Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-26
MOODY HAS
OPPOSITION
DEMOCRATS AT
STANDPOINT SAID TO OP-
POSE MOODY
MCBRIDE AFTER WARDENSHIP
Bonner County Commissioner-elect
Said to Have Higher Ambitions.

DR.. Charles F. Moody, of Hope,
Idaho, who was appointed adjutant
general of the Idaho militia when
the Idaho troops were ordered to
the Mexican border, was elected as
representative to the legislature
from Bonner county at the general
election and is now an active can
didate for speaker of the house.
Secretary of State George R. Bar
ker was in Standpoint last week and
the following appearing in the Pend
d'Oreille Review Of last Friday I'M
mistakably comes from one familiar
with conditions in political circles
both in Standpoint and Boise:
DR.. C. S. Moody, adjutant general
and member-elect of the next house,
was up from Boise the first of the
week. 1t is related that the doctor
socialist-democrat-solder naturalist
was here on a little private bust
ness.
About five minutes after the cleo
ton returns were in last month the
announcement of the doctors candi
dacy for speakership of the next
house was made through the gov
ernor's medium, the Boise Capital
News. 1t was stated that Governor
Nose had been so we'll impressed
with the adjutant generating of the
Bonner county physician and the
doctor had so well established him
self in good graces of the inner po-
litical consciousness of the States
chief executive" that Nose had al
most instinctively blown his name
in the doctors bottle and given
the Bonner county candidates can
didacy all the prestige of a gov
ernor's backing.
And so it came forth as a royal
edict that the speakership of the
Idaho house was to remain right
where it belongs and where it has
been, 10, these many years; from the
time when Paul Clagstone was on
earth to the time of our own Bert
| Conner, who didn't come within a
row of APPLE trees of being the next
speaker when he didn't come with
in row of apple trees of being
elected a legislator a few weeks ago.
In fact it was so we'll agreed by the
governor and the adjutant general
that DR.. Moody should be speaker
that after a few days featuring of
the important fact by the Boise
dailies the incident was taken as a
closed one and the doctor dropped
the title of adjutant general and
was hailed as speaker" by those
who desired to convey a subtle COM
pliment.
But, WOW! The state democracy
had forgotten that Bonner county
had elected two doctors to the legis-
lature and that while doc" Moody
was being elected to the lower house
"Doc" Jackson was being elected to
the upper house, and that doctors
are as prone to get along in peace
and harmony in the same commune
ty, or the same county for that
matter, as are two grand opera
singers at the Metropolitan opera
house in little old New York.
And so doc" Moody came al
, the way from Boise and Nogales t.
see doc" Jackson and it is related
by good local democrat who know.
all about it that the two "docs'
didn't get any nearer together ovel
the one "doc's desire to be speaker
than if they had been two cats hang
ing over a clothesline. And wha
is more, not only is doc" jackson
in violent opposition to doc" Moo
dy's speakership plan but it is re
lated by the same high authorit.
! just quoted that Henry Ward Beech
err Hitchcock, President Wilson's per
:, sonal representative in Sandpoin
and also member-elect to the mex
house Though the fact was almos
lost sight of, doc" Mody made s
much noise about his being elected
n takes kindly to the "Doc" Jackso-
: prescription for doc" Mody and i
I. energetically shaking the bottle
S In fact, it is related that Beeche
n has issued the ukase as forme
e county chairman of the socialist
S democrat-8-hour-law party in Bon
r ner that Moody is to be a "neve
t is it."
f All of which means that doc
: Jackson and B. Hitchcock are OF
}. posing Moody's candidacy for tn
{. speakership and are grooming tn