Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1892-10-21

voters of Clearwater precinct.
Oct. 8, 1892. BETSY JANE.
Good Citizens DisfraMchised.
The registration law is popularity
supposed to be preventive of fraud
in elections. There cannot be a
more fearful mistake. as it's tenden-
cy is to reduce election frauds to
an exact science. The most stu
pendOus electioneering frauds of
modern times have been perpetra-
ted under the cloak of the most
stringent registration laws, and
they will probably continue to
thwart the popular will until the
millennium arrives, when we will
need no laws or officials, and no
elections to carry out the functions
of government. Registry laws in
large cities are some check to re-
peating, but in a state like Idaho,
where there are no large cities, and
where the voting precincts as rule
are generally remote and the voters
usually well acquainted with each
other, the only effect of a registry
law is to disfranchise those who
neglect to registe, and these will be
mainly our best citizens, engrOssed
in the cares of business, or who live
remote from the registrars's Office,
and neglect registration and thus
lose their votes. Statistics show
that three-fifths of the qualified
population habitually vote. The
two-fifths not voting are the best
citizens except in the one matter of
their Indifference to public affairs.
Every man who interrOgates his
own conscience knows that the
lawless, idle and vicious elements
of society always vote. Every in
ducement should therefore be Gre
ated by the law-making power to
secure an expression on public
matters from the better class but
the registration and Australian
ballot laws are stumbling-blocks to
such. In the event of an important
issue in general election the reg
, istry law gives the politicians and
J candidates more opportunities to
,, carry elections by practices corrupt
, or otherwise than is safe in rep
resentative form of government.
| The more simple the act of voting
the larger will be the vote.
w. w. Bowman is back from
Spokane and while absent he
3 bought large sawmill outfit
, which he will establish on John s
creek. This will be a wonderful
2 help to Grangeville, as the town is
) handicapped by it's distance from
, the mills on the Cottonwood side.
< "A letter from b. F. Davis, Rich
t mond, Missouri, informs us that he
s is more than half sorry he sold his
short-horn ranch, and that the sui.
s try weather back there makes him
e yearn for the even temperature and
d mild climate of Camas prairie. Mrs
Q Davis is somewhat better and the
boys are all going to school. Short
Q horn himself will be here again
r about April or May of next year.
- Hon. +. B. True, the democratic
~ nominee for congress, arrived here
y Sunday morning and spent two
- day circulating among his old-timt
;, friends. He was accompanied by
Alfred Frazer, of Boise, and botf
= gentlemen addressed fair audienc,
= at Grange hall Monday evenin.
and made a good impression. Mr.
True is an old-timer in this region
and he will run away ahead of hi
ticket i'll Idaho and Nez Perc,
counties.
Hanson, the photographer, vii
in few days receive direct from
Anthony's mandatory in New
York one of the finest Multiplyin,
Instruments now on the market
when any style and size of Gem
will be executed in ten minutes a
the gallery.
Losr.-On Sweetwater, ligh
gray horse, weighing about l,10
pounds, and branded "a CONNECTED
on left shoulder. A reasonable re
ward is offered for the return G
said animal to ALBERT BESscHINc
Cottonwood, Idaho.
l am now receiving my fall stocl
of millinery goods and will keep
more complete assortment than ey
er before. The ladies of town an
country are invited to call and loo
over the latest styles in hats, rit
bons, plumes, flowers, &c. NJ
goods are direct from New York.
Miss Nj. +. ROBINSON.