The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-09-11
SENATOR FIELDS SWAN SONG.

Standpoint Review: Senator Fields, I
who ought immortal glory in the last
legislative session, has sung his swan I
/ song at Moscow and closed his career
as editor of the Moscow Post. In /,
bidding goodbye to his Moscow pub
lie nd gives a resume Of his life as 7
the leader of the political uplift and I
ACCUSES the powers" of getting /
him" by influencing the patronage !
without which he could not subsist.
Senator Fields swan song is very |
good reading, for George can both |
talk and write.
In regard to his senatorial eXper-
ienceA he lifts the veil and reveals
the workings of his innermost soul
He says he event to Boise via Port
land, ! and zen route pondered the sit
uation." He considered long and pa
tiently between meals in the diner
whether or no he should give himself
up I'd the System" and become "a
great and shining light in Idaho poll
tics Or flount the system" and the
whole bloody works and stand on the
hilltop of defiance. The hilltop fin
ally won. No doubt if George had
taken the usual route to Boise with
out going way round by Portland and
thus allowing his mind to ponder too
deeply upon the problems confront
ing him he would have just been an
average legislator, ready to stand
in with the System" Maybe it
was too long a course of pie on the
O.-W. r. & N. that led him to think
that all the other members of the leg
islature were going to be criminals
and that he was the only white and
pure spot in that assemblage of state
law makers. A man who gives his di-
gestion over to a railroad diner from
Moscow to Portland and then from
Portland to Boise is in condition when
he arrives at the state capital to think
time out Of joint and his fellow mort
ais just out of jail. Perhaps it was
Georges digestion that made him see
SO many blue aspects to the political
horizon.
=. When the senator got to Boise he
: foun nd the System" ready to kill his
bills because he had arrived with 9
! Crouch and was cunning for all who
:. did not see through his diner spec
= tacles, oblivious of the fact that al
: the legislators had not come to Bois'
, by so circuitous route as he ant
, Thus had not eaten so much diner pie
- They were still able to see the per
:, spective without having their liver
4. suggesting that the perspective wa
"a awry and needed balance and putting
back and a few other things done t
no 1t.
ID The senator says that his attitud
10 was one of independence" and tina
n his bills were killed because he di
, not submit to the system 1t
"a possible that Senator Fields bills wei
"a killed because he thought no othe
b = senator's bill was worth his consi'
- Grafton and vote. This might hav
&, been the System" of which he con
,r. plains.
I'd But when man goes to Boise viii
a his system" full of diner pie an
- runs up against another system,
of why should he accuse the other "sy
a. tenn" of all the crimes in the dec
10 logue? 1t may have been George
so System" that was all at fault.
70. Anyway we are sorry he took tia
>, long trip around by Portland and gay
ia the system" such a long time
t. soak into his. system For Geore
m ID a pretty good fellow and when
~. gave his attention wholly to his new
rio paper and made that stand for h
so ''uplift" ideas instead of runnin
nd around trying to be politician an
in eating dining car pie and getting a
q out of whack with himself and ever
of body else he was making good Il
nd himself and was quite an ornamel
To his town.
he The "uplift'' sometimes gets
strangle hold and it takes a good ma
,le to keep on top of it when it become
in rambunkious as it did in George
he case. And especially does the "u
W. lift" sometimes jolt the "uplifter
he when he mistakes his own vanity fl
,st the "uplift."