The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-11-04

again again and the other one is
down in Lincoln county today out on
bail for selling whisky.
The 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 to sit there minute, but
he had purpose in it. I learned that
Mr.. Lansdon had gone into that office a
poor man and he is reputed to be worth
today $4,000 or 100000. I pleaded
with hese men to pass this bill and
| take this thing away from there; and
| 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 intelli-
| gence talking about it. 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
er. Well it took me a long time to
find Mr.. Church out, but when I did
l called him over to my office and
told him that I had seen his name
signed to a contract where he was to
get pay as an attorney, and he de-
MED it. I thought that Church was
an honest man. The first time my
suspicion was aroused was one day we
had something wrong in the board,
and gave Mr.. Lansdon-and didn't
suppose I was hitting Mr.. Church,
gave it to Mr.. Lansdon and he took
it without word and this was strange,
for Bob Is a high tempered fellow.
When he flares up and when we have a
row down there you can hear us quite
a 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 where you hit me once" That's
what he told me. And then + began
to look into Mr.. Church and I found
that he had contract and I sent for
him at 10 o'clock in the morning, and
he came over and 1 said, "Mr. Church
you have contract with such and
such," and he says, ."I never had
contract and you can't show one word |
on the face Of the earth against me-"
'Do you mean," I said, do you mean |
to say that you have no contract with |
those people, not contract on |
earth?" And he says, II will give
any amount of money for any one to
show one like that" WE'LL I thought
he was telling the truth, but said
Church I don't doubt you, but I am
going to see for myself If you are
right or not, you come back here at
2 o'clock. AS soon as he was out Of
the office sent for the man who had
told me about this and told him; and
he says, II will show you something"
and he went out and brought back
contract with Mr.. Church's name on
It. And when Mr.. Church came back
asked him again, and he denied it,
and I pulled this out and asked him
Il he had ever seen that signature
before, and he broke down and cried
ike child, and I said to him,
hing If had to take my right arm
off, and he said, Eyes, but you don't
need the money" But 1 told him l
have done it If had to
work on a section; and we discharged
Mr.. Church. Now, then, Mr. Hawley
alks about discharging Mr.. Lansdon.
am surprised at his standing before
IN intelligent audience and saying
hat; you know and I know that no.
'ody can discharge Mr.. Lansdon ex-
ept the legislature. I have done
verrything that any man who lives
ould do to stop these things; and
hey have never found anything but
he Church matter that was legally
wrong. The law allows Mr.. Lansdon I
o do that, no matter what he says, s
nd say to you that any lawyer in c
he state will tell you that we cannot t
ouch Mr.. Lansdon for it; and say f
o you that I would have given a
God part Of my own private fortune s
I could have gotten that man out, c
nd done so legally. His wrong was h
moral wrong, not legal wrong. 6
Now, after all this talk they bring a
s down to just three cases, the Ii