The Twin Falls times., 1916-10-31

thick of the fray and had his audience
stirred from the start He said in sub
stance and in part:
II am telling about my visit here
four years ago for the first time. Guy
Martin lacked the courage to let me
tell what l knew in this town. He is
now supporting the same old gang in
this state. | will say for him that it
was no small thing at that time to tell
the truth about this gang of crooks.
They controlled all the interests in the
state and were backed by 110 out of
$50 Republican papers and this chain
of newspapers headed by the States
man would stop at no act of charac-
ter assassination. Why l have here
(holding it up) copy of the States
man published at that time declaring
that l had escaped the penitentiary by
being adjudged insane. l am suing
them for libel and the trial is set for
Monday but it will not come off until
after election. l did not deliver that
speech here but l did deliver it in
thirty-nine other cities and towns in
Idaho. No mention of that speech was
made in any of the gangs papers ex-
ceptcept the Wood River Time which
called me liar, as you will see from
these headlines (holding it up.) AS
you will see he said that l was going
to lie about Treasurer Allen before l
spoke and said that l did lie about
him the day after l spoke, but al
though six copies a week of that pa
per go to the Statesman, not a word
appeared in it even of the denuncia-
ton, because they wanted to ignore
the whole subject On the other side,
the Nampa Record, of, as you see, the
date of October 25, 1912, contained a
three column account of my speech on
the subject and gave me favorable
editorial notice. This also, the States
man ignored. l say this to show you
that l was making this speech four
years ago and that it was discussed in
the public press, but was ignored by
the gang, its head organ, and practi-
cally all of the papers of the gang of
crooks, for the purpose of suppressing
it and keeping the people in the dark.
l do this to show you that the editor
ials which l shall read to you which
were published in the Statesman after
the lid blew off, are deliberate lies.
These editorials say that as soon as it
was known that there was anything
wrong in the treasurers office John
M. Haines at once swore out warrant
for Allen and that the Republican or
ganization backed him in the prosecu-
tion the minute that it was known that
he was a defaulter. The fact that
things were not right in the office of
the treasurer was known for years.
The dishonesty of Allen and Fred Cole
man was the talk of the streets in
Boise for years. Why did Haines sign
the complaint which should have been
signed by the county attorney, except
to give the impression that he and
the organization wanted to do their
duty as soon as it was known that
things were wrong. l have shown you
that the whole crooked bunch in Boise
knew it for years.
ALLEN was one of the twenty-five
men who robbed this state of five hun
dred thousand dollars, of which, as
you have heard, about S150,000 was
returned. The rest was not recovered
because the statute of limitations haC
run by the time that Governor Alexan.
der entered office, but it had not ruI
at the time that l and four others in &
pamphlet exposed the matter in 1912
when the Republican legislature voted
to indefinitely postpone the investiga
tion of the charges, and your Republi
can senator and three Republican rep
resentatives from Twin Falls count!
at least made no protest against it,
postponement When the improvement
on the capitol, you know that towe
with the wooden eagle on it that il