The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-03-07
County Central
Committee Meets
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upon a matter like this. Among
other things he said, "You gentle
men are the representatives of the
Republican party of this county, are
you not?" and Chairman Buchanan
responded, well, hope we are, y
and Mr.. Adams continued "You in.
vestigate this matter and find who is
right and who Is wrong or to what
extent they are right or wrong and
report upon it so the people in this
county may know"
Others suggested that the county
commissioners should act on the
board, but Mr.. England said he did
not think any of the members of the
official family should be assigned the
work of passing upon the work of
their own administration or that of
their colleagues. He thought the tax
commission should be selected from
the Republican committee and should
report back to the committee. when
they were finished. The matter was
finally settled by appointing George
T. Cobbley, w. E. Jordan, Louis Felt,
Philip Dance and A. S. Dickinson to
constitute the committee. Mr.. Nal
com and Mr.. Trego were made men,
bers of the committee to be with
them while the Investigation of the
records was being made.
Purpose Of the Committee
Editor Trego said that no specific
declaration had been made as to what
were the duties of this commission,
whether they were to investigate and
report in general way or specific
ally. He said that if he might be
permitted he would suggest that
since the talk had been directed at
the things published in the Idaho
Republican in the last few weeks,
that the files of the paper be taken
as the basis for operation, and that
they commence with the first that
had been published on the tax ques-
ton about the middle of January
and follow down thru the different
chapters and report upon each state
ment that had been made. If the
paper had made PAL statements, let
the committee check up on each one
of them and answer yes or no as to
their correctness. That seemed to
be acceptable, to the committee and
it was so ordered.
Two or three of the speakers were
anxious to find out the truth of the
situation and stop the publicity. One
of them now suggested that while the
investigation was in progress that
there should be an armistice, that
nathan ~ Tho holliuoroufo oh o,,1d co ~
anything further about the subject.
Mr.. Malcolm smiled and said, "Why,
I'm not saying anything and haven't
BEEN" Mr.. Trego said that he
would agree to the armistice on two
conditions; one condition was that
the committee should act promptly
and work diligently until they had
finished and made q report; that II
the committee never Investigated and
never reported, he would not agree
to remain silent. The other condi-
ton was that chapter twelve Of the
tax question was already on the press
and Mondays paper would be issued
with the tax subject being handled
just the same as if the committee had
not met. After that he was willing
to cease publication of the rest of
the matter he had compiled or might
compile until the committee had time
to investigate and report. But, he
added, "As l remember the matter
that is already compiled and ready
for publication, can assure you the
worst is yet to come"
Hamilton Wright suggested that
since Mr.. Malcolm has not yet af-
firmed or denied the charges of the
newspaper he might speak on the
subject. If he acknowledged that
they were all correct and true, it
follows that the committee would
not have anything to do. II he says
they are all false the commission
would have to investigate them all.
But il some things were true and
some were not true that would
modify the matter.
Mr.. Malcolm Speaks
Mr.. Malcolm rose and said, well,
can't say, as / said before l have not
read the articles in The Republican
except some certain parts that peO-
pie have come in and called my at
tenti0n to, so / don't know whether
they are all true or not. ! know
some of them are not true and some
of them are misleading. In some
cases Of the pieces of proerty reported
upon in the paper, the figures were