Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1916-09-01

ca of the applicant for a place on
the ticket at the primary election to
be held next Tuesday, If judgment
can be rendered by noting the num-
ber of applicants for nomination that
have thronged its streets and public
buildings during the past two or
three weeks. Many of those who have
made extensive campaigns apparent
ly gather at the capital city to get
a lineup on results from all parts
of the state. 1t is difficult for the
ordinary man to determine just why
the candidates at the primaries have
the idea SO strongly in mind that
more is likely to be known here as
to the probable results than any
where else, unless it be that this
being the clearing house of political
desires during the sessions of the
legislatures, it should be all the time.
IL there is any basis for this faith
so oddly expressed, it is apparently
not finding concrete expression late
ly. OF all the candidates for the
various nominations for state offices
the guesses as to successful candi-
dates that are being made are as
numerous as the candidates them
selves. Evidently just one important
proof is being brought out through
the gathering of the ambitious. That
is, that the state will be strongly for
Hughes in November; that the vote
will be much larger than formerly
and that the entire republican state
ticket will be elected by larger ma
jorities than have been given that
ticket since the election in 1903.
From all parts of the state comes
the news that this is a republican
year-that it's policies and candi-
dates both fill the public eye to the
satisfaction of the great mass of
the voters, and that the obsession
y which took so many stallwart mem
e bers of the party into progressiyism
in 1912 has passed away, and with
out flourish of trumpets the old con
nection has been resumed, to tn
great satisfaction of those who vote
for Taft and those others who fol
lowed into another camp.
The other important truth that is
being impressed on the people OF
the capital city by the strangers with
in the gates from the furthermost
parts of the state is that Governor
Alexander is no longer an idol oi
the people-that he has been weigh
ed in the balance of his promise tC
the people in 1914 and has beer
proved wanting, and they will hayt
no more of it, This changed condl
tion has not come about through any
impression that has gained grount
that the governor is not honest, bu
upon a firm conviction that hs'
grown in the minds of the citizens
of the state that he lacks in compe
tency-that there exists a constitu
tional disability to appreciate the &C
tvaAa of "a ", n
mind and soul, and that though h,
may prate of his desire to protec
the defenceless from unjust aggres
sion,, his acts do not tally with hi
words There are instances OF tn
truth of this claim coming up fron
day to day. Commencing with hi
insistent promise that he would saw
the tax payers of the state one mil
lion dollars during his two years o
administration, which has frittere
out until 1t is impossible to discove
any saving whatever, he has show
an inability to appreciate the Great
i've and formative value of the form
er state activities in connection wit
the states educational and reforms
tory or charitable institutions.
Residents of one portion of tn
state are pointing ont where a sma
- appropriation was provided, but W
toed, would. if permitted, have save
them many times it's amount in tn
living of their business lives durin
the two years. Those at the head
state institutions claim that niggart
liness has so reduced the efficiency
institutions in which all are interes
ed that efficiency is minimized an
that within short time addition
heavy appropriations for upkeep ar
replacement must be made.
Political Acuteness Suggested
A little bit of political sharp pra
tice it is claimed and admitted
some OF the leaders has been a
tempted by the Alexanderites in Al
county during the past ten days.
this county there is one branch
the progressiyes as dry as the pr
verbal desert of Sahara" AIexa
der and his friends felt that the su
port of these good people was W.
worth having and so the plan W
made to induce the prohibitions
who are to meet In nominating ca
Gus here on Sept 5th, to nomina
as their candidate for governor I
present incumbent of that high
flee. Under the present election Ia
votes cast for Alexander as a pl
hibitionist would be counted
Alexander as the democratic nor
nee. It is reported that Alexant
gave his own consent for the ear
ing out of the plan. that the den
Gratis were willing to see the pro
bitionists pull their chestnufs ont
the fire and that all that vas la