The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-10-13

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came and went for pleasure, but as q
resort 1t fell into such repute that the
big hotel has generally been empty.
The town furnished a liberal amount
of expense to the county in the way
of crime and criminal prosecution,
and newspaper men who expressed
disapproval Of disorderly things that
existed in the town found patronage
withdrawn from the paper, and be-
came impoverished and disguised,
and sold out for what they could
get, or locked up the shop and said
thirty" to the community.
Editor Hildreth, the present pub
Usher of the Chieftain, took the pa
per when his predecessor was being
boycotted for taking stand that did
not suit lot of the local men. Hid
reth sought to overcome that by run
ming the paper to suit the 'wets, and
in the local option campaign just
closed he used whatever influence he
had to support the vets. The town
itself voted dry, and the surrounding
country voted dry. Hildreth had felt
the public pulse and read it wrong,
or possibly had felt of his own pulse
and that Of his associates and made
the mistake of thinking they were
the public. We might give him credit
for being sincere In what he had said
for the vets if he had not come out
in his last weeks issue and admitted
that he had been taking the course
he had because he thought 1t would
win favor with the most people, and
consequently bring the best results
in the way of patronage
Having learned that he had not
only read them wrong, but was I'M
able to change them to his way of
thinking by the power of the press,
he gives out the inference that since
they think the other way he will be
pleased to run the paper in the future
to their way of thinking. And there
you have the measure of his influence
and his sincerity-an advocate, not
an editor-a follower, not one who
takes advanced ground and holds it
until they come to join him by reason
of his being right.
"Soda Springs with a majority
against the saloon after trying it both
ways! Soda dry and getting dryer!
Pocatello wet by only a small margin
after pressing every spring possible
to turn out wet votes.
Thinking men will form new con,
clusions from this without referring
to the statistics of Maine or Kansas. .
4 Yes. Soda Springs is proud to be
"the land of sheepherders and cattle
men," rather than the home of cheap
quack phrenologiSts and would-oe
character assassins. He might have
gone further and stated that there il
not, on all this sheep range, sheep
! herder SO devoid of manhood, or a
"locoed" sheep SO hopelessly lacking
in common sheep sense, as to have
been guilty of the above nasty trick
performed by this self-same bird
of Blackfoot
i He says that "Soda has never pos
Led as a moral town." Truly we do
less of posing than some Others, but
We can state without fear of success
full contradiction, that there is not II
cleaner or more moral town in the
state of Idaho, or any other state In
the Union. He says that the good
men came and went away" but that
very few remained. We might ada
that there were some who came ami
went away who were not at all de-
sirable. 1t may be remembered that
our friend from Blackfoot came and
went away" and the flags were not
hung at half-mast, nor our door
knobs draped in crepe when he took
his departure.
Some of the people of Soda Springs
happen to recollect the dapper young
fellow, wearing high silk hat and
a starched shirt and carrying cane,
who billed the town as peripatetic
phrenologist, 10 or 20 years ago. 1t
was feared then that he was "nutty'
in the head and it looks at a distance
as If he were rather "wheelly" in
the upper story. This feeler of
bumps and knots on craniums was
none other than the self-same BYRD
Trego who now essays to sit in judg-
ment on the people of town that
failed to come through with the
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examiner, who perhaps knows even
less about phrenology than he doe.
about physiognomy. Trego's head
may be shaped all right, but his looks
must certainly belle him. A man
who will stoop to the depths he has
done in order to "get even," as he
would probably express it, with a
people who had neither patronage nor
patience for a travelling fakir, would
seem to be almost beyond redemption
st. Peter will certainly halt him at
the gate and most assuredly not let
him pass through the portals-no,
not if he even yet claims to be Mann
mas Sunshine!"
His fairy tale of the martyrs who
came to Soda Springs to run news,
papers, but left upon finding that
they were the only real good men in
town. reminds us of the soldier who
deserted the army because, as he de-
clared, every other man in the regi-
ment always was out of STEP" III
our Blackfoot contemporary, is sin
cere in wishing to get at facts, let
him come to Soda Springs and inves-
tigate who erred, and who was out
of step