The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-01-12
IDAHO NOTES, news
and Comment OF
"A'O oO"A"AAA'A VI q.
some INTEREST
Van Duyn is the Better Man for
Position in Opinion of Well
Known Correspondent.
GOV. HAWLEY CRITICIZED
Idaho City World Thinks Little of
Wiley's Wheat and Water Diet
Two Children Burned to Death at
Buhl While Mother Was Attending
Revival and Father was about Town

NSNiNdi GilA l. otAiSA was oOOuS S"A
The people OF Caldwell and Canyon
county will naturally take a great in
terest in the tight for the Republican
nomination for attorney general in
view OF the fact that Hon. O. M. Van
Duyn lived so long in Caldwell and
Nampa He is we'll known in every
nook and corner of the county. We
believe that the following, written by
Mr.. c. +. Arney and published in
recent issue of the Lewiston Tribune
I will prove of great interest. Mr.. Ar
ney says:
The announcement that ]. H. Peter
son is to submit his candidacy to the
people for the attorney generalship of
the state, subject to the Republican
primary election of June next, comes
as surprise. s
In the first place it was presumed
that Mr.. Van Duyn, also of the attor
ney- generals Office and who announc-
ed his candidacy some weeks ago, had
the entire backing of the attorney
generals Office, including Mr., Peter
son, and on the other hand it was
presumed that Judge Bulge would be
the only Mormon who would apply
at this forthcoming election for a
state Office.
Van Duyn has had some considera-
Bile experience in the practice of the
law; is an older man than Peterson;
| and was given a wide acquaintance
and some considerable advertisement
during the Haywood Meyer Pettibone
cases, through the fact that he was
| the attorney for Canyon county at the
time of the murder of former Cover
nor Frank Steunenberg. He had won
| his spurs locally in Canyon county
| by having been thrice elected to this
office, and he has very substantial
| following there where he lived and
practiced for long time.
| Petersons standing as a lawyer is
negligible, so far as his individual
practice is concerned
Raised in Utah, he came to Pres
ton and later to Pocatello where he
took high school course, being par
ticuarly bright in his studies From
/ InlS lie was CdllCu Oll d lllISSloI ny
his church to the southern states un-
der the regime at the time of Ben E.
| Rich, now transferred to New York.
| When his mission was finished in the
southern mission field he came to
Washington, d. c., arriving there
about the time Burton l.. French first
entered congress. Through the in
flucnce of Mr.. Rich, Peterson was
made Mr.. French's clerk and in this
way took his law course in the George
Washington University. This COM
pleted to the point of graduation, he
located at Blackfoot, remaining there
but short time when he was ap-
pointed to a place in the attorney
generals Office under General Gu
heen. When McDougall was chosen
| attorney general Peterson remained
and is still acting, with Van Duyn, as
an assistant attorney general for the
state.
| Thus far no candidates have been
mentioned, in addition to these two.
for this Office on the Republican
ticket. and none have made their am
billions known for the Democratic
nomination.
Governor James H. Hawley has
been criticised without mercy during
the past year, He first came out
strong for the enforcement of the
law without fear or favor or respect of
person. The remarkable thing about
the governor is that he wanted to Sc
lect the laws he proposed to enforce.
Full cash valuation appealed to him
but fixed lcvies were a joke to be
treated with contempt until the Sill
preme Court took different view OF
the matter: then the monies in the
bank were to be assessed but that idea
was dropped without ceremony al
} though his special session has not
, convened to this day. However a
new criticism has been sprung by the
Teton-Peak of St. Anthony. The Te-
ton-Peak says
Instead of standing back OF the Wig
orous enforcement of law as a sworn
executive of the state, Governor Haw
ley is trying hard to find loopholes III
the statutes through which to boost
his friends into a special session OF the
legislature When he first attempted
sessment on the people of Idaho, ht
advocated the breaking of five law:
in order to enforce one-and that one
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