Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-04-26
CLOSE CORPORA
TI0N BROKEN
Communication From c. e. Corker
on The Results Of the
SchoI Election

schoI Election
Editor OF the Republican: want
through the columns of your paper
to congratulate the people OF this
district on the result OF Tuesdays
school election, when they elected B.
P. Thompson trustee for three years,
thereby breaking the Close Corpor-
alton" that has existed between the
school board on the one hand and
Supt. |. B. Warner on the other hand
or many years.
/ will preface my remarks by say
ing that was in no way responsible
or bringing out Mr. Thompson as
q candidate for the position OF trus-
Zee, neither was | two years az In
soliciting Mrs. Evans to run, nor
last year in getting Mrs Caldwell to
enter the race My idea was to turn
IN the light and the people would
O the rest. / thought then and
still think that II the people could
get fair plain statement OF where
nd how their money was being ex-
ended, they could be relied on to
10 the balance without assis...aice
rom Grand Jury; and with that end
view | commenced my articles In
our paper calling for an itemized
statement OF expenditures according
law. discontinued them on
March 10th for the purpose, as stat
I'd therein OF giving the Board an
opportunity to reply, as had been
Informed they would do when |
stopped, and I fully intended II they
lid not answer, but continued in their
What are you going to do about it,"
policy, to reopen them before the
annual election, and my only reason
Tor not doing so was being requested
by friends OF Mr.. Thompson not to,
giving as their reason that they did
not want to be handicapped by any
outside issue of expenditures of
money, or incomplete and misleading
reports. They held that the issue
made two years ago by those in
sisting on keeping the personnel
of the Board intact, was that the
attempt to elect a new member
was only for the purpose of depos-
Ing Supt. Warner. That was the ex-
act issue with which they had to con-
end again last year, and that was
the identical issue that would be
raised again on election day this year.
They felt that they had lost
twice on that issue (raised by
Warner and the Board) and they
wanted to fight 1t out again this
year, untrammelled by outside
issues; that the people were get
ting their eyes opende; that the
very argument that 1t needed those
Identical three people on the Board
to keep Warner in his position, TAD
hitting by their argument that II
those three we're worked out of the
Warner would have to
go) was equivalent to saying that no
other three persons in this district,
which pays over $4,000 a year to
support It's school, would retain him,
and IL that were true, II that was
the reason he was retained, change
would be beneficial. They were con-
fident this was the view taken by
the people, and they were confident
of success II the issue was not con-
fused. / agreed to do nothing more
until after election and should not
even have attended the meeting, had
| not been called up on the phone by
one OF the trustees at 4 o'clock SUM-
day evening, with reference to the
kind Of ballots to be used the next
day; and even when did go to the
stood there and saw the
farce go through without making an
but now that election is
over am ready to resume my work
in attempting to get from the School
Board an itemized statement Of the
expenditure Of our school money.
according to the plain wording and
intent Of the law. am not one Of
hose who believe that the milen-
mum has come because Of the cleo
lion Of Mr.. Thompson. realize III
he two remaining members of the
Board continue to work under the
'$S3" Warner rules for the Board.
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