The Ordway new era., 1916-10-27
CARLSON GRIlLS
DENIS AND POST
INEFFiciENcY OF FORMER AND
AND FALSEHooDS OF LATTER
RELATED BY GOVERNOR.
WORDS ARE NOTM|NCED
Appalling Expense Piled Onto Farm
ers Of State Through Democrats
Chronic Inefficiency.

II a speech last week to the RepuD
licans of Arapahoe county, Governor
George A. Carlson declared that
Democratic inefficiency in handling
Colorado's industrial trouble had cost
the farmers of the state $340 a day
during the two years of the An,mons
administration.
He dubbed the opposition's criti-
cism of the present administration for
not passing 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 Carl
son. at has given the state a stable
government. The preceding admins
government. This instability oil gov.
ernment cost the state in insurrectioL
bonds little over $1,000 day for
every day of the entire two years OF
the preceding Democratic administra-
ton. The agricultural communities
pay "a per cent of the taxes. There.
lore, 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 for it.
Because of the dry victory there are
Ill fewer prisoners in the peniten-
tiary tonight than there were the first
of last January. 1t costs 40 cents
day to keep a man in the state peri
tentiary. This decrease in the rum
ber of inmates will mean a main
tenance reduction from now on of S44
per day.
This administration appropriated
and paid s147,61S.39 more for the
maintenance and equipment OF the
Agricultural College than was paid to
the college in 1911 and 12. and $l24,-
2GS more than in 1913 and IA.
This administration appropriated
and paid to the State Dairy Depart.
ment 81 4490 more than was paid in
1911 and '12, and ss,2O3 more than
was paid in 1913 and IA.
This administration appropriated
$4,000 and to date has paid s3l 361.52
for the defense of Colorado's water
rights.
Our opponents criticise us because
we have not loaned to the farmer that
portion of the school funds not in.
vested in state warrants They IRE in
fine position to criticise. They were
in power over six years. Did thev
auar loan Gil ole doI1nr Of tba obool
fund to the farmers? The farmers OF
Eastern Colorado were in especially
hard straits during the win ~ of 1910.
Did the Shafroth administration meet
this emergency? 1t did not. vet at
that time it had on the books farm
loan law which it later dragged in
and had declared unconstitutional by
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 It
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 people OF
this state when they published the
statement that l 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
ernors office show that l never We.
toed such law"
1t 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
thaH in IN hn ,fr,
they had hauled 1t into the courts
with the result that it was declared
unconstitutional at time when it was
too late for Republican Legislature
to pass another suitable working
statute.
"The Post" continued Governor
Carlson. deceived the people Q: 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-
tion found as a heritage of past Dem
ocratic neglect that the insane build
ings at Pueblo were crowded to their
and that there were 325 in
sane in jails and hospitals of the
state. In my message to the Legisla-
ture specifically recommended that
sufficient appropriation be provided to
meet this most urgent need. The Leg
islature responded with an appropria.
ton Of $225.000. The buildings were
begun, they are now completed. have |
been opened, and these unfortunates
for the first time in years will be
cared for by the state These
facts are publicly manifested, yet |
Judge Gunter, following the lead Of |
the Post, told Boulder audience not
long ago that this administration had |
neglected the insane.
Sometime ago. the Post In frantic |
charged the Republican
party and It's leaders with responei- |
hility for the beer amendment, This |