Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-09-27
GRANTS. HAGER replies
TO governor BURKE
HE OBJECTS TO THE COVER
NOR's METHOD OF DODGING
QUESTIONS.

To the Editor of the Tribune: In
his reply to my open letter of tle
23rd, Governor Burke refuses to cor
rect his statement that | WlLFuLLY
MISREPRESENTED him in my edi'
torial concerning his veto OF the items
for the institution for the feeble mind
ed minded in which l stated the fol-
lowing:
The Institution for Feeble Mind
ed located at Grafton was granted the
following sums for NECESSARY I'M
PROVEMENTS: For stock, $500; i'm
provements to grounds, $1,000: new
hospital, $4,000. farm house. $4,000;
addition to barn, $1,000. Every item
was considered necessary by the sup
erintendent and board of trustees, and
the legislative committee agreed with
them and the legislature as a whole
granted them. What did John Burke
do? He vetoed every appropriation
except the $500 for stock and the $50,
600 for the hospital"
The governor attempts TO tell me
what my mental process was when |
wrote that editorial and what l in
tended to do by writing it. | do not pre-
sumo that the governor has any oc-
cult power to read my mind and there
fore does not know what my mental
process was at that time. but his per-
sistance in insisting that WlLLF'uLr
LY MISREPRESEETED him when |
have shown conclusively that | did
not and never intended to. shows how
unfair the governor is and will be on
the stump this fall.
| was a member Of the board of
trustees of the institution for Feeble
Minded for more than four years,
and in my relations with the institu-
ton was necessarily familiar with
It's work, it's necessities and its meth
DDS of doing business. The members
If the board of trustees of that insti-
.ution when they made up the items !;
which went into the appropriation !
bill. asked for only such sums as
we're absolutely necessary to prop !
erly and hunanely carry on the work
If the institution. There were neces- !.
,ary fixed charges for which to pro- !
anu JuClC WSIC NOI tdAA ACSS0
AIRY improvements.
These two classes of appropriations !
ire separate and distinct from each
'ther. Without an appropriation for
employees, wages, fuel
md lights, and the other items which
20 to make up the fixed charges, the
Institution would have to be closed.
This fact was we'll known to the board
If trustees, myself included, and
vhen ra-distinguished between
ne fixed charges of the institution
nd only mentioned the necessary I'M
| did it advisedly and
vas not in any way acting unfairly in
ny criticism of Governor Burke, al
hough that gentleman insists upon
,oing into my mind and reading into
ny thoughts an unfair :interpreta-
ion. Of the s7S.S5O that the COVER
Tor mentions in his letter. S25,60O
we're for NECESSARY IMPROVE
TENTS" as I stated, and the $1,000
which he refuses to grant were also
or necessary improvements.
The governor attempts to cloud the
ubIic mind and place me in false
light, and l submit to the fairness and
of the people of North
Dakota whether or not Governor
burke or myself is the individual who
S attempting to be unfair in this
1t is very evident from
he last clause of the governors let
err that he proposes to misrepresent
ne in every city, village and hamlet
n North Dakota in which he speaks
his fall, and it is also evident that
le will in all of these speeches dodge
ne questions of why the revenues of
h state of North Dakota were INSULT
,ient to grant appropriations for |
Ugh school aid, agricultural college
experimental stations, in
titutions for feeble minded and 9TH
r worthy causes when he found SAL
100 for uses and purposes of institu-
ions located at Devils Lake, his
lone city.
GRANT S. HAGER.