The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-07
BLACKFOOT'S NEWSPAPER FIGHT

The newspapers of Backoot are engaged in disgracefu
fight among themselves and this generally regretted but regret
does not change the circumstances stop the fight and
likely The of the American Union engaged in
regrettabe but the had 60 Notwithstanding all
the sincere regrets.
Observing people in Bingham county know that the manage
ment of The Idaho Republican has for several years treated with
silence many nasty attacks from competitor who persisted in
accusing the editor of the Republican, by sly nfernces of all the
base and undetermined things which the competitor guilty Of
Occasionally struck back but usually followed the wish of
the better element of citizens and said nothing reply BY this
means acquired the reputation of wishing fight not
being able take of fight and there limit the
ndgnes that prepared and dished up when cir
cmstances seemed to give opportunity the limit of their
desires.
We shall disregard the admoniton of friends who ad
wise Letting it go" when nasty attacks made upon and
shall follow pleasure and fight enemies When they
select the weapons shall respond kind and if they throw
mud the right back with the strongest stckest
mud There bunch in Bacfoot who for years have been
declaring they would drive the editor of the Republican
town, and took it joke for long tme but being
WINGED that they serious about shall accordingly
We have plat of ground the local cemetery that has been
ready for longer than half of the folks have lived here and
we have no idea of being buried anywhere else
Some folks may not read the mudsnging and out
of respect for their feelings shall put much of
under special heading like the following
The Local Mud Pot
1t interesting the defense up by Their paper
response abstract last week indicating that their "Ix
payers Favore guilty of the particular things which he
had been condeng his appeal for nominate him for
governor They replied by saying they had found the word part
with y attached it advertisement in the Republican
making read party We acknowledge the mistake and will
TRY let happen again We pleased to that even
competitors read the advertisements the Republican, and
study them We have had from many others that they
read every line for fear of missing something good and now
we have the acknowledgment from "Their paper"
In the line where they ccise typographical error
we find they have made mistake in the word printing By the
side of they spell the word ports without "t On thef
right of they speak places of stopping the Europe
by Medtaton Above they have Senator Sutherland mis-
use the word "egaon and again they have him say com
miStsion; they speak of method being modern
and they speak having optonon piece of land
telephone Submerged under water five words the same
page broken the end of lines have the hhen omitted;
Pearson and companys advertisement they spell phone with
two kinds of type; wrongfons knew the matter
have The Hende Implement company speak of their Osborne
binder and their Champion header macne mspel the
manufacturers and three wrong the Rowes
Mack advertisement.
On the front page of the they misspel "ammun
ion gunboa later, except wheat attended, Emery, pursued
assuming sanarm, admit mobilization, countries numbered
thousands training arrived portrayer lag collapse, verge
new and confidence"
On page they mixed up locals about A. B. Stephens
and Miss Clayton making him "a few Lake. and making her
Salt days in Dubois" in spelling the of Mrs. A. B /
Stephens they got wrong two particulars spelled sympathy
with ~ represented w. Orr Chapman his advertisement
Bakfoot lawyer spelled the of their newspaper
wrong advertisement they permanently; have
spelled wrong the advertisement of Dr. Markwe spell West
and Boyle without 81 :" have Neil Boyle and company selling
sisal spelled without T F N Parkinson Insurance
heading for congress- print the advertisement of
R. Clute without the "R " wrongont letters in ad
versement of leading gocers mspel burned progressive
knew laboratory Soudan, district the; broken "R" the
Bond Brothers advertisement had item about clock and
printed as three different locals and big display advertise
of their excellence in printing, they put four words
"youwant and "donergh in the advertisement
they wrong-fon III
On page three they continue the typographical the
top line of Palace Drug advertisement just has been running
for months; the advertisement
the wrong initial for Mr. L. B. Dustin in places msspel
the of Robert Boyd and Miss Tche say that Mr. Powers
is selling Poland China "nogs and misspe reverend in
toning Mr. Jewel conducting wedding ceremony. III
We have hung copies of the paper shop windows
to show the mistakes that do make mistakes
selves but remind the public that when Their paper
ID argument of public they reply by say
ng got y wrong in spelling We have pointed 80