The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-05
Sour Grapes for Fusionists

lgnorantly or maliciOusly makes
the statement that the democratic
newspapers of the county are OPP
posed to exporting the county rec
ords. The Press IS now and always
has been al advocate Cf exporting
but not such as is urged by the re-
publican papers. They want the
records exported only during the
time the fusionists were in power,
showing plainly that they fear an
investigation covering the years OF
republican rule-the years that
cost the people SO much money.
We want an investigation that will
cover both republican and fusion
rule alike, with no whitewashing
of either party. That is what the
people want and will demand if an
investigation is to be had, and if
the county commissioners refuse to
make such an exporting full and
complete it will cost their party
many hundred votes in the county.
The mass Of the people care
nothing for party when there is
crooked wOr going on. If the
commissioners decide upon an in
vestigatiOn we want it to cover all
parties without fear or favor, The
republican papers want it to cover
fusion rule. We hope the Koote-
mai HERALD will be honest enough
TO at least state our position cor
rectly, even though it can see no
wrong in its own party and nothing
but hideOus monster in democra-
cy. " e do not believe that many
officials, no matter what their poll
tics, are deliberately dishonest. -
Occur d'Alene Press.
THE HERALD believes that it has
correctly stated the sentiment of
the Press in particular and the
democratic press in general. None
OF them dare come out and say in
So many words that they are OPP
posed to exporting the county rec
ords but it is evident to any one
who has given the matter any at
tentlon at all that it has been a
case of sour grapes with these dem
ocratic editors ever since the ex-
porting of the county records was
proposed. They are trying to &C
complish from behind the bush
what they dare not come out in
the open and fight for. The demo-
cratic press first met this question
with ridicule and now they try to
spring questions of detail to haggle
over, ana the HERALD charges here
and now that any old thing will be
good enough for these democratic
newspa pers to get in with and dis
courage the exporting of the county
records. The question of what pc
Rod the exporting shall start from
Is point in question. That is
matter raised entirely by demo-
cratic editors. These democratic
organs are frantic and fearful that
II the republican board of county
commissioners order the books ex-
ported that they will not order the
experts to go back to the beginning
OF time, or some other remote ne.
riod, and take III a previous repub.
lican administration. The pre-
tended anxiety ON this subject be-
comes simply huge Joke when it
is recalled that for six years after
the republicans went out there
were fusion boards of county com.
missioners in control and not one
of these demo-fuson boards ever
even entertained a suggestion of
exporting the records of their re-
publican predecessors. If there
existed any good reason why the
records of those days should be ex-
p-rted why did not the demo.fu-
sion party do its duty-do it in
season and not C, me harping along
now after the lapse of seven yearsl
If the demo-fusion party was so