The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1912-10-25
tegrity which the Governor demands

Next, the Governor compelled the
resignation of the oil inspector when
an examination of his accounts dis
played culpable inefficiency that bord-
cred on malfeasance
From the time he entered the Office
OF Governor to the present day. Gov
ernor Hay has adhered to his deter
mination to refuse to build up a per-
sonal machine by turning out compe-
tent officials and appointing others in
their place who would be subservient
solely to himself He has retained in
the public service every man who has
made good, but whenever an appointee
faltered in his conduct the Governor
showed no sympathy for the culprit
and has absolutely refused to COM
promise with wrong doing.
Governor Hay is a man of high mo-
rails and the strictest business and fl
nancial integrity, and he has insisted
on the maintenance of the same high
standard in all departments under his
control. By his example, advise and
instructions and the policy that he has
pursued, he has inaugurated the high
est state of efficiency in the conduct of
all departments and institutions over
which he has direct and indirect su-
pervision that has been attained in the
history of the state. AS one of the
three eX-Ofiicio members of the board
of finance, which is vested with the
responsibility of investing and placing
the various permanent and current
state funds, he has given to the state
the great benefit of his mature busi-
ness judgment and as a consequence
these funds are now bearing interest
at rate that Is bringing in a revenue
of $1,250 every day of the year includ-
ing Sundays, or total OF practically
$450,000 annually. This Is an increase
of practically 100 per cent. in the less
than four years of his administration,
while at the same time, the general
fund bonded debt of 81 200, 900 has been
wiped out completely.
Throughout his tenure of Office,
Governor Hay has stood on the right
side of every moral issue that has en-
gagged the interest of the people of this
state He was firm in his advocacy of
the local option and anti-race track
gambling laws in the session of 1909,
and it was largely owing to his in
fluence that these laws were placed on
the statute books. He has been con-
sistent throughout in this attitude. In
the recent primaries an attempt was
made to show that he had receded
from his position in regards to liquor
legislation by the circulation on pri-
mary day throughout the state of
letter purpOrting to give the endorse
ment of the Royal Arch organization
to his candidacy. AS soon as this cir
cular was brought to the attention OF
the Governor, he issued a fiat and in
dignant reputation of its contents In
which he said that he had entered in
to no agreement of any kind with the
liuuor interests or any other private
or special interests as regards his
course in case he is reelected to the
office he now holds, and that he has
made no promises and will make no
promises to any other than the whole
people of the state. The Governors
whole career as a private citizen and
as a public servant is an open book
and the closest scrutiny of his record
will reveal no act for which he need
make single apology. He has worked
entirely in the open and has all times
taken the public into his confidence.
Governor Hay has been a leader in
suggesting, formulating and securing
the passage of progressive legislation
in this state, and the record OF his ad-
ministration in this respect reflects
high credit upon him by comparison
with the progress made in similar
period in any other state OF the Union.
He assisted and helped materially all
those who came before the legislative
sessions since he has been governor
urging such measures as the eight
honr law for women, equal suffrage
for women. eight hour law for miners
under ground the full train crew law.
which was stubbornly resisted by the
railway interests who brought tre-
menduous pressure to obtain veto
from him. He urged the passage OF
the public service commission law
which enlarges the scope and charact-
or of the duties of the railroad COM
mission. and foremost among tnese
measures of progressive nature
stands to his credit that most COM
mendable of humane measures the IN
dustrial insurance law, or workman
comnensation act. The Governor ap-
nointed the committee that drafted
This law. He consulted frequently with
Them in the work of investigation and
nrenaration and used the influence OF
bis oftice in those ways that he proper
lv could to secure it's enactment by the
legislature The one provision IN that
law which the legislature eliminated
known as the first aid clause, Is again
advocated by the Governor and he now
is selecting the personnel OF com
mission to redraft that clause that IL
NAV be presented to the next session
of the legislature.
The Governor is now advocating
and is in full sympathy with those
measures providing for the direct pref.
erential primary for the seiection OF
presidential candidates and the direct
election of United States senators.
He has appointed committee to
nrapare a bill to present to the next
legislature that will improve court
nrocedure and prevent the long de-
lays and the tedious and costly ap,,
neaIs which so often have amounted
70 q denial of justice in civil cases and
70 failure to protect investors ana
tbe public generally from fraudulent
rea, r estate promoters. He also favors
a con stitutional amendment to provide