Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-06

the Steunenberg ticket at the Demo,
cratic primary, that II lookea 40 =
there were not enough Republicans
left in Mountain Home to organlzt
a decent primary for that party.
A notice of contest was served on
the successful CD candidates, and
preparations were made by the anu,
Steunenberg candidates TO cohtes'
the seats in the coming county con-
vention of those who claimed 10 Dc
elected.
Meanwhile the Steunenberg ele-
ment of Boxers were not ldie
throughout the state. Their flTst
move was the 'penitentfary scandal
which had for it's object the deIeat
of Governor Hunt, the miners true
friend. for reelection, and securing
the nomination of Frank Martin,
then attorney general, and VINO had
done all in his power to prevent tine
pardon of Paul Corcoran, the I'M
prisoned miner from Shoshone
county.
Mrs. Josie Kensler, who was and is
still serving a life sentence in the
penitentiary, made an affidavit al
leging that DR.. Dubois, the prison
physician, had performed a GRIMM
al operation upon her, and in her
affidavit she also implicated Warden
Arney i'm the affair. Both DR.. Du-
bois and Warden Arney were ap-
pointees of Governor Hunt, and the
whole disgusting matter was aired
all over the state by the Boxers"
through Martin and other mouth
pieces of the faction.
Warden Arney, while sitting in
the state convention as a delegate
| at Pocatello, was arrested on the
| charge and brought back to Boise.
DR.. Dubois was arrested at his office
in Boise city. Both parties stood
trial and were discharged, being ad-
judged not guilty. An investigation
was held by the prison board ON the
charge, resulting in the warden and
the doctor being exonerated.
CHAPTER XXXVII
In the ensuing month of August
the Democratic county convention
was held at Glenns Ferry, and al
ready the Steunenberg wing had sue
ceeded in the selection of the tenn
porary chairman, who took good care
to appoint a committee on creden-
tials composed entirely of Steunen-
berg delegates.
The seats of Wolfe, Chattin,
Spring, Donovan, Barrett and Love-
ridge in the convention we're con-
tested by Swan, Whitson, Daniel,
Wayte, Helfrich and Cowen, all of
whom appeared before the commit
tee on credentials to show cause why
they should be seated.
The committee on credentials,
like a trinity of Daniels or Solomons,
allowed Judge X. l., Perky, who APP
peared in behalf of the contestants,
half an hour to submit and argue
the case, but put no limit to the
time to be consumed by the Steun-
enberg wing. In short, Judge Perky
had but half an hour for his side,
while Wolfe ct al. had neither time
limit or restrictions in anything
whatever on their side.
The result of this farce termed a
hearing was the seating of the en-
tire Steunenberg delegation and the
control of the convention by that
element.
Henry Willis, the chairman of the
convention, had gone into that body
as an anti-Steunenberg delegate, and
alsoas a candidate for the commits
sionership of the Second district, but
was won over to the other side be-
fore the convention went into ses-
sion-presumably upon the promise
of having his name placed upon the
ticket.
Having gone into permanent or
ganization, that august body CD sat
all night in secret session and behind
locked doors, and the following tick
was unanimously" adopted by
and aeclamated on the
omnibus plan:: Senator, e. G. Towne,
Bar; clerk of district court,
Roy Regard, Rocky Bar; sheriff, w.
Fountain, Cold Springs; assessor,
j. w. Latty, Glenns Ferry; treas
urer, F. P. AXE, Mountain Home; at
ID. Mclaughlin, Mountain
Home; judge, ]. A. Nicholson, Rocky
Bar; superintendent of schools, Mrs.
Alice Cosgrove, Glenns Ferry; sur-
yeyor, S. G. Rhoades, Mountain
Home; coroner, Frank Hobbs, Noun
tain Home; commissioners, First dis
trlct, M. l.. Davis, Mountain Home;
district, VIM. e. Wilson, Cold
Springs; Third district, G. w. Ell
lott, Atlanta.
These delegates were selected for
he state nominating convention, all
solid for Frank Martin for governor:
D. M. Wolfe, r. P. Chattin, DR.. j.
Nleukirk, ]. A. Nicholson, j. w.
Bailey and Rudolph Larsen.
A new county central committee
named, as follows: ]. A. Mich
bison, chairman; w. H. Manion, sec
'etary; L. L. Spring, r. Larsen, r.
D. Gordy, R. Brainard, Foley Abb
1ott, F. P. Phelps, H. Willis, l.. B.
3aker, P. H. Walker, w. L. Thur
Mr.. Towne, the nominee of this
'ecret, w~ark-lantern body of men,
vas an openly avowed Republican.
was switched onto the legis-
alive ticket to make room for Will
ION as commissioner.
when it came to the nomination
II a candidate for sheriff, the pow
YRS who ruled the convention found
nat they had already promised the
nomination to four different parties,
ma therefore could not deliver the
'oods. Hence, SO it was reported,
ma generally believed, the delegates I