1912: Jerome paper cheers North Side settlers' first try at politics
FROM THE ARCHIVES - On Nov. 14, 1912, the Lincoln County Times of Jerome, a weekly whose masthead read "Devoted to the Interests of the Settlers of the North Side Tract," took stock of the election held the week before.
The paper said the state land board ticket endorsed by the North Side settlers' water users association had run well ahead in the tract's precincts, Jerome, Wendell and Grand View, and it printed the local returns. In the Jerome precinct, it reported, President Taft drew 131 votes; in Wendell he drew 127. The Times said landslides elsewhere in the state outweighed that showing, but it called the vote the water users' first attempt to take an active part in politics and predicted their organization would keep growing.
The same page carried outgoing Gov. Hawley's statement on his defeat, in which he said he had no regrets and urged support for President-elect Woodrow Wilson.