Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-08-08
READY TO STAND
ON HIS RECORD
STATE TREASURER HASTINGS IS
NOT DEEPLY CONCERNED BE-
CAUSE OF PERSONAL AT.
TACK ON HIS ADMINISTRATION

! ing after private business and Incl
dentally sounding public sentiment
in regard to his candidacy for re-
election. Concerning the outlook
he is very sanguine notwithstand-
ing the attack that is being made
against his denomination in Boise
Concerning this, Mr.. Hastings says.
Regarding the care and conduct
of my office | have not anything to
say different from what have al
ready had published The States
man is keeping up its attacks on
me and PROFESSIONALLY will to the
very day of the convention, but the
power of the shafts of calumny
which the Statesman may hurl will
! tall harmless at anyone's feet. if
they will only give the Statesman
the credit of publishing It.
| have repeatedly asked them this
question; To inform me how | can
pay The interest on the state Of Ida
no bonds which are due in the city
of New York the first of January,
and the first of July of each yea
without violating law, or show me
! the law by which I can pay it. And
will give 500 to any lawyer in the
city of Lewiston or the state OF Ida
no who will tell ME how to doit.
On the one hand is the faith and
the credit and the honor and the
| integrity Of this state Of ours viii"
we n.vo been trying for forty years
to BULL up, or a tech ital vicl;. ton
OF the law on the other hard
Regarding collections accounts,
when Nez Perez cCunty's treasurer
sent me down 100000 in January to
pay theid proportion Of the state
taxes he sent it to me in d check
| venture to max: the assertion, fur
| thern:o"e. that nineteenth OF all the
taxes paid to the state by Nez Perez
county are paid by check. yet abso-
lutely the strictest letter of the law
says that it shall be paid in cash
Was it regular or irregular; legal or
| illegal? defy any man to show me
the law where the assessor, the sher-
III auditor, probate Judge. Of this
county or any other county, has the
authority to carry a collection &C
| count in any bank; but l think II
you will investigate the matter,
that every county officer in the state
Of Idaho has collection account
Almost every state officer carries a
! CO Election account, and last but not
least, the clerk of the supreme court
carries a collection account. and the
last time he turned over to me his
quarters fees, he paid ME in two
checks. one on the First National
Bank Of Lewiston. Idaho, and the
ether on the First National Bank of
Idaho, Biose. am not going to
argue the question Of the legal or IL
legal transaction. l will ont argue
the case whether the transactions
are regular or irregular. l simply
and boldly state that you can not
conduct the business of the city. the
county or the state in the absolute
is. to use nothing but the cash.
| will take in during my incum-
bency OF the Office four million dol
lars in cold cash. as the law Nigh,
contemplate. l believe, as l said
BEFORE to bring the questions up to
the bar of human reason. and when
our laws are deficient to use common
sense. plain. business up-to-date
methods.
My predecessor earned $4,000 Of
, interest for the state of Idaho. ]
have already earned $4,000 on the
interest account and will in all
probability earn $4,000 before the
first day of January.
So it seems to me that I have
oheyed the laws and did that which
7 thought was to the best interests
of the state Of Idaho, under any and
all circumstances.
AS have said before, this is pure
ly and simply PERSONAL attack on
me by the Statesman, and which is
copied into only one or two other
papers that l know throughout the
state. am perfectly satisfied to go
i before the next convention as
candidate for reelection on the rec
ord that | have made. II it is un-
savory and dishonorable. then drop
me. 1t 1t is fair and square and just
working for the state under any an
all circumstances and for the best
interests of the state then l shall be
greatly pleased to receive the sup
port of every one. And l will simp-
" say to the people of this county
that / have served you in the city
nnd county affairs for a great many
years. MY life has been an open
book to you all. I have nothing to
sidetrack. sidestep or evade, and am
willing to go on the record.
c. A. HASTINGS