Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-09-18

Editor Journal:
The medicine mixers and schemers
of the Lincoln county Democrats seem
to have prepared some doses that
their party has gagged at and refuses
to swallow. Early in the campaign
they arranged to leave certain places
on their ticket vacant with the under
standing that certain Republicans
favored would have clear sailing into
office, the consideration of the deal
being that its promoters, who were
candidates themselves, should have
Republican aid in their aspirations.
1t should be said that an aspiring Of
ce-holding Democrat in Shoshone
and one other Democrat attorney at
Jerome We're the prime movers in this
transaction. the rank and file of the
party having no part in it at all nor
giving it countenance or support
The same sinister influence planned
to pull down George Redmon and
substitute another candidate for sher-
if in his place, but Redmon would
not pull down and so the other candi-
date was not even nominated after his
name and fee We're given to the Re
corder SO likewise it was arranged
with respect to the vacancies to be
left where they would do the most
good for the mixers, but this plan,
too, went awry and the ticket was
filed up at the primaries. Since then
the same influences have been at worl.
as upon Redmon before the primaries
to induce the nominee to get off the
ticket but that too has failed and the
Democrats responsible for the at
tempted deals that have been are still
roundly denounced for their part in
them.
Meanwhile it has transpired that
at least two of the Democratic candi-
dates named without opposition in the
primaries, Messrs. Rhine and Bowler,
were put on the ticket to get them out
Of the way as candidates for the Sho-
shone postoffice appointment Ger
tain it is that neither Bowler nor
Rhine. high minded men as they are,
wouldn't be plant enough as postmaster
to suit in any sort of political deal
and were to be gotten rid of as can
didates in the manner indicated.
Fortunately there are Independent
men in all parties like Redmon and
Rhine and Bowler who will not stand
for such humbuggery as has been
outlined aboFa, and maybe one OF
these in the Democratic party will
come out as a contestant with the
schemers for the postoffice here in
Shoshone after all How would old
Mr.. Tom Fay, a Democratic war horse,
do for the place? Nobody could use
him either.
There was more mixing going on
here in Shoshone as well as at Jerome
In the county seat a deodorizer was
tried with the name of Bob McMahon
as a candidate for the office of County
Commissioner. OF course a man of
the sterling character of Bob Mcmahon
has no love for these schemers, while
their love for him is about the same |
as the love of the devil for holy water |
And what they will do to Mr. Nc
Mahon in the election will be a-plenty |
Down at Jerome the mixing was
nothing less than transparent hum
bug when they elected Jere Martin
on their ticket at the primary as a
Democratic committeeman, Mr. Mar
tin always having been a consistent
md effective worker in the Republican
ranks. So also was the election of
George Schwaner of Richfield, a Re-
publican also. as the Democratic
candidate for Commissioner.
There are Democrats like me who
will repudiate this sort of politics
played now solely in the interest of
double deal for selfish and sinister
,nds.
OLD HICKORY.