The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-16
WHY ELECT A MAN
LIKE AILSHIE
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will know that Gooding knows what
he is talking about and Ailshie has
only a smattering of it. Gooding
knows how to run a farm, a ranch,
a coal mine, a railroad he knows
how to enact laws in a legislature
or in congress he knows the depart
jments at Washington and he knows
the relations of business to funda-
mental law. Ailshie knows how to
shake hands politely, he has the gift
of smooth speech, he enters lodge
room with smooth familiar tread
born of much experience, he can
address the lodge and touch up their
sentiments nicely and he can do his
part we'll at the banquet; but he
couldn't milk cow nor harness a
horse, he mas little or nothing in
common with the man and the family
that do the everyday work of the
world, and if he undertook to draft
laws to apply to their practical af-
fairs he would have to get some
practical man to help him and he
would be blind to any jokers that
such man might slip into the bill.
If Judge Ailshie were politically
honest, which he is not, if he had
not been linked up with political
crooks, which he has, if he were as
active and practical man as Good
ing, which he never will be, the peo-
pie of Idaho would need only to
know how he conducted his maneu-
vers with the legislature in 1918 in
10 N bot -
to relegate him forever to the back
ground.
If there is anything the American
people want kept clean and honest
it is the courts. The fundamentals
of our government provide means
for the humblest citizen to go be-
fore the tribunals and get redress
the same as merchant-prince.
When Judge Ailshie was chief justice
of the supreme court of this state
and entered the race against j. H..
Brady for the United States senate,
he lacked only a little of securing
enough votes in the legislature to
elect him. at the same time there
were important suits pending in the
supreme court and attorneys and
clients complained that they could
get no action. 1t had been suspected
for months that the chief justice
might be delaying these suits for
political purposes, but it seemed such
a monstrous thing to do, men hest
tated to speak of it. But while the
senatorial contest was at it's height,
men spoke Matters became so glar-
ing that men sweat and swore over
the choice that was held up to them.
1t was changed by many litigants,
that overtures were made to them
to get them to see that activity on
their part to influence men to switch
over to Ailshie from Dewey, Morri-
son, Babb, Hamer, Nugent or some
of the candidates commanding only
q small vote, would be appreciated"
by Judge Ailshie . 1t was charged
that men all over the state, and -es-
pecially men in north Idaho, who
had cases in the supreme court, had
It put up to them with much fervor,
that it was only natural for them
to expect that any pressure they
brought to bear upon their represent
alive in the legislature in behalf of
q candidate for the senate might re-
dound to their benefit when decisions
were written or when cases were
called for hearing. Lawyers and
clients whose cases had been de-
TERED for long periods for no visible
reason saw enough to bring the con-
,lusion that the chief justice was
throwing improper things on OF the
political lever to bring about his
own election.
1t was charged that Brady used
money in his efforts to get news
papers to say complimentary things
about him at the time. If he did
ne at least used his own money, not
he money or property or rights of
other men engaged in litigation try
ng to secure what belonged to them.
In the great world struggle now
n progress in which the United
States is shouldering the burdens of
,wenty nations and acting the part
If big brother to the best peoples
If the earth; in the period of recon-
,truction that will follow the war;
Turing all the stirring times when
and constructive states
are so sorely needed, Idaho
should blush to consider such a man
Is Ailshie for it's highest positions
when men of the Gooding and Borah
,aliber are at our service in our
highest Legislative hody