The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-10-05
GOV. ALEXANDER
OPENS CAMP PAIGN
Praises Prohibition and Depre-
Ciates War Talk.
PAYS ELOQUENT TRIBUTE TO Ma
TI0NAL ADMINISTRATION.
Chief Executive Of Idaho Makes Wig
Or0us Defense OF His Own Admins
tratiOn and Answers Critics.

Declaring that the great prosperity |
now being enjoyed by the people of |
this country is only in its beginning |
and that it is due to the wise legisla-
tion Of the Democratic party, Governor
Alexander in a speech to a good sized |
audience at the Lavering Tuesday
night, asserted that at the bottom of
their hearts all the people regardless
of politics rejoice over the statesman
ship of Woodrow Wilson, which has
kept them out of war. The governor
closed his address with a statement
of his own achievements as chief exc
cutive of Idaho, quoting figures to
show that state taxes had been re-
duced greatly by his economical con-
duct of public affairs and by the elm
ination of graft under his administra-
tion.
introduced by Chairman A. r. Hicks
of the county committee, Governor
Alexander said in substance and in
part:
Although this is called the formal
opening of the campaign in Twin Falls
county the Democratic campaign real
ly began three and half years ago
when congress under the leadership
of Woodrow Wilson began to carry out
the unparalleled program of wise leg
islation, the greatest in the history of
mankind for 800 years. While we are
enjoying the greatest prosperity
known in the history of the country,
we have only to look abroad to see
sad and horrible spectacle. While we
are building school houses, the people
of foreign lands are building instru-
ments for the destruction of lives and
property, and are preaching the doc
trines of hate instead of the principles
of peace. The peace government is
neither Democratic nor Republican in
origin, for it was started 1000 years ago
by the Prince of Peace, but the man
who is the living representative of the
Prince of Peace today, among the
heads of nations, is Woodrow Wilson,
who has guided this great nation
through the perils that surround it
without embroiling it in war. Who
wants war? In spite of the attacks on
President Wilson by those of other
parties, there is not a man or woman
in this house tonight, Democrat, Re-
publican, Socialist or Prohibitionist,
who is not glad from the bottom of
the heart that we are not at war.
classes: millionaires and paupers. We
do not want either We want people
of moderate means enjoying prosper
ity, and it is this class that suffers
most from war. The only people who
want war are politicians, who wish to
get into office and are willing to offer
other peoples sons on the altar of
their country War would cost bill
lions of dollars and something far
more valuable than gold, the most pre-
cious treasure of the nation, its young
men. They say that we should go to
war with Mexico. Why should a great
people like ours want to war with a
torn, distressed and impoverished ma
ton like Mexico? We are strong and
united and educated. They are weak
and divided and ignorant. Here we
have a public opinion that expresses
itself on the platform and in the bal
lot box. There the only means of eX-
pressing public dissent is by revolu-
ton, and there will be revolutions
there until the time when they work
out their salvation and find peace
full means of expressing popular Will
We cannot give them this by going tc
war with them. We can extend them q
friendly hand like we did to Cuba and
help them to build up a great state
so that they can get the land into the
hands of the people who will work II
and lay a foundation for prosperity
similar to our own. All Latin-Ameri
ca, seeing that we intend to do justice
to Mexico, is already becoming friend
ly toward us and trading with us anC
a business will spring up that will bt
a benefit to everybody.
Some months ago, as governor, h'
said he had called on the mothers o
Idaho to give up their boys to go tt
the border. They responded nobly. Al
the regiment left for the border The
mothers of many of these young meI
stood and saw them depart. Thes'
mothers did not want war. They were
willing to offer their sons for thu
cause of the country, but they did no
want sacrifice made unless it should
prove necessary, and they thank Coo
that under the guidance of Woodrow
Wilson it has not been necessary.
They tell us that this prosperity tha
we are enjoying will end with the wa
abroad. Now, they do not really be
lieve that One of the great light ant
power companies is investing $4,000,
mn IN ooutborn Idaho WhU7 Re