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as he makes promises for it in the
campaign?
The sand will be thrown into the
public eyes by Democratic speakers
in relation to land board matters
during the remainder of the cam
paign. They will all follow Mr..
Hawley's lead, and like him, will
present no evidence against Cover
nor Brady-the principal object of
attack over the shoulders OF indiyid-
ual members of the board whose ac-
tions the governor could in no wise
control and who have been and are
opposing him and his policies. If
Mr.. Hawley can successfully contend
that Governor Brady, ever upright
in all official matters. can be held
responsible for the acts of members
of the board, and that the Republ1-
can party can be saddled with re-
sponsibility for all, Notwithstanding
it has repudiated prime offenders.
then it may be as consistently ar
gued that the Democratic party is
responsible for the acts of individ-
ual officeholders during the time it
was in power-and those acts are
hardly calculated to inspire suffi-
Client confidence with the people to
cause them to return the Democrat
ic party to power.
Any comparison of land board
records, either from a party or an
individual standpoint, will not in
jure the Republican party; and
there has never been a Republican
member of the land board, however
crooked he may have been, who has
done half the reprehensible things
not only charged but proven to the
satisfaction of the public against
certain Democratic office-holders.
What's fair for the goose is fair
III thO SdlidCi III civ q iiot
tiers, and if the Republican mana
gers are alive to the situation they
will make the Democratic leaders
sorry they ever sought to divert the
public mind from the real issues of
the campaign and into land board
ch channels.
There will be much said (mostly
inuendo) about Governor Brady in
connection with land board matters.
There will be no direct charges.
however. Mr.. Hawley, at the out
set, disclaimed any intention of re-
flecting upon the official or person
al honor of the governor, The 9TH
ers will follow his lead. But by in
situation an attempt will be made
to discredit the governor because of
the land board.
Now, if Governor Brady has done
n crooked act as a member of the
land board. why have not the Dem
Ocratic leaders exposed him? why
do they not do it now?
If they cannot point to even n
r~ascally transaction on the part of
the governor (and Mr.. Hawley him
self admits they cannot) the public
should be pretty well satisfied that
the governor has been honest. The
managers should be
quick to demonstrate it if he had
not beeen.
The Mackay dam case furnishes
one of the inferential charges that
are being made against the COVER
nor. And even there his accusers.
fail. Within a few hours after the
governor had been advised by the
states representative of the tanner
m which the work was being done
he had it stopped for the protection
Of the settlers. Then he went about
t in a business-like manner to re-
the trouble and furnish fur
protection for the settler while
the investor a square deal.
If the Democrats are right and
Governor Brady was wrong then in
in Idaho irrigation securities
will understand that they should
eek other fields and h-omeseekers
hat they need not look for protec-
ion from the state.-Boise States
nan, September %.
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