The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-10-21
SEEKING TO DIsARM THE PEO-
PIE

When one reads or listens to an
OF the addresses delivered by MI
James H. Hawley, democratic candi
date for governor, he realizes tina
Mr.. Hawley is endeavoring in ever
possible manner. to disarm annd mis-
lead the people of, the state witt
respect to the great issue of tn
campaign. t.~
1 II Mr.. Hawley were candidly, earn
estly advocating some needed reform
which he believed to be necessary, h,
would not blunder ana stumble as h,
does in making his charges iwth re
spect to the work of the present ad
ministration.
Mr.. Hawley, passes over the tenn
perance question very briefly ant
proceeds to raise score or. more OF
other issues. In every one of his
addresses he puts forth a number oil
ideas, but he puts them forth SC
crudely and he makes such impos.
sible statements respecting impossible
things that he proposes to do, that
he discolses his own weakness and
and makes it perfectly appa rent
that all this dust he is raising is for
the purpose Of binding the people to
what the real issue Of the campaign
Is and to what his relation to the
great principle Of eradication Of the
liquor evil is. '''.'' s-''' ~
There is not One subject on which
Mr.. Hawley has talked with respect
TO which HE has evidenced feasible
proposal. What he proposes to do
IS fnpracticable in every instance.
Let anyone read one Of his speeches
or listen to one of them, and any
such person, upon careful analysis,
will see that Mr.. Hawley is talking in
the air; that he has no real knowl-
edge of the condition with respect
to which he speaks to the people,
and that he is utterly in the dark
as to how any of the suggested
problems should be met.
He wants to cure Carey Act defects
by giving his personal supervision to
every detail of administration and
construction. He proposes to estab-
ljsh some land-leasing system under
which the land can be leased in small
tracts instead of large bodies, for
getting that the men who can lease
lands are those who need large
.racts. He wants to sell off al the
school land without regard to whe-
her or not it is advancing in value
because, as he says, that would at
ract settlers, overlooking the fact
'ntirely that school lands are gener-
lily purchased by spectators.
And so it goes all the way down
he list. There is no proposal that
e advances that cannot be literally
orn to pieces by anyone who has
ny knowledge of the practical af-
airs of the state. Yet he talks about
II these matters as though he were
eally in earnest and really thought
e understood them. and we re-assert
lat he is doing all this to blind the
eople to the fact that he is the can
date Of the liquor interest of the {
ate of Idaho and of the liquor trust l
the United States; that he is the
indicate of the liquor organ publish s
at Spokane; that he is the candi- 4
tie of every brewer and every IL
Tor dealer and every saloon bum
ON the Canadian line to the Utah r
'undary
Why don't Mr.. Hawley come out
ID tell the people he is making this
hit for the purpose Of destroying
r local option law and preventing :,
" other temperance legislation? =
hy don't he stop talking about ;,
ngs he knows nothing about and :.
,cuss the one matter that is close =
his heart and which was the foun- y
ton of his nomination for the pc, II
ion of. governor?