The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-03-27
REDUCING THE TAXES
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the MAN, that easy find for having the county pay
the bills
Election Expenses Hare Doubled
The expenses of holding elections have than doubled
the past four years and they very expensive then COM
pared with those of earlier years of statehood This is one ex
pense people need lay the door of the the
county commissioners.
The People did
1t such 10y the of these articles to find one branch
of the public service where the abovenaed officials can be gwen
clean bill of health shall devote chapter to it. 1t long
story covered in its broader and hardly know where
to begin.
Editors Fight in Conveuion
The campaign 1912 the second experience this state
having double election expense The direct primary had been
introduced 1870 and and novel and the expense
bills got by with little notice people hardly t the burden
The newspaper convention Boise studied the operations
of the law and such great differences OF theory that some
radical fellow nearly developed mob by introducing resolution
committing the press to favong the direct primary lnaaVe
referendum and recall If the niatiatve referendum and recall
develop as many s and expense bills for which the people
nothing does the direct primary blessing for Idaho that
have gotten farther into the scheme than have
Voters are intellectually Lazy
There periods when free people get away from
freedom when representative government look good and
the take the details their hands and
that each item done right and they make of it. We did
that when put the direct primary into operation in Idaho and
if do any better differently this year shall have to
wake study hard and operate election matters import
side line The average shrnks from the plain duty inn
posed by the direct primary for the that takes too much
time and study was illustrated when used the first ballots
under state elections and had two three constitutional amend
upon the bottom of the ballot Very few people
took the trouble study the several questions they could vote
ntelgeny each and they failed of adoption 1t took
vast of agitation get the public sufficiently interested to
amend the constitution the burning question OF having school
superintendent aside from the probate Judge Since that time
has been found advertise the constitutional amendments
the newspapers people could study them home before the
election Two the state government paid about hive
thousand dollars for advertising the proposed amendments and
very few people studied them and voted upon them This
only fraction of the study that would be required to vote intel
geny upon questions submitted by referendum such they have
Oregon and them average of STAB for each question
submitted and if guess how bills introduced IN
legislature he begin guess how many pamphlets each voter
would receive by mail campagn also how much time he would
have for the study and decision of each question when they
png his mail box every day like free seeds and public docu
ments from Washington until he hardly knows where
them The secretary of state has to notify each voter the state
of the questions involved each proposed for ratification
rejection at the polls and many may be put into one
pamphlet
Frilb Cost Money
The simple fact that doubling frequently and the
government getting little any better ought to be fundamentals
for safe conclusions If introducing lot of rls into
government expense columns does bring good results
high time the frs The direct expense paid by the
county government and the indirect Campaign expense) paid
by the candidates. for the primary campaign has added greatly
to the burdens of the campaign and following are some OF the
items.
What is Meant by FriHs
An session of the county commissioners makes arrange
for the holding of elections The public notified by publ
cation newspaper that certain lines constitute the boundaries
of certain precincts all the county, and that certain place
named each precinct be the polling place That notice is
served the public weeks Also that certain individuals
named registrars and that their Offices
Saturdays July Voters notified that they register if
the would VOTE and another notice proams the and ad
dresses of the of each party who the running for
each and county office Finally the ballot its official form
is published in least newspapers the county for two weeks
the voters may study it.
Bales of Printing Wasted
When the approaches the polls he sample
ballot examine and when he gets the polling place he must
be handed ballot of each party the field and he must take
them into the booth and its privacy and he mark
the of his choice and fold both all of them alike and separate
y and the judges and indicate which is to be voted
and which destroyed If there political parties ballot
is destroyed for each used if there three parties