Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-29
CHAIRMAN GIBSON AGAIN CALLS
ON PETERSON TO ANSWER
QUESTIONS ASKED
Then He Asks the Republican Candidate for
Attorney General Some Questions on
His Own Account

class you have marked out for your
self.
. "You demand to know what .
. right the candidates upon the
Progressive ticket have to call
. themselves Progressives and .
you inquire what they have
done. Let me come back with .
. the Same, question. What have
you done7 Does your eonnee- .
ton with the Msdbury irrisa. .
. ton project represent the kind
. Of "proaressiveism" to which .
you stand committed? What
Influence did your conduct az .
deputy in the Office Of the .
. attorney general have upon the .
. legislature in causing a Repub.
lican legislature to declare Ger. .
tain acts of the states en- .
ployees, il committed over .
again, to be called felonies? Or .
were you not Of those who used
your official position for per- .
sonai gain before that law was >
enacted? n you wish to deal .
in personalities, answer these
questions. I am not q eandi-
date, hence, not an issue in this .
campaign. .
Il note your claim of beneficial
legislation at the hands Of the Repub-
lican party and Republican legisla-
lures, but do you not know, sir, that
you thereby deliberately deceive the
people? Not one Of the beneficial
laws cited by you was enacted a. a
party pledge without the votes Of pro-
o.. Ih~ al
veal Of the state above party advan-
tage, and most of those you name
were enacted because Of popular pres
sure brought to bear and in spite Of
your party declarations, rather than
because OF them.
"Does your sense Of honesty
justify you in laying claim for
your party to legislation which
would never have been enacted
except with the aid, encourage
mont and insistent demand Of
Democratic members Of the leg
isIature? II is we'll for tho peo-
pie to have some criterion from
which to judge you, and your
letter has established It. wish
every voter in the state might
consider your qualifications and
fitness for the office in connec-
ton Herewith.
Now, sir, until you shall submit an
answer which really answers the ques-
tons put to you 'unequivocally, open
" and frankly as l requested, you
stand convicted by your own declara-
tons Of an effort to deceive, nis'ead
and fool tho voters Of tho state, Just
as your old school political tricksters
have wont to do for so many years
that the people are now in open re-
volt against you. / am. sir.
Every respectfully yours,
81. II. GIBSON,
chairman Progressive Party
Dismisses Jenneos.
Mr.. GIBSON also shortly diSmisses n
Jenness, register Of the state land Of
flee, who sought to inject himself in
to the campaign in an open letter pub
lished in the same issue of the States
| man with the letter OF Mr.. Peterson
! This he does in short statement
which is as follows:
Register Jenness, Of the state land
board, seeing his Job endangered by
I
loudly in the Statesman for Septem.
! Der "a.
MIR. Jenness is so well known, II
Canyon county as reactionary poll
| tician and pie-counter man that 1t Is
not surprising that he should attack
any one who advances Progressive
| principles.
ut Is rather surprising to some
| however, that he has the unmitigateG
gall to question the veracity of Sena-
tor Borah's statement that IS dele
gates were stolen from Colonel Roose-
welt at the Chicago convention. Sen.
ator Borah was on the ground; he sat
personally at every session OF the ma,
tional committee passing on the con-
tests; he has one Of the greatest lega
| minds the west has ever produced
and when he says that 7s delegates
were stolen, as he did in his Meridian
speech. the evidence is conclusive ant
sufficient for the people OF this state
1.-The fact that Register Jenness ha
the nerve. under the circumstances. t.
publically ask the people Of Idaho te
accept his denial in the face of Sena
tor Borah's flat assertion marks hin
as presumptuOus butter-in, and
brands any statement he makes a,
wholly unreliable and unworthy Of at
tention.
Just at present am cunning fo
bigger game than peanut politicians
Of the type OF N. Jenness. Neithe
he nor / are issues in this campaign
and see no good reason why should
waste time either upon him. or an!
Of his caliber."
|YEGGMEN WARNED