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Show iWhy the People of Utah Should Vote for I I ..... Governor Spry and the Republican Ticket I ' ii " H i A Governor Who Can Mortgage the Psople's Properly in this Slate io Four Years for More Money Than all H Ii iIie Other Governors oi Utah Combined Have Bone, Is Enffled So Special Cqnsiderafion-A Governor Who Ca H m Let Over a Million Dollars Remain Idle In ifov State Treasury for Four Years Without a Cent's Worth os H II Interest to the State, and be a Director of a Bank WStere Much of the Money Is Kept 2s a Smooth Article f and 2s Entitled to Special Consideration at the Hands ofi the People H W William Spry, in the four years that he has served the dear people of Utah as Governor, has mortgaged all the property of the State of Utah, as follows: H U For redemption of bonds and erection of a state capitol, approved by the Governor, March 11, 1909, mortgage $250,000. 1 sril Forerection of state capitol approved by the Governor, March 11, 1909, mortgage payable in 20 years $200,000 H l For erection of state capitol approved by the Governor, February 20, 1911, mortgage payable in 20 to 50 years .,...;.. $1,000,000 H '11 For erection of additional university buildings in Salt Lake City, approved by the Governor, March 4, 191 1, mortgage payable in 20 years" .-. : $300,000 PI For building good roads in Utah, approved by the Governor, March 9, 1911, a mortgage payable in 20 years ' $260,000 H j Total mortgage placed on the property of the people of Utah by Governor Spry, over two million dollars $2,010,000 M pf People of Utah, how do you like to be mortgaged in four years for more than the debt left by all the governors of Utah combined? Do you know that your Repub- $ iican Governor loved his people so much as to mortgage them for over two million dollars, of which over a million and a quarter of dollars was for a capitoJ build- Mi ing, yet not a stone has been laid on the capitol building to date? 1 fl That is not all. Just before the last legislature adjourned, the Harriman estate paid $750,000 into the state treasury as an inheritance tax and the Governor had even H Iff that three quarters of a million dollars in cash set aside for the capitol building, thus providing bonds and cash alone amounting to over two million dollars for the H Si state capitol building fund, and all the time, not one cent of interest is paid to the state, but the bank in which the Governor is a director, loans much of the money W ' out at 8 per cent interest. The Governor says he did not know he was a director of the bank, yet his name was advertised as such on the bank's advertising matter. In fact, M the bank boasted of its great increase in deposits after it received its share of the state funds. What a funny bank, to have directors and not know it. It sure' takes a Mi smooth one to be Governor of Utah, mortgage the people for two million dollars and take $750,000 in cash and put it into pet banks and then tell the dear people he did not S know it, but will try to do better the next four years. Yes, dear people, William Spry has done well for the Governor. We believe he can stand four years more in the Gov- H m ernor's office, if the people can. It is stated by those who know, that if all the idle money in the state treasury for the past four years had been placed in the banks at 4 per H K cent interest, 'the same as the banks pay other people, that the state would have saved anywhere from a quarter to a half million dollars; that at times there was over two P million dollars in cash in the state treasury, deposited in favorite banks. Sure that is a good record for the Governor and the state treasurer. Re-elect them both to office H P and then they will have the people's approval of their action for the past four years. Just put your cross at the Beehive and vote for Taft, Spry and the whole Standpat H SP bunch If the People's burden is not heavy enough just now, the re-election of the old bunch will make it so by the next election. 1)1 ' State Treasurer David Mattson, in defense of himself and the Governor, says, in this morning's Tribune, that on August 31, 1912, he had only $1,644,568.09 deposited in H m several banks, but over a half million of the money was in the bank in which the Governor is one of the owners, and he says that, under his own splendid management, hesaved H 5 the state interest on $135,000 overdraft on the reservoir fund. Think of it! He says that the banks that had over a million and a half of the state's money actually le,t 'the state H Si have $135,000 of its own money without interest, and this is Dave Mattson's defense of his care of that money. Mr. State Treasurer further says that the reason he does not ask the H I banks to pay interest is because he can not find any law commanding him to do so. Other officers, however, get interest on public funds without the law commanding it. The H 1 funny part is that the Federal Bunch has proposed a constitutional amendment, not to make banks pay interest but to let the state board of examiners handle the state H M funds instead of the treasurer and thus let the governor and secretary of state join in selecting banks that shall haye the state funds. s Just another amendment to the constitu- yj tion to pull the wool over the eyes of the people. H 'jtL -- -cg - " ''-asxTKggjBSmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwKmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm |