The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-08-25
THAT UGGER
CANDIDATE

IN N legislature WITH some nope VI
getting there or splitting somebody's
vote at the primary. He is a queer
jigger and if he will just keep jig
ging he may win more or less distinc-
1t will be remembered that he
went to the legislature once by the
grace of the Republican party and
the desire to elect a Republican
tor, and when it came to voting to
represent his county he voted for
the darkey. The news came as a dis
tinct shock to the people of the state
and his home county, and it was sup
posed that his career as a public
man would terminate with the color
ed incident, but he OF the home
county seemed to lack terminals, for
he got himself nominated for an Of
fee in the next campaign. To be
sure, the public had terminals at the
general election and they exercised
all their facilities.
Talk about dark endings, why a
black cat would be an electric light
compared with the final vote on this
self-appointed member Of the ANAL
gamated chair-warmers.
He Ribs EN- Up
It was quite a coincidence that
Blackfoot, the seat Of the asylum
for the insane, should have had the
distinction of furnishing a member
of the legislature that stuck out like
q sore thumb in the last senatorial
contest. The home people at first
felt disposed to amputate the thumb,
but there was Colonel Ferguson, who
said it was a house full of fools, and
the Bingham county thumb was per-
mitted to remain. 1t was said when
he came home that if he would just
make steady work his hobby they
would stand aside and let him in
dulge his hobby, but that was done
chiefly by proxy and absent treat
ment. He has a case in court once
in a while, and sometimes he
ribs it up" himself. If a man
should contract a cold while standing
in the rain waiting for a train to
pass a street crossing, and the mem
Der from Bingham" should hear OF
it, he would probably go to the man
with a cold and advise him to u
the railroad company for not having
the crossing open sooner. If some
body should slip and fall on the paw
ing or break a rib by falling over the
new curbing at Blackfoot. this mem
Der from Bingham" would probably
hunt him up to see if he could not
sue the city and get a few dollars
for his awkwardness. There is a
class of cases which no scrupulous
lawyer would take, and there is al
ways one man in Blackfoot who is
ready to snap them up and develop
them into the semblance OF a suit
in equity and get cases into court
that have no merit. This fellow is
running for a place in the legislature
at the present time and Blackfoot
neaves an amused sigh and is thank
full he was not born twins.
Fine or Superfine
Speaking of candidates, Bingham
county has one that came from Texas,
or at least he used to say he did,
and strange to say, up to the present
time. nobody has ever taken the
trouble to make any inquiry down
there to see what he was up to before
he left that state. He used to some
times mention the political maneuv-
ers that he and the niggers pulled
off during campaigns, but he doesn't
say so much about it now. He has
probably learned that it doesn't mat
ter so much where he came from as
where he is going or what he is go
ing to do after he arrives. 1t is as
If the Republican and Democratic
parties were playing that old game
of forfeit, and this candidate had put
I'D his forfeit and it was being pass
ed upon with one party sitting, and
the other standing as they do in that
old game that runs:
Heavy, heavy, what hangs Owe
your head?'
Fine or superfine?'
Fine. What shall the owner do
to redeem it,"
Walk the swamps with Peter Zee
and campaign for him."
For how long," =,
Till the seventh of November"
"Where does he get off at?'
Root Hog switch"
Soliloquy of MIR. Wantum
'I'd druther have a seat in the
senate than in the house OF repre-
sentatives because senators are more
respected and they draw better pay,
but if l can't have my druthers I'll
take the next best thing if I can get
it. 1t takes a good many votes to
get into the senate, and sometimes
people wake up and pay some atten-
ton to who is running for the house.
Lord, l hope they won't be particu-
lar this year. l slid in once on the
strength of my party vote, but the
party was pulling off some rotten
stunts in those days. His nibs around
at The Republican office has busted
up the ring since then, and people
are getting mighty foxy about politics.
IF it was down in Texas | could go
out and round up a couple O. humid
red niggers and treat them to water
melon and get them to vote right, but
these northern people go to the polls
and act funny. Talk about water
melons the members of the women's
clubs would hunt clear down the
olumn to cross out a fellows name,
and as for the men at voting time
thew might be like the 1rishman with
his first watermelon-eat the rlnd
and throw the CUTS away, they would
be so ~engrossed in knitting a Fellow;
If I only had Billy and Hyrum n
49, chic Un0T 1T