Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-25

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Waters (Rep); surveyor. Frank
Mandell (Rep.); school superintend-
ent, Mrs. Frances Butler (Dem.) }. all
of HALEY.
An attempt to nominate George H.
Wall of Mountain Home in the Re
publican convention for the assembly
was killed hard. c, c. Glenn of
Glenns Ferry, however, was nOmin-
ated for commissioner, but the Hal
leyites had their minds made up that
Glenn should not be elected. While
secretly a Divisionist, Mir. Glenn
would not express himself on the
subject, and his standing on the
question was an unknown, quantity.
j. S. Whitton, whom Glenn had de-
feated in the convention for the
nomination, ran for commissioner
on an independent ticket, On the
night before the election, C. d. Por-
ter of Bellevue arrived in Mountain
Home and stated that he was sent
from Bellevue to tell the people of
Mountain Home that If they would
support Wilton for commissioner,
all Bellevue would vote the Division
ticket. The result was that Wilton
received 144 votes in this place to
4 for Glenn, Bellevue ~reciprocated
by casting IL votes for the Division
ticket.
The Mountain Home Bulletin
(then and for many years after edit
ed by G. M. Payne), having com
mented severely on the base treach-
cry on the part of Bellevue, the
Bellevue Herald answered with a
statement that Porter had no such
authority from the voters 70 Belle
vue. and that he should have been
material for tar and feathers at the
hands of the deceived voters OF
Mountain Home. But from that day
20 this Porter has not been seen in
this place.
The affair caused quite a feeling
against Mountain Home at Glennf
Ferry-one reason being that it was
Mr.. Glenn's home and another was
the opposition to Whitton by the
labor unions of Alturas county on
account OF his stand against the min.
ers at the Minnie Moore strike at
Bellevue in 1885, and most Of the
voters at the Ferry being Brother
hood men or Knights Of Labor. Had
an election or county seat come Of
the ensuing spring Glenns Ferry
would have voted almost solid foi
Rocky Bar.
CHAPTER "
The Fifteenth session, which was
the last session of the Idaho Terri
torial legislature, convened in Boise
in the early part of December, 1888,
and in the beginning 1t looked as
though the cause of Gilmore count
would NICE more be a failure and
that the coming of the new count
would be deferred for another twt
years. The Haileyites, regardless o.
party politics, were a unit against
the division of the county, and hat
both mel and money in the lobby
bent upon nipping the proposition II
the bud. The ablest wire pullers MOI
only Of HALEY and Ketchum, but alst
of Boise, bent on their purpose, as
sembled about the capitol building
as we'll as in the hotels and bar
rooms, lying in wait for every mem
Der of the legislature.
In the organization of the legisla
ture the Alturas delegation captur
ed the speakership CT the house II
the election Of II. u. Burkhart o
HALEY as its presiding officer. II
addition to this, they captured som
of the best Legislative Jobs for thlai
henchmen. In the council, or uppe
branch of the legislature, they cap
tured the presidency for John ?
Clough of Lemhi, who had arrayei
himself on their side, and now, hav
ing secured the presidency OF Thu
council and the speakership of tn
house, like veterans in the parlia
mentary field, they laid out thei'
plans with skill, tact and diplomacy
Every advantage allowed by parlia
mentary rules was heard, consideret
and fully understood and persuasion
coercion and bribery i'm the II be
came the order of the day. Sael
lfter sack for the purpose OF defeat
ing the measure by corruption wa
passed along to tempt the cupidit.
Of the avaricious members and prom
ises Of all kinds of rewards In tn
shape of political favors were mad
to the ambitious in order that tn
designs of the ring should be ae
9omplished. But, as the old Scotcl
Droverb says, THE best laid plans o
men and mice oft gang aglee,' 81
lid Oh the ingenuity, fair and un
fair. of the anti-diyisionists prove 0
10 avail, as the sequel will show.
The new year of 1889 rolled In
ooding dark and evil days for OLE
Alturas, the empire county" Th'
existence Of a debt both bonded ant
'loating, Of nearly a quarter of
million of dollars hanging over All
uras county, over three-fourthS o
which was incurred for Hailey's ben
eft, had already set Legislators from
other parts OF the Territory to
careful consideration of the case AM
favorable to the division bill.
e. G.. Heifrich, G. II. Shaw, d. j
Ethel, DIR. w. r. Smith and Jak'
Reeser were on the ground, and thei
efforts among the members Of boil
houses in the interest of the division
bill were untiring and indefatigable
particularly those of Helfrich, Shaw
and Smith, who remained at thei'
posts might and day, from the be
ginning to the close Of the session
sbly counteracting the influence an'
the wiles Of the anti-division forces
The bill for the creation of Elmor'
county was introduced in the hous'
by Hon. L. ID. Bailey of Caldwell
then in Ada county, in the early par
Of the session, and being read was