The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-05
MAKING DIR. WILSON AN ISSUE IN STATE POLITICS.

The Boise Statesman which enjoys extensive in
by grace only Associated Press connections
is forcing the DR. Wilson incident politics department
working fever heat its caroonst sitting nights and
has appealed to its fiction bureau for first aid
The Statesman has employed device known to certain
and not much respected class OF news perVete to make 1T appear
that Dr. Wilson's injury the result Of deliberate attempt his
alleged offen condoned by
that In its characteristic neeng phraseoogy it
which easy gather Statesman for political effect
the present moment if for no other reason would take the position
forthwith The parents Of the boys ON the border Will be apt
to think this proposition over
examine the facts:
DR.. Wilson injured Cshot down the Statesman puts m
in the leg and mfcng doubt ugly but dangerous wound
Crhe Statesman headlines Monday implied that DR. Wilson's cond
ton was critical although the lead was not borne out by
the dispatch which olowed DIR Wilson at removed to the
hospital which he will be confined for perhaps days The
Statesman lays no little stress upon the doctors suffering from
painful wound its efforts popular indignation whereas
on his nonb for his home in Twin Fails in ten davsG At the time
of the shooting Dr. Wilson at the railway station awaiting the
Across from the depot and the tracks ON the Mexican side of the
border from the vicinity bank
struck DR. Wilson Who fired it. who fired why
fired questions that answered by Major Carroll in his tee
Gaping Mexican prisoner which with the Associated Press
count of the official report of General Pmmer the depart
How different from the Statesman fiction!
How different from the vivid tale of the Mexican soldiers draw
ing lots in restaurant to determine which of them should kill the
with the boodhrsy recital that the States
gave its readers news"
version pervrng the truth to xonerate the Wilson administration
One is thsfound in the editorial
where png glory upon itself getting
while the Associated Press unable
who familiar with the workings of greatest
gathering organization the world
explanation tells the story in itself The
it furnished the Associated Press with this big scoop
flee is too funny for anything
But here the damning Statesman ac
count concerned secured for THE TIMES
CARDS entirely reliable They
could have had and should have had his possession:
First-Dr Wilson was in civilian clothes
SecondDr Wilson the crowd the depot awaiting
the train.
Third-The Sonora bank from which vicinity
half mile away from the depot
We would readers that they
pertinent of trying distinguish particular crowd
dressed the others half the distance which
the shot that hit DR. Wilson had to travel.
We would readers per
sonay acquainted with DR. Wilson, that they inquire of themselves
whether he the type whom anybody
DR. Wilson the being
looking for trouble; who the enmity
DR. Wilson of the quiet plain type that makes friends
with all of his and
the his friends and his medical profession That
Aexicans out get DR.. Wilson,
is in itself too silly for serious consideration
That of these facts which the Statesman
the degree that have the Statesman should atemp
public passion to the limit to which the Statesman
deavorng drive result the deanot njury-and
manning very of dahos boys punish people
uneduated mcivzed poverty stricken and half
sympahized with than maacred
lacking strong enough language to properly condemn