The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-28
A REPROACH ON
THIS COUNTY

Some of the people of Bingham
county are having very good time
with members of the Republican
county central committee. When
people ask their committeeman iii
\ they do not think it advisable to ask
! the assessor to resign, now that he
has been convicted of Incompetence
before the court of the Republican
party, some of them say, What can
we do! II we put in some other man
he may not be any better. Who is
there we can get that would do it any
better than Mr.. Malcolm is doing"
And they ask the question in way
!. that amounts to challenge or an
assertion that there is none better.
This is a pretty hard reproach on
the Republicans of this county and
on the whole population. Naturally
the Republican committee if it were
filling vacancy, would select Re-
publican. If there are no competent
Republicans in the county to whom
the office OF assessor could be tend
cred, what has become of the party
made up of the wonderful men we
tell about in campaign time! And
what shall we be able to say in the
next campaign regarding the candi-
dates selected from the membership
Of party that has no timber to fill a
vacancy when somebody is wanted to
60 out and count cattle and sheep on
the range and on the feeding grounds
and read the signs on front doors and
windows of Offices and find plumbers
shops, newspaper offices and job
printing establishments, and turn in
and assess pool halls and professional
men just as readily as they turn in
and assess the dry farmer and the
wet farmer with his two horses and
a milk COW.
Break Them
In
We ought to be educating some
new Republicans. While times are
little slack would be good time to
take some of the boys out and teach
them to count and mark it down. 1
They might attend night school and
get working knowledge of percent
age. They might even be taught to
read so they could tell a pool hall
from grocery store by noting the
sign. They might be taken out on
the range and taught some of the
Indian signs by which to discover the
prence of animals. Jack Hurley, the
old Indian scout, might be engaged
for a while to 60 out with some of the
boy scouts or with the young Repub-
licans, who are likely to be in the,
for county office in future
years, and let him teach them how to
ook at the landscape so they can de-
,ect game before it observes the pres
snce of men and departs to shelter.
At least, we think that Jack, even in
lis half blind condition, could show
hem how to discover the presence
It large herds like those of the
'ighty-four prominent stockmen
vhose names we handed to the tax
commission with our recommends {
ion that they be censured for not
'etting on the tax list up to 20 or 80 ]
'er cent of their holdings. There ;
vas one outfit within rifleshot of the {
SCISSORS office that had 1900 cattle, !
# which sixteen were registered
ulls, and were assessed only sixteen |
ommon cattle-no bulls. Jack l
night teach them how to locate game t
n such numbers as that when their t
abits were we'll known. Then there &
we're such fockshots as the herd of {
V. H. Larkins with 997 cattle and '
lthel Ellsmore with S68 from Gen I
lie Valley that "frequented' this a
ounty all spring and summer and ! t
eturned home in the fall and were f
lot seen at all by the assessor, and q
ack Hurley could probably bump c
INTO enough of them to get dozen b
# SO on the roll. =
II is unfortunate that the Republi- v
ans have suddenly gone to seed and n
ost stamina so markedly in Bingham 8
ounty. 1t requires number of p
ears to get boy scouts up to service t
BILE age and past the age limit, and t
Ve suggest that the year 1925 would l
e about as early as the party can o
et into the running again in this q
ounty, taking their own confessions S
s the basis of the most favorable L
ction, and being Republican our v
elves and operating a Republican II
ewspaper that is in good standing a
nth Republicans more or less of the
lme, we shall insist on getting Re-
ublican candidates into the running t
18th some chance of being considered n
s soon as they can be certified as s
enuine, by the party managers, and
lcidentally, by the people.
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