The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-03-29
DIRECTOR SCHOLTZ SUMMARILY
REMOVED AND NEW MANA
GER APPOINTED
DEPOSED DIRECTOR SCORES Gov
ERNOR ALEXANDER
Scholtz Says Removal Result of Gov
ernor's Attempt To Make Him Lay
Down In His Fight Against Food
Spectators.

When w G. Scholtz. director of the
Farm Markets bureau. read a Boise
paper one afternoon last week, he was
not little surprised to learn that he
had resigned his position, and that
Governor Alexander had accepted his
resignation, to take effect April l.
and further that the management of
the department had been rendered to
Harvey B. Alfred, of Blackfoot who
was the speaker of the house of rep
resentatives OF the session of the leg
islature just ended.
The Farm Markets bureau was Gre
ated by the legislature two years ago,
and Mr.. Scholtz, who was the author
of the bill and instrumental in eff
fecting its passage, was placed in
charge of the new department, which
position he has held continuously
since that time.
The governors policy, it seems, in
making appointments is to require at
the time of the appointment, the un-
dated resignation of the appointee.
Scholtz gave this, and it was this res
ignation that the governor dated to
become effective April 1st, and ac-
cepted, without taking Mr.. Scholtz in
to his confidence.
Mr.. Scholtz, in a public statement,
scores the governor bitterly, and says
his removal is the result of his fight
on food spectators.
He says: "By threats and intimi-
dations, the governor has attempted
to make me lie down in my fight
against the vicious outside interests
that have so long robbed the pro-
ducers and consumers in this state.
When I had a number of bills pre-
sented in the recent legislature for
remedying the evils from which Idaho
producers and consumers have long
suffered, Governor Alexander sum-
moned me to appear in his private Of
flee and demanded that I go to the
agricultural committee in the legisla-
ture and withdraw the measures.
tried to reason with him. / showed
him that these mea sures had the in
dorsement of the farmers organiza-
tions in all parts of the state. I told
him I has discussed the need of these
relief measures with over fifteen
thousand farmers throughout the en-
tire state. and that 1 should not be
expected to betray the trust that these
farmers had placed in me.
1.-THE governor finally made the
threat that unless 1 went over to the
legislature and had these bills with
drawn that I would be out of office
inside of six months"
AS to the accuracy of Director
Scholtz' charges against the governor
nothing is known locally. The bur
eau, under Mr.. Scholtz' management
has won the confidence of the far
mers of the state. and is given credit
with making a sincere effort to re-
lieve marketing conditions of the
state: to advise farmers in such a way
that they might profit by the most ad
vantageous market conditions; and in
other ways to improve farm condi
tions.
Mr.. Scholtz was active during the
last session of the legislature in his
support of farm measures, which were
largely copies of the drastic farm
laws of the Dakotas. In his state
ment he makes the assertion tina
"some of the bills were forced through
the legislature, upon the demands o
the farmers organizations, implyini
that it was only as the result of
great deal of effort on his part tina
the bills were passed, and then pass
ed reluctantly. AS matter or rae
as pointed out by one of the Twil
Falls members, the so-called farm
bills passed both houses with but lit
tie opposition, despite the fact tha
they were conceded to be the mos
drastic sort of legislation. The ten
dency of the last legislature was t,
pass anything that would be of bene
fit to the farming classes of the state
and the governor, were he bitterly op
posed to the measures, as Mr.. Scholt
intimates, failed to exercise his pre-
rogative of vetoing the measures; bu
on the other hand signed every one
This member of the Twin Falls del
egation, interviewed as to the purpos
of the removal of Scholtz, said: &c
knew there had been some friction
between the governors office and MI
Scholtz; but it probably would hav
been passed over and forgotten ha'
not an unfortunate incident occure
at the meeting of the state farm bur
eau held at Boise during the earl
days of the legislature At this meet
ing farmers organizer from Soutl
Dakota melted those present to
high pitch, and the friction betweel
the governor and director was unwise