The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-08-04
SALMONS FIRST BARBECUE is
ENJOYABLE AFFAIR FOR Ey-
ERYBODY.

A~At DODNs
Salmon people have been talking
about its first barbecue ever since Iast
Saturday when that function came Off
according 10 schedule on Island Park.
II is presumed that good many other
people have been talking about ii Also,
Tor throng of them came from far
as well as from near to enjoy it.
incidentally Salmon business, houses
had their busiest day of the year. Wis
itors thronged the stores and public
places, even to the extent of depriving
many of the merchants and clerks of
the pleasures of the park for a part
at least of the doings down there.
with buying still going on, the gath
erlng for the barbecue and public
speaking had swollen to large crowd
toward noon, when Judge William M.
morgan was introduced as the first
and Judge Charles E. Harris as the
second speaker before the serving Of
the feast. Both came as strangers to
Lemhi audiences. Judge Morgan is
former chief justice of the state and
greatly admired for learning and in
tegrity of character. He proved him
self real orator too. Judge Harris
was until recently connected with the
Blackfoot land office with which Lem
hi county should have been hooked up
rather than with the HALEY land Of
hce. 1t was an easy matter for the
audience to feel instant and lively in
terest in these two after they began
talking.
Judge Morgan's Winning WAYS.
When the meeting was opened the
stand provided for the speaker was
mot shaded, so that Judge Morgan said
he would speak off under the trees
elsewhere. Accordingly fine audience
stood or sat around him as he himself
stood on the grass and delivered from
the ground floor a splendid address,
paying fine tribute to the ability of
Governor Alexander. Entering at once
into a mastery presentation of the
democratic position in the present
campaign, Judge Morgan called atten-
ton to the fact that the constitution
of the state provided amply for safe
guarding the public treasury by linz
iting the number of public officers in
the several departments but this had
been overridden when the present cab
met form of government had been
instituted. The speaker also called at
tention to the fact that the present
governor, like all his predecessors, had
solemnly sworn to obey and uphold
that constitution and all the laws
made under it, among them being a
provision that the governor should
receive no more than his salary al
ready prescribed for The term for
which he had been elected, and yet
the speaker called attention 20 the
fact that the present governor had
permitted himself to be voted $4,000
extra for two years house rent, him
self signing the bill that had been
passed by the Legislature. Further
more, the constitution provides that
the travelling expenses of public Of
fcers shall be paid by the public
treasures, the inference being that
said officials are travelling within the
state on state business and limit ing
such expenses to such cases only knd
yet as Judge Morgan showed SCORES
( of such trips are charged to the state
when the travellers are reported flying
around from San Francisco to Wash
ington. Result, the expenses of the
state government have been multiplied
twenty-fold.
Comparing the taxes per capita
during Governor Hunts time AMI the
: present il was shown to be as S4 Is 10