Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
IS GETTING
LIONS SHARE
Capital City Newspaper Is Well Paid
For Printing Laudatory Articles
For Governor Alexander
ENOUGH FOR EDITORS SALARIES
Democratic Editors of State Do Not
Like Division Plan

BOISE, May 2S.-Those who have
returned from the democratic con-
vention at Pocatello state that one
of the subjects most generally dis
newspaper men who were in attend
ance both as members of the con-
vention and also as looker-on, was
the evident hold that the Capital
News has had throughout his adj
ministration on Governor Alexander.
1t was pointed out that the governor
is paying, via state funds, the sal
aries of the two responsible editors
of the News in the persons of his,
private secretary, Mr.. Broxon, and
of the farm sales manager, Mr..
Scholtz-these two items amounting
to something like $4,000 year. There
was no disposition to belittle the
value of the services rendered the
governor by these members of his
political staff, although there was
disposition to doubt the value OF
the service rendered to the state.
But it is not in this fact alone that
the governor shows his subserviency
to the influence of the News, partic-
ularly in the minds of the democratic
newspaper men of the state. These
gentlemen in Pocatello pointed out
that every appointee of the Alexander.
administration has given all possible
patronage to the News even though
to do so it was necessary to discrim-
mate against members of their own
party who were in the business and
not only for political but also for
business reasons.
One democratic editor, who has
been struggling along with great Il
loyalty to the party and with none
of the assistance that he felt was
legitimately his, in discussing the
matter in Pocatello, is reported to
have said:
Every appointee of Governor Alex
ander it is understood has been in
structed to give all possible printing
to the Capital News. Most of them
have obeyed these orders with COM
mendable subserviency. l have re-
Gently had prepared for me an alb
stract of the amounts that have
been allowed on the Capital News
bills from these departments under
direct control of the governor. It
might be interesting to some of the
people of the state to have this list
presented. Between January l, 1915,
and May l, 1916, the Capital News
Publishing company has received
moneys in the following amount for
printing, from the below given de-
partments:
"Adjutant general, $27450; bank
commissioner, $179.4O; horticultural
commissioner, s773.32; state engineer,
$256.S0; department of farm markets,
$664.45; governor $229.25; insurance
commissioner, s33O5O; irrigation
drainage code commission, $331.S0:
minimum wage commission, $54.S3,
serving requisition, 81; state veter-
marian, s1,12S.S5; game warden.
s16425. This is a total of S3,711.SS.
In addition to this amount the Cap
ital News company has received for
printing bills-work done for other
department, the sum of 81 50150.
About four fifths of this amount
comes from the university and the
state board of education. But the
grand total of $5,213.3S is a very
, comfortable assistance to the insti-
tuition. There should no longer exist
any need for the explanation of the
few thousands of words of praise,
exhortation and apology printed in
the interest of his excellency by
r that institution"