The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-09-10
BINGHAM COUNTY REFLECTS
CREDIT UPON ITSELF

BINGHAM COUNTY REFLECTS
CREDIT UPON ITSELF
In last Tuesdays election, the PEG.
pie OF Bingham county did something
that was more to their credit than
most of them knew. 1t might more
properly be said that the Republi-
cans of the county did it, but anyway
it was done, and done emphatically
They repudiated fellow named
Dickinson, who with his friend
Ailshie had done things to disgrace
and disrupt the party that had hon.
ored them. For six or seven years
this paper has been opposed to hon
oring Judge Ailshie with any office
outside of the judiciary, and a month
ago we brought some of the rea-
sons to the attention of the people.
This fellow Dickinson spread chal-
lenge proposing to let the matter of
Ailshie's nomination hinge on the
so-called Thego case and this paper
accepted the challenge and did not
review the larger offences of Judge
Ailshie against his state and party.
but encouraged people to remember
the Trego case" in their voting.
To what extent they did this can
not be known, but 1t is q fact that
they rejected Ailshie by vote of
two to one, and In some of the COM
munities, where Dickinson went
about. In Ailshle's behalf, they not
only gave Ailshie a low vote, but
also gave q low vote to the men who
travelled with Dickinson. People
were profuse In their expressions to
the effect that II Ailshie was that fell
lowfs friend and compatriot it was
all they wanted to know; they would
vote for Gooding.
OF course the editor of this little
sheet Is pleased, but that has moth
ing to do with the larger affairs Of
this state and county. We now take
up a matter we wanted to tell people
about before election, and which we
left out of the question in accepting
Dickinson's challenge to Just remem-
Der the Trego case in deciding the
nomination for the senatorship.
In the campaign of two years ago,
D. w. Davis and Moses Alexander
were candidates for governor and
each was making the strongest cam
paign he could. Many other men of
the opposing parties were pitted
against each other in a close con-
test. At critical time in the cam
paign, Judge Ailshie, the man who
had been honored by the Republi-
cans, and who was so prominently
spoken of as the chief justice of the
supreme bench, unexpectedly rushed
into print with the startling state
ment that there were Sinister influ-
ences" at work in this state that
were dangerous to the public inter-
est and which should have been pre-
vented and controlled or curbed by
the men in power.
He did not state clearly just what
he meant, but by inuendo cast the |
most serious reflections upon Repub-
lican officials, for nearly everything |
was Republican but the governor.
People waited expectantly for the |
second section of the attack, and it
did not come. Leading men of the
state wrote or wired him. asking
what dark secrets he had within his
palm so vital to the public interest,
and he was coy and noncommital.
The Democratic press of the state
the Ailshie thunder and it
was heralded broadcast, shaking peo-
pies faith in Republicans. 1t. was
fine campaign material. for them,
coming as it did, from prominent
who had so long been in
favor and had assembled to the posi-
ton of chief justice.
Leading Republicans, desiring to
learn what was the matter with the
men of their party, went to Judge
Ailshie to have close conference
with him and If possible learn the
whole unwelcome truth, but. he was
cold and firm and said he thought
It best not to say anything Eat this
time." He had stirred a hornets
nest for some purpose. Up to the Il
end of the campaign he made no ex-
olanation and no apology. The Re-
publican candidate for governor was Fl
defeated, and so were a number of /,
he others. His utterance contrib
tied largely to that effect, and in the
.wo years that have elapsed, he !
las neither made definite charges to
,ear out the original inuendoes, nor
Uttered word to clear D. w. Davis I
Tor any other man of the cloud that {
lis charges cast upon them. He be- {
onged to a clique of judges and I
politicians who were willing to at {
ack mems character in a sly way IL +,
hey could get away with it and this &
vas in line with their methods. D.
v. Davis and other strong, clean men &
uttered from his attack and they I
i've to see Ailshie mistrusted and I
The Republicans of the state have J
hown by their votes that they do
lot want Ailshie in the senate. They I
AVE shown that they want Frank r.
3ooding, whom Ailshie cast reflec-
ions upon. They have shown that
or governor they want d. w. Davis,
whom Ailshie aided in defeating two {
ears ago. The Republicans of this
ounty, where Ailshie and his friends
bought he had such a strong fellow
ng, have shown that they are not
trong for him, and when an attempt