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

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VIII tell you what they did, tn,
first thing they did was TO leave 1
deficit from the SteunenberR admin.
istration OF 10000, and instead 81
paying that deficit they issued bonds
/ for II and never paid d dollar OF Il;
remember that, for ! want 70 talk e
you about that later on The first
1 thing. then, they left a deficit In the
first administration OF $4,000, and
4 then issued bonds for II during the
/ next administration. then they pro-
i ceeded TO sell land. You have hoard
something about land boards; / will
come 20 that later on. They had a
! land hoard and they sold for $500, 900
l9tiInber on your lands that ~ today
worth St0.000,000, more money than
hos ever been collected III this state
fappinuae1 III taxation for 10 years
| Thut Is what they did. Now, AZ to
the auditor; he told yon that we had
appropriated 100000 for the auditor
and they had appropriated si0,g00
for their auditor, That Is true, but he
didn't tell you what we did with I'll
They handled 1851 claims and they
handled them ht a cost 10 you Of
si,26 d claim we handled 62ea
claine and handled them for you AZ d
cost Of about q cents q claim less than
that, our claims cost 7B cents and
theirs cost Sl26 claim: we saved
you SO cents on each claim that we
handled In the auditors office, that
n the difference between my admin
istration and theirs: wo handled over
$4,000 claims and they handled over
5000 claims. And the next thing we
come 10 In their administration and
my administration to comparable
wanted record, here ii ig, They had
s14,s60 and lost $3.50 on that office,
nm actual loss or that amount TO this
state under the management Of the
last Democratic administration; but
what have we done, we have saved
you s33,g79; they lost y0n over $500
Now, my friends, that's the COMPARE
son, and that's the kind that goes on
hero all the way through, This Is not
mifie~~these figures Will be shown TO
you, and II there is a statement here
mat II not true, don't you vote for
me, if II IL true. IL makes an awful
showing for them, and a splendid
showing for ua. The next Ii the state
engineer They Lost $4,000 on this Of
firoi We gained s15,450~-some differ
enee there, Isn't there? Tho next, the
game warden. they lost $500 on that
office. we gained $1,000, and re-
member that these figures mean lust
up 10 today.I have three months to go
on yet, and we will cut them down
more The next II the livestock COM
mission; they lost $500, we gained
you $4,000, The next the insurance
commissioner. Here Is where they
made some money, s36,2s2--we made
you 87e,gt0 up 20 date under this adj
minlstration, and We have made
$4,000 more than they did. Mr.
Hawley didn't tell you anything about
this, did he7 And the next thing Is
ono that ! am proud of; II Is the law
that your executive recommended and
the law that was passed by Republic
can legislature, that your money
should go out and work for you while
you stcpt and II has been done; that
is the state treaaurer's office, In this |
office they lost you s5S75, an actual |
dead loss To this state, with 100000 |
dollars laying there In the treasury |
loaned out to their friends. What did |
VIZ do2 Why we have made for you |
s70,125, and vet they talk about NAL
IN office, running around |
pvor the state saying things Of that
character, when we have made for |
you over $4,000 profit to their $4,000. !
Nnd now Wa come to the final COM
alcte comparison. They, after paying !
III expenses had profit on the last |
administration of $22,B77. and. now |
We don't Include the $4,000 of bonds |
that was issued by the other Demo. |
cratic administration the deficit, h." |
we have shown to you a net profit |
ton of Ss6&,622, That's what we did !
against their $22, 900. Now, don't |
YOU think, II you were Mr.. Hawley
that you would try TO hunt up some
Carey act proposition, or something |
Of that kind. or a farm loan or some
thing else.
And now. my friends, I want to
talk to you just q moment on the land |
board business, My good friend Haw- |
iaVF 80 Ftv,a fullFtTsr
about that l believe, and l believe |
that an hour IL long enough for any |
man to talk. and | am going to have |
all this matter printed and | am GO |
ting to send II out TO you, and then |
next spring, when we all have time, |
ana | am serving my second term, ! |
will como up here ana try to deliver n
speech that viii be interesting and |
not all figures.
Now, another thing I want to call |
your attention TO IL the fact that I |
am ON II different boards. Now
when our state was admitted into the
Union we adopted a constitution. and |
we put upon the land board tho at
turucy general, the secretary of state
the state superintendent and the gov
ernnr, and the state engineer: you put
us on that board, At the time that
they adopted the constitution they
admit believe that they would have
work enough for them 10 do--they
never thought Of any such thing as |
the Carey aCt--rand they put all the
duties ut chairman OF these II boards
IN your executive; and In addition 20
that they put all the work of tho
transferring of funds. that Is the
transfer NJ funds from one depart
ment to another. upon your executive.
and hc has a. sign these transfers. In
other words | do a business of So