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could not be legally charged against
the state, although 1t has been Gus
tomary for state officials to attend
such conventions and have their legiti-
mate expenses therefor paid by the
state.
Although Cramer has paid back
$4,000, Hy Davis has not yet paid
back the $959.55 charged against him,
nor Rogers paid back the S1,1OO
charged against him.
Attorney General Denman, the Re-
publican state official who made the
ruling reversing Attorney General
Sheets, now says that Creamer should
have been indicted for making illegal
charges against the state, but saved
himself by IAN immunity bath" In
testifying before the investigating
committee. But, although Hy Davis
and Rogers have not paid back to the
state the claims against them, At
torney General Denman has not said
one word about indicting them and
has not even brought suit against
them to compel them to pay back the
amounts charged against them.
When Hy Davis was fire marshal he
did not save to the state one dollar OF
the funds allowed for the operation OF
that office. In the year which w. 3.
Rogers served as fire marshal he spent
the states money with lavish extray-
agance that would have produced a
deficit of several thousand dollars If
continued to the end of his term had
not Governor Harmon removed him
on the ground of extravaganza And
although Creamer conducted that Of
flee two years and made the unprece-
dented record of 72 convictions for ar
son in one year. and turned back into
the state treasury $11 ,064.S2 of bal
ance over expenditures, Mr.. Harding
and Mr.. penman and the mud-slingers
of the Republican machine are call
ling him a CRATER because he charged
$4,000 for expenses of exactly the
same kind that Republican state of.
icias had charged before and since
AS state fire marshal, if Mr.. Cream
er illegally charged $310.60 (Which he
has paid back) he made up for it al
most forty times over by turning into
the state treasury q balance of SILL
OG4.32 saved by economical manage
ment of the office and successfully con
Quoting more prosecutions for incen
diarism than can be found in the rec
ord of any of his Republican prede
cessors. If Creamer were CRATER he
would have gobbled up the whole oi
that $11 ,064.32 instead of saving 1t tc
state.
The cry of graft that is raised by
Mr. Harding, Mr.. Denman and tho
mud d-slingers of the Republican cam
paign against Mr.. Creamer does no
speak well for them.
Mr.. Harding and Mr.. Denman on thu
stump are making more of fus
[ about that $31060 which they say MI
3 Creamer took illegally (and paid bacl
. without being sued) than they ar
+ about the $116,785 with per cent In
terest charged against McKinnon tina
a Attorney General Denman was ordel
e ed by Governor Harmon to sue for; q
@ about the $2ll,720 with per cent il
:, terest that Attorney General Denma
II was ordered by Governor Harmon
|. sue former State Treasurer Camera
8 for; or about the $5,674 claim agalns
II Guilbert already settled and $3l,SC
<. claim against Guilbert still pending
q or about the $3S, 900 graft in Mar
o Slaters management of the Office
1t state printer; or about the $lS,l24.I
e found against former state Secretar
S. Laylin in the report OF the Howe SCI
Is ate committee, for which no suit hi
t. yet been brought by Attorney Gener
Denman, it being the same l.. c. La
: lin, who is chairman of the commlttt
Y. managing the campaign for Mr.. llar
ing, Mr. Denman and other candidate
u. on the STATE RepuDllcaH lChet'
nj about the claim OF S3,274 found by Il
d. Howe senate committee against Seer
~ tary of State Thompson, for which
at suit has yet been brought by Attorn'
nd General Denman; or about the Sob.
~ claim against tly Davis for which
suit has yet been brought by Attorn
ic. General Denman; or about the clai
nj of nearly $l,l00 against w. S. Roger
he for which no suit has yet been broug
No by Attorney General Denman,
If. about the thousands Of dollars of grf
he In the state board OF public wor
he which Attorney General Denm
as made no effort to discover and Will
ar is being defended by subordinate
re his department,
or And Mr.. Harding, Mr.. Denman a
W. the mud-slngers of the Republic
machine are raising the cry of 81
oh graft" against Mr.. Creamer to
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