The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-22
N. A. KICER ROASTS
!. EDITOR BYRD TRECO
Tells Him He is Small
and Ought to Get
Out and Learn
Something

publican, and makes it known tina
he can go some himself when i
comes to welding typewriter.
He is trifle short on punctuation
and spelling, so we copy his lettel
verbatim:
The Kiger Letter
Harrison, Idaho, March 13, 1920
Mr.. Byrd Trego,
Blackfoot, Idaho.
Dear Sir
Lam today in receipt of the copy
of your paper dated the 10th inst
and have read your remarks with
considerab BILE interest and note in this
letter what ] suspected in your for
mer one that you are and have been
opposed to my candidacy and per-
haps without any other reason than
you have been in receipt of consid-
cradle favors from the powers that
are now holding the reins of govern
ment. l know of course that it is
useless to try to tell you. that have
advocated nothing that l. did not
feel to be of considerable Importance
and interest to the people of the
state, and my only ambition is to
serve the people to the best of my
ability and if the people of the state
feel that they desire me to retire
from all public life and not do any
thinking of my own then of course
l must bow to their wisdom, and if
that is doing my bit, then feel it my
duty to do so. Your remarks lead
me to believe that your knowledge
of Idaho is and has been limited to
Bingham county and that you are not
familiar with conditions in the north,
for the stump question is to us what
the water question has been to the
people of the South, and | can re-
member when we gave projects in
the South money from the public
till and your voice was not raised in
holy horrors about it either, now IL
you are as fair as you would have
your readers believe you to be
and in view of the fact that it would
not cost the taxpayers of Bingham
County one penny, you are the the
one who should apologize to them
for misleading them, for my plan
to reclaim lands in the North would
be handled by the County Agricul-
tural Agent or through the Reclama-
ton Department of the State, pre-
suming of course that you might ad-
nit that the reclamation department
might be interested in lands other
that irrigated lands. | had natur-
ally thought that being taxpayers and
citizens of Idaho, that we were en-
titled to some consideration from
the state along that line, and your
letter set me thinking that perhaps
was mistaken. However, Mr.. Ire
go, if you should be interested
enough as to my Republicanism, you
might inquire of our mutual friend
Peter G. Johnson, or some of your
more recent representatives in the
House, and l am in clined to think
that they can enlighten you. think
have been as consistent worker as
yourself along the line of good gov
eminent and in SO far as ! know no
one has questioned my Americanism,
and in your suggestions you only sue
coed in making yourself ridiculous.
l am more and more impressed with
the fact that such men as yourself,
due to your lack of foresight, make
more Socialists and Soviet Radicals
than any other type of men, You
fail to realize that people as well as
Governments must meet and solve
problems that, perhaps are new, and
~ poAty SohAOS AOSt
these new problems and try and
solve them, then some other party
must come into existance that will
do so, in fact that was the cause of
the forming the Republican party.
i cannot believe that you are sim
cere in anything you say in your re-
marks or else you are not the stud
en- tot things which you said you was
in your former. letter.
l always welcome and appreciate con-
structive criticism and in your re-
marks I fail to find either, and have |
no apology to offer to either, your
self, to Bingham County, or to the
people of the State, and am graft
fled to feel that my Americanism
Is of better type than yours.
do not feel that just because a
man disagrees with me on
q subject that he is to be
avoided, and neither should l
point my finger at him and shout
from the house tops that he is not
to be trusted because he might be
guilty of doing his own thinking and