The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-10
Sweets Friends Tell a Story OF
His Treatment Of Judge
Beattie.
AN ASSURANCE IN WRITING
he WAS NOT s CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR.
Beattie Made Application For the
Govcrnorship and Found Dubois
Working For shcup, With His
Consent-Tool< il Because it Was
Offcred Hin-Friends of Roth Cans
dfdates Sanguine of Success.

Boise. Ida, Jan. Especial. 1-As- the.
senatorial campaign draws near to the
close, the. friends of Sweet are bringing
out a story that helps him a great deal
in this matter by showing that Shoup's
sense of honor has not always been as
tropically exuberant as he would have
everybody imagine. What is more, the
story seems to admit of little contradie-
tfon, and the Snoup forces Wiz hardly
dare question it. no matter how danlag-
ing it may be to their candidate at the
time when his honor is at stake in the
race.
1t appears that when Harrison was
elected in 1SS Judge Beattae, who was
later appointed by Harrison. to be dis
trict judge of the state, and now holds
that position on the bench, measured
himself in his mind S eye and determined
that he was just of the right proportions
to occupy the gubernatoriAl chair of the
state of Idaho. He was very anxious
for the job. but he did not care to enter
a losing race, and consequently he asked
Stoup, by letter, if he was a candidate.
proffering support<if he was.
shoup's Assurance.
Shoup's answer, according to the story,
was straight and to the point. He as
sured Mr.! Beattie in writing that ne was
not then and did not intend to become a
candidate for the govenorship. On this
showing and under the encourag ement of
Shoup, Beattie made application for the
position and still further encouraged by
Shoup, went to Washington, and endeay-
ored to secure the influence of, Fred Du-
bois, then delegate in his favor.
Imagine, then, his surprise on reaching
Washington to discover that Dubois was
working for the appointment of Shoup,
evidently with Shoup's consent. Beattie
labored with Dubois, showing him
Shoup's 'unequivocal denial that he was
a candidate. but Dubois said ne knew
better the wishes of Shoup and conse-
quently the appointment was made.
4 Light Shed.
The story bears every ear-mark OF
truth, and if 1T is true it throws a great
deal of light on the present contest, where
the same principle of honor between
men IS involved. After writing such 6
letter to Beattfe, Shoup did not accep
the governorship with honor for he had
pledged himself to another. However, III
always made the plea that he was not {
candidate at the time and never entered
when it was offered to him.
Another thing that is being brough
against Shoup is a letter ne wrote t
Hepburn some time ago. Hepburn him
self viii not use it out of motives O
honor in the first place, and in the secon,
place because it would help Sweet, an
therefore would injure himself. But thos
who have seen the letter declare that
was one written by Shoup to declare hi
intention not to support Hepburn, be
; cause he was supporting Sweet. His eX
: pressions in the letter are not at a.
guarded. He says unequivocally that h
would support Sweet to the end.
why He Did 1t.
, He gave in the letter as his reason 70
, supporting Sweet the belief that he al
! legged he entertained, that the north ha
t been ill-treated in the original divisio
> of the spoils, and the time mad com
5 when a senatorshfp should be given t
that section in accordance with the r;
t publican platform and promises. TIL
l letter simply adds to THE documentar
evidence againset Shoup, and is likely /
cause him trouble in the north, as h
has gone right back on it and is now d,
manding that the south shall have til
: whole hog On the congressional delegl
. ton.