The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-11-03
DOOLEY QUEERS THE
MATTER

Editor Dooley both admits and de-
MES what was said about the ex-
county surveyor and his retaining the
instrument that was the property of
the county by Mr.. Christensen's own
confession. When a man gets on
both sides of an argument to that
extent 1t is useless to spend much
time with him.
Attacks Surveyor Young
Mr.. Dooley takes a new line of
talk now, and says that A. E. Chris
Jensen told his successor, Mr.. Young,
at the time of giving up his Office,
that he had the instrument and
would turn it over to him later. In
this matter Mr.. Dooley misquoted
Mr.. Young as shown by the files OF
his own paper. In The Optimist OF
April %, 1915, he stated that such
conversation had occurred between
the two men on Tuesday of that
week, and after we had made public
demand for the return of the prop
erty. His exact language was, "I'll
return the instrument If the COM
missioners ask me to-" He did not
make that acknowledgment of posses
sion before we exposed the matter.
Attacks Another Man
Editor Dooley says that there is
bad blood between Editor Trego and
Surveyor Christensen because Trego
tried to graft christensen for $40 for
a campaign write-up and was refused.
That would be a contemplate thing
If it had happened, but the nice thing
ABOUT it is that it never happened
between Editor Tregon and anybody.
At the time Dooley refers to we Of
fered to give page or two to the
Republican campaign committee in
which to introduce the candidates of
our party to the public, simply telling
who they were and what they had
been doing, etc. We gathered the
information ourself, and carried out
the plan and the public and the COM
mittee were pleased with it. We were
not on good terms with A. e. Chris
Jensen for the reason that we had
criticised him and his brother, and
his pal, Billy Jones, and his right
hand man, A. S. Dickinson and many
others. We had objected to allowing
his bills for oranges and candies
bought for the crowd by Christensen
when they were out surveying. We
had objected to allowing his bills for
SO day for services in the field
when the law plainly says it shall
not exceed Sc.
When we were gathering data for
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sent a letter to him and one to his
brother, explaining what we were do
ing, and saying that we were not
much acquainted with him excepting
as we had met him in business. and
knew little of his family and the So
cial side of life, and we should be
glad to have him offer any informa-
that we could use in giving him an
introduction to the public and the
new people In the county who had
not made his acquaintance. We did
not propose introducing him or any
of them as suitable candidates for
the positions they aspired to fill, but
merely to give a biographical sketch
SO the public would know who they
were. We did not mention money to
any of them unless it was to say that
this would not cost them anything
and that they would be under no OBJ
legations for it. If we had been
grating" any one we would have
grated them all alike and not made
a target of the surveyor. People
wishing to know whether we tried
to make it a commercial affair can
find out something by asking each
Of those who was written up either
as candidates or as members Of the
executive committee, and their names
are Nofear Davis, r. J. Dygert, Louis
Felt, DR.. G. A. Hoover, John Begun,
Louis Robbins, J. s. Burdell, H. r.
Boise, Grace M. Stevens, G. H. Hol-