| Show o. o P. P CHAIRMAN I SEES LARGE WN WIN B Evan Evans Predicts Reuniting of Republican Parties 1 in Idaho R BORAH IS FULL OF FIGHT c Daily Growing More Skeptical in Regard to Treasury Scandal f 1 to The n K aJ f Boise Ida Aug 21 Evan Eva Evan Evans Evam 1 tIle the now new Republican state chairman is 18 in Boise this week after holding conferences con con- with party leaders of or northern I Idaho He predicts a 3 complete victory Ictor K for Zor the Republicans in the state state- next year ar He bases his Judgment on the almost complete coming together of ot the theR R Republicans and Progressives Progressive the I. I widespread dissatisfaction with the tho state te and national administration and ry the thc foot that Idaho Is overwhelmingly e t Republican un under cr normal nornal conditions U In 1912 tho combined vote for or Tact Taft and Roosevelt was larger than f I that tt cst for tor and last year In Ina a spite of ot the tho upheaval In the Republican I f ump camp In the midst O of ot the campaign duei due i to the tho defalcations from tho tIo state treasury the tho average plurality for tho the Republicans on tho the state ticket was waB i. i 2600 00 while of at the seven c candidates for tor 7 it stahl tat c offices the tho Republicans elected Jal six aix and the tJ but one ono Evenin Even Jn in n the tho vote for governor So the total cast for tor Republican and McElroy J Progressive was greater than that cast for tor Ale Alexander an el tLe the Democrat These are the tho fundamental conditions on which Chairman Evans Is basing his assertions He fIndt evidence e ev everywhere everywhere ev- ev he say of at a complete amali amal amal- i t g of ot the tho different elements clements of r the Republican P party and an c I. I b a r c nt Q Bomb Borah Taken Take Senator Sentor Borah Is taking a deep in interest in in- ter terest st stIn In In th the th- campaign this year ear and II 1 hll MB oart party associates count on him u to o ogo go o down dovin the tho line lino in a fight for the Republican ticket It is remembered that thit In 1912 he declined to speak from tho rame ame pl platform with Ha Inns the Republican Re- Re 1 publican jean candidate for governor ro and that last year ear he declined to go 10 on the stump because of or 1 he Allen scandal I Miss MItis Mabel Vernon field secretary of the Con Congressional for tor Woman Suffrage was In Boise recently and undertook to convince Senator Borah Dorah that he was wrong in opposing the amendment to tho federal constitution providing pro for tor woman suffrage throughout through through- out tho the nation In a recent communication I cation addressed to Miss 1 Vernon Vornon Senator Senator SonI Sen Son I ator Borah Dorah tells where he stands on the the issue He Is for woman suffrage as radIcally radically radically rad rad- as when he made his orl original light fight In Idaho but he Is radically t n against the constitutional amendment I. I lie He holds firmly to the tho idea that suffrage suffrage suf suf- frage frag-e Is a matter for tor the thc respective o t states to regulate res and In this particular i ular ho stands unflinchingly for tho principle of or states state's rights I In the opinion of or keen Iteen observers Governor Alexander has abandoned his propaganda for a railroad to connect p north and south Idaho He lie is on hiI his hie I way y east ast now to attend the conference confer confer- It if ence of ot governors in Boston and he heI I announced d while In north Idaho re recently recently re re- that he would take tako the matter up p with eastern financiers at that ASS time me and If possible secure capital for for tor the tho enterprise Make It Political I Governor Alexander has I played tho the r. r j north and south railroad hard for a a. apolitical 9 political issue In the first place he proposed taking up a popular subscription subscription sub sub- of 26 cents cants per capita to get I funds for tor the project Then he proposed pro pro- posed calling the tho legislature In special session to voto vote a state bond issue issue only C to discover er that this was prohibited by the state constitution Than he proposed going east to raise the monc money It is ii an exceptionally rough country countr through which It Is 18 proposed ed to build the road and estimates place the cost at at least Th The people of or this state have at last I become sl skeptical of or f the reports Issued from time to time of or the tite uncovering of additional shortages in tho the state treasury They The are beginning be to draw the line of cleavage between politics and the facts Acted Promptly When tho the exposure came camo of or the shortage e in the state treasury a year ear ago Governor Oo John M. M 1 Haines took prompt J action As a 3 result of or that action O. O V. V Allen tho the former treasur treasur- er or and Fred M. M Coloman Coleman MK hItS first as- as ar art aro serving terms In the state te penitentiary as el embezzlers AI mo no same time Governor Haines lames I took possession of ot the state treasur treasury he placed E. E H H. Dewey one ono of or the best known business men of the state in charge and Instructed Axel P P. Hamstedt Ramstedt Ram Ham chairman of the public utilities commission and an expert accountant accountants to make a thorough Inspection of the conditions of tho treasury treasur This Ram name did and as a result of or hi his Investigation investigation a total shortage of or sno o was revealed Ever since there has ben been a propaganda ganda on foot to provo prove that the shortage shortage short short- age was much greater than and that others were Involved In addition ad nd- to O. O V. V Allen and Fred M. M Cole- Cole man An Ada count county dragnet was thrown out several state officials and employees were Indicted but the whole affair lr went vent UP UD in smoke Axel P P. Ramstedt the utilities com corn missioner had hardly time to drop tho the records until they the were picked up b by another Investigator named Gleason on connected d with a professional auditing outfit of or Chicago o. Next came camo James Bogart a 1 local expert Bogart had no more than got his hands on the tho records until ho discovered ered cred a mares mare's nest In the shape of an nn additional additional- shortage of or upward of or 17 l'- He lie ga e a report of this discovery to the Een Evening ng Capital News the subsidized organ of ot Governor Gover Gover- nor Alexander Before he ho quit work that same Bame eveningS evening Bogart BOhart was convinced con con- vinced b by George W. W Lewis of at the state auditors auditor's office that ho had made mado a n. blunder and that there was no such additional shortage So he repudiated the stor story In The Statesman the following follow follow- ing morning But the sensational discovery die dis coven covery had hall been played up In the News It was never ne corrected b by that paper and is still going the tho rounds of tho the countr country press But Bogart has another card up his sleeve In tho the past we week Jk he submitted a n partial report to Governor Alexander showing still other othet defalcations by Allen and Coleman ag aggregating up Ui- Ui ward of more In these cases he says sas the stealing was done b by holding hold hold- ing InK out Intended to be he paid to the tho state b by the federal government During all this time Allen and Coleman Cole Cole- man In the penitentiary have been maintaining that the was as all the mone money the they stole from the state and that nobody wan Involved but themselves The They Insist that oven even this last shortage reported by Bogart has no foundation To test this the state officials have hae placed Coloman In the thu treasurers treasurer's of ot of- flee fice with a penitentiary guard at his I elbow while he hc e experts the tho books And the Bogart BOjart report will be bo held In abeyance for tor further disclosures Coleman Coleman Cole Cole- man Is aRk asking InS that the state board of pardons reduce hIs prison term In recognition of ot the work he Is 18 doing In unscrambling unscrambling- the affairs of ot the treasurers treasurer's office |
