Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1904-08-25

legislation to be wrong and against
the principals of our institutions
and the constitutionality of said
law should be contested in the So.
preme court.
| We are unalterably opposed to
the principal Of public officials rid.
ing upon passes and pledge the
enactment of such legislation az
will prohibit it.
A judiciary of absolute integrity
and untrammelled independence is
the peoples only safe guard Of the
right OF persons and their property
under a constitutional government.
The education of our children and
the maintenance Of these splendid
institutions of learning so uniform
ly endowed by the school fund do
nations is of paramount concern to
all our people. The judges. of our
supreme and district courts, the
county superintendent and state
superintendent Of schools are not
in any sense political officers. These
officers should at all times be free
from all bias and prejudice growing
out Of party ties or affiliations.
Such officials should stand as the
impartial servants of the whole
people. The administration of
Justice between man and man and
the training of the future citizens
OF the republic are functions SO
sacred that the officers charged
with such duties should never be
opened to suspicion of having been
selected as the result OF political
influence, convention combinations
or in consideration of mere party |
policy and expediency.
We favor the submission of a
constitutional amendment to the
people providing for separate
election, at time other than a
general election of state and county
officers, at which shall be elected
the judges of the supreme and dis
trict courts, and the county and
state superintendents of schools.
Until such constitutional amend
ment be adopted it should be the
policy of the democrats of this state
to select candidates for the import
ant Offices with regard solely to
ability, fitness, integrity and moral
worth, ::disregarding political affilia-
lions and demanding and expecting
no craftsmanship or the surrender Of
political conviction on the part of .
he nominee. |,
We hereby pledge and intrust :
our legislative candidates to resist {
my and all efforts to repeal what
S known as the two mile limit
aw, and to favor the enactment
VI such additional legislation as
nay be necessary to render the
anne more effective.
We acknowledge with exceeding b
'leasure the increasing strength
nd influence of organized labor in .
IDAHO, and fully approaching the
ust claims of the toilers of our
late, heartily indorse the rapidly a
rowing sentiment in favor of an r
ight hour day for all underground
miners, millmen and employees of G.
meters and ore reducing works
nd all other employees who by the
ature of their employment require 9
n eight hour day in the interest q
# the preservation of health aud
veil being of such employees and "
specially condemn the unwarrant- b
d action of the members of the
eventh session of the Idaho legis- .
iture who worked and voted =
gainst the passage of such a mea-
nre, and pledge the democratic
arty Of Idaho to the enactment 0
an eight hour day law for such y
Employees. I
Such legislation should be con-
ervatiye and take in consideration 81
he best interests of all laborers G
nd employers affected and existing Q
governing the employ
lent of such labor of the various O.
,ctions of the state. "
We condemn the extravaganza G
1d Incompetence of the republican 81
ADMINISTRATION and ask the people
compare its record with the six W
ears of wise and economical demo- w
attic administration. n
We insist that contracts hereto 7,
re made by the state for the sale
its timber shall not be modified a,
at this time extended, and that ".
e owners Of such timber shall s,