The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-06

downs of the days when it was diff
cult to sell stock or get beet con-
tracts or. to do anything because of
of the steady, stealthy opposition
from all the sources | have been
telling you about. For fifty years
Hawley has had wide acquaintance
in Idaho and has always had a good
name for the past generation he has
often been spoken of as one of Ida
hos grand old men. When his name
is mentioned, somebody nearly al
ways interjects with such remarks
as He's a good man" Eyes, !
know Mr.. Hawley; he is fine man"
Governor Hawley Again
When the Rigby factory was be-
ing built or waitin gfor funds to
get matters under way again, when
hundreds of men were contending
to sustain it's good name or to down
it, according to which side of the
struggle they were working on; when
men said of the company, They
will never turn Wheel" or "It is
only stock-jobbing scheme" some
body would suggest that if it were
not an honest enterprise Governor
Hawley would not be connected with
it. Then the enemy fellows would
say, well, Hawley is not so good
man as he used to be-" That be-
came by-word or slogan, "Haw-
ley is not so good man as he used
to be- And some fellows who re-
membered that he was one of the
organizers of the Idaho Historical
society that issued French's History
of Idaho," would put even his friends
to rout by dragging out some prom
inent man" from Podunk who was
written up in it for a good fat fee,
the same being done by experts in a
Chicago office while Governor Haw-
ley was busy with cases in court or
trying to establish his full cash
value" methods of assessing prop
erty when he was governor. 1t
seems there never was a man so
square and so shrewd that he does
not get hooked in some scheme, and
thru all the years of this Rigby
struggle the enemies of the Beet
growers could always taunt the 9TH
ers by saying, He is not so good a
man as he used to be-"
Bad Penny BObs Up
George Hill is great friend of
Hawley's. AS said in my first
chapters, John w. Hart is national
committeeman for the Republican
party and an ardent supporter of the
Utah-Idaho Sugar company. He is
credited with steadily opposing the
new factory, saying at will never BE
built" and later, ut will never turn
a wheel" And still later, at will
never make any sugar"
Hill and His Thumb
Do you remember that belt CON
yeyor l was telling you about in
chapter X that takes the beets t ON
the wagons and carries them up to
the steel canals ON the portable
bridge where they are carried BY
water out into any part of the yard?
Well, one day, George Hill was rust
ling around there when they were
testing this belt conveyor and get
ting all the rollers lined up true,
and something happened to Georges
thumb.
The next morning some fellows !
were visiting along the street in /
front of John Harris bank, and John
was among them. George Hill came
along with his thumb done up in
a bushel of wrappings and he was
carrying that hand just like a man
does when he has a pet thumb,
afraid it will touch something or
everything. Everybody within ear
shot knew of the keen struggle be-
tween these two leaders of men, and |
they knew of Harris slogan about
the wheels. Hart inadvertently ask
ed Hill what was the matter with
his thumb.
Hart and His Slogan
Hill replied that it was a case of
confidence.
Hart innocently inquired further
as to how that could be.
Hill stated it was like this: "Well, |
you see was out on that alleged |
sugar factory yesterday and / was
rOnyaVOr knaw Of |