Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-17
STORY
IS GIVEN THE LIE
Weiser Paper Takes Occa-
Gon to Comment on Tao
tics of Boise Paper.

A|0UCAn6 tNc PS@SA>.~s
lished during tn, campaign In this
state by the morning organ Of the re-
dictionaries regarding the operation OF
an alleged special train from Weiser
to Council in which to carry Senator
w. e. Borah during his tour. dry
piece OF work." and declaring it -
shame the Republican party must he
cursed with a newspaper and bunch
OF relegated political barnacles who
have no higher sense of decency.
adding they are unworthy to tread
whore Senator Borah expectorates.
the Weiser Signal. Republican news
paper that fought the battles Of the
marty. takes q few falls out Of the
Statesman OF this city.
The fake story. published by this
self appointed mouthpiece of the
dwindling minority of the Republican
party, is branded by the Signal as a
.rnalicious falsehood." AS published 1t
was to the effect that the residents OF
Adams county were at loss to know
who paid for a special train that car
ried Senator Borah from Weiser 20
Council, an attempted inference being
left that the special was paid for from
the Progressive party campaign funo
OF Dy tHe railway company
Places Brand on Canard.
After reproducing the story as pub
lished in the Statesman, the Weiser
Signal says:
The article appeared in the Nov. s
issue Of the Statesman, but was over
looked by the Signal, and our attention
has Just been called to 1t. or all the
despicable pieces of dirty newspaper
,tNvS mt
has appeared in an Idaho newspaper N
this campaign.
The statement that a special train
carried Senator Borah from Weissr
to Council is a positive falsehood and
whether the story came from Giibeft
r. Smith or was manufactured by
the Statesman to injure Senator
Borah, 1t Is none the less wilful and
malicious lie. Senator Borah arrived
in Weiser on the Pony at 1880 a.
M, and was at once escorted to an au-
tomobile which took him and Mr.. l. r.
Smith, chairman of the Washington
county Republican central committee,
to Midvale where he spoke at 1:S0.
From there he took the regular after
noon train to Cambridge where he
spoke at 4 o'clock. The auto had push
ed on while he was speaking at Mid
vale and he again took it at the con-
clusion of his Cambridge speech and
drove to Council where he spoke at
O'Clock. He remained in Council that
night and returned to Weiser on the
regular train the next day. reaching
here about 1 o'clock. The automobile
he rode in was paid for by the Repub-
Iican county central committee OF
Washington county at the request OF
the county officers and the candidate
for state senator. and two Of the
speeches were made in this county.
The special train which was run from
New Meadows to Council carried q
crowd to Tamarack where Colonel e.
M. Heigho made a speech the same
night, and the excursion was extended
on to Council purely as a business
proposition for the railroad. The train
was not asked for either by Senator
Borah or the committee, and neither
he or the committee knew anything
about It until he and the chairman ar :
rived in Council. He was at no time
on a special train during the trip
either on the Oregon Short Line or the
p. & I. N, and Gilbert F. Smith knew
II as his son-in-law, Ike Loe. who lie
chairman of the Adams county com
mittee, was at Council the night the
senator spoke there.
Should Cause Cobb to Suicide.
Both Gilbert F. Smith and the
Statesman opposed Senator Borah, and
no doubt both Of them were Inundated
when the returns were received from
these two counties and 1t was seer
that in spite OF their opposition ths
legislative candidates who were
pledged to the senator swept botf
counties like wildfire. Gilbert Smith
and his SON in law, who are secretar.
and chairman respectively of thu
Adams county central committee, can
celled the senator's dates In that coun.
ty and published a statement releasing
the Republican voters of that count.
from any obligation to support tn
legislative candidates because OF thei
layalty to him, and no doubt fel
keenly the royal reception given hin
at Council and the great victory woi