Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-04-30
LICKED. BY GOSH.


it was clicked to a frazzel' in Tues
days village election. And here we
have been happy and going about our
business for almost week and never
knew a thing about it till we read it
in the Orofino Tribune just before 60
ing to press. What a dense, thick
headed numbskull we are anyhow.
Why on earth didn't somebody tell
us we had been licked, instead of
leaving US in ignorance of our politi-
cal downfall all this time. 1t isn't
fair to lick an editor and annihilate
his newspaper and not let him in on
the secret.
If an editor don t know he is licked
how on earth is he going to act lick
ed? This Tuesday licking we are
told by l. R. Crow, who said Wednes-
day night at the booster meeting that
it was an lawful thing, this fighting;
that the people should devote their
time to something better" is also
said by the Orofino Tribune to be
complete vindication of the Orofino
Tribune crowd last election"
No doubt about it.
1t vindicates I. K. Grow when he
skinned the taxpayers on county print
ing, charging and collecting $86 for
sc lines of commissioner proceed
ings. 1t proves that l. R. Grow
L., o1%hn,,<rb he did ord maid
about $75 back to the county when
threatened with prosecution.
Tuesdays election also ''vindi-
Gates l. R. Crow in his mismanage-
ment of the Clearwater county fair,
although the citizens of the county
were incensed at his conduct of the
fair business, and virtually fired Mr..
Crow bodily out into the cold, cruel
world, repudiating him about as en-
phatically as we have ever seen any
man get repudiated by his fellow
citizens.
1t is, in all seriousness, an insult
to William Noble and S. G. Curtis to
assume that they are tools Of dis
credited gang; that they belong to the
Orofino Tribune bunch, and that their
election is a rebuke to any newspaper
that opposed graft, and worked to
clean up dirty political mess in
Clearwater county. Yet that is ex-
actly what the Orofino Tribune would
have people believe. Yet the Clear
water Republican took no part in the
! village election, and was never aware
that anybody considered for moment
the village election involved anything
of vital Importance; that however il
terminated was there involved any
thing more than two small jobs thai
in any event would be filled by friends
of the Clearwater Republican. Now
we are told that the Clearwater Re
publican was repudiated, and that
r. Crow and his friends were vindi
Gated, and a lot of other nonsensica
rot that makes people Disguised anC
tired.
The Clearwater Republican, instead
vi iHS w OWL UP oeA iiS III a fAAScAs
village election, spent much of las
week getting up Wednesday night
big booster meeting, and the Republi
can and P. L. circuit proposes to keel
on boosting Clearwater county ant
, working for harmony. Mr.. Grow
and the Orofino Tribune can continu'
to engender strife and play the hypo
J crit by talking harmony and boosting
! at booster meetings and practicint
: the other thing at every opportunity
, So far as the Clearwater Republican
, is concerned the incident is closed
We are going to devote our time t.
! boosting. The Orofino Tribune cal
! keep right on clicking" circuit an
"vindicating itself, by being dis
: turbing element, nuisance and
] hindrance.