Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1912-03-02
STRONG TAYLOR
ENDORSEMENT
Newspapers Continue 10 Urge the
Nomination Of the
State Auditor
REASONS WHY HE IS STRONG
The Governorship Discussed from A
Statewide Standpoint


Under the heading of "Safe, Con-
serve tive, Able, Popular the Wood
River Times, published at HALEY,
and one of the oldest and most in
huential Republican newspapers in
south Idaho, says;
"The eubernatorial situation in
this State continues to cause specu-
lation in the public mind.
candidates have come and gone
and new ones have sprung up to
take their places but it is 10 be OBJ
served tina. there is one name that
has not lost its hold upon public
favor but on the contrary has grad
ualy grown in public estimation,
and that is State Auditor S, d.
Taylor.
1--WE speak of Mr.. Taylor as a can
didate. although no public declara-
ton has ever emanated from him
to indicate that he sought the place.
All he favorable talk and press
notices that have heen expressed in
his behalf, making him the most
prominently mentioned man in the
state for the honor, have been
Spontaneous, and not manufactured
and put out by methods known to
the willy politician, He does not
maintain a press bureau nor politi-
cal headquarters, nor other expen-
sive political machinery that makes
candidate a criminal on account
of spending more money than the
primary Jaw allows That he is a
candidate is not due to self seeking
methods, but because his record
and personality have appealed to
the citizenship of the state and
made him the logical choice
Through all the political gather
ings and political discussions Mr..
Tayl bias maintained a magnfi.
centuose. He has neither sought
the limelight nor played to the
galleries, but when occasion de-
mandad he has shown the force of
his character, and the courage of
his convictions. When he asked
Governor Hawley and the State
Board of Equalization to rescind
the resolutions providing. for the
assessment of property at full cash
value without first making careful
preparation, he had to make the
fight single-handed an d alone.
Time INDICATED his stand, as an
extra session of the legislature had
TO be called to straighten out the
tangle. When the board met to
equalize taxes, he made a gallant
fight in behalf of the farmers of
the state to the end that the addi-
tional burden that had been placed
upon them by the full cash value
scheme of assessment might be re-
duced He was only partially sue
Cessful in this, but succeeded in
evening matters up for the farmers
Co some extent by moving that
the main lines for railroads be as
ses-ed at 100000 per mile. rate
that caused a good many people Ia
gasp for breath, as the former rate
3 only S16, 800.
"Mr. Taylor has attracted great
deal of attention by reason of his
origina ideas in reference to man,
agement Of state funds, He found
the state purchasing school bonds
1.-THE rate of 100000 annually and
heoring 5 per cent interest while
The farmers of the state were Dor.
rowing eastern money at 8 per cent
and hard to get. Upon his motion
The land board has ceased to pur,
chase school bonds. except small
issues which eastern bond buyers
! could not handle, and the none,
bsa been loaned instead on improy