Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-16
(Advsrtis'ns)..
Let the People
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This column 10 edited BY
the Democratic State
Central Committee,
HAiNEs AND MARTINI
POLITICAL MOUNTEeANKS

POLITICAL MoUNTEeANks
| To the keen observer with q sense Of
the humorous in his makeup. the pres
ent political opposition against Cover
nor Hawley has developed into a rip
snorting farce-comedy. On the one
hand is the spectacle Of man who
failed signally to make good when
mayor of Boise and who when he ask ed
for the nomination for re ELECTION was
discarded by his party, making a cam
paign for the highest elective office
within the state on n business ad-
rninistration'' ticket: on the other hand
is an unknown but struggling young at
torney from the north who was sud-
denly thrust into the limelight when
he heard the call of the Bull Moose"
and who has since been touring the
state letting people know of his entire
ignorance of public affairs. He, too.
wants to be governor.
| What a sight for the gods! John M
Haines, member Of the firm Of w. e.
Pierce & Co. who own or control acre
after acre of valuable orchard and city
property: who have become closely
identified with the ownership Of street
railways and other public service cor
porations; the man whose business"
liability is the reputed cause Of the fall
ure Of bank and loss Of thousands
of hard earned dollars paid out for life
insurance by too-trusting people,
promising a business" administration
| We believe Mr.. Haines---it would be
a business" administration in the
event of his election: an administra-
ton of the state by business" for
business" and with business" as the
main consideration first, last and all
the time. and to the devil with the
people-the small taxpayers who would
be transformed into large taxpayers.
Take your tax receipts to the polls
with you on election day." reads Mr..
Haines literature. That's MASTER
piece of comedy and on a par with "On
a slow train through Arkansas" with
the same delicious Eumor concealed
within it's theme. Presumably the TAX
| ing of the tax receipts to the polls is
supposed to work some cabalistic charm
in behalf Of Mr.. Haines' candidacy, but
in reality it will defeat Mr.. Haines.
for it is on account of those same tax
receipts and the knowledge that the
present chief executive is the first gov
ernor of Idaho who has made the rail-
ways. telephone companies and others
of that business" clique pay their
money in exchange for tax receipts in
stead of letting the people pay 1t all,
that the voters of the state are with
Governor Hawley and will return him
to the office to which he has been
| such credit.
Haines probably has made good as
business" man If we accept the evil
dences of his wealth as displayed
by the great amount OF paid support
being given him in certain papers.
His money has been derived from OBJ
tanning lands at cheap prices and then
letting the people increase It's value:
by the ownership of stocks and bonds
in various railways and through mort
cages and loans From all appearances
! he has made lots of it, but that doesn't
testify to his fitness for the office Of
, governor. His administration as
| mayor Of Boise was notable for it's
failure to enforce the laws of the city;
as governor his regime would prob
ably be notable from his failure to
make his own and other companies pay
their fair share of taxes, but II would
be just what he is promising the peo-
plea business" administration.
Candidate Martin lacks the tact of
silent john; John will not attack
Governor Hawley's enforcement Of
cash valuation because he knows that
it would but win votes for the pres
ent executive. Martin. however, talks
and each time he opens his mouth
tn Mt Ia nc in
tighter hole by making statements
which everyone but himself knows to
be inaccurate and at fault
1t is truly a funny spectacle; one
man who knows too much to talk maxi
ing a 'gumshoe" campaign and the
other talking against time and saying
nothing with 1t al.
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Governor HawlSv is the first and only
governor Of Idaho who forced the cor
porations and tax dodgers to pay their
just share of taxes. He is the first
governor who lived up to this oath of
office and enforced the laws as they
stood on the statute books without
fear or favor. The welfare of the
common people demands that he be
returned and he will be.
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What lovely thing it would be-
for Pierce & Co.'S railways-if w. Il.
Pierce & Co. succeeds in eIecting it.
self governor of Idaho At any rate,
the people would be spared the dismal
croakings of the corporations, who
have howled about their over assess
ment
A puzzle-If Haines was a dismal
failure as mayor of Boise, would he
make a successful governor? From the
standpoint of the tax lodging corpo-
|rations-YES.
When the immortal Finnegan penned
off ag'in. on ag'in, gone ag'in," he
must have had Candidate Martin In