The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-08-04

menace to the entire Republican
state ticket, a maintenance of a Dem
ocratic organization in the State
House during the next two years and
Democratic victory in 1924. The
/ leadership of this faction is now
spreading propaganda among Demo
cratic voters to the effect that the Re-
3 publicans would welcome the nominal
I ton of Alexander.
1 Second-The opposition of directing
heads of the Public Utilities corpora
I ton of the state who found Alexan-
der, during his two terms as governor,
unyielding in his demand that these
corporations pay their just burden OF
taxation.
! Third.-The opposition of the Day
interests OF North Idaho and small
element in the Democratic party which
is opposed to the direct primary and
other progressive planks in the state
platform.
Fourth.-Some of the Democrats
who have been applicants for office
/ under the former Alexander admins
! tration and who have failed to receive
recognition.
! Fifth.--Ciose personal friends of
Judge Morgan who are actuated sole
ly from personal considerations, AMI
voters who have been influenced by
them to oppose the Alexander candi-
dacy.
There are two and only two names
which will be seriously considered in
connection with the Democratic NOM
MISUNDERSTANDING Alexander and
ex-Judge Morgan. Both have indicat-
ton if it is rendered to them and
neither of them are now in position
to withdraw. 1t will be either Alex
ander or Morgan and it will therefore
not be inappropriate to examine brief
ly into their training for the impor-
tant work which must be accomplished
by the next governor of Idaho.
One Is n substantial, experienced
and successful business man. The
other is talented lawyer of no bus
mess experience. One has served two
terms as governor and made a mar
velous record for economy and effic-
iency in the management of the
states business. The other has served
with distinction as Justice of the State
Supreme Court. One has a business,
and the other judicial temperament.
After mature thought and sober re-
Election we are therefore forced to the
conclusion that the year 1922 is no
time in which to assign to a practic-
ing attorney the tremendous task of
re-financing and recognizing a bank
rupt state government 1t a task
that the legal mind will be wholly I'M
able to grasp and one which requires
training which no other man in the
state, with a single exception of Alex
ander, possesses.
The New Freedom has no quarrel
with Judge Morgan and no particular
love for Governor Alexander. Neither
of them in our judgment, would per-
haps win if the issue was nothing
more than a personal popularity con-
test at the state convention. 1t is our
Judgment, however, that it would be a
political crime for the Idaho Democ-
racy to turn its back upon the well de-
fined and insistent demand for the
nomination of Alexander. To do so
would be slap at the rank and file
OF our own party and Mt three fourths
OF the Independent voters of the state.
It's time for real constructive lead
ership, untainted with personal CON
ton. It's time to play the game ac-
cording to the established rules, and
to give less thought. to the personal
ambitions Of candidates and more to
Democratic success in state, county
AMI nation. Therefore, our conception
OF genuine party service may be sum
med up in single sentence-An in
structed delegation for Alexander.