The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-07-16
Foreign Adversisins Representative
TIE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
PUBLIC CONFIDENCE THE
ONE THING NEEDED.

II has been stated that The Recorde,
was getting personal In It's article
covering the s0called democratic con
test for County Commissioner In the
first district We take exception ID
such statement and believe care
ful reading OF the article In question
which was nothing more, than the
story Of the work or the formal nom
nation OF candidates, will eliminate
any thought that IL contained any.
fhine personal other than the politi.
cal record Of one of the individuals
invOlyed. This campaign. we take It,
- one wherein all politicians or
would-be politicians must stand upon
their public iecords. for In NO other
msnper Will the voter be enabled TO
to Judge them.
II In the aim of The Recorder solely
10 direct attention to proper criti-
cism OF the interests, always sin.
lister and bad. bent upon throwing
monkey wrench into the works
OF good as well as economical
road building. Everyone knows this Ia
the issue OF prime importance In the
mind OF every right thinking person In
I.cmhi county at this time. We have
one highway that begins at Salmon
and ends nowhere and In It's present
condition Of incompletion' as thorough
ly cuts out the great Pahsimaroi val.
ley as a trade center az III that high
way had never been started.
We are without the connecting link
In the Parkto-Park highway down the
Salmon river and up the North fork.
Forty thousand dollars has been
spent on the road up the Lemhi val.
ley. but just take q ride up that high.
way" and see II you can determine
where that amount Of money has been
spent
In order to complete the high.
way 70 May and the highway to Gil
more and the highway TO the Montana
line. 100000 has to be spent conjoint.
~ BY Lemhi county, tho state of Idaho
and the federal government, or rather
that ~ the estimated cost of these
roads.
In order that Lemhi county may
take advantage of tina present oppor-
tunity In this connection we shall
have TO vote 100000 additional
road londs. Does any sane man
or women think for one moment that
the taxpayers are going 10 do such a
thing ungii they shah be assured.
beyond bubble or doubt. that their
money in SO large a sum
y not going TO be diverted To tae hene.
Iit~of private interests!
II has been said that you can fool all
The people part Of the time. and part OF
The people all the time. but by no
means can YOU fool all the people all
the time. This In the time OF all times
when that adage holds true.
Then what Ii the answer? How can
The proper amount OF confidence be
created In the mind OF the average
taxpayerf In only one way can II be
and possibly that may not
succeed Elect 4 board OF county com.
who are business men and
nave exhibited tangible evidence of
hat fact In the MANAGEMENT OF their !
,rsyate affairs and men who are be-
iond any influence that might make
hem forget mat public office Is a
,uhlic trust.
Any two-isgged iackass can spend .
money. but that ability only becomes
! virtue when he receives hundred
'ents IN value for EVERY dollar
appended I
AMI all public expenditures should |
&c based upon an honest attempt 10
ecure the greatest good for the great.
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