The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-10-27

to diner during campaigns, ana they
will express their differences of opin-
ion So long as as men try to get
into office for the power it gives them
over others or for the spoils of Of
flee or for the easy time it affords,
and so long as men group themselves
together for a common purpose,
| there will be differences of opinion
among leaders of thought; ideas and
purposes will clash and there will be
dlscord and attempts to deceive.
How You Can Help
The greatest service a person can
do for his party is to stay in it and
ers and office seekers. When officials
depart from high ideals and there is
tendency among leaders to defend
and tolerate them, that is the time
for the individual voter to decide for
himself in his home, as to how he
will vote to aid in setting matters
right. If an official or candidate
here and there is known to have
been wrong, and knowingly wrong,
every voter in the county ought to
decide for himself whether he will
give such person vote of endorse
ment or vote of reprOOf. A vote
of endorsement means an assurance
that he can keep on in his wrongs
and do it worse than ever before and
the people will submit and pay the
price. A vote of reproof means that
every man who is elected will be a
subject for study by the people and
if he departs from rectitude they will
promptly retire him at the first OPP
portunity.
Reap What We Sow
During the coming administration
we shall reap what we SOW at the
polls. So long as the people tolerate
low standards in their officials, there
will continue to be low methods. An
effective cleanup is seldom made I'M
til the people make it. When they
have the information and the proof,
when they have some means of act
ing in unison, even tho they act in
separate booths, they reach the same
general conclusions. The official
who has been under fire and finds
himself endorsed at the polls, has
the very best of authority for con-
tinuing his questionable methods, for
all true government finds its author
ity in the consent of the governed.
If the men whose official careers
have been subjects of dissatisfaction
and discussion are elected by big pop
ular majorities, then it must be &C
knowledged that the population OF
this county want the kind of thing
that has been criticised, and they
should be given their fill of it as they
undoubtedly will
just Who We Mean
We refer in particular to A. e.
Christensen, of Shelley, who is can
didate for county surveyor against
James Young, of Blackfoot; we refer
to A. s. Dickinson, of Blackfoot, who
is a candidate for seat in the leg
islature against B. Harvey Alfred, of
Blackfoot; we refer to James e.
Good. of Blackfoot, who is candi-
date for probate judge against W. H.
Keller, of Rockford; we refer to l..
r. Thomas, of Blackfoot, who Is a
candidate for state senator against
T. J. Bennett, of Shelley. These three
men. A. n. (Ras) Christensen, A. S.
Dickinson and James E. Good, are
members of the old Republican ring
that was running the county and the
courts SO outrageously that the peo-
pie rose up and made house-clean-
ing in 1914. They had incurred the
peoples displeasure by bringing dis
cord. humiliation and loss to the pub
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