The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1912-07-12
tate's selections, | cannot con-

/. The land Office has enough to
do without trying any case
against the state. But as re-
publican, wishing the party sue
cess, not only during your admin
istration, as we'll as in the future,
| must say in all candor that the
course mentioned by Heitman's
letter and the telegram read to
Mr.. Grams (Which he did not see),
there is a rocky road for the party
if it has to meet the charges of a
pull by Heitman," and whatever
may be charged by democratic
organs throughout the state.
True or false, your board cannot
lay all the blame of the state not
getting its due in the way of Sc
lections upon the former admin
istrations during democratic rule
in said board. | cannot believe
your board have thus laid them
selves at the dictation of one
man, no matter who he may be.
Nor can | believe your board can
trife away the rights of the state
in the manner indicated in the
said letter and telegram.
Yours sincerely,
D. H. BUDLONG, Register.
Editorial in Star Mirror, June 2
1922:
Consider the Proof
In another column is published
piece of the most damaging
evidence ever given to the public
Office in the state 1t is an indict-
ment that, if true, ought to make
thoughtful citizens stand aghast,
and in the coming primary bury
beneath an avalanche of votes
the man responsible for the con-
dition that existed during the
time the government of Idaho
was entrusted to his keeping
What is the meaning of this let
ter? What was the occasion for
this appeal of a United States
land Office register to Governor
Morrison? What is Register
Budlong saying?
In the Occur d'Alene land dis
trict, where the educational insti-
tutions of the state had large
grants, the timber was being
stolen. The letter published in
another column was written in
connection with a case involving
the sw IA, sec. 2, twp. So H., r.
e. This tract was being held by
fake settlement and a fake con-
test, and was so held until the
Macarthur Brothers, of Detroit,
h1d H., 70 Oh
out of the state, the very best on
the land. And after robbing the
land, the heritage of the Univer-
sity of Idaho, it was through the
manuipulations of Heitman's lieu
tenants, being turned back to the
state.
1t will be noted that the regis
ter of the land Office refers to
"relinquishing all of the Hoffman
cases, and twenty-eight Others"
1t will be noted that this is by a
government official, a republican,
who is appealing to the governor
of a great state, begging him,
John T. Morrison, to put a stop
to the wholesale prostitution of
the laws and the robbery of the
state. 1t will be noted that this
land Office register names Heit-
man, the very man who brought
out Morrison, and is now urging
his election. 1t will be noted
that Register Budlong admonish-
ed Governor Morrison of the seri-
BUSINESS of this outrageous
grating, and warns him that it
means the undoing of the repub-
lican party; that Morrison and
the republican party cannot hide
behind the democratic record of
Governor Hunt, when similar
condition existed.
The friends of Morrison will
reply that Governor Morrison
himself profited nothing. This is
probably true. Morrison is a
poor man. He has never, so far
as this paper knows, personally
profted from public Office. But
never in the history of the state
has any governor used poorer
Judgment, or selected a more dis
creditable bunch of public ap-
pointees. Dwyer is fair sample.
And the point is here: Morri-
son cannot escape the responsible
ity for his own administration.
1t was his business to see that the
law is enforced and that those he
appoints serve the state in a reas-
onably honorable way. 1t was
his business, when graft was
pointed out, to at once inyesti-
gate, and dismiss every CRATER
and crook in his service. He did
not do it. And the Morrison adj
ministration went down in his
tory as the rottenest in the state.
with the possible exception of