Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-05-10
7. w. CONNELLA Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
ANNOUNCEMENT.

The Mountain Home Publishing |
Association has bought the Elmore
Bulletins business, subscription list /
and good will. | own control of
the new company's stock. The
other stockholders are all prominent,
successful citizens of this county,
who have become interested in this
proposition for the sole purpose OF
having published here an enterpris-
ing, independent, newspaper that
will exploit the resources OF this
section of the state; one that will
assist them in its development. In
order to publish such a paper, one
that will reflect credit on the town
and county, both in typographical
appearance and otherwise, it is nee
essary to have a modern printing
plant, and the company has secured
and installed such an one; complete
in every detail, with power presses,
typesetting machine and an extern
sively equipped job plant.
The directors of this association
are c. c. Mortrude, d. w. Shelter,
republicans; r. P. Chattin, E. M.
Wolfe, democrats, and myself,
newspaper man, without partisan
bias or brand; which arrangement
is a guarantee that the paper will
be independent in politics and on
all other issues and that does not
mean that it will be milk-and-
watery neutral.
The name has been changed mere
ly because the Bulletin, the oldest
publication in the county, is associ-
ated in the public mind with all
the factional fights since the county
was organized and before, and as
this paper will in future be mixed
up in none of these, it has been
thought wise to emphasize this fact
by wiping every suggestion of the
old discordant record off the slate.
The name Mountain Home Nav
erick has been selected for the new
publication for the purpose of still
further impressing this on the
minds of it's readers.
Maverick will always be loyal tC
TIE best interests of the town, coun
ty and state, intelligenly loyal, anC
on this ground it asks for the legit
innate patronage of all classes.
am going to make as good a papei
as Mountain Home people will pa!
for; but as there is no subsidy at
tachment to the enterprise, and m,
revenue depends entirely upon thu
earnings of the office, there will b.
no wealth squandered in giving tn
dear public more than it is willing
to produce for.
Under ordinary circumstance
this is all and more than would b
necessary to say on this subject her
and now. But there has been per
sistent, studied effort to make
appear that | have been brought il
here to serve some selfish interest
to promote the designs of some clos
corporation clique, and though
denial will not change the opinion
of those who wish to retain that be
lief, time and the policy of the pa
per will. To be more specific, i
certain quarters one hears the OF
repeated assertion that il is Gar
rett's paper, accompanied by tn
insinuation that that gentlema
will use it as his personal, privat
organ. Though stakeholder, h
has no such hope or intention.
wish in this connection to stat
very plainly, however, that as ]. H
Garrett has done and is doing NOR
for the development of this sectio
than other influences combined
Maverick will usually be foun
working cordially with him in hi
commendable efforts. AS the weel
ly history of Gilmore county woul
be incomplete without mentioni {
his name, his enterprises, his pull
lie spirit, all will be frequent
found in these columns, and tt
puerile taunt that it is Garrett
paper" will not swcrve it from ii
policy of giving him, as WE'LL as a
other citizens, square deal.
This announcement may appe;
to be unnecessarily verbose, ar
doubtless is of little interest to II
general reader; but the write
deems it necessary, TO keep the re-
ord straight, to place the paper
its true position and to protect hin
self from those who seek to injui
the business. In future everyboc
else's affairs except his own wi
fill these columns.
J. w. CONNELLA.