The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-10-19

cause he is the direct beneficiary of it..
He was there in Fremont and Oneida
counties when the revelation was re.
ceived from God through President
Parkinson and through the polygamist
county clerk of Fremont county, Vic.
tor Hagsted, that God desired the
moralon people to throw Mr.. Brady
to the wolves, and to crown Mr.. Bo-
rah with the laurel Of his political am
bition, the U. S. Senatership. Mr..
Borah exclaims against the boss sys.
tenn OF Idaho but it was through the
boss system operated by the mormon
church that he with Governor Good
ing were enabled to parcel out the
spoil, each securing for himself his
particular plum. Mfr. Borah is like a
receiver of stolen goods who disclaims
against the practice of stealing but
does not want the change affected un.
til after he has disposed of his wares.
Mr.. Borah maintains that 10 mormons
and no polygamist sat in the Pocatello
convention which gave him his nom.
ination, and yet No man, woman, nor
child in Fremont county but what
knows that this personal friend and
the political boss Of Fremont county,
Victor Hagsted, is a polygamist and
can point out to any interested stran-
ger where the recent wives of the gen.
tleman reside,
Nit. Borah maintains that there are
no cases OF polygamy in this state.
which is lawyers bubble because
he knows that sworn statement was
supplied him two years ago and has
been again this fall. containing the
names Of 20 polygamists, the names Of
their plural wives and the places OF
their residence; and although not a
single one of these polygamists has
denied the fact yet they still are tree
to live, according to the sworn state
ment OF President Jos. F. Smith,
"contrary to the laws OF God and
man. and under cover of the persua.
sive tongue of Mr.. Borah they are able
to bring year by year into the world.
children branded from their birth
with the stain of polygamy and who
are mutely appealing &c the good citi,
liens of Idaho for an equal chance be.
fore The law and for an equal chance
to grow up in clean surroundings, to
become good citizens of the state. In
the background of the magnificent fl.
cure Of Mr.. Borah with his plastic
principles and his persuasive tongue
stand the pitiful figure of these little
ones, deprived of the most precious
possession of an American, a right to
a name without reproach and all be.
cause one man wants to he United
States senator.
Mr., Borah is political ostrich. who
fleeing from his former principles and
his former friends has buried his head
in the corruption of mormon patron.
age and excls inns do not see poly
gamlst in the state. while in an under
tone he inquiries OF his polygamist
friend, Victor Hagsted, whether he
thinks the people of the state are be-
ing fooled by his statements.
There is no principle that Mr. Bo.
rah has not straddled. In the south
he urges the people to support him be
cause be stands with President Roose-
welt and koosevelt's policy of the for
est reserve. In the north where be
thinks that policy unpopular, he makes
the statement that be is opposed to
the forest reserve. Mr.. Borah main.
tains that the great issue Is the tariff
and that he is with Senator Hepburn
as a standpatter; whereas short
time ago in the republican state con-
vention at Boise, he. Borah, rung
drops Of blood out of the bosses IN en-.
deavorlng to incorporate a plank In
the state platform declaring for tariff
reform. Mr.. Borah campaigned the
state as free silver candidate; he
now tells the people that one of the
most glorious achievements of the re-
publican party is the Gold Standard,
Mr.. Borah is now praising Governor
Gooding. as one of the fpest'specimens
of man, and a governor that the
world has vel. produced: yet on the
streets of Bong Before the Pocatello
convention, and for the past years he
employed all the eloquence and force
of his extensive vocabulary to condemn
this gentleman 10 eternal punishment
and at the same time derived his orr
gin from obscure and miscellaneous