The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-10-13


Senator Hepburn: 1 know the peo-
pie won't believe it, but they are talk
ing it and We feel justified in meeting
the assertion. Would any citizen of
Idaho have q person who was direct
ly or indirectly guilty or in any man
ner connected with the preparation
of that awful outrage, the murder Of
ex-Governor Steunenberg. go unwhip-
ped of Justice? l know no voice will
be raised on behalf of such a crime.
Win any man, having studied the du-
ties of the executive officers of a state
government charge that the governor
of Idaho has violated the law in APP
pretending those to whom the finger
OF evidence pointed as probably guilty?
think not. Have they apprehended
them? Will any man charge that they
have not been dealt with since their
apprehension as the law directs? /
think they will not. If they will not, of
what do they complain? What senti-
ment would be behind a complaint
against an officer who has performed
the duty that the law laid upon him
in apprehending criminals and turning
them over to that other great tribunal
that will deal as fairly with them as
the blind goddess holds the scales true
TO the center. Held in prison! Where
would you hold a man charged with
SO heinous crime after he had been
indicted by grand jury of your own
fellow citizens. To discredit the prob
ability upon which they are held for
trial is to diseredit those of your fellow
citizens who sat upon the grand jury
discharging their duty under their oath.
Delay in trial! They brought it on
themselves. They took an appeal from
the judgment of the United States
circuit court. They appealed to the
United States supreme court against
the judgment of that court, knowing
their appeal would delay their trial,
knowing that under the law the trial
could not proceed until the appeal had
been disposed of. And they took that
appeal SO near the end of the term
of the United States supreme court
that they felt confident that no de-
cision could be- rendered until October.
That court meets on the first Monday
of october.
] am not going to try murder case
every time l speak in this campaign,
but here in this community where
have heard it more than once and
where have seen it in print more than
once that these men were being de-
prived of some right which you and /
nave under the law / feel impelled to
lay the case squarely before you. Do
you doubt the efficiency of yourselves
to deal with these questions? Do you
doubt the honesty of the jurors that
are composed of you and your fellow
citizens? Every one of you as a citi-
zen of the United States is liable to
perform jury duty; you might be one
OF these jurors. Would you want your
fellow citizens to appear against you
and say that you would be perjured
jurors, that you would not give them
a fair trial? Is any man entitled to
more than a fair trial? Do you want
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them?
Now take the case as just presented
1t and keep it in your minds, and when
you hear the charge against the Repub-
lican party and it's nominee for gov
ernor that men are being deprived of
justice at his hands repel it from your
minds because there is no word of truth
in such a charge. (Appiause).
Business Administration.
How we'll the business affairs of the
state of Idaho have been administered
you perhaps know as well as l.
have reviewed them as one who being
absent from the state the greater part
of the time, must take the statements
that arc furnished about whose truth
and authenticity there is no doubt.
read in those statements confidence, eff
f1clency and Conscientious performance
of duty. l read in those statements
the record of well done thou servant
of the people"
He is before you to be voted for an
other term. Can you find a good rea-
son for rejecting man who has made
such a record as Frank r. Gooding has
made as governor of this state? This
is no hour in which to be controlled
by personal feeling unsustained by
judgment. These are public questions.
The office of the Governor Of the state
of Idaho, especially to the people in
the city where the capitol is located,
is very trying one. He is under your
eyes every day. Men, countless men
and women are asking him to do
things, do this and that, or to refrain
from doing this and that. The trials
to him are sharp ones. The duty is
arbitrary and yet plain one and he
must perform 1t not according to the
miscellaneous although the conscien-
tious Judgment of a community, but
according to his own Judgment, on his
own responsibility, and you must make
allowances for difference OF opinion,
but you must yield to the judgment of
those you have chosen to be JUICES.
The state officers that have been
chosen by the Republican party as the
candidates in this contest are men
tried in public duty, found competent,
not ACCORDING to the judgment of all
men but according to the judgment of
the men who have been best situated
to Judge of their fitness. Those were
the men that the party sent to Po-
catello to select n ticket for you, and
you are the people who sent them.
They were your agents. You sent them
Down there to select candidates for
those various offices in the state, and
they acted conscientiously. II they did
not 1t reflects on you who sent them.
You had no business to send men who
will act In any other manner to a
| state convention, II Ia your duty as
self governing citizens to see to 1t that
the men you send to conventions are
good men. I believe in the majority
rule. believe in the majority OF my
own party. be 1t for me or against me,
and It has been both ways during my
lifetime. (Applause). have learned
that the great underlying principle of
this government is majority rule, ma
jority in contests between the parties,
majority in contests within the parties
Contests within the parties are not
to be denied. They are not contests Of
determination, they are contests for po-
sition. When / use that term position
use lit in the relative sense. Con-
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