The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-05-02

handled and wrote the article were |
either one of two thingS-they were |
perfect ignoramuses on elementary |
mathematics and absolutely unfit to
make statements or else the state
ments were given out with malice
and l firmly believe that the state
ment was made to injure me in the
eyes of the people. The authors of
the article have probably not yet dis
covered the error and if they have
they have not been men though to
change or correct it. Both the State
Auditor who gave out the material
for these statements and the States
man which published them have been
eating at the Republican pie-counter
for the last twenty-five years; in fact
it has been almost their whole sus-
tenance-and now they fight the very
hand that feeds them. For in un-
justly and maliciously snarling at an
officer elected by the party they are
assailing the party itself.
Now regarding my assistance to the
| banking interests and the financial
interests of the State of Idaho during
the recent financial furry, had Sat-
900 cash in my vault when the furry
started. Men, able bodied and strong
and in full flush of their physical and
mental manhood, came to me with
tears streaming down their eyes and
asked financial assistance to see if
by my assistance they could be saved
from a financial wreck, enabling
them to keep the fortune however
great or small that they had been for
years accommodating; and l, we'll
knowing that if one or two banks
should stop or suspend payment, how
ever temporary, the effect that sus-
pension would have upon the state
at large gave them assistance. l rem
dered to every banking institution
! with which we do business within the
| State, so far as lay within my power
| financial assistance, at all times and
{ in every case absolutely protected as
3 by law required, and l am not ego.
t tistical enough to believe that l saw
ed many banks from temporary sus
e pension.
i l have felt that the duty and re
: sponsibilty of the State Treasure
}. went further than looking after tn
y bare financial interest of the State it
e self and felt that it extended wher
Il consistent to the protection of tn
h States financial institutions
st have not the brilliancy of min
st nor the mammoth intellect upo
e which to draw that the Statesma
al has, but one thing l can do, than
n God, and that is to keep a cash boo
lie square and keep the amount of cas-
X which | should have on hand, an
er under any and all circumstances
to court the fullest investigations of n
S, official conduct. I care not how mar
tie nor how often an investigation
TX made or ordered, my cash accou1
has always been perfect and by tt
I'd grace of God, and with the assistant
lie of the Almighty 1 propose it alwa!
~ shall be so.
: propose further to earn every pc
sible dollar of interest money that
10 can for the State of Idaho. l PR
:, pose also to handle the states e,
u changes in the matter of collectio
" accounts in the same economical an
H. up-to-date manner that have in tt
u past; l propose to assist the banl
. wherever I can consistently with n
ne oath of Office and shall not be d
" tered from SO doing by sly attacl
and covert slurs made with the mo
malicious and selfish motives.
c. A. HASTING