The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-08-31
State Capital Clearing House
for Political Desires, Says
Correspondent.
NOSE FOUNDWANTINC
"Million Dollar Saving" Frit-
tered Away Until Moth
ing Remains.

Boise, August 2S-Boise is the Nee
ca of the applicant for place on the tick
ct at the primary election to be held
week from tomorrow, II Judgment
can be rendered by noting the number
of the 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 apparently gath
er 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 primary should have the idea
so strongly in mind that more is like
ly to be known here as to probable
results than anywhere else, unless
it be that this being the clearing house
of political desires and ambitions dur
ing the sessions of the legislature, 1t
should be all the time.
If there Is any basis for this faith
so oddly expressed, it is apparently
not finding concrete expression re-
Gently. OF all the candidates for
the various nominations for state Off
GERS the guesses as to successful candi-
dacies that are being made are as
numerous as the candidates themselves.
Apparently just one important truth is
being brought out through the gather
ing 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 en-
tire republican state ticket will be cleo
ted by larger majorities than have
been given candidates on that ticket
since the election in 1904. From all
parts Of the state comes the news that
this is a republican year-that its poll
cies and candidates both fill the public
eye to the satisfaction of the great
mass of the voters, and that the obses-
sion which took so many stalwart
members of the party into progressive
ism in 1912 has passed away, and with
out flourish of trumpets the old connec-
tion has been resumed, to the great
satisfaction of those who voted for
Taft and those others who followed
Roosevelt into another camp.
The other important truth that is be-
ing impressed on the people of the cap
ital city by the stranger within the
gates from the furthermost parts Of
the state is that Governor Alexander
is no longer the idol of the people
that he has been weighed in the bal
ances Of his promises to the people In
1914 and has been proved wanting, and
they Will have none of him. This
changed condition has not come about
through any impression that has gain
ed ground that the governor Is not
honest, but upon firm conviction that
has grown in the minds of the citi-
zens Of the state that he lacks in COM
petency-that there exists a constitu-
tional disability to appreciate the ac-
tual intent of government in his mind
prate of his desire to protect the
defenseless from unjust aggression, his
acts do not tally with his words. There
are instances of the truth OF this claim
coming up from day to day. Commenc-
ing with his insistent promise that he
would save the taxpayers of the state
$1,O0O,OO0 during his two years admin
istration, which has frittered out until
1t Is impossible to discover any saving
whatever he has shown an inability
TO appreciate the creative and forma-
tive value of former state activities in
connection with the states educational
and reformatory or charitable institu-
tions. Residents of one portion of the
state are pointing out where a small
appropriation provided but vetoed
would If permitted have saved them
many times its amount in the living of
unelr business lives during the two
years Those at the head of state insti-
tutions claim that niggardiness has
so reduced the efficiency of institutions
in which all are interested, that eff
) cheney is being reduced and that within
short time additional heavy appro-
priations for upkeep and replacement
must be made.
Committeeman Must BE Elected.
/, The primary election uaf Is
supposed only chooses candidates for
, the various positions to be v-ted Ior at
the November election. But under our
election law the people belonging to the
various parties are instructed to at
: that time and place elect their political
representatives. The language of the
: law is that at the primary election held
: on the first Tuesday in September,
each voter may write in the space left
for that purpose, the name of one
qualified elector of the precinct in
) which he is voting for member of the
county central committee of the party
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