Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-06-04
ARE FIGHTING
FITZPATRICK
Correspondent Of Standpoint Paper Tells
of Situation Here in Regard to
County Appointments
SUBSTANTIAL REASONS GIVEN
Says Question Of Appointment VIII Be
Taken to Court


Oreille Review of Standpoint pub
lished an article covering the situa-
ton in Boundary county in regard
to the appointments made and to
be made by Governor Alexander.
The unknown writer delves into
details in a most comprehensive
manner as follows:
Another element of uncertainty
is the failure of the governor to
make full quota of appointments
or rather there is question as to
whether he did or not. Several .
weeks ago a complete list Of APP
pointments for Boundary county
was announced from Boise. Later
the postmaster appointees were
notified of their appointments and
requested to send FIVE dollars to the
secretary of state for their COM
missions and to file oaths of office.
These formalities were, it is I'M
necessary to say, promptly COM
piled with. A few days thereafter
back came the official commissions,
beautifully engrossed and each
bearing a seal as big and as bright
as the rising sun. Two of these
formidable bits of parchment were
missing, the one which should
have been received by James Fitz-
patrick, appointed, or rather pub
lished in the newspapers as APP
pointed, to the Office of county
commissioner and James Bush ap-
pointed, or published as appointed,
to the Office of assessor. The Incl
dent was merely charged up to the
freakishness of the postal system.
Weeks followed and then the Hon
Fitzpatrick and the Hon. Bush be-
came apprehensive. The governor
was beseiged with kilograms ask
ing for an explanation. The an
swer came back that in a matter of
such vast importance the governor
desired further time for delibera-
ton. kilograms and letters con-
tinued to pass to and fro. The
nominations, however, are still
held up.
Fitzpatrick has lived in the coun-
ty for nearly IS years. His de-
mocracy is of the sledge ham
mer sort. He never voted any
other kind of ticket. He voted
and worked for the governor. He
contributed his hard cash to help
the party. He had no appreciable
opposition for the commissioner
ship when the governor is sup.
. posed to have appointed him. The
hard-earned FIVE dollars which
Fitzpatrick dug out of the rich sol
of his ranch is somewhere in Boise
and the aforesaid commission re
poses on the governors mahogany
: table gradually accumulating dus
: with age.
The governor has written five
hundred letters, more or less, il
the identical form, assuring tn,
people that at the opportune tim,
. Jim Bush shall certainly receiv,
his commission as assessor, bu
that the other Jim may or may no
get his. So the situation is abou
like this: Jim Bush, like goot
wine, needs no bush, but the othe
r Jim is of doubtful flavor and colo
! and the bush which produced hin
! should be carefully scrutinized anC
E. tested.
. In this distressing Democrat,
D mix-up the governor first took thu
0 position that Fitzpatrick's democ
racy was slightly off color. In ref
S utation of this SANDER Fitzpatrick
called the attention of the executive
+ to his name. No true son o
d Erin bearing the name of Fitzpat
t rick, " said he, ever voted a re
y publican ticket. "
t 1t happens that one of the gov
), ernor's appointees was elected com
d missioner of Bonner county befor
: the creation of Boundary county
It He is a republican and as he live
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