Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-08-25
GOVERNOR
conference ! | | RI
!. IS OPENED OP'|[: {
Governor Moses Alexander Of
Idaho Addresses Big
Gathering.
RESPONSIBILITY MIST
BE FIXED IN STATES.
Advocates "Short Ballot and
More Power for Chief
Executive.

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Boston, Mass, Aug, 24.-Governors
and former governors representing
more than 80 states wer, here today
to attend the opening ct the Cover.
nors' conference, which is to be in
session for four days. Besides the
regular meetings, at which papers up,
on vital topics will be read and dis.
cursed, elaborate plans have been
made to entertain the visitors and to
give them a comprehensive view OF
the resources Of New England.
Preparedness against war is one Of
the matters to be considered. On the
closing day Of the conference Secre-
tary of War Garrison will deliver an
address and Governor Fielder CT New
Jersey will read paper on 'The
al Defense" Secretary of the Navy
Daniels has sent part of the Allan
tic heet to Boston for inspection by
the governors and will himself be
present. Governor Walsh has arrang-
cd mobilization of the state militia
for the third day of the conference
Among the papers to be read are
the following: Possibilities Of the
Governors Conference" former Gov
ernor Emmet O'Neal of Alabama;
State or National Control cf Water
Power Sites" Governor George A,
Carlson of Colorado; "The Executive
Budget Governor Fl. L. Williams Of
Oklahoma; "The Euty and I:esponsi-
bility OF the Governor in Dealing
With Prisoners" former Governor
Cole l.. Blease of South Carolina;
Economy and Efficiency In the
state." Governor VS.. Hammond OF
Minnesota; Taxation Governor II.
C. Stuart OF Virginia; and .'Conser-
walton OF Mankind and of Natural
Resources" former Governor John A
Dix of New York.
Entertainment Features.
A public reception will be rendered
the governors at the STATE house tc-
night A steamer trip along the coas,
Of Massachusetts bay and automobile
drives through the Metropolitan park
system, to the North Shore and tc
Concord and Lexington are included
in the program Of entertainment.
The governors have been invited tc
attend the conference of the Society
for the Promotion OF Training for
Public Service, which was purposely
arranged for the same dates as the
gathering of the executives.
This is the eighth annual meeting
of governors. The first was held in
Washington in 1908, upon invitation
of President Roosevelt, to consider
the feasibility Of uniform state &C.
tion for the conservation of natural
resources. As a result of that gath.
ering the Governors conference was
made permanent organization, and
has met annually in different states
T;lis year Governor Walsh is chair.
man.
Those who have accepted the in
vitation to this years conference are:
Governors George A. Carlson of Col.
orado, Marcus H. Holcomb of Con
necticut, Charles r. Miller of Della.
ware, Moses Alexander Of Idaho, Ed
ward F. Dunno of Illinois, Oakley c.
Curtis of Maine, w. S. Hammond OF
Minnesota, Elliott w. Major of Mis-
souri,, S. V. Etewart of Montana, Rol-
land H. Spaulding Of New Hampshire,
James F. Fielder of New Jersey,
Charles S. Whitman Of New York, l..
B. Hanna of North Dakota, Frank B.
Willis of Ohio, R. L. Williams of Ok
lahoma, r. l.. Eeeckman of Rhode
island, Richard l. Manning of South
Carolina, Frank NJ. E'yrne of So1tth
Dakota, William Spry of Utah,
Charles w. Gates of Vermont Henry
C. Stuart of Virginia, Ernest Lister
of Washington, and former Cover
nors Emmett O'Neal OF Alabama, Elias
IN. Ammons of Colorado, Alva Adams
of Colorado, Albert w. Gilchrist Of
Florida, Adolph 0. Eberhard of Min
nesota, John Franklin Fort of New
jersey, John A. Dix of New York.
Cole l.. Blease Of South Carolina, and
William Hodges Mann of Virginia.
Governor Alexander.
Simpliication Of state government
al machinery was advocated by Gov
Moses Alexander of Idaho, in his ad-
dress before the Governors confer.
ence here today. He favored The
short ballot" elimination of useless
state boards snd commissions. and
! vesting more power in the executive
departments Of the states.
''There must be absolute respcnsi-
bility fixed somewhere Gov. Alexant
der said. ''While it may seem good
to the elector to have long ballot
and to vote for candidate for every
office, the result is that the respon-
sibihty is shifted from the practical
heads OF institutions and government
to the minor and subordinate Off
cials, w.lich are merely cogs in the
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