The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-05-23

The following comments in tn
Boise Statesman of last Sunday throw
an interesting light on the bitter feud
that shoulder in the ranks of tn
Idaho democracy and which are read,
to burst into flame with the openin.
OF the campaign:
Rawley, Nugent and Alexander.
Senator Nugent appears to have tn,
Governor Alexander and other demo
cratic leaders have been threatened
with defeat by the league. Former
Governor Hawley has already an
nounced his candidacy in the primar'
les for the short term in the senate
That will bring him out against Sen.
ator Nugent, and Mr.. Hawley and his
| friends have been fighting the farmers
organizations and they will keep it up
Governor Alexander win not be a can.
didate this fall, but he wants to name
the next governor. He may get be-
hind 4. A. Walters. attorney general
W. I. Dougherty. secretary of state
or ID. L. Evans, the Malad banker But
it makes little or no difference whom
he indorses, the league will fight his
candidate, and the governor and Sen
ator Nugent are expected to. combine
forces in the primaries, with view
of defeating Mr.. Hawley; and if the
governor and the senator stand to-
gether, the league probably will sup
port Senator Nugent and yet knife
his candidate for governor.
o Has Cards Up His Sleeve
Because of the break between SEN
ator Nugent and former Governor
Hawley, the democratic party will be
split into two factions this summer,
with Governor Alexander seeking to
strengthen his own machine with ma
terial taken from both Mr.. Hawley
and Senator Nugent. Both factions
want to name the next governor The
HaWley men have not determined up
on a candidate, but neither has the
Nugent faction for that matter. Gov
ernor Alexander is generally believed
to be backing r. A. Walters, but there
is nothing at hand on which the YER
acity of such statements can be es-
and, as a matter of fact, he
is not going to indorse any candidate
until he sees how the wind is blowing,
because he is said to have come from
Washington, ID. c., with an ace up his
sleeve. He wants to go to the United
States senate, and about the capitol
he is said to be DESTROYS of controll-
ing the democratic state organization
with a view of succeeding Senator
Borah in the event the senior senator
resigns year or two hence to become
q candidate on the republican ticket
for president
On Anxious Seat.
Mr.. Walters has not announced his
candidacy for governor, and while it is
expected az an early date it may
never come. At the capitol it is I'M
derstood the Nugent men are at
tempting to discourage the attorney
general from entering the guberna-
torial race. but if he comes out, the
senator and the senator's friends will
undoubtedly support him, but there is
little prospect of his getting any sup
pert from the Hawley faction.
Maybe It Will Be Evans. &.
The Hawley faction is busy seeking
a gubernatorial candidate. 1t may be
d. L. Evans and again it may not be.
Frank Martin of Boise, one of former
Governor Hawley's closest friends, is
said to have agreed to manage Mr..
Evans campaign, but Mr.. Martin sell
dom talks That would indicate the
Hawley faction contemplates backing
the Malad banker. But the Days
Harry L. and Jerome J.-probably will
have voice in naming the candidate
to be brought out by the Hawley fac
ton, and they are said to be unfriend-
ly to Mr.. Evans.
Too Much Good Timber.
Mr.. Evans comes from the south
east; so does Alfred Bulge, chief JUS
tice OF the state supreme court, who
comes up for reelection this fall, and
Harvey Alfred, director of the state
farm markets bureau. who is ambi-
tious to go to congress from the sec
ond district; and too many candidates
from the southeast may make the run
ming heavy for the chief justice, who
it is understood among democrats and
alike, will have no oppo
sition in either the primaries or the
general election, for some reason or
another and it would appear that
either Mr.. Evans or Mr.. Alfred would
have to step aside.
May Compromise Here.
w. II. Dougherty will announce his
candidacy on the democratic ticket for
the gubernatorial nomination, accord
ing to plans he now entertains. He
will appear independent of either of
the factions in his party, but one
crowd or the other may find it con-
venient to indorse the secretary of
state If the attorney general does not
enter the gubernatorial race, the Nu-
gent faction would probably support
him in preference to a candidate put
out by the Hawley faction, and the