The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1910-10-28

again again and the other one is
down in Lincoln county today out on
bail for selling whisky.
TIE next one that helped to do 1t
Is member of the Republican party,
Mr.. Robert Lansdon, our present Sec
rotary OF state, He wanted to sit on that
board. you can guess why! No man
of honest purpose In my judgment
would want tu sit there a minute, but
he had purpose In it. l learned that
Mr. Lansdon had gone into that office a
poor man and he Is reputed to be worth
today $4,000 or 100000. | pleaded
with hese men to pass this bill and
take this thing away from there; and
what did they do? Every single Dem
ocratic member of that house voted
TO kill that bill, and then after doing
that they come up here and take the
time of an audience Of your intelIi-
gence talking about 1t. Now, after all
that talk they come down to Just
three Carey act projects; and when
you get down to business you will
find that that Is all that they have,
just three of them.
And now they complain about my
not having removed Mr.. Church soon
err Wen 1t took me long time to
find Mr. Church out, but when | did
told him that l had seen his name
signed to contract whore he was to
get pay as an attorney, and he de-
MED 1t, | thought that Church was
an honest man, The first time my
suspicion was aroused was one day we
lad something wrong in the board,
and | gave Mr.. Lansdon---and | didn't
suppose | was hitting Mr. Church,
gave II to Mr.. Iansdon and he took
II without 81 word md this xttas at ren
for Bob Is a high tempered fellow
When he flares up and when we have
row down there you can hear us quite
IA ways, and In talking about this aft
erwardS he said to me, What pleases
me most is that you hit Church 10
times harder than you hit me, and 10
times whore you hit me once" That's
what he told me. And then I began
TO look into MIR. Church and l found
that he had a contract and l sent for
him at 10 o'clock in the morning, and
he came over and | said, Mr.. Church
you have contract with such and
such" and he says, II never had a
contract and YOU can't show one word
on the face of the earth against me-"
DO you mean l said. do you mean
to say that you have no contract with
those people, not contract on
EARTH" And he says, 81 will give
any amount of money for any one to
show one like that" Well, | thought
he was telling the truth, but | said
Church l don't doubt you. but am
going to see for myself il you are
right or not, you come back here at
2 o'clock. As soon as he was out OF
the office l sent for the man who had
told me about this and told him; and
he says. II will show you something"
and no went out and brought back a
contract with Mr.. Church's name on
1t, And when Mr.. Church came back
| asked him again, and he denied II,
and | pulled this out and asked him
IL he had ever seen that signatures
before, and he broke down and cried |
like a child, and said to him, !
Church l wouldn't have done that !
thing 1t ! had to take my right arm |
off, and he said, Yes. but you don't |
need the money" But | told him | |
wouldn't have done it II I had to |
work on section; and we discharged |
Mr., Church. Now, then. Mr.. Hawley |
talks about dtsCharglng Mr.. Lansdon. |
l am surprised at his standing before |
an Intelligent audience and saving |
that; you know and I know that mo- |
body can discharge Mr.. Lansdon eN-
cspt the legislature. / have done
everything that any man who lives !
could do to stop these things; and !
they have never found anything but |
the Church matter that was legally |
wrong. The law allows Mr.. Iiansion
to do that, no matter what ne saws |
ana | say to you that any LAWYER in |
the state will tell you that we cannot |
touch Mr.. Lansdon for 1t; and | saw
to you that / would have given n
good part of my own private fortune
II l could have gotten that man out,
and done so legally. His wrong was
moral wrong, not a legal wrong.
Now, after all this talk they bring
us down to just three cases, the