The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-09-27


the county Mr.. Abbott do not force
any farther disclosures. This IL onl,
one OF the many cases which We
could cite you to where the county |
funds have been spent In which the
people derived 10 benefit.
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Tie republican state administra.
tim demanded levy OF II cents last
year; the last Hunt levy was 81 cents.
This with the Increase OF valuations
natural and enforced is over 50 pen
cent. This can he defended by only
the worst kind Of extIayagance.
Goodine's policies have given nc
In proyements TO the state. The
state Is In debt beyond the constitu
tional limit, aud the banks have re.
fused TO accept Lemhi county war.
rants that were offered 10y the present
board Of commissioners as security
for loans. These are Items of high
tinance In high places.
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An editor who would attempt o.
impose upon his readers by such sub
terfuges as were used IN the other
paper last week would and has
struck a woman when he knew she
could not strike back. The very ia.
uies he published In that issue re.
flutes mis- word. The paper that Is
false To Its own plain nsures must b'
for children to read, who have not
learned the first elements OF arith-
metic. The warrant Indebtedness
increased from 81 233. ~ In four
years OF republican rule while the
people we're paying an increase OF
nearly one hundred per cent on that
particular levy. The next January
statement will sho@ an increase war
rant Indebtedness OF nearly II not
quite SO 600 for the four years. The
other paper would have Its readers
believe this was reducing the count,
Indebtedness. Only because the,
could not sell another issue OF bonds
was the county saved further indebt.
edness during the past year. w
are launched upon career Of ex
travagance that will cali for levy o.
over so 90 just as 1t was necessary
under the last republican rule preyi
ous to this one.
IL is all planned 10 unload this bur
den upon the democratic party To
pay the debts after the republicans
by mismanasement and extraya
igance, have gone To tie extent O
their rope. The state administra
tion has crippled every public insti
tuition hy hypothecating the lam
grants. The democrats left th
public institutions OF Idaho with tn
greatest resources OF any state In tp
Union. These have advanced In val
ue, bat the administration has dc
stroyed these public funds unit
the public schools are crippled, th'
University and Normals handicapped
and the Soldiers Home IN more lik
paupers asylum than as resor
for an honest class OF citizens. !
Lemhi county the democrats bull
the school houses, roads, and bridge
and the republicans have failed I
run them AZ they should be as a r,
suit OF mismanagement.
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TO sum the entire article up In
nutshell We will give a few hRur,
that will sustain the charge OF e,
trayagance, which The Recorder Ia
maintained. In 1901 the assesse
valuation Of Lemhi county sas "
3eo a03 30. In that year the prcsen
county recorder was the county al
SCISSOR, and To him was charged sj6
Ggi ~. the amount OF taxes raise
upon this valuation. In 1905 tl
assessed valuation was tl All, IL
Assessor klrtley has been charged c
the county records 80, 27s. ~, wbic
!, he must account for 10 the county !
LlfE AbAtn hif5h Ab' "" ~
en- above. II does not take sei
astute mathematician 10 determit
that the republicans are raising sl3
, 5sl. 10 more this year than the dem'
cratsdid during The last year
their administration. This one ite
j alone should convince the casu
J. reader taat there il a good siAs
Ethiopian in the ptoyerbial WOO
, piie somewhere. Notwitbst8ndir
u that this republican administrat
J. Is raising a third more mones out
e the people than the democrats d.
u the warrant Indebtedness Is constan
= ly piling up.
u The general accepted rlle ia IN
i- county il that the democrats ha
- tuiit up the county, aud republics
y administration has torn IL down.
j Is generally accepted that the til
u has arrived tot a reform. In fact
10 is generally conceded that q set
10 democratic commissioner will
elected this fall to again place [
county IN the financial conditi
A. that IL was when the present boa