The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-07

APltllI I, 1874
lished in the hope that 1t would dis
credit the Idaho Republican. But
facts are mighty hard things to down
and the truth crushed to earth VIII
rise. The Idaho Republican went
right on publishing the new facts as
they developed and kept referring 10
the fact that the chairman OF the Re
publican county. central committee
had denied these other facts. AS
time went on, things happened which
the public knew something about and
when the paper told about the parts
which they knew about, and con-
nected up with those things, the facts
which the public had not discovered
themselves, the Idaho Republican
began to score, Notwithstanding the
denials of the chairman of the Re-
publican central committee and his
cohorts and grafters. AS the spring
and summer passed and the fall and
winter came on, the chairman OF the
Republican county central committee
had to face the whole mess and II
came home to him In such way that
he could not get away from it, He
was discredited and his organization
to some extent was discredited along
with him. A peculiar situation is
now confronting Bingham county.
In the election of 1920, the people
of the nation disguised with and dis
gruntled at the conduct Of anything
that was spelled Democratic, elected
Republicans every where and Bing-
ham county scored Republican
victory and the Republican assessor
was reelected for the fourth term.
he was reelected partly as the re-
suit Of three cornered fight for
nomination and partly as the result
of the anti-Democratfc feeling thru
out the country, but he evidently &C
cepted it as personal Enforcement
of the people of his county and drunk
with egotism and confidence. and
convicted of doing his work 80 badly
that 1t is sinking the financial ship
Of the county. he has declared in
open convention that he will 80
ahead with some of the outrageous
practices which have been COM
planned of and which the tax COM
mission acknowledges are true. tho
outrageous.
The Republican county central
committee did not think Il worth
while to demand his resignation nor
to recommend to the board Of county
commissioners that they demand It.
They did not think II worth while to
demand the discharge Of Deputy As
SCISSOR e. d. Hines, after his indie
feasible record was exposed.
The chairman Of the Republican
county central committee seems
anxious that something shall be done
but he can only preside at the meet
ing. The membership Of the COM
mittee do not seem to think that it is
necessary for them to do anything or
recommend anything or demand any
thing. They s:m,..' listened to
statement of the facts aid adjourned
and went home thini ing in their
simple way that an insolent official,
who had done wrong and defended
the wrong and an insolent deputy,
who had done wrong and made no
acknowledgment of his desire to
right the wrongs or to do better in
the future, could be trusted to 60
ahead and do it differently from
what they had been doing or what
the assessor declared he was going
to do.
When men take responsibility like
the members of the Republican
county central committee have taken,
that is the responsibility of being the
leaders and representatives of their
party in this county, and they 90
along and represent their party in
such childish simplicity as they
showed at the last meeting, they are
breeding the same kind of embar-
rassment for themselves and their
party that the chairman of the Re-
publican county central committee
bred in the year 1914 when he went
up against the facts with denials, un-
til his denials swamped him and dis
credited his party organization. The
present party organization is not
denying the facts, but 1t has heard
the facts, made few mild comments
on them and went home without do
Ing anything.
In the year 1914 the Idaho Repub-
lican followed right up with the
facts, notwithstanding the inactivity
and the denials of the county organ
zation and in the year 1921, it is
not to be expected that the Idaho Re-
publican will sit down and forget to
Use the abundance of materials
which it has at hand. The Republic
,an central committee in it's meeting
If March S, expressed anxiety to
make an arrangement by which the
publicity of the subject should stop.
rhe publicity did stop for thirty days,
n until the report was turned in.
We wonder If the committee OBJ
ects to further publicity now that it
las learned that the matter pub.
ished was true. There is the old
tory Of the ostrich burying its head
n the sand to keep from seeing what
t was afraid Of.
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Evidently Germany underesti-
mates either her own resources or
hose of the Allies.-Norfolk Virgin