The Twin Falls times., 1916-10-31

the political part of the proposition on
straight business basis should be
most decisively defeated If this
scheme were in force, the state lands,
which are now going as fast as there
is any demand for them, would be
thrown on the market, and in one way
or other, the surplus for which no
healthy demand exists would be grab
bed by the great corporations Mr..
Davis business connections with the
great interests, especially with the
Brady interests, are well-known and it
is reasonable to believe that the men
with money would not fail to corner
the heritage of the people. There is
proposition to increase the amount of
land to be sold from $4,000 acres to
100000 and this constitutional amend
ment should be defeated in order to
preserve intact the lands that were set
aside for the school funds of the state,
and should not be sold off in order to
let those great interests escape taxa
ton while the schools suffer.
81 should like to be elected once, and
you might as well elect me this time,
for l am going to keep on running un-
til you do. If l could, in the teeth of
chine, unearth a steal of $150,000 and
recover the money when thwarted on
every hand, how much might | not dis
cover if elected Do you know that,
while you would not elect a black
smith or a matchmaker for attorney
general, you have never elected a
bookkeeper auditor of the state of Ida
no. The auditor leaves it to his as
sistant When Expert Gleason was
brought to Boise to expert by Cover
nor Haines after the lid blew off, he
went over the books and in February,
1915, in this interview in the States
man, which I will read to you, declar-
ed that for the first time in twenty
four years the books of the treasurer
and auditor balanced. Gleason was a
Republican. Now, the man who was
bookkeeper for the auditor during the
last twelve years of this period; the
man who was supposed to know, the
real state auditor was George w
Lewis, the man who is now running
for state auditor of this state. He's
got more gall than / have and that is
going some, for he is more RESPONSE
BILE than any other man for the Allen
shortage, since he should have known
when the books did not balance that
something was wrong. If he did not
know, he was incompetent; if he die
he should have exposed it, I want tC
be elected but not elected alone Tha
would mean hell all the time and moth
ing accomplished. / want you to senC
! Democratic state officers and a Demo
cratic legislature to Boise to get thi
thing cleaned up. You may not lik
all that Governor Alexander has salt
, or done but you cannot take from him
: the credit for having fought the gam
at every corner. You cannot forge
that when he tried to get at the bot
: tom of the Carey act gratis that wer
r nut through under the Brady AM
: Gooding administrations criminal
riminal-criminal- has had tn
! opposition of the machine and ha
t been compelled to fight alone. Yo
= cannot deny that he has reduced stat
taxes. You cannot take from him tn
J record of an honest man fightin
] against a gang of character assassin
and crooks. And you ought to re
elect him, regardless of party affilia
tions, in order that the decent Reput
) licans may drive the thieves entirel
2 out of their party, so that in the fu
} ture you may feel that whatever wa
the state may go, you can go to bed q
! night without fear that the state hous
will have been stolen before morn
ing"