The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-10-07

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done to keep officials from doing bus.
mess with the public property un-
der their care. 1t seems then that
county Democracy is out of harmony
with state Democracy.
County Democracy goes on to say
that any public official who prosti-
tutes his public office for private
gain is utterly unworthy of the fran
chise of the people. This is direct
ed at members of the present state
land board who have Carey act
claims, but it provokes a smile when
we consider how exactly it fits the
governor and the secretary of state
under the last Democratic admins
tration when they sat as the major
ity of the board of pardons and in
the last hour before going out of Of
fee pardoned certain murderers and
dynamiters in the penitentiary and
became rich, offering only the flimsy
excuse that there were others equal
ly guilty who had never been caught.
and they did not want one man to
suffer alone for crimes done by a
number of men. In that same cam
paign Mr.. Hawley was candidate
for governor and he was on the de-
fensive in all his seeches trying to
convince people that he had a right
to be attorney for the Occur d'Alene
dynamiters in one term of court and
to be against them in another.
County Democracy says I'VE adj
jure all Democrats and all persons
who believe in and desire faithful
administration of public affairs in
the interest of all the people, to join
us in replacing the unworthy incum-
bents who now occupy the offices of
state and county, by intelligent an1
honest officials who will regard pub
lie duty first and who will not pros
titute the public Offices to private
and partisan advantage"
We invite the reader to note the
sweeping charges and generalities,
but the absence of anything specific.
They do not attack our county COM
missioners and charge them with
anything in particular but they
are included in the general or
der for decapitation on account
of incompetency, dishonesty and
lack Of intelligence. And SO with
each of the other officials of county
and state. W
Farther on when they get to the
subject of roads they devote several
ljnes to the beauties of good roads
and then "deplore the fact that moth
ing has been done by the present
Republican county officials toward
Improvement and construction of
good roads and highways in Bingham
coutny." ~s @
Such statements as the above are
their on antidote, as every observing
person knows that tremendous de-
mand has been made upon the re-
sources at the disposal of the present
board for bridges over new canals,
steel culverts have been shipped in
by the car load to make the most
approved crossings for bitches and
drains, large amount of grading
has been done to make bad crossings
into good ones, and the members Of
the board have given much of their
time to personal study of the road
question all over the county.
County Democracy pledges for
good roads and the fixing of the
Ross Fork sand, condemns the Re- |
publicans for the attempt of the
American Falls people to establish |
a new county, and pledges themselves
to work to retain the Aberdeen coun-
try in Bingham county, and promise
honest and faithful performance OF |
all duties.
They are opposed to the creation |
OF railway commission and land |
board commission promised by the
to devote all their time
to state land business. This on the
ground that it would add the ex-
ense of salaries to the members Of
the commission, though it is general
ly conceded that the present system
places more more work upon the
members of the board than it is pos
sible for individuals to give proper
attention to, and the worst pedica-
ments and losses under present man
agement are ascribed to the members
of the land board not having time to
attend to all their manifold duties.
The Republicans of the last two
legislatures tried to establish the
state land commission and in the last
legislature it was beaten only by
the Democratic vote.