Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1907-08-09
WAS 1T JEALOUSY

defined fear that The Post might some
day wax strong and 60 after some Of
the business that has hitherto found its
devious way to the little man-power
press Of the Troy Weekly News"
The above is a portion OF an editor
ial in the last issue OF the Moscow
Post, and contains the meat of the
whole editorial on the News. Mr..
Fields, for lack Of anything better to
say, would have his readers believe
that the Troy News has said things
about him and the Post because Of
Jealousy" born Of the fear that the
Post is going to take business away
from the Troy paper. Now, we are
going TO tell you few things conf
dentially, Mr.. Fields. And for fear
someone on the outside may hear
wen just whisper it in your ear. You
say we are jealous, and for that reason
called the Post 'hitching-post," the
'vermiform-appendix Of the republican
party" and party boil" We be-
lieve we did, but we can't quite agree
as to the Jealousy part Of your dag
nosis." In the first place, what on
earth is there about the Post to make
us jealous2 Going to take the coun-
ty printing away from the Troy News"
/ believe you explained. Will this,
at the price at which we are doing it,
drive us out Of business7 Not that any
printer Of more than years experience
knows. And aside from this you must
agree, George, that the Post cannot
hurt US financially. Troy citizens
will hardly break any bones in their
rush to abandon their own paper while
they send their business to the Post or
any other paper in Moscow. So that
your diagnosis" is hardly sufficient.
1t can't be that jealousy" is the rea-
son why we called the Post party
boil, and few other choice names.
And since you seem to want the facts
we are going to give them to you with
the understanding that you keep the
secret to yourself. We are going to
tell you why we threw fit" when
the Post was started.
Now Listenl Before you opened up
it was admitted that Moscow needed
a republican paper. That is, the Mos
COW republicans needed a paper. And
when l say republicans" l mean Mr..
Munson and Congressman French and
a few others. Three times the prop
osition of running paper in Mos
COW was made to Peter LaDow Or
cutt." with the assurance Of plenty of
financial support, including the best
plant in Lrah county," but always
with the provisions that it must be re-
publican paper that could be controlled
by the republicans who would furnish
the funds for the plant and see to its
maintenance. Peter LaDow Orcutt"
could be editor Of this fine plant if he
would become the mouthpiece, the
plant tool, rhe trusted high muckalorum
Of the republican party" You know,
George, wether OF not we accepted
the job as editor. And we will submit
whether or not you think it was
Jealousy" that caused the Troy News
TO show evidence OF "brainstorm"
when Mr.. Munson and other republi-
cans announced that the republican
party" was to have paper. We
might go into detail and tell you a
whole lot more about this deal but
there may be some meddling demo-
crat with his ear to the key hole and
it will never do for you and to supply
the enemy with any Of the party secrets.
We do know that we remained in Troy,
and, support or no support, have the
satisfaction Of knowing that Latah coun-
ty contains not even one republican
who believes the Troy Weekly News
is owned, controlled or run in the in
terest of one or two republicans who
have grown grey drawing salary from
the public treasury. We have the
satisfaction Of knowing that we are free
to support any measure or man worthy
of support without first determining
what effect our action may have on the
candidacy of some other politician.
We have the satisfaction of knowing
that we can, in the fullest measure,
freely give support, in the largest sense,
to the republican party, and that we
are in that position today because we
refused to sacrifice principle for the
sake OF becoming editor of a "republi-
can" paper at the county seat. You
may call it jealousy if you like.
You may tell the public that we OBJ
lected to the Post because a republi-
can paper in Moscow means our fnan-