Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-13

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inquiries tie salt Lake Tribune il discussing az pscuiAt
situation developed il the politics q this state Whereby
who second third and fourth in every other county in
the state and who carried not single county ii the state
save the seven that went practically soidly for him.
We surprised at the Salt Lake papers stupidity
also discusses the influence of the beet sugar trust in
the state suggested by the Capital News Why does it
not inquire why the influence OF the beet sugar trust
not manifest in Nampa Meridian and other places con-
tguous to the sugar factory at Nampa it in Ere
mont Bonneville and Bingham countiesY
Such inquiry would be just pertinent to the beet
sugar side of the controversy would be Oregon
Short Line side of it.
As the Tribune very well knows the political influence
the Oregon Short Line in Idaho and in Utah is not ex
apen Fem hoy that Td Try infer
gon Short Line among the most independent and in
tegent voters of any class Of citizens any state This
is particularly true of its engineers conductors brakemen
and others whose occupation takes them from place to
place. and the Capital News in referring to the influence
of the railroad for moment supposed that any
would include this class of railroad employees in the list
subject to such influence Some Of them of course are
influenced We have that influence exerted and have
known of its effects directly But such instances
fewer than the instances wherein small merchants
professional men, stock shippers and others are in
fluenced by small favors which would make most Of
blush to think that weak to consider them at
ALL We know merchants who would almost lay down their
lives for the Oregon Short Line because of the pride they
feel at having been the recipient of such small favor
trip pass reduction in the weight the rate of
kind of small merchants but neither there many of the
actual employees of the Short Line who take their politics
by order.
That is why the same influence noticeable and so re-
markable the southeast not likewise so noticeable
or remarkable elsewhere along the line Of that road
It is the why the beet sugar interests
not manifest elsewhere in the state.
The truth of the matter is there several thousand
votes in the counties referred to- just there
several thousand votes in the state of Utah. that take
pride in their reactionary tendencies and in their fidelity
to these two great interests They actually and really be-
ieve that their prosperity is dependent absolutely upon
prosperity of these two great interests and accordingly
when those in authority these great interests tell them
that the election of the Democratic party Would be bene
fetal to them done two years ago. they only
tell them that is to their interests to elect the Repub
ticket they just willingly and just gladly troll
over and obey the injunction to vote it straight" Some
of these employees of the two great corporations but by
far the greater number of them directly connected
in any with them They simply content to live
the life and to pass to their children and their chill
drens children after Them which condemns them to sub
Isst like Lazarus of DID, upon the crumbs that fall from
the rich corporation tables.
And warships called for? And to be sent all
way to Turkey this tme2 Really these scattered
around all over the world getting to be nusaace!
After taking look at the governments report of this
years bumper crops consumption must be convinced that
it will have to sprint little to keep ahead Of production