Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-10-14

Let the People
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Thls column 10 edited BY
the Democratic state
Central Committee.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

| OeM0CHATlc TICKET.
For President
Hon. Woodrow Wilson Of New Jsr.
say.
For Vice President
Hon. Thomas r. Marshall Of Indiana.
HAwLEY's sUsiNEss METHODS.
Idaho Governor Conducts Affairs in
Peoples Interest.
Nothing could be more absurd than
the charge that because Governor
Hawiey Is not a business man in
the limited sense of being a buyer and
seller Of goods. a loaner Of money or
cent per cent broker III real estate
that ne Is not possessed OF the reuui-
site executive ability for the position
OF chief executive. This would bar
all members OF the professions and all
the agricultural population. 1t would
mean that the people should choose
for the executive officials some man
OF the type Of Rockefeller or Mark
f1ahna-some man who is always fig
uring ION what there is in It for me /"
"oi AAdw'ey uoeS not measure up
~ .nat standard But the people Of
ldano know that the business of the
state mas never received greater or
better attention than under James H.
Hawiey. In the first place harmony
prevails In the state house and all the
departments work in unison. To those
who recall the stormy scenes of the
Gooding and Brady regimes this is a
Happy lehei, ana Is SO much more
una nao'e TOT the reason that Gov
or Hawieys colleagues are all of a
inherent pontical faith.
4" .he second place the business of
me STATE land board Is no longer con-
uuc'eu pehind closed doors; its meet
mss are open 10 the public and the
press, as the peoples business should
NC. anu as an evidence of the work
uo"e W th's BOARD II can be cited that
mere nave oeen 100 meetings under
t"e Hawiey administration. and that
o'oe, mas oeen Drought out Of chaos
:" .he management of the immense
anu ousiness or the state. No longer
~ 'ne money or the various land funds
vi the state loaned to political favor
i'es ana wlre-pullers, but the loans are
i'i"oe IN the regular order for which
app'eo' ana with a purpose to treat
VIC peopie OF every county fairly and
equany
AS to the business acumen and
'e.,,oos Ut governor Hawley, take the
n rMeiuen. OF tne Potlatch lumber deal
ne braoy land board was going
aneau seiiihg 24,ooO acres of land to
'ne Fotiatch Lumber company, when
stopped by an injunction which threw
the matter over to the Hawley admin
is'ra'ion' When the supreme court
uee,a'eu .ne SAFE could be legally
,.a'e' anu II was known majority of
.ne nien'pers OF the BOARD would IA
vor the saie' Governor Hawley insisted
.nat .he members or the board SHOULD
persohany inspect this land before
making the sale. business politi-
oian "ouia only nave seen that it was
good business to curry the favor of
'nis powerful company by making the
saie-put Governor Hawley was look
ing ai'er the interest OF the people Of
iuano. AS result OF the inspection
VI '"e iahu-a hard trip in noun
'a'hous iesion-oooo acres or good ag-
ricu'.urai iaho was found to be includ-
GU III .he tract ana by Governor Haw-
icy ioresisht was not included In the
sae' out Is open Tor settlement and
WIN oeconne thrlVing agricultural
se..,eiheilt'
iheH. again, In the business line for
year after year the building of the
s.a'e capitoi had dawdled along under
business governors, but Governor
Hawiey declared the MAN. building
should De fihished In his term OF Of
lice. An appropriation of ,$750,000 was
op.ained ana real competitive bids re-
ceiVed. with the result that the build
ing Will be ready for occupancy by the
incoming state officials and $4,000
VIII be returned out of the appropria-
ton to the state treasury. Genuine
business methods in that. was there
not.
Still, one more, year after wear