The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-09-08

that must now attach to their cleo
toral acts, and when they ask for
something it may yet be thrown up
to them that even D~ickinson's own
speech had merit in it when he sheer
ed at them, for they have sputtered
around and abused him for his ut
terances and then gotten in a merry
mood and helped nominate him az
IL to send him back where he could
do it again. It is to laugh.
The Case of Mr.. DOud
The case of Judge Doud being
beaten by ]. E. Good presents per-
haps the saddest cas- of all. An
old and respected citizen having
served one term as probate judge
and then being turned down by some
one who had no claims upon the cleo
torate, presents q subject that Is not
without a tinge of sadness.
Who Elected Him
Mr.. Doud never held a public Of
flee before, except as we might men
ton that of school trustee and men,
Der of a board of directors in ditch
companies, and when he had sought
election to county office before, he
had been signally defeated. Two
years ago he was asked by the editor
I Of The Republican to accept the NOM
nation for probate Judge and he re-
sponded. He had a number of OPP
ponents who we considered unfit for
the place. and we regarded it as little
less than a calamity for the interests
of the poor and helpless whose in
terests are supposed to be guarded
by the judge Of probate, for either
of them to be elected. We wrote
an article setting forth u belief
that Mr.. Doud was by nature and
training, qualified to fill the position
and we staked our reputation on his
making good If the people elected
him. We printed over 1000 extra
copies of the issue in which it was
published, and attempted to place
one in every home in the county,
| with the result that he was elect
ed without much further effort. All
this was done in his behalf in the
face of the fact that Mr.. Doud was
one of our bitterest personal enemies
and the members Of his family had
been unanimous and tireless in their
efforts to besmirch the editors home
and bring grief to its members. Not
withstanding that fact. we thought he
would make a good probate judge.
On the event of his taking charge
of his office he perpetrated some
thing that the constituency consid-
cred almost a political crime, name
ly: He appointed as probation Of
ticer n who was perhaps the most
unpopular woman in the county after
mentioning Miss Alice Beach. The
one he appointed was a part of the
old ring that was absolutely repudiat-
ed at the election, and if he had had
a spark of respect for the constitu-
ency that elected him he would not
have considered appointing the
woman he did for probation officer.
The proposition was objected to by
members of the administration, and
arrangements were under way to
have the sheriff's office attend to
the duties she was expected to per-
form. There was no valid excuse
for placing her on the payroll eX-
cepting to give her an income and to
give Judge Doud a private secretary
and leave him with no writing to at
tend to, altho he had abundance of
time to do it all. Even while he
was asking for a confirmation of the
appointment, there was a strong pro-
test against it, and in the moment
when he was saying she was the
only one to be considered, the evil
dence fell before him indicating that
she had attempted to deceive the
board of commissioners a few min
utes before, in the effort to get her
bill allowed for something that was
illegal. In the face of all these
things Judge Doud appointed the
woman and kept her On the payroll
ever since. Multitudes of people
learning of this incident said in eff
feet that no public servant could pull
off such stuff and fail to be rebuked
that they have kept their word.
Judge Was an Migrate
A probate judge has control of a
great deal of public printing in the
form of legal notices that require
publication in some paper in the
county, and Judge Doud has set a
new pace in political ethics by send
ing every line of such printing that
he could control, to the newspaper
man who did all he could to prevent
Doud's nomination. and never will
insly allowed a dollars worth of it
to go to the paper to whom he owed
his nomination and election. That
is a subject in which nobody but the
publisher is interested, but it shows
that when a feud exists and one party
to the feud exercises the Christian
principle in behalf of the opponent
and exercises it to the uttermost, it
fails to stir ven a spark of Chris
tian charity in the mar who occupies
a judicial position calling for abso-
Lutte impartiality.
Which was the Christian?
The editor of The Republican has
been charged by his enemies with
having worked for his friends and
opposed his enemies in politics, but
the history of the Doud case from
the time of filing his nomination
down to the time when the people
+rrpod him down WOO a hicforv Of