Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-12-05
If a Democrat. Read This.

The Albion Times, the staunch dem
ocratic paper of Cassia county, has
been sold by Editor Marks to a repub-
lican, and its politics will be changed
accordingly. Thus they change one
by one, hut the democrats are always
the loser, The sale Of this plant has
caused the Examiner to make few
Astronomical Investigations which
discloses the following results:
In the counties OF Bear Lake, Oneida,
Bannock. Lemhi, Fremont, Lincoln,
Cassia, Owyhee, Bingham, Blaine. Gus
ter, Gilmore, Ada, Canyon and Wash
ington, covering more than two-tiirds
of the state and having no equal p o.
portion of voters, theirs are ID demo-
cratic papers and 20 republican papers.
Three of these counties, we believe,
have no democratic papers whatever,
while the same three have eight rep.
sheets. The strong democratic county
of Fremont has three republican or
gans and one democratic. This same
condition exists in Ada county, while
Oneida has three republican apers
and not one democratic mouthpiece,
and Il similar condition ext is in Owy-
hee and Cassia, the basis being two to
nothing.
In voting prochvilies the democrats
cast, in these counties, at the last elec-
ton, 17,7ll votes for Bryan and the
republicans cast Is ,694 for Mckinley,
the votes in all the counties being
nearly equally divided, the majorities
being in favor of the democrats.
Going further into detail, we find
Oneida has 1922 democrats, but they
are not sufficiently enthusiastic to
support even one paper ut the present
time, while the 1881 republicans keep
three papers going. In Owyhee county
there are 5S5 democrats but they have
no paper that we know Of, while the
5S4 republicans have two papers. In
Fremont county one paper does the
talking for 2l53 democrats, while three
papers whoop it up for the 2l74 re-
| publicGns of that county. CGssia has
624 democrats and they have let the
only paper they had starve out, while
674 republicans there now have two
sponsors for their cause. And SO it
goes.
In proportion in these counties
there is one democratic paper for ev-
cry 1900 democratic voters, and one
republican sheet for every 600 repub
licans.
Nearly the same conditions exist in
the north part of the state.
Now there must be reason for all
this. 1t surely cannot be that less
democrats read than republicans, or
that the democratic papers are poorer
newsgatherers than their political OBJ
ponents, on the other hand, We believe
the average OF democratic papers in
these counties are better than those of
their republican brethren. This is
particularly true in the counties OF
Bear Lake, Bannock, Washington,
Canyon and some others, while in the
rest of them they average up equal TO
their opponents,
No. There must be another cause,
and we believe it is founded in the
fact that the republicans appreciate
their papers more than the democrats
do, and being thus appreciatve, they
see to it that every dollar of patron
age they have goes to their { rgans.
When republicans get into Office
they don't look around for the "cheap.
est skate" in the country, irrespective
OF politics, to do the public printing
They don't strain any optic nerve
when publishing land notices, ascer-
tanning il IA republican paper is nearer
to the land than democratic one. as
John g. Brown used to do, while reg
lister of the land Office at Blackfoot
Not by jugful. II republican pa
per can be found on the map, the no
tees go to that paper. Only democrats
do such things, and they try to Justify
it On the grounds Of economy and
square dealing. We need only cite
the fact that the republicans are bold
ing big part of The Offices in demo
cratic counties.
Suffice it 20 say, that unless the
democrats do better by their papers
they won't have any one to even give
them kindly word, and this will be
| followed later by none OF them ever
being put in place where they can
reform deeds that need mentioning.