The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-22
A CAMPAIGN JOKE

The following story of campaign
circumstance at Blackfoot is going
the rounds of the press of Idaho.
Whoever wrote 1t up misunderstood
g. few points in the circumstances,
but the general run of it Is corset,
and the incidents were not without
spice and sport. Here is the story
as it ran in the Idaho Statesman of
Boise:
Got in Wrong Pew
They're telling this one on Dow
Dunning.
Dow, in the recent campaign, was
down in the southeast organizing
Jeppesen clubs. This is the Jeppesen
who imagined for time that he was
running for congress against Addison
T. Smith. Jeppesen was a Socialist
running on the Non-partisan-Demo
cratic ticket. His brand of politics
appealed powerfully to Dow Dunning.
Somebody in Idaho or Washing
ton, D. c., had commissioned Dunn
ing to organize Jeppesen clubs and
he worked hard at his job.
He Strikes Byrd TregO
In the course Of his travels he
struck Blackfoot He heard before
his arrival that the Non-partisans
had bought up Blackfoot paper. His
luck threw him into the office of
Byrd Tregos paper and he assumed
this to be the organ of Townleyism.
Without loss of a minutes time he
backed Trego, the publisher, into a
and hopes. He could accomplish his
object thru the leading Democrats
of the community, and would Trego
be kind enough to put him in touch
with the aforesaid P. DIS.
Sure Trego would. He had spent
his life in the service of others. He
knew no higher pleasure than accom-
modating fellow mortal He
thought it strange that his office,
the heart and center of last-ditch
Republicanism in Bingham county,
should be chosen for such a mission,
but he assumed that Dunning knew
what he was about land at once
started to make out list Of the P.
DIS for his visitor.
Proves Himself Sport
Now" says Dunning; II would
rather have you call them into your
office here. This is good enough for
me. There is plenty of room here
and can transact my business with
them in short order anyhow"
All right. Trego decided to be
dead game sport and he Immediately
notified the brethren and bid them
to the meeting.
But the prominent Democrats of
Blackfoot are not fools-only four or
five of them showed up at the APP
pointed time. The others knew there
was something radically wrong about
a Democratic gathering held in the
office of the Idaho eRpublican.
When it became certain that no
others would come Dunning in that
style of oratory that has made him
famous, began displaying his political
merchandise.
Then Came the Break
After telling who G. r. ,Jeppesen
was and what he represented, Dunn
ing said:
"Our main object is to defeat Ad-
Olson T. Smith. l won't say that he
has been absolutely disloyal; but !
will say that he has obstructed and
hampered the president in all his
war plans"
"Stop right there!" shot in Trego,
who was in the background to put
out the lights and lock up after the
conference. Stop right there. !
will not remain silent and listen to
such talk, and I will not permit the
use of my office for meeting where
such talk is ueed. Men who want to
question the loyalty Of Addison T.
Smith must find some other place for
their meeting and I'll have to ask
you to leave my Office.
The meeting broke up.