The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-04-06
BOUQUETS AND BRICK.BATs
Editor of The Republican Receives
Fine Assortment

Editor of The Republican Receives
Fine Assortment
Many men have many minds, and
because of this, the editors of news.
papers come in for agreements and
disagreements with many people
Friends and opponents generally feel
free to express themselves about edi-
tors because editors express so many
views themselves. When letters reach
the sanctum commencing his acts
and expressions they are called ''bou-
quets,' and when they condemn him
they are known to the craft as
brick bats"
The first 10 years of EditorTrego's
newspaper work was marked with
about an equal mixture of bouquets
and brick-bats; then followed year
of unauthorized brick-bats from all
quarters, during which time he main
tanned mysterious silence and
gathered munitions for the "open
season" ahead. Then followed two
years of brick-bats and roses in
strange mixture, and admitted open
season" for all.
At the time The Republican de-
dicated it's new building it mailed
out souvenir booklet containing a
few paragraphs and few picture
stories to all it's subscribers, and the
responses we received from it were
as breezy and pleasant as when we
beat the federal government five
months in making the new map of
Idaho and sent one as a present to
every subscriber on our list. The old
subscribers may remember that we
published some of the comments re-
ceived at that time. The following
are some of the bouquets that came
to the office the past week or so
regarding the booklet and the new
building:
A friend and neighbor for 20
years, who never hesitated to say a
good word when it was extremely
rorular to condemn, is the same
thru thick and thin" and shows
it by writing the following:
Dear Sir: l wish to congratulate
you; and to wish you success in your
new home; | regret | was not able
to come to the reception, to wish
you God speed, in person, so | take
this means to do so. We all realize
what help a good paper is to
town, and | am sure The Republican
will always work fora better Black
foot, and if the good wishes of an
old timer will help you, they are
yours.
every sincerely,
MRS. J. C. FISHER"
Harold Parkinson, former Black
foot man now operating the Salt
Lake office of the Parkinson Realty
& Investment company, a man who
worked shoulder to shoulder with
the editor of The Republican and two
or three others who brought about
some clean-ups and other civic I'M
proyements in Blackfoot when others
despaired of accomplishing anything,
evidently reflected moment on
other days as he reviewed his book
let, and then wrote as he felt:
"A souvenir just arrived. 1T is
evidence of another step accomplish
ed in your search for success.
1.-The virtue lies in the struggle,
not the prize ITO know how to
wiring victory from defeat and make
of our stumbling
blocks, is the secret of success
Your labors should prove OF in
calculable value to Blackfoot and
vicinity and your success should
prove a lesson to others whose paths
are strewn with adversely. May you
continue to progress and strive for
the growth and development OF our
fair Bingham county and may you
receive the reward of honest en-
reavor, is the wish OF
yours truly,
"H. N. PARKINSON"
John w. Eagleson, state treasurer
for Idaho, the man who was called
to take up the wreck of o.. V. Al
lens administration when he was
caught red-handed in embezzlement
of the public funds; the man who
the business of the oth,ce
on a basis to expose mistakes ana
dishonesty the same day they oc-
the man whom the people
reelected on his merit in the recent
landslide that wiped out the othel
of the state offices, TOOK
time to examine his souvenir booklet
and dictate a letter to say:
Dear Mr.. Trego: | received IN
the mail the other day little
pamphlet labelled, THE Idaho Re
publican"
This certainly is a new venture
for a weekly newspaper, and SHOWS
the many good things you have start,
ed for your section of the state, ana
YOU surely are to be congratulated
upon running an up-to-date pruning
office.
THE work your office has done
for the treasurer has been very sat
Isfactory. and you have always been
verv prompt in getting the work out.
"Wishing you all kinds OF success
every truly yours,
JOHN w. EAGLESON'
state Treasurer.
J, H. GIBSON, manager OF The Cax-
.on Printing company at Caldwell,
non who EMPLOYS many printers ana