The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-31

least surprising e a coalition Should
I DC Effected between himself and SEN
( atdr Dubois. Stranger things have hap
pened ia Idaho politics.
Governor Morrison. whose predecessor
kindly cleaned UP the state for him ard
left him no dirty work to do. naturally
/ hesitates as 10 which faction f0n the
sugar bounty question: he should take
SIDES with The governor ardently de-
/ sires to succeed himself and ne IL not
sure, yet which faction he can get the
most support from. Bagiey is a Nor
mon Turner is a Mormon sympathizer,
: but with considerable Of q personal
following. In the state election OF 1900
I he was put up for state senator 10 iii
IA place that no one thought was worth
the having against his oppoceut. end
Won out handsomely. a year later the
Republicans ran him for mayor Of Po-
catell0 when no other man prominent
/ i'm the party would accept the nomin-
/ alton, and he was elected literally by
I the skin Of his teeth. In the state cleo
I ton Of 1902 he went in on the wave Of
/ his party. and now Theo. considers
/ himself the logical candidate To- his
party for governor Of the state. He viii
/ be opposed in this idea by the present
= governor ana also by Bagley, who
thinks he himself would be the 8roDer
I selection, and between the two Morrison
{ is at his wits ends tosdecide which ele-
lment ne should ally himself with. Some
: people are mean enough t. say that the
! governor should refrain erom any part
/ in the next political contest, cor the
reason thar between straight Mormon
land a Jack Mormon the dominating ele-
ment in Idaho politics would LET the
1 convention settle il, and outsiders
would have no chance. Some Of -5ov-
! ernor Morrfson's friends have even
! gone so far as TO suggest to him thar
/ ne take care of his law business at
/ Caldwell advancing as an argument
| that ne VIII need il
Morrison Against WoolIey.
| Governor Morrison has not been par
tticularly ardent in his support of Sem
at0r HeybuTn's prOtege, II. Smith
/ WOoiley, for superintendent of the
/ Boise assay Office. In fact, the COVER
nor has been said TO be very much in
harmony with the proprietor and edit
1 or of the Statesman in their opposition
/ to that gentleunan's confirmation This
/ logically makes him antag1nistic to
/ Senator Hepburn ard Judge Standrod,
I both of whom think the Mormon. vote
! in Idaho is worth taking care Of and
cultivating.
That all these conflicting elements in
Idaho Republican politics are justified
/ in the range Of possibilities out ex-
/ tremely probable that their present
/ fears and hopes are all vain. As a
shadow over all Republican ambitions
in the state is the dominating influence
/ of Fred T. Dubois. They have none of
them forgotten the mastery manner in
which ne snatched victory from appar-
/ ent defeat in the Democratic state con-
, ventiOn Of 1900, and they each and all
1-4a "a he 0f -
voice in all matters of national and
state politics. They have come 20 the
conclusion that what h wants be VIII
20 after ana get. and while they are
/ trying to adjust the differences in their
! own party, each to his personal ad-
vantage. they are all watching Dubois.
/ He is today recognized as the greatest
/ power in Idaho politics. he has always
! been a winner. even in defeat, and NE
/ can draw more support from The con-
/ dieting political elements in the state
4 than any other one man.