The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-08-05
LEST WE FORGET

One of the sad phases of human
nature is shown in the writings of C.
E. Arney in the Salt Lake Tribune
when he tells about politics in Idaho.
1t has appeared sometimes that
Arney was terribly misinformed about
/ the facts In matters he wrote about,
but in his attacks upon Miss Belle
Chamberlain this summer, and espec-
tally the past week, there is little
room for doubt that Mr.. Arney pur-
posely garbles the truth to damage
state officials because Of his own
bitter feelings or to furnish sensa-
tional reading matter for his paper
without regard to the feelings 6r the
rights Of the PERSONS he ISLANDERS.
His articles would lead readers to
believe that the Idaho state land
board was corrupt in the extreme,
and Miss Chamberlain as corrupt as
any of them. If public officials who
have been faithful in the discharge of
their duties as Miss Chamberlain has
been, must be forever bounded and
misrepresented, then the rank and
file of citizens should stand little
closer together in casting their solid
vote to SUSTAIN her in reelection.
Miss Chamberlain has always main
tanned that she was free to use her
rights to acquire public land the same
as any other citizen, and being a state
official did not take away her right
to register and take a piece of land in
her turn, provided she conformed to
the regulations governing the draw
ing the same as others did. And now
she is placed in the light of one who
mas by inferred corrupt transactions.
made fortune during her two terms
In office. We do not believe she has
made dollar except what she was
entitled to make in the ordinary
course of procedure with Carey land
and city lots in which she invested.
and 1T is to her credit if she started
with nothing but good name and did
her little part in developing big pro-
]ects, and has some good town lots
and a farm to show for it.
In regard to her school work she
has made good both at home and
abroad, having taken part in cont
Ventlons that made her a national
ngure, and in all she has sned luster
On the name of Idaho and Idaho,s
school system.
we doubt If anybody knows the
'chool laws and the needs of the
chool system in Idaho as we'll az
ne, and certainly no other woman
an go before the legislature and Sc
'ure as much downright practical
workable school law and get it into
economical operation as Miss Cham
erlain.
Inc burden of attack on this lady :
Gems to be on account of matters I
andled by the land board, and those +
mo are familiar with the much talk Z
or thompson lease of two years Z
go Will recall that she was the most {
Conservative and business like one <
the board when Mr.. Thompson was <
orklng to get his oily transaction :
trough, and was the one to insist
pom holding 1t up until they could :
ct information to guide them in the
aw venture.
Arney's attack seems the more un- x
lied for and unjustified when we x
call that Miss Chamberlain and her <
'ed mother are alone in Idaho. Resi-
'nts of Boise City with Mr. Arney Z
ID family for neighbors, they must =
call the circumstances of a few =
ars ago when Arney was warden
the Idaho penitentiary and he was =
u only accused of all manner of =
of the states prom q
ty, but at the end of the investi- II
ton was turned out Oh once. II
How then, can he be harsh with
hers, and be so unjust that even his y
ends and schoolmates rise up tot -
y his hand from further thrusts. Z
d in doing this work he forces vot-
to endorse his methods or to line -
for the one no atto,Ls