The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-10-19
State Secretary Barker Turns
Guns on Idaho's Ex-
ecutive.
VETO, REPUTATION
Just Claims Against State Re-
main Unpaid; Worthy In
stitutions Suffer.

That Governor Alexander's reelec-
ton would be menace to the states
institutions is contended
by Secretary of State George X. Bar
ker, who was in the city to attend the
North and South State Highway asso-
citation meeting yesterday.
1T is no secret" said Mr.. Barker to
the Tribune, that Alexander's reelec-
ton will mean the immediate resig
nation of President Brannon from the
state university and the loss to the
state of his great constructive ability
at Idaho's important seat of learning.
President Brannon will follow in the
footsteps of your own President Black
if he shall feel that the voters of the
state give endorsement to the present
governors program of crippling the
states institutions Of learning. To
brag that he has saved million dol
lars he has been willing to set back
the march of progress In an educa-
tional way and broadminded men of
the type of President Brannon have no
time to remain in backward and un-
progressive states. The state of Idaho
has taken pardonable pride In the
normal at Lewiston and the university
at Moscow. The question, more than
any other question, it appears to me,
before the voters in this campaign is
whether or not they shall decide to
go forward or backward in regard to
these two vital institutions.
Making Fabricated Claims.
The governor has been and is MAX
ing strenuous and fabricated claims in
the south as to the saving he has
made for the state and he will no
doubt sing the same song when he
visits northern Idaho. Just before
| left Boise | secured some informa-
ton from the state auditors Office show
ing the fallacy of this claim. While
it is true that the legislative appro-
priation in 1915 was $251 $40 less than
it was in 1913 or il cut from 81, 2,4O5, ,2S6
to 81, 1884 we find that the total ex-
penditures of the state for the year and
nine months prior to October ! was ST.
S33 4G4. and the total receipts of the
state from taxation and other sources,
has been $1,S05,3S1, or shortage Oc-
tober of S27 0S3. The states average
expenditures are 100000 month and
the estimated income of the state bas-
ed upon an average income for the year
and nine months period, will be ST.
1910 to January so we find that the
sum of $249,S93 will be left for the
next administration to make up to the
citizens of Idaho. If this is million
dollar saving | fail to see 1t.
AS to the VetOes.
THE governor adds to his saving
the amount to his vetoed appropria-
tions and contends that is saving to
the state. The only trouble with that
might be the suggestion that the gov
ernor should have had a two million
appropriation passed by the legisla-
ture for railroad to Mars. He could
have vetoed it and saved two million
dollars right there. A man can go
without decent clothes and save mon
ey, or go without eating and save it; A.;
he can live in a five-room house in
preference to a seyen-roOm house with
bath tub and kitchen range, but it
seems to me that Idaho has reached
, the bath tub and kitchen range style of
! living.
) Alexander's Veto of Road Funds.
: IF you will analyze these vetoes
1 you will be ashamed of their saving.
: TO help along the good roads move
2 ment in the state and put to work
2 the convicts in the state penitentiary
an appropriation was made by the
l legislature of $4,000 to employ the
convicts on highway work. In addi-
ton to the assistance that this small
sum would have been to the struggling
highway fund of the state there was
a humanitarian motive behind this ap-
r preparation bill and anyone acquaint-
ed with the conditions at the peniten-
n tiary, where ablebodied men are kept
: in enforced idleness, know how bad
9 the condition is there. 1t is true that
the highway commission doled out a
few thousand dollars to employ con-
II p4,.~l e..
that purpose had TO be taken from an
K already oyerburdened fund and the
: $4,000 appropriation would have pro
Il vided equipment and made the expend-
n iture that was made of greater value
e to the state.
i VetOes Worthy Bridge Bills.
Il 'The supreme court held that ]. O.