The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-02-01
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had the young man shown the proper
sense of propriety he never would
have placed himself in the position of
an appraiser of the lands. Turning
to Democratic member, he said that
this gentleman on entering office had |
appointed a prominent editor as his !
private secretary. Again the speaker /
would make no charge that here was |
corrupt bargain, but proper serse
Of prop .ety would have prevented IT,. /
governor from placing himself in a
position where anyone would even
think that he was purchasing editorial
support. This was the only official
act of the Democratic member of the
land board that was criticized, though
the speaker dwelt at some length on
alleged misstatements of the governor
while a candidate, notably an alleged
untrue statement that a certain Re-
publican legislature had created the
office of bee inspector "as if the peO-
pie had not been stung enough al
ready" when. as a matter of fact, the
office had been created years before.
! He also censured the governor for de-
nouncing the creation of what he had
called the public useless commits
SION" when, he said, the governor as
a business man in Boise at the time
that the commission was created, had
asked for its creation. Moreover, af-
ter election the governor had not ask
ed the adjustment of this useless"
commission. All this, according to the
speaker, was not keeping good faith
with the people.
The speaker then charged that some
newspapers of the state had refused
to print legitimate news unless paid
for it and others had even sold their
editorial columns. This was all wrong.
A candidate had a right to pay for a
signed statement or one marked "ad-
vertisement," and a paper had right
to accept money for such publication,
but no newspaper had right to de-
mand money for the publication of
legitimate news and no candidate had
: right to pay for such publication.
The speaker said that he had been
twitted with receiving Democratic
support by a Pocatello newspaper. He
{ had asked the editor of that paper to
, what instance the charge had refer
ence and the case of the publicity
/, given the candidacy of Captain Davis
J at American Falls by the Democratic
newspaper had been cited. The speak
, er said that the Republican paper
there had ignored his candidacy while
the Democratic paper had treated it
as a matter of legitimate news.
Captain Davis promised in some de-
| tail to avoid the commission of the
. transgressions which he had de-
nounced in others. He also promised
to reduce the expenses of the COVER
nor's office by abolishng the position
of private secretary. He said that
other private secretaries at the state
caDital should be abolished and if
they we're, and their adjustment
D should start a movement for retrench-
e ment which should extend to all the
counties, so that all useless offices IN
the state and the counties should be
abolished the saving altogether
e he believed, aggregate fully 100000.
Y He said some time ago a man came to
&, him and told him that they" mean
ing certain active politicians, had de-
u termined to harmonic things, so that
T. there would be only one candidate be-
G fore the Republican primaries, and
told him that if he would take the
position of attorney general, he could
have il and that they would get him
: in line for the governorship at the ex-
n piration of the term of a certain man
+ whom it was said they" intended to
nominate for governor. If Davis would
agree all would be well, otherwise
II "'ney" would reluctantly be compell-
# ed to fight him. He said he told the
4. politician that he would be in the race
to the finish and that they" could
fight him if they wanted to. This
e pledge, the speaker said, he would
II keep and would stay in the field to the
p. end. NJ j. Sweeley presided at the
4, meeting.