The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-08-25

they will vote for a sheriff and prose-
cutting attorney who will shut one eye
at certain times when prominent
people are passing with suit cases,
and when others r passing who
are enroute to relieve a great thirst
that is raging in the physique Of a
friend or near-friend. We predict
that a lot of the so-called temper
ance people will vote against their
own loyal kind Of officers for trivial
reasons and to satisfy petty notions
or dislikes that have nothing to do
with matters of government. We
predict that some of them will listen
to the undertone of scandal started
by unknown jackals, and will act up
on the belief that all they hear about
responsible men is true, and will vote
for the other fellows with little re-
gard to who or what they are or
what will be their policy in office.
Drunk With Fool Ideas
We are sorry to record the fact
hut it is true that the sO-called tenn
erance people are about as intem-
perate as anybody in their W. pecu-
liar ways. And by that we do not
refer to the consumption OF whlskey.
We refer to the operation or their
minds. They are noted for having
only one idea at a time and riding
that without regard to it's relation
to anything else. There is an ele-
ment of the temperance people who
act only under the fervor of religious
influence, and it is only when they
happen to get started in the right di-
rection. that they do any good. II
thew get started on the wrong track
they push that way till their fervor
wears out. and exercise little or no
reason. They close their minds to
anything that might change their
course of action, for acting upon an
impulse, they would not know how
to adapt themselves to some other
course if they found themselves
wrong, so they go on bllndly N
stubbornly like a moth beating
against the lamp chimney, or like
the topper trying to drink all n
LIQUOR there is. In each case 1t is
intemperance, only of a different ap-
~plication. Then there are a lot or
temperance people who think that
because they went to the polls and
voted two years ago they have done
their duty till things get to going
very badly again, and then they Will
hustle out and vote. That is where
they are Incorporate. The vets are
in that predicament right now.
Things are going very badly for them
and if they can jolly you into staying
away from the polls or voting LOT
their man, then it is up to you to
stand tied till your turn comes
which will be in a couple of years:
We shall look on with interest and
amusement to see what freak things
will be done at the polls. Two years
ago some of the leading w. c. T. us
did all they could to nominate a
gambler for prosecuting attorney,
knowing that he was a gambler and
knowing that his opponent was a
man of exemplary habits and a clean
record. This year some of the lead
ing Republicans" are going to oppose
the nomination of a man who mas,
thew say, made a good official, but
he changed his politics during the
recent Progressive shake-up. we
predict that those leading Repupll-
cans and members of the celeprat-
ed "Betterment League will vote
for a gambler for prosecuting attor-
new rather than vote for a high class
lofty-minded citizen who once chang.
ed his politics. That is their way Oh
being Incorporate. If they had hap
pened to get the whiskey habit they
would be as Incorporate as the fell
lows they now oppose, and as persist
ent in their law breaking.