Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-10-27

first thing they did was 10 leave
deficit from the Steunenberg admin
istratiOn of 100000. and instead OF
paying that deficit they issued bonds
for il and never paid "a dollar Of IL;
remember that for ] want to talk to
you about that later on The first
thing, then they left a deficit In the
first administration Of 100000, and
then issued bonds for it during me
next administration; then they pro-
ccedcd to sell land. You have heard
something about land boards; I will
come to that later on. They had
land board and they sold for 100000
timber on your lands that Is today
worth S10,000,0O0. more money than
has ever been collected in this state
(applause) I'm taxation for 10 years.
That is what they did. Now, as to
the auditor: he told you that we had
appropriated $4,000 for the auditor
and they had appropriated $4,000
for their auditor That is true, but he
didn't tell you what we did with it.
They handled 8451 claims and they
handled them at cost to you Of
S126 a claim. we handled 36.204
cost Of about 30 cents claim less than
that. our claims cost &c cents and
theirs cost $1.26 a claim; we saved
you so cents on each claim that we
handled in the auditors office; that
Is the difference between my admin
istration and theirs; we handled over
86 900 claims and they handled over
5000 claims. And the next thing we
come to in their administration and
my administration to comparable
wanted record. here Il is. They had
S14S50 and lost S576 on that office,
an actual loss Of that amount to this
state under the management of the
last Democratic administration; but
what have we done, we have saved
you $33.879: they lost you over $500.
Now, my friends, that's the compar-
son. and that's the kind that goes on
here all the way through. This is not
mine-these figures viii be shown to
yOu and If there is statement here
that is not true, don't you vote for
me- If IL is true, 1t makes an awful
showing for them, and splendid
showing for us. The next is the state
engineer. They lost $4,000 on this Of
flee; we gained SIS, 450-some differ
ence there, isn't there2 The next the
game warden, they lost $500 on that
office, we gained $19.620, and re-
member that these figures mean Just
up to tOday.I have three months to go
on vet and we will cut them down
more The next is the livestock COM
mission; they lost $500. we gained
YOU $1,000 The next the Insurance
commissioner. Here is where they
made some money, $36,2S2-we made
you $76,31 UP to date under this adj
ministratiOn, and we have made
$500 more than they did. Mr..
Hawley didn't tell you anything about
this. did he? And the next thing Is
one that I am proud Of; 1t is the law
that your executive recommended and
the law that was passed by a Republi-
can legislature. that your money
should go out and work for you while
YOU slept, and It has been done; that
is the state treasurer's office. In this
office they lost you $3.50, an actual
dead loss to this state, with $4,000 600
L. .II To treasury
loaned out to their friends. What did
we do? Why we have made for you
$7O.125. and yet they talk about mall
feasance in office, running around
over the state saying things Of that
character when we have made FOR
you over $4,000 profit to their $4,000.
And now we come to the final COM
plete comparison. They, after paying
all expenses had a profit on the last
administration OF $22,677, and, now
we don't include the 100000 of bond
that was issued by the other Demo
cratic administration, the deficit b,i'
we have shown to you net profit
over the last Democratic adminlstra-
ton of $358,622. That's what we did
AGAINST their $4,000. Now. don't
YOU think, if 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 moment on the land
board business. My good friend Haw-
ley took an hour Of your time talking
about that 1 believe, and believe
that an hour is long enough for any
man to talk. and / am going 10 nave
all this matter printed and l am go
ing to send it out to you, and then
next spring. when we all have time,
and ] am serving my second term, 1
will come up here and try to deliver a
speech that win be interesting and
not all figures.
Now. another thing 1 want to call
your attention to is the fact that /
am on IL different boards. Now
when our state was admitted into the
/ Union we adopted q constitution, and
we put upon the land board the at
torney general, the secretary OF state
the state superintendent and the gov
ernOr. and the state engineers you put
as on that board. At the time that
they adopted the constitution they
didn't believe that they would have
work enough for them to do-they
never thought OF any such thing as
the Carey act-and they put all the
duties of chairman of these IL boards
on your executive; and In addition 70
that they put all the work of the
| transferring of funds. that Is the
! transfer of funds from one depart
/ ment TO another, upon your executive
/ and he has TO sign these transfers. IN
other words. I do a business Of 81
500. 600 that's a pretty good banking
business to do. that, in addition to all
the other duties I have to perform
and in addition to that your executive
has to sign personally every claim
that Is allowed-26.0OO of them. YoU
executive has something to do, hasn'
he?
Let me call your attention to the
fact that when I went on thos,
boards. as soon as I was elected.
made up my mind that this boar,
didn't have the time TO attend to thu
Carey act proposition. Here was
new proposition that was brough
onto our state within the last II
years, and for the benefit Of onl.
three-fifths of the whole state; that
what IL did And let me tell yoi
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