The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-12-14
CROWD PIE COUNTER.
Choice Plums ParcelIed Out to Demo.
Gratis at Select Conference.


Gratis at Select Conference.
Although names of applicants for
state patronage were not discussed at
the Democratic conference Sunday,
the list of those who have applied is
in the hands of the state central COM
mittee, as follows:
Public Utilities Commission =
Thomas f. Buckner, Boise; John W.
Cage, Pocatello.
State Land Commissioning. H.
Hasbrouck, Custer county; Marion j.
Kerr, st. Anthony; l. A. Smoot, st.
Anthony; S. P. Worthington, Cassia
county.
Warden of the Penitentiary-J. r.
Compton, Boise; Frank Kendall, Twin
Falls.
Register of Land Board Milton G.
Cage, Boise; NJ. C. Stott, Boise.
Pure Food Commissioner-M. S.
Parker, Boise.
Assistant Attorney General-A. c.
Hindman, Boise: Roy o. Johnson, Mos
cow; D. L. Carter, Cambridge; James
Harris, Weiser.
Each application, it was decided,
must have the unqualified endorse
ment of the county organization of
the applicants home county and
must then be passed upon by the
state central committee.
A fight between Harry L. Day and
John F. Nugent for the nomination
for United States senator in 1918 at
the hands of the Democrats of Idaho
overshadows the cutting of the state
patronage pie by Bourbons, and ex-
plains the failure of the party leaders
to agree on appointments when they
met Sunday in the governors office at
the statehouse, it was said Monday
by prominent party men.
Nugent, they say, has quarreled
with the state central committee over
the distribution of patronage, refus-
ing to sit in the party conferences IN
less he is permitted to name his own
friends to office That attitude ex-
planned his absence from the meeting
last Sunday, and was directly res
ponsible for the gathering of party
leaders in the governors office the
previous Sunday, November 26, when
he was present, it was admitted Mon
day by the Democrats.
The governor has not quarreled
with Nugent, but is said to be warm
ing up to the anti-Pence faction lead
ers with a view to playing the game
according to accepted rules, despite
the fact that he feels that the state
central committee failed to support
him at different times during the
campaign. The anti-Pence faction won
control of the state organization at
the September meeting of the state
central committee Former Governor
Hawley, Frank Martin, DR.. W. R.
Hamilton, Harry L. Day and Dan L.
Greenburg are prominent leaders in
the anti-Pence faction.
Day is said to have been stung with
a desire to go to the United States
senate. Nugent, leader in the Pence
faction, has long nursed such an am
bition. According to reliable infor-
nation, Governor Alexander has been
shelved for four years, as senator
ial candidate, after which time he will
be permitted to make the race against
Brady or any other candidate the
Republicans may bring out for the
senate.
That is the situation as it now exists
prominent Democrats admit, but they
fear Alexander may develop a desire
to stand for the senate two years
hence. The governor is saying little, |
but he is spending much time sparr-
ing with leaders in both factions, US
ing all the influence he can bring to |
bear to heal the breach between NJ
gent and the state central committee. |
Two years ago Nugent quarreled |
with the governor over the division of |
spoils and until few weeks before |
the recent election he did not go to
chief executives office. The two then |
buried the Ratchet at the urgent re-
quest of other Democrats, in the in !
terest of party harmony.
Nugent got into the harness and
worked faithfully for the Bourbons,
in return, it is said, to name |
the majority of the new appointees.
His action in demanding control of
the party whip after he had been
defeated at the state central commit
tee meeting here in September, is said
to have aroused the ire Of the anti
Pence faction. The meeting of No
vember 20 was called, party leaders
now admit, for the purpose of patch
ing up truce between Nugent and
those with whom ne had become es-
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