The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1922-10-04
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A POLITICAL JACK.

LAST Monday evening, Hon. George
Waters, Democratic candidate for rep
resNutative In Congress for the first
district spoke in Challis in the inter
est of his party and his candidacy, as
did also Elmer o. Thompson, Demo
cratic candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor.
Mr.. Waters address was mastery
anl'we are pleased to say, clean.
afIis running mate, Elmer o. Thomp-
son, was the first to address the COM
paratively small audience which had
gathered to hear such distinguished
speakers harangue on the political
questions OF the day
: The tenor Of Mr.. Thompson's talk
was exceedingly bitter and not at all
becoming a man who aspires for any
public office. His one strain OF thot
WaS, according to his expressions. an
attempt to defame and SANDER anyone
who had the temerity to seek a pub
lie office on the Republican ticket and
virtually said they were all scoundrels
-jackals Of q great political machine
which was endeavoring to ruin the tax
payers of the State for their own per.
sonal ACKNOWLEDGMENT. He said moth
ing, however, about the Democratic
machine and its huge steam roller
which worked so successfully at the
HALEY convention, flattening out
man like Judge Morgan, who, in the
opinion Of many people of the State,
was the strongest and best candidate
for Governor his party had. What a
bout that machine which apparently
had everything "cut and dried" before
A.f~
Yes. according to Mr.. Thompson.
the only men in the political arena Of
the State who wore white wings and
a halo of Righteousness on their puri-
tanical brows were lined UP on the
Democratic side, with Little Moses"
as their sun by day and their guiding
star by night, to lead the people of
the State out of the wilderness of de-
SPAR and apparent defeat into the
light of million dollar" saving
which Moses saved (?) the people of
the State several years ago, and which
he CLAIMS he will save (?) them a.
gain II they will only place him in
the Governors chair for another two
year term.
Personally we would like to see a
campaign carried on In a clean and
gentlemanly manner-we would like
to see fellows on the political stump
have some sense of manhood and de-
cency In the political ring as well as
In their private lives. The people
want the facts and what puzzles us is
howinell are they going to get them
with such examples of honesty run
ing hydrophobia-like over the State,
as we are experiencing in this cam
padgn. One. side states one thing and
has the facts and figures to back up
their statements while the other side
states exactly the opposite and THEY
have the facts and figures to back up
their statements. est ~ 3ls. n
We know this, personally, in Cen
trail Idaho, that under the Alexander
administration considerable part of
that million dollars he didn't save was
sQdandered through the State High
way department In the survey of the
State Highway from the Breyer ranch
To the Mackay dam, when large
crew of men spent year or more sur
veying less than forty miles of road.
The old saying; figures won't lie,"
1f good so far as 1t goes, but It doesn't
80 faf enoguh. The average intelli-
sent citizen Of today knows that fig
ures won't lie SO long as honest men
are handling them and in the vernacu-
taf OF the old Southern darby, who was
given a bum steer on the population of
g certain chiclOen-coop, We assert that
"sumbuddy done led. and as the
monkey said when he hid the shovel
behind the door. that remains to be
SEEN" It will be our earnest endeav-
or to show the taxpayer who the liar
Is between now and election day.
We reiterate. that what the people
want are the facts and we believe 1t
Is duty which devolves upon the
press OF the State to give them the
facts II It Is at all possible to do so
Tor We believe that under the present
conaitions they will never get them.
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