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Show i lEDSIEITER Present State Administration Conspicuous in Being Con-- Con-- -spicuoUvSly a Betrayal. H PEOPLE NEGLECTED 1 -;. FOR SELFISH GREED H! Brady Undertakes to Explain That Fifty-Three-Dollar Hj Dinner. Hj . BY 0. E,. ABNEY. B,' Speeial'to' The Tribune. Bi BOISE. Ida.,' Nov. 4. Idaho neods bet- i ter manTcmt V ber affairs than she Hj has-fccelv.ed at tho hnnds of the "present Hj state. administration. Not that Idnho has Hl a Republican administration that cuts no figure. Ida lib, tho gem of tho motin-tains, motin-tains, with her salubrious climate, her bounteous water supply, nor soil, her citizenship, her constitution and her laws, her civilization, and her moral clcanli-ncss, clcanli-ncss, Is "deserving of better treatment. Governor Brady is responsible for Ivor condition and this is one or the final appeals, to the readers of The Tribune In Idaho to rid this commonwealth of his diabolical personality. Not 'that he Is a Republican, not that ho Is a jack-Mor-mon, not thet he is a hypocrite, but for the honoiv the credit and for 'the morals of the...tatc of Idaho. H Mr. Brady, by his vulgar use of money. Hj "the lowest instinct of man," has set a Hj pace as governor which, aside from his Hj distinguished residuary legatee, t Gov- Hj ernor' Gooding, has been .heretofore un- known, and which, for the educational, HJ social and moral advancement of the i commonwealth, should be Immediately 1 relegated to tho rear by this woll-mean- J Ing people, who deserve a. better repro- j scntatlon. Land Grabbing. It. Is chargeable to Governor Brady that Robert Lansdon. D. C. McDougall j and S. Belle. Chamberlain, his three asso- j elates on tho statu land board, have en- riched" their' respective exchequers by in-j in-j vestmenta In "Carey act lands through j Inside information acquired through their official positions." This last quotation Is literal from the 1 ready- pen of the governor of Idaho. who today is a candidate for re-election j on the same ticket aa is D. C McDougall. whom his oxcellchey, by these words, up-j up-j braids, Yet. because, forsooth, of tho Mor- mons among whom McDougall has lived j for twenty years and whose exchequer he l aids to augment by his political powor, Brady shields and protects him with the BH devotion worthy of a patriotic service. McDougall has violated the specific BH statutes of Idaho which his sacred oath BH of office bade him revere! Yet Brady BH cleaves to him because of his status with BB , a Mormon clientage. which is the BH ' only possible salvation for him , In this BH . present political emergency. BH The crime which D. C. "McDougall has BH committed against existing Idaho law BH ' should serve to Impcncli him should he BH ' .be re-elected to office, without regard to BH the particular specie of Ia.w recommend- BH cd by the present Republican state plat- form on "which Mr. Brady and Mr. McDougall Mc-Dougall are running for reelection. The Mackay Dam Abuse. Less than four months ago Mr. Brady wrote to tho citizens of Mackay. who sought to protect their lives and their property against tho dangera attending them through the reckless, if not criminal crim-inal negligence of the state board of land commissioners, that tho board must assume as-sume responsibility for tho shortcomings It had committed, and thereupon ho refused re-fused them the appointment of one member, of a. commission to report on the condition of tho Mackay dam. from which position ho subsequently receded, only after The Salt Lake Tribune gave to the world the history of tho situation. situa-tion. His boasted assumutlon of "responsibility" "re-sponsibility" must now he borne by the governor In the McDougall. the Lansdon. and tho Miss Chamberlain peculations. The two latter ceaso to be an Issue, and Brady's logical mind analyzes definitely the accuracy of these premises; yet with a torrent of rage Indlcathc of a, pricking of the Inner cuticle, ho breaks loose In vituperative abuso of Lansdon, poor Lansdon; not McDougall, but Just Lansdon. Lans-don. The land board scandals by Mcpongall, Miss Chamberlain and Lansdon do not constitute tho sum total of fraud, of frailty and of shame committed .and attached at-tached to Idaho by this man Brady, who doservos defeat: not that he Is a Republican, Re-publican, not that ho Is a "wet" or a "dry," but that he is a traitor to a public trust imposed in him by a well-meaning, well-meaning, though misguidod. constituency. That $50 Dinner. Jn my article from Coour d'Alcno City I published an itemized account approved ap-proved by the governor's adjutant general gen-eral of staff, S. E. Meyer (who Is presumed pre-sumed to havo handled the governors money on primary election day in Boise), which showed that the governor had spent 53 for a dinner at the Hotel Portland on his return trip from the fair, hold last year in Seattle. In his Boise address yesterday Governor Brady explained this $5.1 account by saying that he had Intended to defray it himself, only for an oversight of his private secretary. secre-tary. Oh! shame Governor Brady! You have betrayed tho fraud in you! The cloven hoof finally shows with a clearness indisputable; indis-putable; unrlcnlahle! This. $53 account for a, meal (just one) for yourself was signed by you as the chairman . of .the state board of accounts; by you. .Mr. Brady, ' you. rtWho said It was your "sincere "sin-cere Intention" to pay this rather Indlfi ferent account yourself. What fraud this la! What attempt at deception! How sorry Justice Ic this to n. well meaning constituency. Tho people care not a rap for $53 for a meal for Brady or for any other small sum of this nature. The Item and the accompanying "explanation" by Brady (which docs not explain) serves to give to uo a mcacurw of tho man whom the people havo as a govornor of this commonwealth. An Official Borrower. - In - accordance with this. Governor Brady's own perfidy, his own state land board (and with a recollection of his presumed defense of his record), his state bank examiner, a man from his own town named Cruse appears In the referee's report as a $3100 borrower from tho defunct Halley bank, which tho report re-port shows to have been financially unsound un-sound six months before it closed its doors! Cruse pretended to examine this bank throe times during this six months' period. What a fraudulent example for official of-ficial Idaho! What a sorry example for children! What shame for us to face In presenting to Idaho visitors the present pres-ent and the future possibilities of our altogether admirable young and promising promis-ing commonwealth! What sort of show have the people of Idaho against conditions con-ditions of this character, for which Mr. Brady is responsible? Idaho hHs a state banking law. Tho Halley Institution was acting under a charter granted to it by tho stilt.. In order that the depositors In this bank might be adequately protected pro-tected a state bank examiner's office was created and the governor given the supremo power to namo such an officer. His duties are to inquiro into tho standing stand-ing of the state banks and. If thoy are not sound, to close their doors at once, or cause them to so modify their securities se-curities as to protect tho depositors who bidden, by the existence of a state charter, char-ter, dump their money into such institutions. Brady Knew of It. Brady knows Cruse was a .$3000 borrower bor-rower from tho Halley bank, and ho knows that hla actions In the case In lsstto wcro detrimental to tlie depositors In the Halley bank, and so because of Crusc's personal financial complications with tho defunct Halley bank. Does Brady removo Cruse? No, not he! Brady has a questionable official family and most of it is by his own making. Brady and his machine arc responslblo for every elective officer In tho stato house today and of ovcry appointive officer. Including Lansdown. McDougall. Miss- Chamberlain, .loo Peterson and Cruse. With all this Governor Brady, by the power of his vulgar wealth, bids his subsidized press to publish a photo of himself on one page of an open book and this reading on the othor page: "Stato of Idaho: Governor Brady's administration ad-ministration is an open book." i It must bo Govornor Brady's sweet reverie, his chimerical vision, when In the solitude of his own conscience, to think of McDougall. of Lansdon. of Chamberlain, of Peterson and of Cruse; of tho Thompson Thomp-son mineral lease, of tho Fremont county land leases, of the Mackay dam. of the Modbuo' Carey act contract, of tho closed-door session of tho state land board on the Church Investigation, of the Payette timber snlo. of tho Oneida ditch scandal, of the Seattle fair expenditures, which muse ho closes with a dcllant wave of his hand, securo In his own hope (for It Is only a hope) that the Mormon vite. Is his boasted heritage. |