The Idaho recorder., 1921-05-06
WHEREFORE OF
CERTAIN THINGS

INCLUDING SALMON pOSToE.
FICE VACANCY AND FRAUD
in DEPOT ELECTION RETURN
considering the whole world
ourn, declared a local republican the
other day, I'VE are going in TO oct
%hat coming to US. That is WHY we
snail ask the republican administra-
tion at Washington to appoint a re-
publican to be postmaster of Salmon
even TO do away with the civil SER
wee under that humbugs the people
into believing that this Office has heen
taken out of politics" The speaker
was referring to the announcement
tnat stalwart of his party had been
found IN w. H. Shoup for the place.
as announced in The Recorder. Quot
ing this paper in respect to this inn
portant news item the Herald gets
the quotation criss-crossed. What The
Recorder said on the subject was SIM
ply this and the basis of the state
ment was what republican said as
quoted at the beginning of this para
graph:
Friends of w. H. Shoup are in
teresting themselves in securing
for him the appointment to the
Salmon postmastership. There
has existed a vacancy in this of
fice since ealy in the second Will
son administration when an ex-
ecutive order placed it under civ
II service regulations. 1t is said
that for Mr.. Shoup to secure the
appointment it will become neces-
sary to do away with this order
and go back to the old system.
Here is what our neighbor said we
said:
1t is said that for Mr.. Shoup to
secure the appointment for post
master, it will be necessary to go
back TO the old political system.
Idaho Recorder.
This warped and crooked quotation
draws forth comment by the Herald
altogether one-sided and partisan, as
follows:
Meaning of course the Wilson
system, where every remunera-
tive appointment went to a de
serving partisan, while the 10000
or so of Sl-a-year positions dur
ing the war were filled by repub-
licans. Wilson's trick of trying to
put the postoffice service under
civil service rules, after every
postotfice in America had been
filed by democrat, is just now
being investigated.
The fact that in the Salmon post
office there has existed a vacancy fol
more than four years doesn't go {
long way to bear out the assertion
that every postoffice in America hat
been filled by a democrat"
II is a we'll know fact that ther,
are thousands of such instances of tn,
same sort of postoffice vacancie!
throughout the country as exist her,
as Salmon. 1t seems it was hard Il
make the famous presidential ordel
function in the teeth of a hostile sen
ate which found everything wrong
that had its origin with Presiden
Wilson And so the senate hung VI
the postoffice appointments, even be
ing able to deprive deserving parti
sans" of the appointments wheneve
the senate could devise ways ant
means to do so. That is the reason
why there are so many vacancies.
The Recorder in its faithful way o
reporting the news quoted Fred Vie
last week as saying, among othe
things:
| thank God Harry Summers is
in the office instead of one of the
henchmen of the man who plan
ned the fraud in Depot precinct.
Idaho Recorder.
AS garbIed by the Herald's repub
lication this is the way this quotation
appears in that paper:
thank God Harry Summers is
commissioner instead of the man
who planned fraud in Depot pre-
cinct.-Idaho Recorder.
If YOU must come to this paper 10
your news. neighbor, for goodnes
sake get it straight. Speak the piec
as we speak it to you trippingly o
the tongue. We have sins enough I
answer for without yours.
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