The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-01-26

o prevent laying all the cards upon ,
he table. Others are anxious TO con- /
Wet every person under a cloud, for |
purely political purposes, without re-
gard to the justice of the case, This
makes it extremely hard for separa-
ton of the sheep from the goats and
leaves the individual not constantly on
the ground in a quandary as to the
guilt or innocence OF the accused.
The Signal, being Republican
would like to be able to
announce that Allen and Coleman are
the only culprits, and that the findings
of the grand jury are based on
trivial" AMI technical" charges,
which will be shown to be ridiculous
when the cases are tried on their
merits, but events against which we
have entered protests in the past, and
which are coming to light as the probe
goes into the inner workings of GER
tain coterie of officials, indicate that
there has been disposition to evade
and ignore the law, show favoritism
and utterly disregard the interests of
the people if not to openly violate the
law and their oaths of office.
We are well aware that to refuse to
proclaim the innocence of every Re-
publican under indictment, and con-
denim as petty politics the efforts of
good men who, regardless of their TO
litical views are anxious to see an
era of honesty and obedience to law
inaugurated and official corruption I'M
covered is little short of treason in
the eyes of many of our party asso-
ciates, but nevertheless the Signal
owes its readers the truth and we shall
continue to give it to them. We deplore
the fact that men who have been our
friends are placed in position where
we cannot conscientiously defend
their acts, and we sincerely hope they
will be able to prove beyond doubt
that they have not wilfully violated
the laws of their state and betrayed
the people they have been chosen to
serve, but they cannot escape censure
at least for the careless and UNI
business like way in which they have
handled public affairs.
The Barber Lumber company deal
looked bad at the time, and in the light
of subsequent events it looks worse;
the O'Clock a. m. Long Valley land
sale to the Payette Lumber company
was rotten, and, although revoked by
the land board after publicity was
given the transaction, must now be re-
garded as a circumstance in the minds
of the people who are trying to arrive
at Just conclusion concerning tht
guilt or innocence of certain parties;
| the Allen land loan was crime, and
was known by the other state officers
| for more than year before it was eX-
posed, and although they We're urged
to take action, they refused; the Nam
| pa bank loan was clear violation of
law, but instead of bringing criminal
proceedings against Allen for this and
his land deal Attorney General Peter
son went into the southeast and lined
| up the forces there for Aliens re-
nomination George Day, state land
commissioner, was kicked out of the
Mormon church for conduct unbecom-
| ing a gentleman, and his conduct of
the land department is a scandal from
one end of the state to the other yet
tht members of the land board are
planning to keep him in office in spite
of the protests of hundreds of Re
Ipublicans and Attorney General Peter
son has given it out that he will vote
for him. he does not give d--ln
what anybody says" an attempt was
made few months ago to put through
a state loan for more than the APP
EpTaiSed value of the land, and one of
the parties to the attempt, nothwith-
standing be has been drunk three
times since January list, is slated for
a good paying job; former state Off
cial made an unnecessary trip to Den
yer, in company with others, and al
though the state paid his expenses to
! the amount Of SIPS he was beastly
drunk all the time he was there, and
as seeming reward he is to be given
another position of trust and respon-
sibility if present plans are carried
out; telegram was found in the state
treasurers office, signed by o. V.
Allen and addressed to Fred Coleman
in which the latter was asked to pay
Attorney General Peterson and Secre-
ltary of State Clifford $500 each, but
there has been terrible stiffness or
the subject of where Allen made the
raise and what funds Coleman pait
the $500 out of; there is not record O
a single state warrant in the treas
urer's office prior to Mr. Eagleson':