The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-03-13

heard or needed In times when poll
cies we're being adopted. The editor
took the majority of the stock, and
has been buying up the minority ever
since, and now owns all OF 1t but
$4,000 worth, this being one TWEEN
tieth of the total investment. G. F.
Hansbrough and w. A. Younie have
also been accused of controlling the
policy of the paper, but neither OF
them has any Of the stock, so it is
in order for you to develop new plans
of attack.
Editor Dillingham; says he often
made SUGGESTIONS to the editor of The
Republican about articles written for
publication when he was employed
in the Office, and did what he could
| in this way to keep him out of en-
| barrassments, all of which is true.
We employed him to do the mechani-
| cal work, but he was so keen to be
the editor that he got so he took the
liberty of reading most of the matter
before 1t got into type and making
slight changes of punctuation. We
advised him that this was unneces-
sary and was loss of time we did
not approve nor care to pay for, but
he persisted until by such changes
he made one of our articles read the
opposite of what we wished, and we
have ever since preferred a foreman
who could and would do his part
and leave the editor to do his. We
are sorry to have to let Mr. Dilling-
ham down in the midst Of his wisdom
and If his theory of his own import
ance on the paper is correct, 1t is a
wonder The Republican did not go to
the dogs Immediately when he left 1t.
Editor Dillingham; goes on to say
that he saw us save mans life once,
and then charged him ten cents for
the Job, that being all the man had.
That was cheap. We admit 1t. We
admit that 1t was cheap. Perhaps that
was all he was worth; we have for
gotten the incident. We have heard
too, that we charged man ten cents
toll to tie his team to that telegraph
pole in front of our old editorial
Office in Mackay. All we have to say
is that he was foolish to pay 1t, as we
had whole rows Of hitching racks
built just around the corner in the
center of town, and none of the
neighbors there had cross dogs.
We will ask Editor Dillingham; to
rise and speak again, and If he can
show any good reason why any OF the
bunch that traded the Republicans
off at the state convention at Poca-
tello should be pushed to the front
again, we shall want to pass 1t on
to our readers but descending into
petty chickering's and petty guesses as
to who edits a paper, who owns the
stock, who saves a mans life for a
dime and who is the most "pecunl-
ary'' is of no interest or concern in
state affairs unless they are facts
that cannot be controverted and tend
to show how or why editors are in
fuenced to try to influence their
readers and thus print men into
| office.
Is it not the band wagon you are
looking for; not the best interests OF
the state?
Truxton Talbot.
In your response to last week
questions by The Republican you
again keep clear of the questions at
issue and repeat that which is upper
most in your nature, that the other
fellow is wrong because he does not
agree with you, that he has sold his
editorial influence, that because ne
disagrees with you he does not know
anything, that he who does not get
| in line and boost for the candidate
YOU favor is idiotic and dirty in
politics, and you have the assurance
to refer again to what you brought
out last, that you had been the guild
ing hand of The Republican editor
when in his employ and are solicitous
about it's future now.
Since you dodge the real issue and
put yourself in the forefront again
with self-praise, we state what we
withheld last week-that your per-
sistence in trying to shape the policy
of and infuse your characteristics
into The Republican when employed
as foreman, was a constant trial to
the editor and was the reason for his
helping in every way he could to get
YOU into a place where you would
have editorial range. Should you,
care to dispute this we will publish
two articles again which we gave to
the public through the paper while
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