The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-03-15

DattlesnlpS, yet the men VINO really
have the agricultural interests at
heart, and know that the source of
the country's wealth comes from the
farm, are rather inclined to share
the viewpoint of Mr.. Mann. In con-
nection with this, it might be re-
marked that no visitors to Washing
ton have attracted as widespread at
tention during the present winter as
the corn growers from Iowa, Illinois
and tn southland. These boys, who
have demonstrated that under any
usual circumstances, one hundred
bushels of corn can be grown to an
acre, in Iowa and Illinois, have been
the means of instilling desire
among other boys throughout the en-
tire country that cannot work other
than for the general good of agricul-
tural advancement.
Despite every effort that has been
made to drive William H. Lewis from
his position of Assistant Attorney
General, that gentleman still holds
the fort. Mr.. Lewis is negro and
comes from Massachusetts. He has
the entire confidence of Attorney
General Wickersham, and is very
highly regarded by the president. At
the time OF his appointment last
summer, determined effort was
made to prevent him from entering
upon the discharge of his duties. The
latest opposition comes from the
American Bar association, which pro-
poses to GUST Mr.. Lewis from men,
bership. To this suggestion Attorney
General Wickersham has pointed out
that there has been change in the
executive committee of the associa-
tion and If Mr.. Lewis is to be thrown
out on account of his color, that he
Mr.. Wickersham, will resign his
membership. There appears to have
grown out of the Lewis matter some
thing of race war, and protests, pro
and con, have been issued thick and
fast
Doctor Mary E. Walker, who has
been in Washington since the begin
ming of the year, has returned to her
home in Oswego, but before leaving
the capital gathered an audience at
the Leader theatre, and told the why's
and wherefores of her long and sue
cessful career in wearing trousers,
and in obtaining from Congress a
medal of honor for her work as
surgeon during the civil war. Doc
tor Mary has been a conspicuous fig
ure on the streets, and statesmen and
others have with difficulty, refrained
from soothing at the eccentricities of
this peculiar old woman. However,
the keen amusement produced by the
combination of mems clothing, fur
shoulder cape, and silk hat tied on
with green bow ribbons, is certainly
pardonable.
The last of the 400 temporary
clerks in the census bureau have
been dismissed, 281 of them going
out of the service at the close of Feb
ruary. The census director SAYS that
the work of his bureau will be de-
layed by the small appropriations of
Congress. AS matter of fact, it is
believed that most of the statistical
results of the'census will become null,
because of the lack of funds with
which to complete the work now I'M
der way. More important data, such
as that of population, may eissued,
but the easements in the past two
months have been filled with millions
of dollars worth of census statistics
that will never be anything more
than junk.
The federal office holders through
out the country have been given carte
blanche to do sthey please in the
matter of activity in campaign mat
ters. The civil service commission
has issued statement disclaiming
any right to say what the action of
individuals should be in these mat
tiers, and this good news has been
carried home to every interested per-
son in the nation. The result is that
all of the patrons drawing public
money from the treasury, are likely
to have, as well as express their pref
erences.