The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-09-30
COLONEL CLAY mas
DEAL WITH BADLEY
ANOTHER STORY THAT Az
FECTS BADLEY'S REPUTA-
TON FOR HONESTY.

Col. Clay Had Dealings With Bailey
and is Whistling for One Hundred
and Fifty Dollars-Badley Gets
Contract, Tears it up and Tells Clay
to Take Jump at Himself.
There S small wonder that M. A.
Bates of the Parma Herald is not
worrying about the suit for libel
threatened against him by O. V. Bad
ley, Democratic nominee for secrc-
tary of state. Mr.. Bates says that he
IS ready for trial at any time and
will appear within 49 hours He may
as we'll have made it 49 minutes as
the suit will never be instituted in the
first place and he could prove the al
legation if it were. The allegation
aga INST said O. V. Bailey, Democrat
ic nominee for secretary of state, is
that he is dishonest Mr. Bailey
threatened suit for libel. The people
would like to know when proceedings
are to be instituted. All of them are
willing to see these two EN- 'nent Dem
ocrats come together. The Tribune
freely admits that it would like to see
something started We would not
like to see Editor Bates languishing
in the county Jail but f it is necessary
we could stand it.
The row now on between Messrs
| Bailey and Bates is very interesting
to the general public The Tribune
is simply try ng to keep the public in
formed of the march of events. Up
to the present tine no suit has been
instituted However, we have gath
cred a little more corroborative evil
dence which we make public for the
first time Some time ago, in his
capacity as a real estate agent, Mr..
Bailey called on Col. S. H. Clay, for
the purpose of securing his help in
closing a little deal Mr.. Cay nat
urally wanted to know what there was
in it for him. Bailey said "if YOU VIII
help US and the deal goes through
there is $4,000 in it for you" That
sounded fair enough but Col. Clay
d dn't like to take Badley's word Tor
so much and so asked for a contract
to that effect. The contract was
drawn up and signed and deposited
with real estate man for safe leep-
| ing. In the course of time the deal
went through. Shortly afterwards
Mr.. Bailey met Mr.. Clay and stated
to him that the deal had been CON
sumated and he would give him his
money. Col. Clay said "all right, l
will call and get it II day or two.
Bailey went to the real estate man
and stated that he had settled VITA
CLAW and asked for the contract. it
was given him and he proceeded to
tear it up. When Clay called on Bad
lev he was laughed at and told to
whistle for his money or words to
that effect Col Clay is still whistllng
for it. The above IS the story Col.
| CLAW tells. We do not know Bailey
side of the proposition. This little
deal is really of no Importance, but
it shows the disposition of the ma
Bailey.
There is still the Manning pas
transaction, the dog deal with Officer
Hodson, the pool games at the Com
merciai club, and other matters that
will be presented in the course of the
campaign, and Bates hasn't spruns
his yet. He states IN an article pub.
hshed elsewhere that he didn't know
about hese little matters. The publ
anxiously awaits the facts that cauSe'
the Parma Herald to accuse Badlel
of dishonesty, When the suit is filed
the real thing will come out.
John Alden. Democratic nominee
for representative n Ada county was
business visitor in Caldwell yester
day.