The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-01-05

admit me to their meetings and trust
me l always feel that l am obligated
not to publish anything that they do
not want published. But when they
do not trust me, and do not admit
me to their meetings, they thereby
throw down challenge and when
get the information l consider it is
mine to do as please with, and
am under no obligations to keep
their secrets or protect them in any
thing that happened or anything that
was said that they did not want made
public.
As understand it there were five
persons talking the matter over
when they decided to bar me out of
the meeting. will relate the con-
versation as / understand it to have
been. OF course, it will not be ex-
actly correct for l have pieced it
together from different sources. l
will not mention the names of the
different speakers, but will designate
them as A. B. C. D and E, and per-
haps you can pick out the characters
If you are acquainted with the Of
ficerS: ..r,.
D-'I think, gentlemen, that we
had better decide just how we are
going to handle this thing when Mr..
Hall gets here, and l think we had
better select one of our number to
be the spokesman. think we had
better conduct the negotiations as
automatically as we can and try and
not have any open break between us;
what do you Think"
C-"Commissioner Hall is pretty
foxy. We shall have to handle him
carefully"
D-"Say, now, while l think of
it, what are we going to do about
Trego; are we going to let him sit
with, us? told him I'd bring it up
and see what you folks think of it,"
E-"Trego! What has he got to
do with it," s-s.,#G.
D-"Why, he wants to know what
this whole situation is. He thinks
that it will be an advantage to our
side Of the case for him to under
stand it from start to finish. He
says we might have to make a polit-
ical fight or threat of political
fight to get our rights in this matter
and he says that II the worst comes
to the worst, he thinks he can Or
ganize political fight that will make
these fellows back up and give us
our dues"
E-"What in the name of COM
mon sense has Trego to do with this
matter? Is he a member Of the
board of commissioners"
DINO. But he thinks he can
help us in the matter If he had all
the information about it,"
C-"Byrd likes to butt in; he
thinks he is the whole thing at times.
He thinks we can't run the county
without him. He thinks maybe we
don't know how to attend to the
business in our offices, and that he
should be head superintendent.
Al don't see what Trego's got
to do with it; for my part l don't
see that we need him here"
Dwell, now, I'll tell you 1 had
a talk with Trego myself about it,
and here's what told him: I told
him that it had been suggested that
Hall might not talk to us as freely
If there was reporter present as
he would il there was no one here
but ourselves. OF course, we know
that Trego can listen and say
nothing, but he will remember every
thing. If we ever want him to use
his information, he will have it all
straight. But told Trego we wanted
Hall to feel perfectly free to say
and everything that he
wanted to, to us, and that we were
afraid that Hall would not speak so
freely with newspaper man pres
ent as If he were not there. I told
him that was our fear in the matter
and as far as l knew it was the only
objection the board had raised to
having him there"
C-"What did he say to that?"
Dwell, when / said that he
gave me a hard look and he turned
red in the face. He said we must
to talk something over
that was not on the square or that
had something rotten Xfytnt II. II vs6t