Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-10-13
County Attorney Smith
ONE OF THE MEN
WHO DID 1T.

The Orofino Tribune is as much a
wet as is the Butte Miner" The
Republican is dry" and will fight
to keep Clearwater county dry.
Which of these papers is entitled to
public confidence? Where are you
going to stand? The Republican ex-
posed the Orofino Tribune county Off
Gals, and by publicity routed the
bootleggers. The Orofno Tribur e
protected and defended and excused
The Republican is dry today. The
Tribune is not. The Republican has
fought for the purity of the home !;
the Tribune has aided and abetted
those who are the despoilers of Home.
The Orofno Tribune stands for
graft, for bootlegging, for booze, for
political corruption, for extrava-
gance, for high taxes, for waste,
indecency, for violation of law. 1t
has excused county officials who have
made all these things possible, and
has the nerve to face the people and
ask for another two years of county
control.
The editor of the Republican has
been lifelong believer in prohibi-
tion. We have fought the saloon
from the time we first began to take
any part in public life, and long be-
fore we could vote. We remember
joining the Good Templars when a
mere boy, and vowing to fight King
Alcohol. We have never broken
that vow. We have had part,
however humble, in the great move
ment that at last is sweeping this
nation, and carrying the world for
sobriety and decency. Coming to
Clearwater county four years ago we
did not wait to see how public senti-
ment stood. We did not care. We
began at once to fight for law en-
forcement and decency and the home.
We took up the fight for the boys of
our county. We fought for the
mothers of this county, for the home
and wife against booze. bootlegging
a: d vice. We attacked John Barley
corn in the Clearwater county court
house, where he was in contlo', in
sulting and naughty. We endured
insult and threats and personal as
sault; we were maligned and sland-
cred and attacked from every angle
by the sneaking hyenias of an organ
lied brood of Hellhounds. We fought
them at Elk River. The Clearwater
Republican exposed county official
after official; we drove the sheriff
into hole and the public buried him
under an avalanche of protesting bal
lots. We published the record and
produced the proof of law violation
and County Attorney Holsclaw was
swept into the scrap heap of political
Oblivion by an outraged public.
This paper supported Sheriff Sulli-
van and County Attorney Smith on a
solemn pledge that they would en-.
force the law and clean up Clear
water county. That pledge has been
faithfully kept. The opposition adj
mits it. The people are proud OF
this record. Will they now repudi-
ate this record at the polls?
If 80 then the Clearwater Republi.
can is done. 1t will then know that
the fathers and mothers of this county
want bootlegging and booze, licen.
tiouness and prostitution, pimps anG
prostitutes, crime and graft. Blu.
until the people themselves say sc
we shall refuse to believe for one
moment that our faith in the people
of Clearwater county has been mis-.
placed, and our labor wasted.
The governor of Idaho has nothing
to do with the enforcement of laws
in Clearwater county. If we are now
dry the credit is due to Sheriff Sui.
livan and County Attorney Smith
They did it. They cleaned up thi.
county under laws in force all tn,
time Harper and Holscalw were serv
ing.
T. B. West stands for economy
He says he will, if elected county at
torney, let the governor of Idaho en-
force the law. Holsclaw did that
Elect West county attorney and Gin
Perkins sheriff and save money
They promise to give you law en-
forcement from Boise. Harper an