The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-08-11
POLITICAL DEMONSTRATIONS.

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POLITICAL DEMONSTRATIONS
A friend of ours over at Lewiston
writes us for "full information as tc
who are to be the republican candi-
dates for senator and governor next
year. Of course the gentleman in
quires in the spirit of curiosity as
to our siZe-up of the political situa-
ton and not from any desire to real
ly know so long in advance who the
two gentlemen are to be. He is try
ing to s'kid" us to believe that as a
political prognosticator we have his
supreme admiration and flatteringly
ascribes to US all the powers of a
Spokane astrologer, with the differ
ence that the astrologer in this case
will get no $500 ito sleep on before
the horoscope is revealed.
Well, if we are going to say for
nothing and with no hope of reward,
and with dour reflections that the
men not mentioned will take affront,
we will Sam Blythe as follows, at the
same time expressing the hope that it
will not take us as long as Sam took
three years ago to say that if Wood
row Wilson carried enough states he
would be elected president and if
Mr.. Hughes did Mr.. Hughes very like
ly would be elected instead.
d. w. Davis will be elected the next
governor Of Idaho if he wants to be-
But D. w. isn't going to want to be-
He has already been down to Wash
ington twice since he has been gov
ernor and when a governor goes to
Washington twice in the first year of
a two-year term, you can rest as
sured that the desire to rise in his
place in the, senate and duplicate the
speech Daniel Webster made in reply
to Haine is going to overcome him I'M
til he forgets that a senator cannot
live in Washington on the income that
congress has fixed for its member
ship. But D. w. isn't going to be the
only candidate for the u S. senate.
Captain Davis of Washington, D. c.,
who has been away from the state so
long that he has forgotten. what once
happened to a gubernatorial sboomlet
he is credited with having had, sent
out from Washington some months I
ago the Hedging announcement that
he was "going to try" Then some !
other military heroes in the late un-
pleasantness are to be heard from.
George Edgington of Idaho Falls who
became a captain or something or
other and made a hit with the boys |,
over at. the embryonic West Point
which grew up at the state university
IN few short weeks and subsidized
again when the boys from Standpoint
defeated the Kaiser, and Major Booth
down at Twin Falls, who is credited
with real military record of the
swearing lets go" Sort Then ex-
Governor Gooding is having no OPP
GRAFTON performed at the Mayos for
the extraction of his senatorial am
bition, and Congressman French,
Judge Ailshie, James E. Babb and a
few others are yet to be heard from
But we would say that from present
Indications, if Governor Davis wants
% go he will be the favorite in the
POOL unless Burton L. French gets in
nth field full of candidates and
a ap-fcs I'D 1ov f<,v,1 !
Ipon his opponents about January /, :
800. IF he does heaven help them.
And who'll he governor if Mr.. ;
Davis doesn't want it? We won't )
lame any field of bosses in the hopes
t picking the winner here. If Gov !
1nor Davis decides he'd rather be ;
enator than governor, the next gov !,
rnor of Idaho will hail from Payette.
vhen he is at home. His name is =
'olonel L. v. Patch, present adjutant
eneral and commander of the Idaho =
inch of squarehead chasers "over
here. Pend O'Reille Review.
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machine and been seen a.
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