Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1915-06-12
GRANDMA HACKNEY TAKEN TOO SERIOUSLY


In the Glenns Ferry Gazette of Jun,
4th in answer to one of Grandm;
Haokney's spasms ON the result of tn
recent bond election:
"The foregoing outburst from thu
] char pion of he Elmore Development
league would have passed unheedet
had not 1t referred in a round d1about
yet easily understood, manner to 2O4
citizens of Glenns Ferry as pikers
The Times does not say why they are
pike!s and only leaves the reader tt
conclude that they are branded as
such becuase they refused to agree
with the Gilmore Development league
In the opinion that any little act OF
courtesy from the development league
must be paid back fifty-fold.
The fact of the matter is tLat Noun
tain Home has i'm time past enjoyed
clear sailing, and now that she finds
obstructing her path a well-written
-oM1 lBq1 s9q!IoseLd QolqM 'MBl
thirds vote is necessary to load the
taxpayers with debt, she is sore. And
the publisher of one Of her newspapers
in groping around for some means to
substantiate this attitude of soreness,
yelps out that 204 citizens, who exer-
cised their lawful privilege i'm not
agreeing with the Gilmore Development
league in all things, are pikers. At
the last November election Mountain
Home displayed her generosity in a
marked way She defeated every
Glenns Ferry candidate for office
even to county commissioner. But
did the Gazette become peeved and
call the citizens of the county seat
pikers? Rather, 1T figured the people
had right to vote as they pleased.
The Times says the development
league will help every worthy appeal
from Glenrs Ferry i'm the future as
i'm the past OF course, no one
knows, but it is fairly safa to venture
the assertion that no appeals from
Glenns Ferry are apt to he placed, at
the disposal of the development
not until that body
comes down few notches in its de-
mands that every dollar shall be re-
turned with fifty.
The people of Glenns Ferry voted
on the question, which was whether
or not $4,000 was to be issued "to
be used" and took no chances ON the
various intimations that the amount
might be cut in two after election
Precisely, they preferred to do what
hey could when they had the two
thirds majority law with them. The
ocal voters would not have objected
vt all to a $4,000 court house, and
will vote in favor of one If the
question is put up to them i'm that
they will do it just as
willingly, Or perhaps more so, if
punch of instructions Is not issued to
hem two days before election by
iom2one who has only the welfare of
he county at heart.
"The Times also infers, in the same
manner, that those who
oppose the bond issue are obstruction-
SITS. This does mt irritate Glenns
Ferry people. There Is no disgrace
n obstructing something you have a
atural right and a well founded rea-
on for opposing. Obstructionists, as
pposed to builders, when such build
rs are the mere makers of plans for
airy air castles which they proposa
b cause be built by the waving OF 3
magic wand of voting instruct ons,
re not such a bad sort of obstruc- I
onists after all. ,
"And there s another point not to '
e overlooked. The members of the t
'lmare development league do need I
rest room. When a mans brainlet 5
egins to concoct such wild inconsist- T
ncies as the idea that everyone is a e
iker who doesn't give the owner all .
Q asks for, whether he needs 1t or a
OF, rest is badly needed, and nice h
owny featherbed wiuld be none too a
estful." t
Aside from the fact that the Ca a
ute has taken Grandma too serious t
:, there is much in the article that a
lerits the careful consideration Of all C
lose interested in the welfare of II
II county. This paper deplores the r
.ct that the term "obstructionists" b
lould even remotely be sought to s
, applied to those I'm Elmore county Il
no voted against the issuing OF 8
,nds for the building of court c.
,use. There were 382 votes cast J
,ainst 1t in the county, 48 Of them s.
ling cast in Mountain Home pre- v
opl a.tJa froy,, lypouf,,ey Abuf ri