Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1913-10-30
Paid ADVERTISEMENT
ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY.

| S"o"io IKE 10 make an announce
ment through the columns of this paner
OF my candidacy for the United States
Senate in the primaries of 1914. If
am successful in the primaries in be-
coming the candidate of the Republi
can party promise to make a vipor.
GUS fight for my election to the United
States Senate.
II was my good fortune to come to
idaho Just at the end of my boyhooJ
days. Thirty-two years ago on the
3oth day of April became resident
OF hetchum, than a mining camp. in
the Wood River country. | have seen
Idaho grow from sparsely settled ter
sntory until today it ranks as one of the
great states of the union. From the
FIRST Idaho has been kind to me. and I
love her great mountains and broad
plans, and love her people. ] have
grown up with the state and | feel that
am part OF this mighty common
wealth, for in public way have had
much to do with its growth and deve-
lopment. Having served the people of
idan0 twice as Governor and in other
public offices. know its needs and its
conditions almost as well as the bow
knows the old homestead.
cannot tell the people of Idaho in
words how much | should appreciate
the great honor of representing them
in the United States Senate. If am
elected can only promise to give them
all there. is in me as a public servant.
For the first time the people will have
an opportunity to choose their Senator
by direct vote, and l ask the support
of all good citizens of Idaho who be.
lieve me qualified to represent them in
the United States Senate.
have been Progressive in politics
long before there was any division in
the party or any talk about Pro
pressive Party. For years / have been
fighting for the control of all public
service corporations by the people, and
my record as public officer and as
a private citizen will bear me ont in
this statement.
From boyhood l have had something
to do with the political machinery of
this state. | have represented m.
county and state in State and national
conventions. l have acted in the capa-
city of county and state chairman for
my party. ! know that until few
years ago politics in Idaho were whole
some, clean and honest. / am sorry
to say that that is not true in Idaho
today. In no state in the Union is
there more deplorable condition poll |
tically than can be found in this state. |
Beginning with the Brady and O'Neil
campaign many things have been done
that are stencil in the nostrils Of |
every honest man who knows anything
about the political conditions Of Idaho.
For this l hold Mr.. Brady more res
ponsible than any other individual.
1t is not strange that men of, ordi-
nary means hesitate to enter the poll
teal arena of Idaho on the Republican
side of the issue. For the first time | |
find myself hesitating to become can
aiditc, for ] know that through the ex-
travagant use of money condition
exists in this state that makes it EN-
for the honest man to be-
come a candidate for so high an office
as that of United States Senator. In
my expenditures | shall keep well with
in the law, for | will not periure my
soul for any office. | will not pay that
price. | am going to try to bring back
.lean,, decent politics within the Repub-
lean party.
Nor shall | change my residence. My
nome will always be at Goodng, County
IF Gooding, State of Idaho, for I be-
ieve that am big enough to represent
Idaho in the United States Senate and
'eside at Gooding While ] was COVER
nor | knew no north or south Idaho,
'Hu inc man WIN hHoWs noItn VI
south in this state is not big enough to
,epresent any part of it in the United
States Senate or anywhere else. Idaho
s mighty state with wonderful re-
sources in agriculture, horticulture,
mining, timber and live stock. The
southern part of the state, as well as
he north, has all these resources. True
he resources of the north in mining
md timber are larger than those in the
outh, yet no man can represent the
lorthern part Of this state well with
nut representing the southern part of it
veil, or the southern part without the
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