Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-20
H|NDhAN REPLIES
TO THE CHARGES
MADE BY KICKS
Democratic County Chair
man Defends the Action
Taken by Committee and
His Own Procedure.

A. G. Hindman, chairman Of the Ada
county Democratic central committee,
takes exception to some of the state
ments published in an interview with
w. A. Kicks, concerning the meeting
of the central committee last Saturday
and various actions upon the party of
the chairman and his party associates.
MIR. Hindman replies to Mr.. Kicks In
the following manner:
"The Democratic county central
committee Of Ada county met on last
Saturday and elected 80 delegates to
the state convention at Pocatello.
More than two thirds of the county
committee concurred in this action.
Both prior and subsequent to the meet
ing of the committee the newspapers
of Boise gave more or less publicity to
this meeting. Although the tenor Of
much of this publicity was unfavorable
to the majority of the county commit
tee, and particularly tended to reflect
upon the state committeeman for Ada
county and upon myself as county
chairman, no effort whatever was made
upon our part to reply to these articles
or to counterfeit their effect, nor did
we have the slightest desire to engage
in a newspaper controversy. Nor is
such our inclination at this time. Fur
ithermore, ] desire to say that the ac-
count Of the committee meeting as
published in the Sunday Capital News
was eminently fair and impartial.
However, since, the meeting of the
committee there has been published
in the Capital News as an interview
statement of w. A. Kicks of Boise rela-
tive to the action of the county COM
mittee on Saturday last, which state
Inent so grossly misrepresents the
facts, and seeks to place me as county
chairman in such an unfavorable light
that in justice to myself and the ma
jority of the county committee a
statement may not be out Of place.
Authorized to Fill Vacancies.
when the county committee was
organized, on Sept. II, 1914, resolu-
tion was adopted by vote of 10 to 10
authorizing the chairman of the COM
mittee to fill all vacancies in the coun-
ty committee which then existed or
which might thereafter occur. The
statutes of the state of Idaho expressly
authorize u county committee to con-
fer this power upon its chairman. No
thus conferred resides in the county
chairman until revoked by the power
that conferred it. Mr.. Kicks states in
his interview that this power OF APP
pointment was revoked by the county
committee on March is, 1915. This
was the date of the alleged meeting of
the county committee, concerning
which there has been considerable dis
cussion and publicity. The facts as to
this alleged meeting are not in dis
pute. Those who were present and
those who were sfudiously prevented
from being present agree as to the
manner in which said meeting was
called and what took place thereat On
the evening of March Is. a few mem
bers Of the committee met at the city
hall in Boise. Hay many We're present
in person or by proxy, / do not know. I
made several requests for this infor-
nation, but was denied it. l knew
nothing of the meeting until read of
II in the newspapers. At least seven
committeeman residing in Boise, all of
whom could have been reached by tele-
phon7 within the space of Is minutes
knew nothing of the meeting until it
had been held. Several committeeman
who attended. or permitted themselves
TO be represented by proxy, have in
formed me that they did SO on the I'M
Outstanding, brought about by the mis-
representation of others, that the meet
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