Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-27
CAMPAIGN LIES NAILED.

The friends of Governor Alexander have hope to be
able set the people right in all where they have
been and still being deceived and mised by false state
and accusations against him. This state has never
witnessed campaign where there so little regard for
the truth and where facts are considered OF so little con-
sequence, in the present campaign
If he is properly quoted in the Statesman, Senator l.
E. Rockwell has been particularly reckless to mild
ly with the truth In the issue of that paper of October
IS, Senator Rockwell is quoted saying:
Gas result of the HaneS levy of 1914, of 100000,
there was on hand in strong your state treasury
cash. cold cash. mind you Jan /, 1915 before Aexan
der took his seat $805000 in round figures The differ
between that and the amount of the levy of $OO00
had been used to pay up and cancel $4,000 worth of in
terest bearing warrants. These round figures II
don't quote you the odd hundred dollars and CENTS
The morning paper quotes these figures with apparent
approval and sanction.
Just how much truth there in this bold assertion
be by the following certificate given by State Treas
Eageson, through his deputy, Charles A. Groves:
October &C. 1916
This to certify that the 4th day of January 1915
there balance in the general fund of ninety four
dollars and forty cents 9440 according to the records
of the state treasury department. This amount the
cash balance in the said fund said date and did in
cude the amount of general fund warrants registered and
not paid at that time.
E(signed) JOHN W. EAGLESON
"By CHARLES A. GROVES Deputy"
Lest overly technical defender of such misrepre
senaton should feel that the certificate issued by Groves
giving the balance of January might be different from
the balance hand Jan attention is called to the fact
that the Gleason report made through Republican sources
shows that the balance hand Dec. 81, 1914 also
officials took office Monday Jan and change
made in any of the books after they balanced of
Dec. 81.
We will from this that not single fact mentioned
in the statement quoted from Rockwell is true. In the
first place the money Of the is not carried in leash
cold cash. mind YOU at all, but is kept deposit in the
banks of the state there is strong box in the
treasury unless sufficient Imagination should be allowed
to consider the vault itself the strong box" The bal
exactly $940 instead of the 1905 900 that Rock
well declares, emitting the odd hundred dollars and
cents which never had any existence
And finally the amount of Understanding warrants
in existence Dec 81 is shown in the Gleason report
have been instead of the $95 900 alluded to by
Rockwell Moreover the bills of the Hanes admnstra-
ton for the month of December had yet all been al
lowed that these had to be added to the 1902
worth of bearing warrants the total reaching
100000 than the figure named by Rockwell What
it Groves certifies that it had been paid at
all and to pay there just $9440 in the
ury available for the purpose.
OF course the difference between 1914 the actual
balance hand and the $805O0O given by Rockwell may
be considered by him nothing, but to the people
OF the state and to the Alexander administration it
good deal At rate it the big difference be-
tween a truth and fasehood
But this bundle of misstatement is but of very
many that encountered from speakers and
opposing the governor.
Only yesterday attention called to printed crcll-
lar which makes the bodfaced false statement that Gov
Alexander has increased taxes during 1915 and 1916
while Ianes in 1913 and 1914 reduced taxes 35 to so
per cent!
Honest men cannot hope to cope in a campaign where
such untuths spread broadcast all great
like Idaho Unless the intelligence of the people be
relied to detect such asehood and unless their udg