Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-05-13
Official Paper OF Nez Perez County.
Give Coincidence To Whom II Is Due.

vance his interests Tor the =.
Senate has become a monumental
pfeyerter Of facts. However one
should expect nothing more from
that source.
The democratic party oil which |
the Tribune is only an atom has
always been known as the party
Of re,rogression. the party OF
fantastic ideas, the party whose
only past is a grave yard of dead
theories, buried SO deep bv the
wheel Of republican progress. that
they will never be aroused by
even the loot of Garbrial's celebrat
ed horn. State rights. tariff re-
form and q hundred other theories
have long been buried deep very
deep. and free silver is now totter-
ing at the edge Of the self same
grave.
Look back ward, look backward,
Oh time in your fight" was never
written for the democratic
party. 1t does not look backward.
Its past is ususea!ing to its most
enthusiastic supporters.
As in the government so is its
history in both the state and the
county.
The following from a recent
number OF the Tribune well H.
illustrates local methods of to- day.
Idaho county with about half
the business and population OF
Nsz Perez. received as the net
proceeds of the recorders Office for
the last quarter STA, after paying
all the expenses OF the Office in
Guiding the officials salary and
clerk hire. Neg Perez county re-
ceived from the same source Sill.
or at LEASE that Is the amount that
has been boastfully published as
the net receipts OF the Office. The
Tribune congratulates Recorder
darlington on the flourishing state
Of business in Idaho county and
ccadoles with Recorder Stookey
On the exceeding depression in
grand old Nez Perez.
Why did the Tribune take
Idaho county for Its comparison
Why di.i it not compare the re.
cord Of Auditor Stookey with the
record Of other auditors ia III,
state than Idaho county, Why
il you please did II not look b,ck
ward for comparison to the dem
ocratic record OF the immediat,
past in this county,
The latter comparison III,
Tribune knows il does not make
That would he contrary to dem
ecratic tradition and very danger
Gus for the future welfare OF III,
democratic party In this county
To Accommodate our slippery con
temporary We shall make the com
parison.
But FIRST Is to the real fact il
Idaho county. The Tribun,
devotes two columns of its spac,
every week to booming the mime
OF that county. There Is more rusl
10 those mines today than to an,
other mineral district in the Unite,
States. The celebrated Buffal,
Hump is In that county. thousand
ofmming claims are being stake,
aud taken. For each claim file,
the auditor gets Sa il filed in hi
Office. the work OF recording claim
is comparatively small, they usual,
do not exceed two folios. Tn
auditor may create mining district
in his own county. in that case h
getsSt tor each claim filed by hi
mining deputy and the depu,,
gets s..
Auditor darlington already ha
two mining districts in his count,
and only recently refused to Great,
athird. though it was demande,
by Q large number Of miners
Perhaps even the obtuse Tribun,
can see the source of the increase
revenue for Idaho county. W,
ask again in all eandor was tn,
Tribune's comparison fair,
Now lets make the only fail
comparison. The present con
dillon Of this county compared
With the immediate past. F.l
the year 1895 the entire earning,
of the auditors Office under dem
ocrslic administration as shown b,
his report were Ssaes.7s. Tn.