Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-02
THE FIGHT ON
SENATOR HEPBURN
What POcatellO Tribune, a Non
Mormon Paper, Has to Say on
The Woolley Appointment.
DECLARES IT TO Be ALL RIGHT
Says Also That Such Is the View Of
The Republicans of Southern Idaho
Where Shoe Pinches.

Says the Pocatello Tribune, non-"Mor-
mon" THE Tribune and the Republic
cans Of this end Of the state are not In
sympathy with the tempest raised by
TIE Statesman and few politicians
In Boise against the appointment OF
assay Office neither can we believe
that any considerable proportion Of the
Republicans of the state anywhere are
Inclined to follow the Statesman to any
great lengths in its unwarranted
charges and unjust attacks upon Sena-
tor Hepburn Congressman French and
other prominent Republicans In the
state who recommended his appoint
ment. The fact that he has been q
good official Is no reason why Mr.
Cunningham should consider himself
welded for time and eternity to one
OF the best Jobs within the disposal
ot the party. We can assure the Re-
publican party OF the state that Mr.
Woolley viii make as competent and
faithful an official ~ Mr.. Cunningham
IL reported to have been. He Is a
citizen of the highest standing in this
community and his honesty and in
tegrity can be questioned by neither
the Statesman nor anyone else. He Is
an American citizen OF the highest
type and as such he has taken an ac-
tive interest In politics and has abored
to further the interests of the party
of which he has been lifelong mem
ber The only charge that HIS jealous
antagonists right now can find against
him Is that he Is q Mormon and this
fact under our form of government and
the rights accorded every individual re-
CARELESS Of religious belief, cannot be
made TO cut any more figure than IL he
was a member of any other religious
denomination existing In this broad
lnnd of ours. Everyone who knows
Mr.. Woollcy knows that he will MI
the office with credit and ability, hon
estly and conscientiously, and that the
party Will have no cause for regret
over his appointment.
I'VE are inclined TO the belief that
the grief displayed by the Statesman
over Mr.. Cunningham's 'resigna-
tion' and the appointment of a
Mormon TO the position of assayer
Is not touching the quick of our VEN
cradle contemporary near so keenly
as the fact that the particular party
of its own choice failed TO land the
plum. 1t Is whispered that someone
very close to the Statesman had his
lightning rod In the air, and the fact
that the lightning refused to be at
tracted In Its direction Is the cause
for Its flying the track and this
Unsuitable thirst for revenge. The
talk OF secret compacts and promises
of political appointment supposed to
have been given In consideration Of
h..
senseless Such promises were never
made. A horrible state Of affairs 1t
would be IL such conditions should be
allowed TO corrupt an Idaho or any
other legislature at the time of elect
ing a United States senator, With
the same breath that the Statesman
charges the election OF Mr.. Woolley
to be a Church deal II Is doing it's
utmost to induce another church or
ganization to intercede and help II
turn o political trick in its favor,
by demonstrating against Mr.. Woolley.
and II is not caring whether the
whole Republican party of the state
is involved and suffers. The charge
that the reason Mr.. Wooley and the
Church wants the appointment Is to
enable Mr.. Woolley to proselyte In
and around Boise Is equally foolish.
Such thought has never entered the
mind of Mr.. Woolley or anyone else.
II Is a statement made for the pur-
pose Of ribbing up sentiment for its
cause
THE venerable Statesman seems TO
have undertaken the task of bringing
the Republican party Of the state to
It's knees 1t is undertaking a mighty
task, The Republican party OF the
state is not with II. No number OF
renonstrances that II may be able
to cause TO be formed and sent 20
Washington can have the slightest
effect on this appointment. The peo-
Pile at washington will read between
the lines as clearly as the majority
OF Republicans OF the state are read
Ing between the lines today The
Republican party of the state Is not
injured by the appointment OF Mr..
Woolley. It is the Statesman