Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-03-12

the hepuDl1car ana Mr.. MOllOy 0n(
others received from the Orofino Trib.
une gang, in control of the county
fair, for valuable services rendered al
sacrifice of time and money. Per.
sonally we gave not less than $2O(
worth of time to gathering and pre-
pairing an exhibit; our exhibit Ger
tainly helped to win the $50 at Lew.
iston; we gave literally of our time,
several days during the Orofino fair,
and five days at Lewiston assisting in
putting the Clearwater county exhibit
in place, and spent some Of our priv
ate funds, in addition to the S. Mr..
Crow mentions, and yet this man
Crow, who talks of harmony" and
getting together, after asking us to
go to Lewiston, and promising to pay
our expenses, ends the matter by in
sinuating that the editor of the Clear
water Republican is a CRATER, and
responsible for the failure of Mr..
Crow and his gang to pay the farm
ers' their premiums.
This is sample of the manner The
Orofino Tribune has treated those it
and the gang could not handle, and
when the people kicked Mr.. Crow out,
and dumped his gang into the discard,
the Tribune, the worst offender on
earth, smooths its soiled wings and
coos and says: pray, let US have
harmony.
OF course the people want harmony,
but not as long as there is dirty old
gangster editing paper that stands
for and practices graft, and stands for
and practices all that is filthy and
foul in the newspaper business, and
has stood for and worked for discord
and strife.
Harmony!
The Orofino Tribune has disrupted
its own party because the rank and
file are disguised with it's methods,
and outraged at it's subserviency to
the most disreputable Tammany ring
sters that ever cursed any county or
state. And yet the Tribune wants
harmony.
In other words, the Tribune has lost
out, is discredited, whipped to fraz-
zle. and down and out, the fruit of it's
own damnable attitude towards the
people of Clearwater county, and now
it would have peace.
With political rottenness there will
be no compromise SO far as the Clear
water Republican is concerned. With
Tammany and Tammany methods
there will be no fusion, no alliance,
because those responsible for the fight
want truce while it's shattered army
gets it's breath and re-organizes.
That is the kind of harmony the
Orofino Tribune and I. R. Crow stand
for, just as it is the kind Of harmony
Abe Rueff and the Schmidt gang of
grafters stood for in San Francisco,
and the Tammany grafters stand for
in New York.
The people are not so dense that
they do not know who the Orofino
Tribune represents, and the motive
behind the sudden change of front and
plea for harmony. The cloven
hoof and the spiked tail are not con-
cealed. Like every other foul brood
Of political parasites that has infested
and cursed a community and at last
been driven to bay, the Orofino gang,
Of which the Tribune is but a plant
tool. makes sudden resort to things
calculated to disarm suspicion while
the grafters re-organize and regain
their foothold.
Last fall l. r. Crow and the Oro-
fino Tribune came forward one week
and said it was no longer the tool of
the old gang. It was for the people.
Where is the Tribune today?
The Clearwater Republican does not
the Orofino Tribune as
paper. We do not admit
that |. r. Crow represents the demo-
cratic organization in Clearwater
county. We are quite certain the
democrats do not recognize the Trib-
ine as democratic, or that the policy
by the Tribune fairly harmon
lie with democratic ideals and prin-
ciples. For decent democrats the Re-
publican has nothing but respect.