The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1910-10-21
Gems From Great Minds

Recently the Statesman started department undo
e Of Gems from Great Minds The Boise Citizen b heading
e ni the following Gem 1t is only Gem if i r.: sub
Ii was written by Jim Brady hired January 2 100, candy
published the Capital News Of that date the very dav M ana
Brady got clutches that paper by means of 50 jim
this graphic pen picture of Borah part of the and
the loan demanded by Brady On that day Brady was = Tor
cIasped the Of Borah friendship and party and
safely hid in ambush while his hired man giving pb
the article below That shows nothing else can b s
of the Brady makeup The friends OF Senator Borat m uan
frame this tribute for which Brady oosened his purse
will gladly print the gem ON book paper, and mount same we
velvet for such admirers of the Senator pck
to hang this upon the walls Of their homes uSfe
/ Here it from Bradys Capital News OF January 9th 100,
'rDAHo's OILY CANNON
There has been some talk the part Of members Of tb A
tue regarding lobbying and lobbyists This would be neI
and proper of those who talked the londe Just
nsncere 1t old dodge and frayed at the edoe
another order to hide his shortcomings and one
Ito us that this the thought that must have ,c m II seems
gent reader OF the debate the lower house the
merce resolution We might mention names-but if is o
say present purposes say that they may be found in G
thirty three members who voted to sustain blprnno @
SO outraged the Public Of decency, and did as much to %
the political morals of the anything the legislature a
be able to do were 1t to set out deliberately betay and disgrace
its constituency Se
Pretty of political purists to talk about the evils of the m
is possible they imagine that the public already forgotten
how they themselves allowed cheap lot of lobbyists as those
haled the beck of the Statesman work" them to the eyt
putting the seal of approval upon deliberately planned and coa
executed treasury rald 1t true that Borah has in te mast G
of political influence and standing that might have %
his words weight but the methods that his henhmen used
that those the veriest cheap professional %
that attempted to debauch legislature in the interest n
gang of nprncpled papfed eeches And after all who this o
PIN lobbyist that he must needs be exempted the opprhm
that heaped upon the heads of have similarly aen
to influence lawmakers for purposes less unworthy? motor
ous topper and nea vertab weather vane turning and
shifting to catch the popular breeze the shadow he casts
and always ready to slip Oft the rail fence into the vic
orous camp when actona fights order of the dav M
lclan whose word is admittedly false as his fidelity to his t
erdS Mormon ynpathlzer the presence politicians from
he Southeast countless Mooneater the national
convention III company with his confidential ally Dubois afraid
e the hired attorney OF Senator Smoot afraid testify the Sod
inquiry tor fear OF being pulled off the fence calling the
oDD har IN his own paper for telling the
3ora and his friends had been ding dongng into the suffering ear
ne public for months and doing the dirty lobby work of the same
obb after being laSed like seve canine in the only ocal ye
dpoa hat has appeared in the Statesman the elite of Chi
ago moved out west to mnge the fragrance of ehet culture with
ne peban odor OF desert sagebrush That's Boa lobbyist
imperial H1ghness Calvin the CRATER:
And what has Borah the perennial candidate for Tinted States
nato done Tor Ada County which in the past has Loyalty
orted HIM because of local pride implied senterest? Two
ears ago MI Borah was allowed to select his representatives
e legislature that he might be assured of their suppond what
JoD lot they were Three of them least have left Boise and this
y IS IN measure better for their going Ada county and the capital
received nothing the hands of legislature and deserved
othg with such delegation delegation of Boah hnmen
n men as political trimmer would naturally select do his
s ana ns year II Ada county is treated similarly VIII
u the control OF majority Of the delegation by the sannen
en- TWO years later the old story again. aronetes dance and
dte ana cut Up monkeyshnes when Borah pulls the string little
oWs who can only babbe Boral for Senator while the capital
y interests neglected its lust RIGHTS and claims degard
us clrzes Inundated by the that misrepn them
WIN the people who vote and think and pay their taxes never get
eyes opened and be able to distinguish between cheap deag
the hgh-minded craftsmanship that is summed up Theodore
oSeVets demand OF square DEAF for all the people? WaF
eu 10 tnlnk So While the spectacle of this Oily Cannon pay
aP Pocs with l1ttebat Timouse Legislature not d
e more intelligent citizenship of this city and the at large
not Oeen without its good effects Some such exhibition W
afy that public sentiment might be moulded into cohesive
' oT the publication Of politics and political methods and u
uauVe evidences that the day of delverance is at manu-
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