The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1910-10-28

lISt tnlnB theN ulu was 10 leave I
deficit from the Steunenberg admin |
istration of $4,000. and instead of 4
paying that deficit they issued bonds 4
for it 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 i'm the /
first administration of $4,000. and /
then issued bonds for it during the /
next administration; then they pro- |
ceeded to sell land. You have heard /
something about land boards: l will |
come to that later on. They had a 1
land board and they sold for $500 900 |
timber on your lands that is today /
worth 100000, more money than |
has ever been collected in this state |
fapplause) in taxation for 10 years. |
That is what they did. Now, as to |
the auditor; he told you that we had |
appropriated 100000 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 S,451 claims and they
handled them at cost to you of
claims. and handled them for you at a
cost of about so 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 ullltIe0Ce between my dtllllI-
istration and theirs; we handled over
SO, 900 claims and they handled over
5000 claims. And the next thing we
come to in their administration and
my administration to comparable
wanted a record, here it is. They had
s14,S5O and lost s576 on that office,
an actual loss of that amount to this
state under the management of the
last Democratic administrations; but
what have we done, we have saved
you s33,S79 they lost you over $500.
Now my friends, that's the compari-
son, and that's the kind that goes on
here all the way through. This is not
mine-these figures will be shown to
you, and if there is a statement here
that is not true, don't you vote for
me; if it is true, it makes an awful
showing for them, and splendid
showing for US. The next is the state
engineer They lost $500 on this Of
flee; we gained SIS, 450-some differ
ence there, isn't there? 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 yet, and we will cut them down
more. The next is the livestock COM
mission; they lost $500, we gained
you $4,000. The next the insurance
commissioners Here is where they
you $76,310 up to date under this adj
ministration, and we have made
$4,000 more than they did. Mr..
Hawley didn't tell you anything about
this, did he? And the next thing is
one that l am proud of; it is the law
that your executive recommended and
the law that was passed by a Republi-
car, legislature, that your money
should go out and work for you while
you slept and 1t has been done; that
is the state treasurer'S office. In this
office they lost you $5S75, an actual
dead loss to this state, with $2,OO0,OOO
dollars laying there in the treasury
loaned out to their friends. What did
we do? Why we have made for you
s7O,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 s22,677, and. now
we don't include the 100000 of bonds
that was issued by the other Demo
| cratic administration, the deficit, b'n
we have shown to you net protit
over the last Democratic administra-
ton of s35S,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 a moment on the land
board business. My good friend Haw-
| lev took an hour Of your time talking
about that I believe. and | believe
that an hour is long enough for any
man to talk, and l am going to have
all this matter printed and | am go
| ing to send 1t out to you, and then
| next spring, when we all have time,
and I am serving my second term, /
will come up here and try to denver
speech that will be interesting and
not all figures.
Now. another thing I want to call
| YOUR attention to is the fact that !
| 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 the at
| torney general, the secretary or state
| the state superintendent and the gov
ernor. and the state engineer; you put
ms on that board. At the time that
| thew 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 Oh THESE l. L boetiu S
on your executive; and in addition TO
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. 900. 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, 900 of them. Your
executive has something to do, hasn't
he?
Let me call your attention to the
fact that when l went on those
boards, as soon as / was elected.
made up my mind that this board
didn't have the time to attend to the
Carey act proposition. Here was a
new proposition that was brought
onto our state within the last 10
years. and for the benefit of only
three-fifths of the whole state; that's
what 1t did And let me tell you
something about what we have done
on that board; we have had III
meetings of the land board in that
time and 1913 of them were for the
purpose of transacting Carey act bus