The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-04-11
APRIL II, 1921


sor's office given o ether priters and
publishers for several years and had
not made any fuss about 1t altho he
had spoken to the assessor about CIV
ing him some OF the commercial
printing Of his department and re-
ceived a rather disagreeable and un-
satisfactory reply. In view Of all
these matters, he had decided that 1t
might be best for him to keep his
hands of of the selection Of an as
SCISSOR and let the other people settle
It any way they chose. He said that
II he knew any important matters in
which the assessor was falling In his
work, he would not hesitate to pub
lish them, but that he had not in
vestigated the office and did not
know of anything in particular about
1t.
The statement that Editor Trego
had the information last summer and
fall, that he has published since the
first of January, is not correct. 1t
would be correct to say that the edi-
tor might have gone to the records
and made q study Of this situation
and obtained such information, but
he did not do It; he did not know
that things were going wrong and
fthere were so many other things for
him to work at, that he made no
Investigation.
After the first Of January, the in
vestigation that was made by The
Republican office came about In
way that was almost accidental.
Editor Trego had observed that there
was more or less contention and lack
of friendship and harmony among
the county officials and had tried for
a long time to see who was to blame.
He never had arrived at definite con-
illusions about 1t and was great deal
disturbed over the fact that the ex-
pense of administering the county
government was increasing faster
than the assessed valuation of the
county was increasing. Thru his
activity the prison graft had been cut
on and good many other leaks
stopped and the amount of money
that was being expended for the
benefit Of the poor people, mounting
higher and higher each year and he
was fighting to keep that down so
much as they could and still take
proper care of those who were de-
serving Of aims.
When the new board of commits
sioners took theft office on the tenth
on January, Editor Trego sat down
at the table and watched and listened
for ten days until they had about
cleaned up the business before them,
his purpose being to find out IL pos
sible what was wrong with the
county government. He wrote it up
for publication just as 1t happened;
q great deal was said about the ex-
pense of operating cars and main
the farm bureau and by the
time the session was finished, the
editor was convinced that the as
SCISSORS department was the lamest
department of the county govern
ment and unless the methods of the
assessor were radically changed, it
would not be possible to meet the
ordinary expenses Of the county and
keep the county warrants at par.
ouOWiuS up THESE CONCLUSIONS
made an extensive study of the
method of assessing and published
lis findings in the tax articles which
an thru January, February and are
IT'LL running. If he had had the in
last summer and fall, it
would have been published then and
t is not at all likely that the people
If this county would have reelected
Mr. Malcolm.
1t is being urged now by few per-
IONS that Editor Trego could have
defeated Mr.. Malcom's nomination
asst fall and that he was urged to do
10, but declined for the reasons
tated above. If he had that power
le was not convinced that he was
justified in using it and did not use
at that time.
Woman's Work.-"And how is
our husband keeping?"
coz amt keeping; 'e's on strike,
nd I'm doing the keeping. THE
Bulletin (Sydney.)