Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-03-23

For over twenty years Addison 7.
smith has been identified with the
idaho delegation in Congress, having
leen selected by the late Senator
Shoup as his secretary in 1884, short
~ alter the State was admitted in
dIltll TIE Senator's retirement lroM
me Senate In 1901.
During the following two years he
remained in Washington at the Sem
dlors request to represent him as
Republican National Committeeman
4or Idaho in the disposition OF teder-
al appointments, tAe otale being then
| represented ~ Two Democratic sen
| dtOrs ana a democratic Congressman.
On the election Oh Senator HeyDurn,
Mr.. Smith was tendered and accept
ed the position Of secretary, which
ne has held continuously, excepting
der ole year when he was Register
of the Uni,ea States Land OI.ice al
boise. by reason Ct Ills long con-
uection with Idaho affairs al the Aa-
lions capital he has Decome very
familiar with the legislative aeeds of
.Ae stale, as Wei as with the Exec
utive departments and the political
machinery of the government.
His service to the party organiza-
tion in the State began during the
campaign of l900 when he served as
assistant treasurer OF the Republican
State Central Committee, having
charge of the settlement and pay
ment of the expenses incurred by the
Committee. During the campaign OF
1902 he was secretary to the Vice
Chairman, and disposed of much OF
the correspondence of the Committee.
In 1904 he was selected as Secretary
of the State Central Committee, and
held the position during the four sue
ceeding campaigns, rendering splen-
did service to the party. AS his
duties at Washington prevented him
from longer giving the position OF
Secretary of the Committee the at
tention it required, he resigned dur
ing the last summer, and his resigna.
ton was accepted by the Committee
at its meeting at Boise on Septem-
Der goth, 1911, after vote Of thanks
had been rendered him for his long
and efficient service.
When the State Legislature during
the session of 1907 enacted law
providing for the erection of a mar
BILE statue of the late Senator Shoupe
in Statuary Hall of the nations cap
ital Mr.. Smith was honored with the
position of secretary of the Statue
Commission authorized by the State
law, and aided the sculptor materi-
ally by suggestions as to the details
of the work.
In 1904 he located a homestead
entry under the Carey Act near Twin
j alls, and was one OF the first vo-
Cers in the new town at the Novem.
Der election that year. He made
proof ON his homestead in September
1906, and still has his home and 9TH
er property interests there. He has
always been ON the alert to advance
the interests of Twin Falls and the
State at large, and has accomplished
much toward attracting people and
capital to Idaho.
Mr.. Smith was born on farm In
Eastern Ohio and educated in the
public schools. He is graduate OF
the Law Department of the George
Washington University, and post
graduate of the National Law School,
and member of the bar of the Su-
preme Court of the State.
In 1889 he was married to Miss
Fairchild, sister of former Congress
man Fairchild of New York, and they
nave two sons living, Hugh Fairchild
and Walter Shoup.