The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1900-09-20
THE YAKIMA HERALD.
THURSDAY. SEPT. go, 1900.
THE CAPITOL LOOTERS.

ana Why He Should be supported by the
Honest Voters Of the State.
The courageous and honorable stand
taken by Governor Rogers against the
attempted capitol steals is the cause of
the ma Lightly displayed by few people
in Olympia. These vetoes are three dots
in the governors career OF rectitude by
which the tax payers of the state have
learned to love him.
The truth about this capitol business
is that certain schemers have been trying
for years to ioist upon the state capitol
building at cost OF 81 100000. 1t was
to be paid for in warrants drawn on an
imaginary land fund. This land fund
was to be derived from the sale Of 10000
acres OF capitol lands, much of which is
barren and comparatively valueess. In
the next twenty years all OF it will not
bring 81 100000. By that time the in
terest on the capitol Indebtedness would
amount to 81 900. 900, since the warrants
were to draw eight per cent interest and
at a compound rate this Indebtedness
would require only eighteen years to
treble itself.
The legislature OF 1899 passed two cap
itol bills both OF which the governor
vetoed, and his veto was supported by
large majority in the branch where the
bill originated. Governor Rogers was
not deferred from his conviction to do
the right by his knowledge that these
vetoes meant social ostracism and sneers
from certain OF the resid ants of Olympia.
After the first veto mob gathered about
his family residence in Olympia, and
under his daughters window at night,
and in the darkness booted and sung
obscene songs.
By the third and last of these capitol
vetoes he killed bill which proposed to
create capitol commission OF three
mem bers, each member to draw five dol
lars per day, without limit OF time, and
with unlimited authority to dispose of
the state warrants redeemable from the
imaginary capitol land fund. There
was nothing in the bill to prevent the
commissioners from selling the warrants
at fifty cents on the dollar, or even ten
cents, were they 80 minded 1t would
have involved the state IN overwhelming
debt, and correspondingly deprecated
the states credit.
No man favors such colossal swindle
unless he expects himself 10 profit by it.
The capitol swindlers are quietly telling
their friends that they have secured pro.
mise from Frink that he will approve a
capitol bill If passed by the next legisla.
ure. This is easy to believe, as Frink is
part and parcel of the old McGraw ring.
1t was the McGraw ring which started
the capitol steal, and, as ever fair-minded
man, conversant with the facts, honestly
believes, did so with the deliberate in
tention of making from $3.50, 900 to $780,
600 of Doodle out OF it, and regardless of
the enormous burden Of debt they were
imposing on the tax payers of the state
for the next two generations.
For every vote Governor Rogers losses
in the little city OF Olympia on account of
his capitol vetoes, he will gain one hun
dred elsewhere from honest and self.re.
| specting taxpayers.
The citizens OF Olympia should remem-
Der that the objection to the three capitol
bills vetoed was not based on any opposi-
ton to new capiotl, but on opposition
to the means adopted and the glaring dis
honesty of the schemes undertaken.