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


again again and the other one is
down IN Lincoln county today out on
bail for selling whisky.
The next one that helped to do it
is a member of the Republican party
Mr.. Robert Lansdon, our present sec
rotary OF state He wanted to SIT on that
board; you can guess whyl No man
of honest purpose in my judgment
would want To sit there a minute, but
he had a purpose in it. l learned that
Mr.. Lansdon had gone into that office
poor man and he IS reputed to be worth
today $4,000 or 100000 / pleaded
with hese men to pass this bill and
take this thing away from there; and
what did they do? Every single DEM
ocratlc member of that house voted
to kin that bill, and then after doing
that they come up here and take the
time of an audience of your intelli-
gence talking about it. Now, after all
that talk they come down to just
three Carey act projects and when
you get down to business you will
find that that is all that they have,
just three of them.
And now they complain about my
not having removed Mr.. Church soon
err. Well it took me a long time to
find Mr.. Church out, but when 1 did
l called him over to my office and
told him that / had seen his name
signed to a contract where he was to
get pay as an attorney and he de-
MED it. / thought that Church was
an honest man. The first time my
suspicion was aroused was one day we
had something wrong in the board,
and / gave Mr. Lansdon-and didn't
suppose ! was hitting Mr.. Church.
gave il to Mr.. LansdOn and he took
it without a word and this was strange
for Bob is a high tempered fellow
When he flares up and when we have
row down there you can hear us quite
a ways and in talking about this aft
arwards he said to me, What pleases
me most is that you hit Church 10
times harder than you hit me, and 10
times where you hit me once That's
what he told me-. And then I began
to look into Mr.. Church and l found
that he had contract and i sent for
him at / o o'clock In the morning, and
he came over and said, "Mr. Church
you have contract with such and
/ such" and he says, 81 never had q
on the face of the earth against me-"
do you mean" / said, do you mean
to say that you have no contract with
those people, not contract on
earth ?" And he says, Il will give
any amount of money for any one to
he was telling the truth, but 1 said
Church I don't doubt you, but 1 am
going to see for myself If you are
right or not, you come back here at
o'clock. AS soon as he was out of
the office I sent for the man who had
told me about this and told him; and
he says, II VIII show you something,
and he went out and brought back a
| contract with Mr.. Church's name on
it, And when Mr.. Church came back
1 asked him again, and he denied IT,
and / pulled this out and asked him
IL he had ever seen that signature
before, and he broke down and cried
like a child, and I said to him.
Church / wouldn't have done that
thing If ] had to take my right arm
Off and he said, Eyes, but you don't
need the money" But / told him ]
wouldn't have done it II / had 70
work on a section; and we discharged
Mr.. Church. Now, then, Mr.. Hawley
talks about discharging Mr. Lansdon
| am surprised at his standing before
an intelligent audience and saying
that; you know and I know that no.
body can discharge Mr.. LansdOn ex-
cept the legislature. I have done
everything that any man who lives
could do to stop these things; anc
they have never found anything but
the Church matter that was legally
wrong The law allows Mr.. Lansdor
to do that. no matter what he says
and I say to you that any lawyer II
the state win tell you that we cannot
touch Mr. Lansdon for It; and 1 say
to you that / would have given
good part Of my own private fortune
If l could have gotten that man out
and done so legally. His wrong wa.
a moral wrong. not a legal wrong.
Now, after all this talk they bring
us down to just three cases, thu