The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-10-07
j. ID. MILIASAPS is EQUAL TO THE
n OCCASION

l IL happened tnat MI. MlllSapS LICK
led the risibles of Idaho by filling
sagely humorous campaign expens
account with the secretary of tn
state, thus leaving himself open tt
attack by his Republican friends ant
Assistant Attorney General J. H
Peterson was not slow to take advan
tage of the opportunity He forth
with charged Mr.. Millsaps with hav
ing included obviously spurious mat
ter in padded statement, in that the
latter averred in his expense accoun,
that he paid 65 cents for shave and
a bath in Salmon City.
The assistant attorney general ar.
gued that Mr.. Millsaps had either
been the victim of barber extortion.
er, or that he was sucker" to pay
as much as rs cents for a shave when
ordinarily the price is Is cents, OF
that Mr.. Millsaps had deliberately de-
bauched the vote of the barber by
paying him 10 cents too much, or that
as candidate the Salmon City whis-
ker cutter considered him his "meat"
and "stung" him for the rs cents.
Anyway he considered it, the 65
cents for bath and shave looked
bad to Mr.. Peterson, so he filed the
charge against Mr.. Millsaps at the
same time registering the prediction
that Mr.. Millsaps would have hard
time in explaining away that humor-
Gus item in his campaign expense
account.
But Mr.. Millsaps has proved him
self worthy of his Republican foe
mans steel. Witness how he hand
les the situation in the following let
ter to Mr.. Peterson:
Dear Sir:--Your letter of the Sth
inst, in which you say that the secre-
tary of state has referred to you my
statement of expenditures contract
ed during my campaign for the Demo-
cratic nomination for District Judge
of the Sixth Judicial district Is at
hand, but owing to my absence from
home the same has not received an
earlier reply. In your letter you
say. 1 notice an expenditure am
ounting to Csc for bath and shave
at Salmon City. One who has known
you as long as | have is perfectly
aware that not only did you not pay
IS cents for bath and shave, but
that you never took bath and shave
in your life.'
Now, l guess that | will have to
plead guilty to that charge that
had never before taken a bath and
shave in my life but just how you
ever discovered the fact and got such
through the density of
your old Uranium is something be-
yond my dull comprehension unless
IT, should be that you were judging
others by yourself, but will prom
Use you one thing, and that is that If
ever go out on any more campaign
trips l will never take any more
shaves or baths, either, for it does
not pay nor get votes.
You say to me in your letter,
Unless you make showing that this
is an error of some kind,
shall be compelled to institute some
kind Of an action to rid the files of
such obviously spurious matter
Now the vote of Lemhi county
shows that it was an error, not that
| did not spend the money and have
the bath and shave, but that it was
a very grave error to do so. To ex-
plain the whole matter to you, will
say there is a republican in Fremont
County who claimed to be taking a
great interest in my candidacy for
the nomination for that Office and
pretended that he was very anxious
to see me win out at the primaries,
but have since come to the conclu-
sion that he was either fooling me
or did not know thing upon the
subject of politics, and when he found
that l was going over in that county,
advised me to have shave and a /
bath and put on a clean collar before
went out to meet any of the people,
and thinking that he was indeed
earnest and wise old guy in the
political game, followed his advice,
but it don't work and l can only say
never again
Now. Joe, l am aware that the
explanation given above will never
prove satisfactory to you and that
you are going to have a hard time
inding out some methods of get
ting rid of that obviously spurious
matter in padded statement and
hat Won will probably spend days. |