Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1910-07-15
ANT|-D|V|S|0N LEAGUE

Gently held secret meeting and formulated pro-
gram to division of Lincoln county a
north and south line passing between Jerome and
Wendell This division to be effected without
the knowledge consent of the voters of the county
These leaders hail from Gooding and Rupert and as
a matter of course they proposed that Gooding and
Rupert should be the county seats of the west
and east portions of the old county.
Their program included the selecting of candidates
for the state and state representatives who
pledged in advance to carry out their scheme in
of election. Their candidate for state senator
Mr. Roberts of Rupert The representative to be
selected later.
This legislative delegation from Lincoln county
counted the passage of law by the state
making the division above mentioned, also naming
the two county seats of Goodng and Rupert. The
first ining the people of the county would have of
the scheme would be when bill presented to
state legislature embodyng the provisions concocted
by the Gooding- pIotters.
That law stands inscribed in the statutes of Idaho
allowing of county divisions and the naming of the
new county by members of the state legislature
without the people of the territory concerned having
any voice in the matter is simply Infamous and that
law must be repealed
When the people of Shoshone, Jerome and Wen
dell heard this political for the division of Lin
coin county they called meeting in Shoshone on
Monday the 11th. AS result of the meeting
organization was perfected called the Anti-Divson
League of Lincoln County.
To checkmate the move of the opposition the
League decided to tender their support to the Hon.
Fred w. Gooding for State Senator and MIR. Gooding
has consented to allow his to go before the
voters of the primary election August 30 and his
petitions are being circulated the county.
The League has also endorsed DR.. M. W. Smith,
of Wendell as a candidate for the State Legislature
Lincoln county entitled to two members in the Leg
islature of the State this year
The friends of division living in Shoshone Jerome,
Wendell and other parts of the county opposed
county division when the proper time comes for such
move But the taxable property in the county
limit ed and the debts left heritage of earlier
divisions are large and bear down heavily on the
limited number of taxpayers in the county that it would
be suicidal at this time to impose still heavier burdens of
taxation on their shoulders and publish prospective
immigrants Of taxation that would tend to keep
them away.
There are very many people living the Mindoka
project and in the Hageman valley the two extremes of
the county, who have expressed themselves recently
this subject They do feel willing shoulder addi-
tona burdens of taxation this time simply benefit
the two towns of Rupert and Goodng. They feel that
they can better afford wait reasonable time I'LL the
homesteades the government reclamation project and
the the projects nave MADE nndl
proof on their claims and thus added hundreds of hous
ands of fertile acres to the taxable property of the county
besides what added by the growth of towns and bus
ness enterprises Then nobody will oppose division be-
cause the business of public nature to be transacted
viii be greater than county seat can manage
1t behooves the friends Of popular rule and low
ton to be alert and active in this campaign No gum
shoe politics affecting the material welfare OF the whole
county should be countenanced tolerated few days
of energetic effort few dollars in cash contributed to
the League by all those who vitaly interested will
turn the deep laid plot of the schemers nought There
is no haltinq possible now The fight is and it
be battle worth the name Victory is already in sight
but it viii require hard work and the necessary dollars to
out