The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1916-03-16

Ject of vicious attack from the Capita
News and these have finally prompt
ed him to make a statement whicl
throws much light on the motives bacl
of these attacks, revealing the guiding
hand of Governor Alexander in contro
of the Capital News, in some cases &C
tually debating the rot in the form o
self praise that fills the columns o
that paper, using stenographers pait
by the state for the purpose. Mr.
Barker's statement follows:
after the election in 1914 one JEFF
fcrson, an employe Of the Capita
News. came to Standpoint During thu
course of his visit there he called
upon me and made known that his
business with me was in the interest
of the job department of the Capital
News He stated that as secretary OF
state | would have at my disposal a
considerable amount of job work and
that he desired that / should give to
the Capital News a portion of this
NpIh W DS uuuC duIIllS my lCI III III
office | replied that job work in my
office would go to Republican news
papers so far as the minor work was
concerned, and that in cases where it
would be to the states interest to
have bids submitted, would be guild
ed by my own knowledge of papers
and job plants in the state in the
event of calling for such bids. He
replied: "The Capital News will
be a republican paper and that
part of 1t will be arranged" | replied
that the News had not been republ-
can paper since my knowledge of it.
and it would be necessary for the
News to give some evidence of its reg
ularity as republican organ before
| would consider it republican pa
per.
Explains Its Animus.
This will no doubt explain to the
general public any animus which the
Capital News has toward me as
public official. If my position in re-
lation thereto meets with the criti-
cism OF the taxpayers in this state,
am ready to suffer any penalty that
such criticism may direct.
Although he conducted newspa-
per for party presumably in opposi-
ton to that of which Governor Alex
ander was candidate, Mr.. Broxon,
the editor of the News was made pri-
vate secretary to Alexander upon his
accession to the high and hitherto
dignified position of chief executive of
this state. This was a palpable ex-
change by the governor with the ed
itor of the Capital News for publicity
through the columns of tile paper
which the private secretary edits.
Selfpraise Dictated BY Him.
THAT such an unholy bargain was
made is evident from the fact that
the Capital News each day contains
fiattering encomiums of the governor
to the exclusion of any other news or
such mention as might masquerade
under the head of news.
THAT Governor Alexander uses the
columns of his paper for his own ag-
grandizement and for his own adver-
tisement is personally known to me
because upon an occasion last fall,
when his stenographer was busy with
private work of a social nature for
the governor, he asked me for the SER
vices of my stenographer, which /
readily granted him on the assump-
ton that it was for transaction of state !
business, and he dictated an interview
concerning his travels abroad, | be- !
lieve in Teton county at that time /
which appeared in a three column ar !
ticle in the News of next day.
Reputation and Evasion.
1.-The contention of the republican
members of the land board is pretty
well established. Miss Mccoy, state
superintendent of public instruction,
brought before the board a statement
made in the Capital News concern
ing the land board, which attempted
to make the governor the atlas upon
whose shoulders rested the load of the
states delinquent loans The min
utes of the land board proceedings
show that all members of the board
were as alive to the situation in re-
gard TO these delinquent land loans ,
as was the governor, When Miss
Mccoy complained of the apparent
thrust at the republican members of
the land board by the governors or ;
gan, the governor denied any knowl- !
edge Of what appeared from time to ,
time in the News and shirked any re-
sponsibility for the article in ques-
lion. 1t then became the land boards +
privilege to ascertain where the News ,
received its information in regard to
and board matters.
Getting at the Facts.
BY a simple and apparent process
# elimination, the republican men,
,ers of the land board satisfied them
elves that the governor reported land
'oard meetings to his paper. The y
governor was given the opportunity i
o have brought before the board the Il
ditor and reporter of his paper, to G
how that his conclusion of the re- =
ublican members of the board could o