Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-02
WHY DAVIS IS NECESSARY.

Why is it that the campaign speakers the Republican
press and the Republican state headquarters who sup
porting d. w. Davis for governor not saying more
about his great Constructing" policies?
Of course they occasionally heard to declare that
he has ''great constructive policy and again occa
sionay they speak of his plan to capitaze the state
resources but who hears of of them explaining
this plan earnestly advocating it?
No one, of course.
Why is this?
The answer is plain 1t is because none of them take
any stock in it, They all regard it just Captain E. G.
Davis called it, pure bunk.
Why then, do and newspapers give their earnest
support to candidate for great office whose sole
apparent claim for recognition is this very plan which his
supporters wish to forgetq
This plan instead of being called plan to 'capitaze"
the state resources should aptly be called plan
to 'burglarize the of schools
educational penal and charitable institutions for it is pro-
posed to take the lands given to those purposes and those
institutions without authority of law and in violation of
the most sacred trust imposed in the people of Idaho by
the national government and to sell them off speedily
possibly be done and the money for police pu
poses III payment of public salaries of city county and
state officials IN conducting courts and for other gen.
eral purposes
Such procedure of course few if any of the support
ers OF the author of the scheme will sanction What is it
then, that ties them to the support of Davis?
Former Governor Mcconnell of the trainers of the
states constitution has warned the press of the Of
the danger of amending the state constitution to
permit the sale of four times the amount of land which the
state now authorized to sell because as he declares most
truthfy there not adequate laws safeguard even
that money already derived from such sales.
Governor Alexander has called attention to the fact
that he found than 100000 of loans upon much of
which no interest had been paid for than five years
and not the taxes and charges had been paid
upon the lands given as security.
If with loan investment of not more than three or
four million dollars such condition should be found to
exist what might be expected the should be sud
denly jumped to the hundred million which Davis fancy
has con- ecured would result? Or with the ten or
fifteen millions which more likely could be derived from
such sale as he proposes?
But, why, under such circumstances and in spite of
such weakness from their candidate for governor there
being spent many thousands of dollars in advocacy OF
his election governor.
The answer, have already said, is a simple one
1t is because the Brady personal political machine
be made the most powerful thing in idaho affairs.
Davis counts for nothing Davis with his wild. vision
airy scheme is joke; his bunk is thought of only to be
dismissed and discussed Davis only instrument
by which the chief end is sought to be attained.
The election of Davis must be accomplished even
though the national election should be lost and he must
be elected only because his election essential to the
cess OF the Brady plan to make his personal political
chine the greatest power in Idaho and in the ntermou
tain west.
That is why more desperate effort is being made to
Idaho for Davis than to carry it for Hughes that is
why Davis supporters smile at the taxess sate scheme
and refuse to discuss it.