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m LEWISTON TELLER.u cirr Mtt courtt ofriciAi paper.tU TMLLKR hat (Aj largest circulation oj m paper n North Idaho. UAH. 24. I8f7TRUE INWARDNESS OF THE FRESH OF SOUTH IDAHO.HAILEY'S POSITIONIdaho Damoorat.It I* amusing to nolioe the changes that hate been wrought in Ibe tone of iheSonth Idaho Press ainoe both Senate and Honae paaaed the North Idaho annexation bill. 8ame of them wore very bitter towarda the adrocatca of annexation, before the bill passed, and ainoe they hare learned that Congress, by an almost unanimona rote, passed tho bill alter it bad been under consideration for nearly one year, they drop their opposition, and many of them aay that the North were right in their demands, that their demands shonld hare been heeded by Congress long ago, and wish us prosperity and happiness, and that they themKlvee ean prosper well without us, or if they nsod help they ean obtain it from Nerada, and so on to the and of the chapter. Most of this was aald between the paasage of the bill in tbs Sen ate and their knowledge of Clereland shoring it, unsigned, down in hia pantaloons pocket These papers then no doubt expressed tbeir honest convictions. Wonder how many again changed their eonrietions on learning of the pocket reto T The Boise City papers and tho Idaho World, stood by tbeir toxt, and •only wailed and I presume, gnashed their teeth, only we eould not hear them distinctly, but only a* sensation like that produoed by a distant earthquake. But when they receirod the news of the veto, they lost all opposition to ths Chinese; they gladly called upon the chinamen to furnish bombs and fireworks, to make their rejoicing complete. We now shall soon learn how many of the other papers outside of Boise City,*will he ready to taka balt;k whstjfbey said in favor of the Justness of the causo of the North, before they heard df the veto, and crawfish back and be ready to blame the North for thsir persistence in urging their rights and objecting to paying quarterly tribute to the leeehea about Boise Citjr, who, for nearly a quarter of a century, hare been eueking the lifs blood from our reins without supplying us in return with the aliment to create new and healthy blood. But when asked ts do so hare withheld, under the pretenoe that all was needed to keep the eapitol and its offioen full hant’o 1. Even when we were without anna of defense, and were assailed by a powerful savage foe, and Boise City was in no danger, we asked for our proportion of government arms, we oallcd for these arms in rain. U oder the adrioe of Milton Kelly, ohief directoi of Boise City affairs, we were told that they oocld not be sent us, they would be need cd there, while Kelly, himself, had oaused to be distributed in the neigh borbood of Boise City, our one hundred stand of arms that belonged.to the North, and we were compelled to call upon the governor of Washington territory for anas, which ware granted cheerfully. Daring this trouble the hoetiles were three hundred miles from Boise with a high range of mountains intervening, and oo demonstration of hostility had been made in that direction, and these bostiles never did afterwards. These are facts in history, which cannot -be gainsay ad. How many of the newspapers who, during the few days botweon the passage of the annexation bill, oame forward and approved its paasage and endorsed it, wHI now applaud its veto, and the action of governor Stevenson in asking lor its vato? There are very many trifling elitors of newspapers. They are mere weather eooks, whioh turn with the atroogeat wind. They ean never be depended upon when help is needed.Hon. John Hailey is expected to ar rive home this week. lie is one of the few members of Congress, who carried out, so far as possible, the platform of tho party that nominated him and the wishes of bis people as expressed by tbeir votes. Mr. Hailey was personally bitterly opposed tothesnnexation scheme, and made a gallant and strong fight against it. The citisens of Boise have not forgotten tho speech he made on Nye's corner on the eve of election four years ago, wherein he told of the results that would follow the favoring of that measure. Nor have they forgotten how his appeals were met witn derisive Isughter by those who favored the dis membcrment of the territory. He spent one thousand dollars in this county be sides nearly a month’s hard work, in fighting annexation. Mr. Singiscr, the champion of the scheme, and who first gave it tangible shspo as instructed by the repnblioan convention, swept the territory by one of the most pronounoed majorities ever received. Subsequent events are too fresh in the puhiic mind to mention in detail. Mr. Hailey told the democratic convention emphatically, the night before his nomination, not to put an annexation plank in its platform unless done seriously; that, if it done he would labor earnestly and faithfully to bring it about as ho would every other measuro that he might be pledged to carry out, that at heart ho wav against it, etc., eto. Both parties adopted seg rogation, it bocame really the issue of the campaign, and Mr. Hailey won. He entered upon the discharge of his duties and redeemed his pledge. The reader knows what followed. Having kept faith with the North, his obligation ceased with the expiration of bis term of office. Old John Ilailcy now stands where he stood bofure in relation to the disintegration of Idabo, and will u.vo Idi influence to preserve her domain intact His course is adrulred by all fair-minded men of either party. Those who con damn it do so without just cause, Thi t he was not re-elected is daily gaining strength as a publio calamity.—Idaho Democrat,of a an orup th by Mgince the ( perih 8nnkANNEXATIONBo Near and yot so far—By and by WsUMsst Tan Washington.The Wardoer Newt has changed from Montana to Washiogtou since tbe veto. Read its views now:Our annexation to Washington Terri tory as a fact and the pleasurable hopes it excited bava been suddenly doomed to dkeppoiatment by tbe Presides! not signing Urn bill, which passed both bouses of congram, before adjournment. On the South Fork the news was very well raoSived, inasmuch u it held out a probability in iba near future, oo Washington being admitted as a Nate, of onr having Spokane aa tho eapitol, an event that would confer endless benefits on Coeur d'Alene. This oouviction which seemed to bo very general, though sudd With, altogether changed the po feeling which had previously prevailed in fares of Montana, and aeema to bo of ■nek a character that it must offset polities and voting hereafter in no small depaai Wo aiooeroly regret tho torn aHifau have taken, but the question is mm to oomeup before congrem again ■out ssaaioa with a certainty almost of Wing earned. If the President eomes Went next summer, sv he promisee, he mill likely' see away reason, for this proposed aagrogatloo of a portion of b£toWa*iueou.HEW R. R. TO LEWISTON.A correspondent of the B. Republican ftom Wciser City baa tbe following, which it corroborated by an extract, we take from the Weiner Leader:Wiiai*, Idaho, March 17.Ed. Republican:—Weiser may soon be expected to havo a big boom. late last fall the U. P. Railroad Co., made a preliminary survey up the Weiaer river via Salmon Meadows, and thence towarda Lewiston. Later, tbe aa oompany have been making a survey from Ontario through tbe Malheur oouuty, in Oregon. The party have finished their labor on that route, and have now arrived at this place. Mr. Clark, tbe head construction engineer of tbe U. P. Co., in conversation with one ol our moat prominent citisens, said “We have boon ordered here to locate the route. Perhaps von don’t know wbst that means, but I do. It c that construction will soon follow.Mr. Clark is the engineer who located the 0. S. L., and subsequently made a survey down the Snake river, and he evidently knows wbat he is talking aboutTbe mines in this vioL; y have bilh erto been very “backward about coming forward, but during ibe past winter there have been several important sales made, both in tbe Heath diatriot and in what is known as the Seven Devils district, and several large mills and furnaces era to be erected tbe comingWe understand the route, over whioh tbe location will be made, is the one examined by Col. Curtis and engineer Lew Blickenaderfer last summer. This was np the Weiaer, over the low divide between Weiser and Little Salmon, down the latter to main Salmon, and down the latter to near the mouth of White Bird or to Rocky Canon, tbenoe up and on to Camaa Prairie, and on to Lewiston either via Claarwater or Craig’s mountain.▲ FLOP.The Wood River Miner, like all other weather cocks, attempts to flop with the wind. After learning of the paasage of tho annexation bill, it admitted its justness tnd propriety of its passage. The following is his publication on learning of the veto. We give it with its bead lines and caption:“PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.HE BAB SETTLED TBE ANNEXATION QUESTION, Dl/BIltO BIS TERR, AT LEAST.non. Fred. T. Dubois writes from Washington, the 5th Inst., as follows: ‘The 1’iesident refused to sign the seg-gregatiou bill, and never will sign one, probably. Idaho, in cwsequencc, will remain Idaho—during his and my term, tt least; and it strikes me tbat we bad better atop agitating the question and devote onr attention to something else in tbe way of internal improvement. I will ask Coupees to belp us in this direction, I think.’As repeatedly stated in the Times, without North Idaho there wonld be nothing left us but annexation; but with North Idaho tbe people of Southern Idaho will not desire annexation to Nevada or to any other oommoowealth.” How aoothing to its conscience. Wonder if it will not make a pilgrimage to tho states to have Cleveland renominated and elected. We think onr “Holy Moaea Coventor” will furnish the money.
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Lewiston Teller
Lewiston, Idaho, US
Thu, Mar 24, 1887
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