Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-11
LABOR WAR THE ISSUE
Fairbanks Discusses It at the
Irrigation Congress.
DUBOIS TO START. CANVASS
Term Shortly Expires and He Will Be-
gin His Campaign.
MINERS RAISING FIGHT FUNDS
All Sorts Of Things Are Being Talked
About at the Irrigation Congress
Prominent Men There.
MINERS RAISING FIGHT FUNDS
Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
BOISE CITY. Idaho, September Q. 1906.
Irrigation, labor troubles, Mormonism
and politics are inseparably combined by
the thousands Of visitors attending the ma
tional irrigation congress Vice President
Fairbanks was here to address the con-
gress at its opening on Labor day and also
spoke to the laboring men at their cele-
.bration the same day. Only the greatest
care saved the Vice President, cautious as
he is, from becoming entangled in the Ia
Dor war against Gov. Gooding. The Vice
President and Gov. Gooding were to review
the labor parade from the same stand.
But organized labor, which is making war
against the governor because of the stand
he has taken in the prosecution of the men
charged with numbering former Gov.
Steunenburg, refused to pass in review be-
fore Gov. Gooding, SO the Vice President
did not review the parade, and his few
words to the laboring men were SO guard
ed that neither he nor the national repub-
lican party was in any way complicated in
the local war labor is making against the
republican governor in his campaign for
reelection.
Labor War the Issue.
The labor war is the issue which is dis
cussed everywhere. Gold miners and irri-
cation farmers have abandoned discussion
of their specialties for the time being and
are taking an active part in the most in
teresting campaign Idaho has ever seen.
Although the labor fight is said to be
largely personal to Gooding, republicans
are much alarmed and do not know how
far it will affect the rest of their ticket,
and the fate of United States senator
rests on the result of the approaching leg
islative election.
Senator Dubois. the democratic senator
from Idaho, whose term Is about to ex-
pire, will formally launch his campaign for
| reelection at a speech in Boise City next
week and William E. Borah of Boise City,
| their candidate to succeed Dubois, will
| take the platform in short time. AL
| though Senator Dubois is practically with
| out a party, he has made -Mormonism
his battle cry and believes that he has
| fair chance for reelection. Republican
leaders are confident that republican leg
islature will be named and Mr.. Borah sent
to the Senate. but do not attempt to dis
count the Importance of the fight which or
ganiZed labor is making against the head
of the state ticket.
Political Fight Waged.
While irrigation specialists are reading
scientific papers to the congress, one of the
most intricate political fights of recent
years is being waged in the hotels and
clubs of Boise City. Senator Dubois is
making a bitter fight and has a strong
corps of ieutenants at work among the rep
| resentative Idaho politicians gathered here
by the great meeting. Senator Hepburn,
the republican senator from Idaho. Gov.
Gooding and Mr.. Borah are equally active,
and their efforts are. being supplemented
by distinguished politicians from other
states
Only a few squares from the political
whirlpools the men charged with killing
former Gov. Steunenburg with dynamite
are behind the bars, and in the mountains
beyond the Idaho capital the organized
miners are raising funds and making war
against the governor Of the state, who has
been so firm in his stand that the men ar
rested for killing Steuenenburg shall be
tried Idaho's honor is at stake. many of
the campaign which is approaching is
merely a battle of law-abiding citizens
against outlaws. and insist that Gov. Good
Ing shall be reelected to free the states
name from the tarnsh placed upon It by
the dynamiters who murdered Mr.. Steun-
enburg 30 cruelty.
Men Of Prominence Attend.
Gov. George E. Chamberlain Of Oregon,
Gov. Meade of Washington. former Gov.
Greer of Oregon. Senator Tom Carter Of
Montana, Col. John P. IRISH Of California
and many other men of great prominence in
national affairs are also in attendance at
the congress, and for the time being much
Of official Washington Is in Boise City. Gift
ford Pinchot, chief of the bureau Of for
estry and irrigation; c. D. Walcott, director
Of the geological survey; F. III. Newell,
chief engineer of the reclamation service
and many other government Irrigation spe-
ciaists are here.
Henry St. George Tucker, president of
the jamestown Exposition, is presenting
the merits of the approaching celebration
Of the jamestown landing to the represent
atives of the great northwestern states and
hopes to have an extensive irrigation ex-
hibit made at the Virginia exposition next
year.
Boise City Did It.
For the time being Boise City has lost all
its political prejudices and devoted itself
exclusively to the entertainment Of it's
thousands of guests Most cities Of 10000
would be daunted by such task, but not
Boise City. Calvin Cobb, the owner of the
Idaho Statesman; Monte R. Gwinn and a
score of other prominent Idaho men have
planned so well that nothing Is lacking to
the comfort Of visitors and their efforts
have been supplemented by all residents of
the city in a manner which has given es-
pecial charm to the entertainment. Homes
all over the city have been opened to
strangers and the prominent women OF the
CITY have given their personal services to
the Commercial Club, which could not OBJ
tain servants enough to look after the
great crowds 1t Is entertaining in mag
nfficent new club rooms which were thrown
open in celebration OF the opening of the
congress.
The city is bright with green and white
the colors OF the irrigation congress. Its
broad, asphalt-paved streets are spanned
by arches and streamers and an exhibit
of fruits and grains has been prepared
which surpasses any thing Of the sort ever
undertaken at an irrigation congress-
DR.. George Collister. the owner of one Of
the most celebrated orchards in the Boise
valley. and many of the other owners Of
properties near Boise City are entertaining
visitors on their farms and showing east
erners exactly what can be done with irri-
CATION. The peach, prune, apple and plum
crops are shown in all their beauty and
make a pratical demonstration Of the fu-
ture which awaits Idaho when the great
government projects now being developed
are completed. c. g. 8.