Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-10-23
HAMILTON STANDS
PROVEN As SOUND
. STATE ECONOMIST
.sohn Cownie, Leading RepubIi.
can, 0isapproyes Misleading
Statements Regarding Mr..
HamiIton's Economy Record
HAMILTON is LEVEL HEADED

Administration Campaign Literat'
ure Is Branded as Unjust and
Unfair to Business and Economy
Candidate for Governor.
John Cown:e. lifelong republican
veteran of the Civil war, and former
member OF the state board of control
is out with letter which establishes
the stand of John T. Hamilton, bust
ness and economy candidate for gov.
ernor on the democratic ticket, as a
sound economist and level headed
business man. Mr.. Cownie says that
campaign literature circulated against
Mr.. Hamilton is misleading. His
letter follows:
In a recent issue of the Register and
Leader, it was stated that Governor
Clarke had been investigating the rec
ord made by Mr.. John T. Hamilton,
now the democratic candidate for gov
ernor, when a member of the state
board Of control and that this record
would soon be published in pamphlet
form.
have now before me this pamphlet
headed Iowa Facts" Governor
Clarke on Assessments" and as l was
"a member of the state board of con-
Erol during the time Mr.. Hamilton
served on the board, and had voice
In preparing the list of appropriations
asked for, am equally liable to cen
sure for asking the legislature "for
larger appropriations than were
needed"
With all due respect for Governor
Clarke and the high position he oc-
cupies in the state, would be false
to myself were to allow such mis-
leading statements as made by Gov
ernor Clarke to go unchallenged.
I desire to call particular attention
to the following statement made by
Governor Clarke in his pamphlet Iowa
Facts:
Sample of Hamilton Economy"
Here are three sets of figures
that are worth consideration in
connection with the democratic
claim Of being the economy"
party IN Iowa:
Amount of the money Of the
taxpayers expended by the state
BOARD of control for the biennial
period 1904-5, $446. 766.46.
Amount of the money OF the
taxpayers asked for by the board
of control for the next biennial
period, s949,525.
Amount actually appropriated
Aor that period, $S01,5
The significance of it all is that
the report of the board made in
1906, in which the legislature was
asked to appropriate nearly ST.
100000, was signed by John T.
Hamilton. He believed the board
ought to have more than twice
the last time. He urged the ieg-
islature to give it nearly $1,000
900. That was his first opportun-
ity at the state treasury.
The first time John T. Hamil-
ton was placed in position OF
responsibility with reference to the
treasury of Iowa he pleaded for
those which had been given be-
fore. That was his first record Of
ECONOMY"
But republican legislature and
republican governor trimmed
his estimates down $14S.000 and
decided that what he wanted was
more than was needed"
- h.,t fret t$nrp in
the foregoing quotation Governor
Clarke gives the amount OF money ex
pended by the state board OF control
for the biennial period, 19o4-1905
S446,77G46.
The state board of control in its
report fer he same period gives some
49, a~e"ent figures from Governor
Clarke and quote from this report
which was signed by G. S. Robinson
u. G. Kline and John Cownie.
There has been expended for
ali of the institutions under our
,coafrol during the biennial per.
: :iod ending June 80. 1905, the sum
sof fs,426,549.05. OF this amount.
1887, 1868 was paid for new
buildings, extraordinary repairs.
equipment, land transportation
land miscellaneous, and $2,544,.
= .3220s was for support as ap-
pears from the following table:
The same report asked for institu
sion appropriations for the next bien
nial period the sum Of $1.140.250, and
ahe next legislature at its session In
1905 cut this amount to $446,676.46.
The $446.676.46 are evidently the
figures quoted by Governor Clarke as
che amount expended by the state
Board of control for the biennial
period Of 19o4-19o5. but a. this appro
foriation was not made until 1905, the
year after, Il 10 readily seen that Gov.
sernor cIarLe's pamphlet headed "Iows
Facts" might have more appropriate
name.
Governor Clarke makes no mention
OF the fact that the legislature met
IN 1906 and also in 1907, the time OF
che meeting Of that body having been
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