The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-10-27
LANGUAGE USED AT CULDEsAC

Affidavit by Culdesac People VIII
Heard the Address, Showing ii
Made No Such Statements ms Thos
Attributed to Him---Was EntireI
Misreprescntcd.
On October 9 Governor Goodin
held meeting at Culdesac in Ne
Perez county. In his address he re
ferrcd to the Steunenberg murde
case, narrating the various steps ia
ken by the State. He gave q plail
narrative of the events beginnin,
with the murder 1t was entirel.
dispassionate, intended solely Il
show what had been done by tn,
State. He did not pass iudgmen
even by implication on the men ac
cused. In the course OF the nara
tive he mentioned some of the state
ments made by Orchard, but without
comment.
Some one, reporting the meeting
for the Spokane Review, made the
SoNSi hoi cuy llV ulu HUI, leD'
resenting that he declared the ac-
cused men were unquestionably gull
ty of this and other crimes.
In view of the fact that the report
was entirely incorrect, the county
Republican committee of Nez Perez
has secured an affidavit signed by
some of the leading men of Culdesac.
In this it is stated positively that the
governor did not use the language
attributed to him. Those subscrib-
ing to the affidavit are as follows:
John Green, attorney; J. o. Harmon,
editor Culdesac Register; DR.. L. B.
Cole, Dentist; Charles Carlisle, mer-
chant and mayor of the town. The
affidavit follows:
State of Idaho, County of Nez
Perce-ss
On this, the 26th day of October,
1906, before me, James r. Mitchell,
a notary public in and for said coun-
ty, personally appeared the persons
whose names are hereto subscribed,
being severally duly sworn, each for
says: That he is a citizen of
the State of Idaho, residing at Guide
sac, Nez Perez county; that he was
present at Odd Fellows hall on the
night of the 9th of October, 1906,
and heard the entire speech of Gov
ernor Frank R. Gooding delivered at
that time and place; that he has
seen Especial Dispatch" purporting
% have been sent from Culdesac, in
which it is alleged that Governor
1ood'ng used the following language,
concerning the parties charged with
he murder of Ex-Governor Steunen-
berg, and the organization to which
hey belong: "That the evidence
showed the men 10 be guilty; that
he evidence showed "that the inner
,ircle were guilty of 26 cold-blooded
that "the world would be
lnpalled whom the evidence was dis
'losed.' and other like expressions;
hat no such language was used by
Governor Gooding in his speech at
his place; that the sender of the
aid special dispatch is a falsifier of
he facts. That Governor Gooding
lid speak of the capture and impris-
,nment of the officers of the Western
federation of Miners; that they had
'risoned under due process of law,
hat his actions in the matter had
'een upheld by the supreme court of
IDAHO, and by the federal court, pre-
ided over by Judge Beatty; that the
Ielay in the trial of the cases was
aused by an appeal being taken to
he United States supreme court by
he attorneys for the defendants;
hat the defendants were entitled to.
nd should have a fair and impartial
rial, and if found guilty should be
punished to the fullest extent of the
u" IL NV Sull's 81 iiSC,
hat in this matter he had done what
e believed to be his duty, and would
ontinue to do so unto the end"
That the said special dispatch
bove referred to is false from be-
inning to end, and the language
herein attributed to Governor Good
ng Is untrue and without foundation.
JOHN GREEN.
JNO. O. HARMON.
b. l.. COLE.
CHAS. CARLISLE.
Subscribed and sworn TO before
ne this, the Goth day OF October,
906.
(SeaD
]. THOMPSON MITCHELL,
Iotary Public in and for NeZ Perez
County, Idaho.
TAFT TO SPEAK.