The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-11-03
Tax Question
Paramount Issue
DEMOCRATS STAND FOR LOWER TAXES
Republicans Have Not Lived Up To Promises
Made Two Years Ago

With this issue of the Record
we are closing a stirring Demo-
cratic campaign, a campaign that
without doubt, has been one of
the hardest fought affairs in the
history of Idaho politics. This
campaign has accomplished great
results, not alone in the many
votes which will be cast today by
an enlightened state of voters but
also in exposing the corrupt con-
ditions of our state affairs and the
present Indispensable hands at
the helm of state government.
In this county as in every other
county the tax question has been
the precminent issue and today in
casting your vote, Mr.. Voter, don't
overlook for a moment that it lies
in your hands alone to better
your conditions and if you do not
take advantage of the opportun-
ity no one can be blamed but
yourself.
Two years ago you elected re-
publican administration, State
and county, on the platform of
Reduced Taxes and Economical
Expenditure of the Public Money.
The only question today is; Have
they accomplished this result and
thereby kept their party pledges {?
This question is hardly worth the
asking, however, as there is not
one of you, who although you
may not be versed in the statis-
tics of the various increases Of
expenditures in the different Of
fees, both state and county, but
what knows the difference and
can answer the question when he
looks over his tax notices for the
past two years.
Here again, Mr.. Voter, consider
for a moment if you have not al
ready done so the fact; Why
have you not received your tax
notice this year as yet? Look
back at the date on your notices
in the past and you will see that
heretofore these notices have
been in your possession some
days before the first of November.
What is the reason they are not
this year?
The answer is simple. The
republican party Dare Not Lei
you know what you will be called
upon to pay this year in taxes.
We have repeatedly shown, as
have many of the other papers
of the county, the enormus ex-
penditures of the past year but
figures are some times not easy
to understand especially if one
should feel that they do not di-
rectly affect his interests.
These figures and reports, Of
fetal as they have been in that
they were taken direct from the
county records, do affect you
vitally. If you do not now be-
lieVe so wait until after election
day when you receive your tax
notice and then remember the
announcements have been made
repeatedly showing you just what
the tax notices will prove conclu-
sively.
It will then be too late to
change a vote and if you have
voted to reelect the men now re-
sponsible for high taxes you will
have no right to complain if dur
ing the coming two years these
taxes keep on raising as they are
bound to do if the present Court
House Ring, with its many hang
erson about the court house, dep
uty assessors, extra road workers
and such like are left in charge
of spending your money.
The opening remarks of all
political addresses during the
past few years have almost en-
tirely been directed to the in
telligence shown by the Ameri-
can voter Of today. These re-
marks have been justly approp-
riate as the voter of today wants
Ito know what the issues are he