The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-08-20
OUR POLITICAL ARENA
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the supreme court has clarified the
situation by deciding that there is
nothing in the law ito prevent the
Non-Partisan league cuckoo from
laying it's eggs in the Democratic
nest" as a prominent Democrat puts
1t. The NOn-Partisans will under
take to capture the Democratic pri-
maries and the real Democrats Of
Idaho will undertake to prevent it.
which will provoke one of the most
Interesting primary contests in the
history of the state.
The NOn-Partisan leaders are not
so sanguine of success in the pri-
maries as they were prior to the
supreme courts decision. They
realize there are many Republicans
in the league membership who did
not join the Organization to be bar
tered politically. They also realize
that there are many Democrats in
the league who prefer Democrats to
Republicans with a hybrid label at
tached to them. The league leaders
program VIII also be interfered with,
Democratic opponents claim, by the
growing feeling of discomfort among
the general membership that the So
called league convention was cut
and dried affair pushed down their
threats like an evaporated prune and
the water of expediency subsequently
applied. They are swelling with pro-
test. One Democratic leader said:
"The leaders of the league are no.
torious for buster and abuse. We
have sufficient faith in the stability
of the rank and file of Democrats to
justify our confidence that our party
will not be contaminated as a result
of the primary election"
Hawley and the President
1t develops that when Senator
Dubois came to Idaho recently he
told friends that the president de-
sired the election of Senator Nugent,
tho he presented no written state
ment from the president or his Sec
rotary to that effect. Indeed, when
he was interviewed for publication
he did not go that far but merely
stated that the president would be
pleased with Nugent's election
which would undoubtedly be the case
II any Democrat were elected sena-
Tor from Idaho. ..
Now it develops that the president
is not so emphatic in his support of
Nugent or in his opposition to Mr..
Hawley as Mr.. Dubois attempted to
lead the public to believe. The news
comes from a high source in Wash
ington that the president has indi-
Gated in letter that he would not
be at all displeased if Mr.. Hawley
should be sent to the senate, feeling
that he would support the presidents
war measures quite as loyalty as any
other Idaho man.
Nugent to Get Off
In this connection another report |
comes from Washington that will in |
terest Idaho readers. 1t will be re-
called that Senator Nugent was
placed on the finance committee far
in advance of any seniority rights.
This preferment was engineered by
Mr.. Dubois in order to help Senator
Nugent politically in his own state,
but in Washington 1t is said to be
among Democratic lead
ers in the senate that after the No
vember election Senator Nugent will
retire from that committee and some
Democratic senator who has won a
place thereon by virtue of service
will displace him.
Allege Lack of Sincerity
Several of the editors and printers
n this part of the state have called
attention to the fact that H. F. Sam
lels the Non-Partisan candidate for
governor in the Democratic pri-
naries, has patronized St. Paul
concern in having printed pictures of
himself with which the state is being
covered. The evidence is plain, as ;
he pictures carry st. Paul i'm :
,rint ''Mr. Samuels claims to be
Interested in Idaho workmen and
IDAHO institutions and his St. Paul I
printing is pointed out as not har- :
nonizing with the attitude he takes
n his speeches. said a Boise union
)rinter. Many union workmen are
Employed in Idaho print shops, which
would have welcomed this work as l
] means of adding to the facilities
or providing payrolls.' a
Casualty Insurance q
Many laborers of the state and not g
BILE organ -zed labor have favored /
state monopoly of casualty insur-
nee and these league leaders have :
retended to be in sympathy with
hat policy. 1t develops, however,
hat the Non-Partisan league itself 4
as taken out insurance for its en-
loyees, such as organizers, etc., in
he Maryland Casualty company. The
} cover this is No. S04 and is filed E
18th the state insurance manager. II
of this action has created 10
'idespread adverse criticism of the
,ague on the part of laboring men. ~