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

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 why! No man
of honest purpose in my judgment
would want Ia 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
ocratic member of that house voted
TO kill 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 win
find that that is all that they have,
just three of them.
And now they complain about my
not having removed Mr.. Church soon
er. Well it took me long time to
find Mr.. Church out, but when | did
| called him over to my office and
told him that l 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 l gave Mr.. Lansdon-and | didn't
suppose | was hitting Mr.. Church.
gave it 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 a
row down there you can hear us quite
a ways, and in talking about this att
erwards 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 1 began
to look into Mr.. Church and | found
that he had a contract and l sent for
him at 10 o'clock in the morning, and
he came over and | said, Mr.. Church
you have a contract with such and
SUCH" and he says, 81 never had
contract and you can't show one word
on the face of the earth against me-"
do you mean," l said, do you mean
to say that you have no contract with
those people, not contract on
earth?" And he says, 81 will give
any amount of money for any one to
show one like that" Well, l thought
he was telling the truth, but l said
Church l don't doubt you, but l am
going to see for myself if you are
right or not you come back here at
2 o'clock. AS soon as he was out of
the office l sent for the man who had
told me about this and told him: and
he says, 81 will 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
/ a 81 d n GA N "a
and l pulled this out and asked him
if he had ever seen that signature
before, and he broke down and cried
like a child, and I said to him,
Church l wouldn't have done that
thing If l had to take my right arm
off, and he said, Yes, but you don't
need the money" But / told him l
wouldn't have done 1t If / had to
work on a section; and we discharged
Mr.. Church. Now, then, Mr. Hawley
talks about discharging Mr.. Lansdon.
l am surprised at his standing before
an intelligent audience and saying
that; you know and l know that no.
body can discharge Mr.. Lansdon ex-
cept the legislature. | have done
everything that any man who lives
could do to stop these things; and
they have never found anything but
the Church matter that was legally
wrong. The law allows Mr.. Lansdon
to do that, no matter what he says,
and 1 say to you that any lawyer in
the state will tell you that we cannot
touch Mr.. Lansdon for 1t; and I say
to you that 1 would have given a
good part of my own private fortune
if l could have gotten that man out,
and done so legally. His wrong was
moral wrong not legal wrong.
Now, after all this talk they bring
us down to just three cases. the