The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-12
SENATOR ROCKWELL
SCORES GOVERNOR
Lack of Efficiency Is Crying
Evil, He Says
"STATE'S MONEY HAS BEEN STOL-
EN-, NOT SAVED"
Mrs. MunsOn of Kansas, Gives Short
Talk To Establish WOmen's Position
in Coming Campaign.

Before a small but attentive audi
ence last night at the Lavering thea
ter, Senator l. A. Rockwell of Blaine
county, gave a forceful address in
which he said he desired to state
plainly actual conditions in connec-
ton with certain statements made and
advertised by Governor Alexander in
his recent campaign talks over the
southern part of the state.
The speaker was introduced by D. M.
Denton, chairman for the evening, who
in a few we'll chosen words dwelt up
on the necessity of picking men to
conduct the business of the common-
wealth with the same care which
would be exercised in picking men to
conduct a personal business Mr.. Den
ton said Senator Rockwells career in
the state legislature had shown'him to
be one of those deeply Interested in
the development and expansion of the
state, and said it was his very great
pleasure to introduce one who had
proven to be a success in whichever
line of work he took up.
The basis for the senator's talk lay
in an advertisement which the Demo-
Cratic campaign managers had pre-
3pared and the statements therein con-
y tanned were taken one by one by Mr..
Rockwell and subjected to scathing
criticism which was meant TO entirely
refute the claims made by the present
administration in conducting the
states business during the past two
years.
perhaps you wonder why am out
campaigning in this way said MT.
Rockwell in substance. The reason
springs out of remarkable series OF
claims made by his excellency, the
governor. 1t is to be assumed that the
claims made by the governor III MS
recent speeches constitute the plat
form of the Democratic party in the
coming campaign and if this is the
case it is necessary for us to under
stand Just what we are facing II the
present administration again occupies
NcOntrol of the government.
"I will not say that his excellency
means deliberately to misrepresent
conditions, but | do say that he either
forgets or fails to realize the serious
ness of his assertions The Democratic
party claims to have kept its cam
paign promises. l claim it has not
The administration claims that it has
saved to people of Idaho hundreds ol
thousands of dollars. l claim that the
lack of a uniform system of account
ing makes it impossible to determine
Just what the expenses and savings OF
the state really are.
"The claim is also made that the
present administration has maze Ell
ficiency, economy and business man
agement' mean something. This clam
is absurd for the very lack of some
general accounting system makes
these three principles impossible. Thi
big steals which have been registered
during the past two years are account
able to this lack of efficiency"
In his efforts to cut down expendi
<tures the governor had vetoed DILL
= which we're investments for the stat
rather that expenses, said the senator
who went further to state that IN
stead of saving the commonwealt
money, the governor and the admins
tration had really been losing 1t des
pite the showing of reduction In taxa
ton. By the time the senator ha
finished his talk, he had knocked ever
prop from under the Democratic pat
form and shown conditions in tn
state to be such that only change
a Republican administration woul
remedy the multitude of crying evil
existing at the present time.
Preceding Senator Rockwells aC
y dress, Chairman Denton introduce
Mrs. Munsen of Kansas, one OF tn
five women chosen by the Republlca
national committee to go over tn
country presenting the women's SID
of the issues in the present campaigl
re
''Nationalism," in which she emph;
sized the need of mobilization of I'll
nations industries in order that thel
might be an increase in national fee
ing and pride.
MRS. HENDERSON'S MOTHER IL