Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1904-09-08
Resolutions.

The democracy Of Idaho county
in convention assembled hereby
renews its unfaltering allegiance to
the principles Of popular govern
ment formulated by Jefferson, ad-
ministered by jackson, and main
tanned by William Jennings Bryan.
We approve the national demo-
cratic platform adopted at st.
Louis, especially the plank which
invokes the criminal clause of the
Antitrust Act for the suppression
Of the trusts which eight successive
years of republican administration
and republican class legislation
have fastened upon the people.
In Alton B. Parker, the demo.
cratic nominee for president, we
have democrat who will enforce
the laws Of our country against
corporations, trusts and citizen law
breakers alike, and who will ad-
minister the government honestl v
and economically and upon the
good old fashioned democratic prin-
ciple of "exact and equal justice to
all; special privilege to none"
In Hon. Hon. Henry Heitfeld,
the democratic nominee for COVE
nor, we have a candidate who is
distinctively a represen tative of
the masses. He has been tried in
the halls Of state and national leg
islation, and has never been found
wanting. And we congratulate
the democracy of this county in
being the first to declare for his
nomination, and we hereby pledge
our best efforts to secure his cleo
ton.
The declarations of the state DEM
ocratic platform meet with our un.
qualified approval, and we pledge
our legislative nominees to use
their best efforts to enact legisla-
ton in harmony Herewith.
We heartily indorse our repre-
sentative in the U. s. Senate, Hon.
Fred L. Dubios, for his watchful
care for the best interests of Idaho,
and congratulate the people Of our
state in having a representative in
the National Capital who at all
times has the welfare and prosper
ity of the whole state in mind.
We pledge our legislative nomi-
nees to stand by the 1.-TWO Mile
Limit Law" and to oppose any
effort for it's repeal or modification
As an illustration of republican
and class lie islation
we call attention to the action of
the last republican state legislature
which unnecessarily increased the
salaries Of the state officers, and
added to the burden Of taxation
the cost of the "Sugar Beet Bounty |
Law" for the sole benefit of Utah |
capitalists.
We are opposed to the republi-
an policy of bottling up the dor
nant resources Of this and other
counties in the state for the pur-
,ose OF creating so.called Forest
Reserves" which experience shows
re maintained more for the pur-
'ose OF providing salaries for re.
publican political workers, than
or any practical good these reserves
accomplish for the common good of
he people, the county, or the state;
nd we favor the segregation Of all
he mining camps ia the Bitter
loot reserve from the arbitrary,
MUST and discriminating rules
'hich now govern them.
We call the attention Of all tax
ayers of this county to the honest
nd economical administration of |
ounty affairs by past and present |
emocratic officials. Idaho county !,
as no bonded debt. At the close {
the fiscal year, April IL, 1904, Il
ne county warrants outstanding {
mount to S33, SO3.67, with delin. I
uent taxes for 1908 amounting to | r
$780, 10. 20 per cent. of which is q
lfely an asset, together with cash Z
the county treasury amounting g
1892 20, which was applicable b
reduction Of the outstanding D
arrant Indebtedness. The float b
g debt of the county is therefore t,
'out $27 100000. In view of this
stement we assert that there is
1t a more honestly or more econ
nically administered county in I
. state than Idaho county. It's c,
'st territorial area, it's distance n
lm railroads. ika hnndroda ~ ~