The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-11-06
AMERICA is HERSELF
AGAIN

The battle of ballots having beel
fought and results determined, re
view of the situation has its values
People of opposing opinions sub
mitted to arbitration at the voting
booths, and have accepted judgmen
and will be guided by it.
1t is only acting the fair and noble
part to say in sincerity that the
mass of people on different sides
were sincere in their views anC
earnestly sought what they consider.
ed the true remedy for what they
did not approve.
We believe of course, that there
are always some who seek, for sell
fish reasons, to deceive people and
to further programs and policies
that will in the end lead to destruc-
ton, but their followers who follow
in good faith and willingly, gradual
ly wake up to the facts and are glad
that there were enough others who
saw through it all, to save the erring
ones from their own plumbers. Some
wake up before the election, and
some afterwards, and some of course
who have not learned to be absolute
ly fair with themselves, hold on
stubbornly to the belief that a great
wrong has been done, notwithstand-
ing the expressed decision of major
tiles. t1
A generation ago it was the Gus
tom of the losing side and especially
the radical element, when they lost
an election to raise great hue and
cry about fraud in the count or
about the old parties having bought
and coerced the voters. But that
old stuff got buried and in these
days of the secret ballot and cleaner
sportsmaRship it would not be ac-
cepted with any better grace than
for the losing team at a ball game to
set up howl about the umpire be-
ing bribed. The public would not
stand for it.
In the Bryan-McKinley campaign
of 1896 when the masses began to
fall away from 1.-THE Boy Orator of
the Platte" and put on the Mckinley
hats, the cry of coercion was raised;
it was said that employers were
threatening employees with dis
charge or shutting down of the
works if they did not vote for Nc
Kinley, and the manager of a firm at
Buffalo erected great sign at the
entrance of his factory, saying,
aAyOhO WIZ QO0S uOL fOI6 DIS lie
pleases will be discharged" This
slogan was heralded throughout the
land creating so much merriment
and so much of the spirit of fair
play and good sportsmanship, it
probably did more than anything
else ever did to laugh the complaints
out of existence.
When the American people be-
come thoroughly aroused and all
study a situation, when they take
time to sleep over every phase of it
and weigh the claims of all the con-
tending elements, they arrive at a
mass decision that is unerring. The
truth stands and the false is swept
away, and in that subtle power lies
the hope of the republic. Time and
again the republic has been threat
ened and people have risen to the
occasion in time to avert calamity.
II the 1924 election had been held
in July, if it had been possible to set
aside the accepted order and unex-
pectedly summon people to the polls |
without the long period of study, |
there is little doubt that Robert La
Toilette would have been elected. |
We would have given the power to
a man who during the world war,
did everything he could to deliver
us into the hands of the war lords
Of Germany, and did it under the
claim that he was opposed to war.
People had forgotten this, and dur
ing the past three months have been
doing some rejecting upon the in
consistent things he has done. and
upon his associations with all the
different brands of the "red" elem
ent at home and abroad. Tuesdays
vote showed their decision, and
whether the decision is right or
wrong, Mr.. LaFollette stands brand
I'd with a fair share of the infamy
lie built up about himself by his
let's and utterances. 1t is now very
'lain that people do not want what
lie proposed, and if he is considered I
! martyr to lost cause he and those ]
Who share that belief will go on in
he scant satisfaction that comes to
martyrs. The ignorant majority |
Will go on thinking it has done right {
q rejecting him.
What has been said of LaFollette
pplies with equal force to Mr.. Sam S
els of Idaho. When the people !
nalyzed his record and his utter
noes they decided against him, |
Jhether right or wrong, and turned 6
i'm down. They will not take him I
p again in future campaigns. His !
tempt to deceive people about the /
ne matter of the attempt to sell
oal to the state for the reform f
chool was sufficient measure of his t
haracter, and people do not want
overnOr who lacks character In
is address at Blackfoot he said that b
e bid on the coal sale and although i
e was the low bidder they would v
OF take his coal unless he would u
ay money along with the coal o
hat was half truth and he knew c
perfectly we'll Everybody knows v
is safe and sane custom to re- G
uire bidders to file certified checks o
) evidence of good faith in bids. t.
declined to do that and he t.
nitted explaining that to his audi "
ices. The little matter of the coal il
as not important but the fact that "
lie candidate for governor tried to G
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