The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-03-10
SOME POLITICAL NEWS

BOISE Is Governor Alexander
riding for a fall with his two dis
luminaries, Senator Jerry
Day. of Moscow, Wallace, Portland
and Northport, Washington, and Ra-
venel Macbeth, the Beau Brummell of
Idaho politics whose political home is
in Custer county, but whose real re-
sidence seems to be in Boise? Os-
tensibly Jerry Day is out after the
national committeemanship of his
party and will thus meet in collision
Robert Elder, of Occur d'Alene, who
has dispensed the post office patron
age in the state of Idaho in such a
manner that he has guessed about
the poorest man for the place in
many of the towns of the state. How
ever. there are indications notwith-
standing that Jerry and Nose are
assiduously building north and
south railroad and advertising the
fact in the governors newspaper in
Boise that they are paying all the
expenses out of their own pockets,
that the senator from Moscow, Wal
lace, Portland and Northport, Wash
ington, is playing his master false in
the matter Of political statecraft.
When Nose became governor Mike
Cunningham, a well-known Boise
newspaper man. Democrat of long
standing and high in his party's
councils, was slated for private sec
retaryship to his excellency. 1t was
even limited that Mr.. Cunningham
had been promised this job. In fact
Mr.. Cunningham has stated, as much
as one man can give his word to an
other, Nose had promised him the
place. But Mike was a newspaper
man without a job and with no paper
to sound the brass and beat the GYM
balls for the dealer in Ajax clothing.
Brcxon, of Bull Moose fame and Orc
gon Short Line transportation stra-
tegy in the last campaign, had a
newspaper or at least was employed
as editor of one and at that time
the newly elected governor, knowing
the value of advertising, snapped
horses before he got into the stream
and took Brox instead of Mike. Need
less to say, the governor thus sub
sidized the hitherto organ of the Bull
Moose party in the state of Idaho
and there cropped from out the head
of the Bull Moose the ears of the
Democratic donkey. In fact, these
ears have tiooped SO long and patient
ly now that but for the TANKS OF
the animal it might be well mistaken
by the political hunter for the Demo
cratic jackass.
But more of Mike. Mike, good
fellow that he is, stung by the dou.
BILE cross of the present titular head
of the Idaho Democracy, swore
vengeance. The Syms-Y York company
started weekly on velvety paper
and Mr.. Cunningham was employed
as its editor. The paper did not last
very long as Syms- York found thai
it costs money to run even a weekly
But while it lasted Mike Cunningham
good fellow and trenchant writer
had some fun with his excellency
He exploded 1.-The million dollar
mystery" and each Saturday as the
Syms-Y York publication came from
the press the town laughed at the
discontinue of the man who was tt
| be his chief but was not.
Now Senator Jerry Day. aspirant
for national honors in his party an(
owner of vast mining interests IL
the Occur d'Alenes which are doing
very well, thanks to the European
war, and his good friend Ravene
Macbeth have been down to Pocatel
10 where there is paper called thu
Poactello Chronicle, democratic IL
politics and hanging by its eyebrow,
upon the trapeze of possible bust
ness success. Jerry owns the Wal
lace Times-Press in the north anC
Jerry now owns the Pocatello Chron
icle in the south and his political for
tunes are thus to be exploited in {
sort Of hands across the state man
ner. But Mike Cunningham ha!
been hired to do the editing of tn.
Pocatello organ. Now the question
naturally arises If Jerry Day has EN-
ployed Nose Alexander's swor1
enemy to exploit the political for
tunes of Senator Day, is Senator Da!
looking for a thin place on the gov
ernor's neck right next to the jugu
lar vein upon which to land? If tina
shall be his scheme Mike Cunning
him will be the boy to perform thu
surgical operation with neatness ant
dispatch, for If there is anything
that Mike would enjoy it would b.
to see Jerry Day go up while Mos
Alexander goes down.
All of which suggests that Their,
may be fight on for supremacy il
the Democratic organization and tina
while Senator Day is building nortl
and south railroad with our esteeme,
governor he is also Getting ready t,
play Brutus to his Caesar?