Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-10-22
ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD
GREETED ALEXANDER
Idaho S Next Governor Makes Strong Speech
and Wins Many Votes From
Republican Party


a republican administration for II
years has used up all his savings out
of that salary and is running for office
again.
The Republicans accumulated 81. 40
600, 600 in reserve and during panic
loaned it to banks without interest,
Also issued millions of dollars of Pan
anna bonds and gave it to big banks /
without interest. But all their heroic
measures did not prevent a panic and
we had the disgraceful spectacle of (
shin plasters taking the place of u.
S. currency the first time in the his
tory of the nation. And water was
squeezed out of stocks to the amount
of three billion dollars, :shrinkage,
in values. Prosperity and sunshine
was crowded out by gloom and dark
ness. This panic and all others of
Republican origin; that of 70, the
Harrison panic of 92, and this Roose-
welt panic, worst of all. Yet the cor
porations and men who caused the
panic are yelling for Taft The peo-
pie who suffered by the panic want
and need Bryan to protect them from
York.
When a Democrat looks into the
1 full dinner pail the Republicans prom
sed four years ago he sees a trick.
The bottom is pushed up nearly to the
top like some strawberry baskets.
And their promise of sound money has
materialized into bank shin plasters.
\ Ask any Republican lawyer if these
! promises to pay have any justification
in law as money. Yet the banks had
i the peoples money and were practi-
cally insolvent if they did not pay it
back on demand The Democrats
could not help panic because they
were not consulted about it. They
are not responsible in any way, but
have ample remedies. During the
worst Of panic the Republicans would
go to Alexander to buy rs cent pair
of..overalls and ask him to cash check
for $25 and give them the change.
Will they now vote for the party that
is being backed by the outfit that caus-
ed the panic?
Barney O'Neil's picture is getting
to be about as common and unsatisfac-
tory as shin plasters a few months
ago.
Alexander says that in the last {
, years of Republican rule in Idaho
, two things that have grown more
r than anything else is Republican ma.
, iorities and taxes. Hastings say.
that the state was bonded up to tho
limit until assessment was raised re
t Gently, giving power to issue more
, bonds Alexander characterized thi.
t raise as deliberate job, since every
: thing had in fact gone down in value
e since the panic and feared that i
2 means more extravaganza and heavie
4 taxes.
n Alexander wants to know if Hast
v ings is short as treasurer and VIII,
5 Gooding holds back experts report I'm
til after election.
q Alexander was elected Mayor o
q Boise when the warrants were
n cents and made them par by borrow
il ing money from Pat Sullivan and Bill
. Ward and money out of his own peck
v ct. A Republican banker asked hir
v when he wanted money to keep tn
d platform promise to make warrant
r par What of the platform VIII
ever heard of anyone talking abou
+ platform promises after election? 2
" He didn' t go to Republican school I
!. learn the meaning of the word hor
" esty, if that is their sentiment. An
J. he thinks it is the idea of the bosse
IN considering the way they repudiate
,e their last state platform. He raise
\ wages in Boise from 81 to 81. so pc
ID day and shortened hours from ten 1
IN eight on public work. Repubilca
j. councilmen objected saying, "Wt
10 cut to eight hours when we can e,
ne men who viii work ten hours for Il
is same price p
A. He advocated guarantee of bank d.
to posits and said that 1T is already
ms force to limited extent in behalf
ar the state, referring TO the First N
We tional Bank of Mountain Home as ma
al ing 50, 500 of state money secured
lie bond for So, 600 He wants Il
at depositors protected and thus avo
suffering like the Capital State Bar
if caused.
i'd No man or corporation has al
&C. strings on him. Went TO Chillicot
re As years ago and worked for $40
he month and board and was later elect
yn mayor there and moved to Boise Sc
~ eral years ago and has been elect
and reelected Mayor of Boise, a I
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