The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1916-10-20
,NEFFIcIENcY OF FORMER AND
AND FALSEHOODS OF LATTER
RELATED By GOVERNOR.
WORDS ARE NOT MINCED
Appalling Expense Piled Onto Farm
ers Of State Through Democrats
Chronic ineffieieney.

COLORADO INDUSTRIAL tIouuic hAu W.
the farmers of the state $340 a day
during the two years OF the Ammohs
administration.
He dubbed the opposition's crit
cism of the present administration ior
not passing a school fund farm loan
act as a subterfuge TO cover their Own
failure to act when it was within
their power to do SO.
What has this administration done
for the farmer?" said Governor carr
son. 1T has given the state a stable
government The preceding admins
trations gave the state an unstable
government This instability OF gov
ernment cost the state in insurrectiol.
bonds little over $1,000 day for
every day of the entire two years oil
the preceding Democratic administra-
ton The agricultural communities
pay "a per cent of the taxes. There
fore, because of this collapse of gov
ernment the farmer was penalized
more than s340 a day
THE farming sections of the state
are overwhelmingly dry. Two years
ago our opponents fought against the
dry amendment and we fought tor il.
Because OF the dry victory there are
III fewer prisoners in the paniten-
tiary tonight than there were the first
OF last January. 1t costs 40 cents a
day to keep a man in the state peni
tentiary This decrease in the rum
Der of inmates will mean a main
tenance reduction from now on of si+
per day.
This administration appropriated
and paid $li7,G1S39 more for the
maintenance and equipment OF the
Agricultural College than was paid to
the college in 1911 and u, and $124,-
26S moee than in 1913 and IA.
'This administration appropriated
and paid to the State Dairy Depart,
ment s4.490 more than was paid in
1911 and 10, and s9203 more than
was paid in 1913 and IA
This administration appropriated
$50. 600 and to date has paid s34 361 50
for the defense OF Colorado's water
rights
"Our opponents criticise US because
we have moi loaned to the farmer that
port on OF the school funds not in
vested IN state warrants. They ire in
fine position to critcise They We're
in power over six years Did thec
ever loan a sipgle dollar of the chool
fund to the farmers? The farmers OF
Eastern Colorado We're in especially
hard straits during the winter of 1910
Did the Shafroth administration meet
this emergency? 1t did not, yet at
that time 1t had on the books = farm
| loan law which it later dr. ggod in
and had declared unconstitutional by
a Democratic Supreme Court"
Governor Carlson's speech at Lead.
| vile on the night of Oct IA was not.
| able for the manner in which he
scorched the Denver Post, declaring |;
| to be one OF the issues of the cam
! paign He said:
Has the state Democracy selected
| the Denver Post as its standard
| bearer? The Denver Post and the
Great Divide deceived the peorle OF
this state when they published the
| statement that vetoed the farm loan
act. The public records show that no
farm loan act was passed by the last
Legislature. The records in the gov.
!
! 'oed such law"
| II was here explained by the gov.
ernor that the Democrats had never
enforced the farm loan act which had
been on the books for six years while
they We're in power. On the contrary
they had hauled it into the courts
with the result that it was declared
unconstitutional at a time when it was
too late for Republican Legislature
TO pass another suitable workin,
statute
The Post" continued Governor
Carlson, deceived the people O. this
state when it persistently published
the false statement that this admins
tration had not provided for the in.
sane.
In January, 1915, this administra.
ton found as heritage of past Dem.
ocratic neglect that the insane build.
lngs at Pueblo were crowded to their
capacity and that there were 325 in.
sane in jails and hospitals of the
state. In my message to the Legisla.
ture l specifically recommended that
sufficient appropriation be provided to
| meet this most urgent need. The Leg.
islature responded with an appropria.
tion of S225,000. The buildings were
begun, they are now completed. have
been opened, and these unfortunates
for the first time in years will be
properly cared for by the state. These
facts are publicly manifested, vet
Judge Gunter. following the lead of
the Post. told a Boulder audience not
long ago that this administration had
neglected the insane
Sometime ago, the Post in frantic
desperation. charged the Republican
party and its leaders with responsi.
bility for the beer amendment. This
ridiculous lie was extraordinary even
for the Post. The only time they ever
seemed to equal It was the time when