The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1918-12-13
Capital Correspondence

Your occasional correspondent re-
Trained from expressing his own
private opinion during the election.
Those opinions expressed IN writ
ing, without the Wilsonian diction,
would doubtless have barred the
Gazette from the mails. Our read
ers have probably considered fully
1what a blessing it is to humanity
that ones innermost ideas need
not be committed to cold type to
be gazed at by an unfeellng and an
unappreciative public.
1t was said during the campaign
that Oversmith of Moscow and the
writer took their politics too SER
iously but to them it was serious
case. Now that the election is so
happily ended it may be said that
there were no two men in the state
who joined more devouty in the
national Thanksgiving and who at
this glad season of the year are
more joyous than the individuals
above referred to-not alone becaue
the war is over but because Idaho
is still Idaho.
We have always been favorable to
woman suffrage not believing that
the fair sex would revolutionize
and purify the ballot but on the
ground that, as expressed by an
eloquent Divine: eff a woman
wants to vote letter vote" We
could however, not refrain from
expressing our sympathy for them
in the late election that they did
not make their influence felt when
such a golden opportunity presented
itself.
Senator Borah had the distln-
guished honor of preventing the
passage of the Susan B. Anthony
Amendment to the constitution OF
the United States relative to uni.
verasl suffrage. By all the rules Of
the game he should have been deci.
sively defeated. In their zeal fol
the passage of the above amend
ment, many prominent women ir
Boise made consummate asses OF
themselves and now that the sen
ator, who ruthlessly stood in theil
way, appeared for reelection in ;
suffrage state it was but natural tt
expect the said senator, if not de
feated, to at least be scared tt
death. kilograms between the twt
Capital cities flew thick and fast
Finally word came from this other
wise able senator which summed VI
the whole situation thus 81 go t,
the polls on my record'- and HI
did.
The issues were clearly defined
Never have the women of Idah'
had such a splendid opportunity t.
make their political influence felt
and it was felt, as usual, to be nil
All that we regret now is that w
did not vote for Senator Borah. Ha
we done so his election would hav
been practically unanimous.
The Non-Partisan League he'll
a pow WOW at St. Paul during tn
past week. Townley was re-electe
as was to be expected. The plat
form adopted is called "The Fight
ing Program" 1t is now mad
clear that the Non-Partisan Leagu
is not a farmers organization.
now advocates "a United States O
the World" a Bolshevist doctrin
pure and simple. But why DIVE
longer on this socialistic organize
tion? The people of Idaho hav
buried it so deep with an avalanch
of ballots that it can never be re-
surrected in Idaho.
The Capital City has been movin
slowly for the past six weeks OWN
to the strict quarantine on bushes
of all kinds but the ban has bee
lifted and the holiday season prom
ises to be one of unusual gaiety.
The city was under cloud du
ing the past week owing to the vel
sudden death of Bishop Funstel
The whole city was IN mournin
and his funeral services, conducte
by the Bishop of Spokane and tt
Bishop of Wyoming, were large
attended. Bishop Funsten had bee
in active service in the Episcop;
church in Idaho for nearly twent
years. His remains were taken
Richmond, Virginia for burial.