the good
of the state.