The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-07
STRONG Light ON
GOODING Of IDAHO
Acts of Sheepherder Governors
Administration Are Dis
grace to State.
HAS NOTORIOUS RECORD
AS A LAND GRABBER
Leading Men of His Party Are
Disguised by the Executives
Profanity and Vulgarity.
Special to The Tribune.

special to The Tribune
BLACKFOOT, Ida, Oct. 6.-Four
years ego when Frank r. Gooding was
chairman of the Republican State Cen
tral committee, probably the vilest cam
paign of Undertaking ever initiated
In the State was inaugurated.
AeybuTn in the North thundered of
the brutal management OF the asylum
in the South, and Borah in the South
thundered or the frightful misappro-
prlatlon or the property of the State
penltentiary. AS to the misuanage-
ment of the asylum, the Democratic ap-
Polntee, DR.. Givens, was never removed
by the succeeding Republican admins.
tration, and was selected TO plan, con"
struct snd manage the new institution
in North Idaho by the present admins.
trarion. The transportation at the
State penltentiary was the loanlng of
rake or an old chain or some small
implement to a neighboripg farmer. So
much for ancient history.
At the outset Of the present Idaho
campaign, Mr., Brady and Mr.. Borsh,
the allied head OF the Mormon church
party in Idaho appealed to the Demo
Gratis for clean campaign. AS time
advanced and as the Republican barrel
gradually secured control of the State
press, feeling Of security stole over
the party leaders and a challenge was
directed to the Democracy TO fnd some
fault with the party record. Taking
up this challenge, it will be shown in
-'smells to HEAVIER" and that it extends
TO nearly every candidate or the Re-
publican State ticket. This initial num-
Der is devoted TO Frank r. Gooding,
candidate for Governor.
Accused Of Whipsawing
Mr. Gooding came TO Idaho about
twenty-five years ago and engaged as
q woodcutter near Ketchum. Here the
capitalist instinct in the Governor be-
gan its development. He procured
other laborers and, It is charged that
and long to the smeIter, or IN vernac-
ular with which the Governor is ia.
uilier, by "whipsawing the turn,' he
made il a profitable enterprise. Later
h. took up q homestead near ketchum,
and by picking up the discarded lambs
: OF passing bands Of sheep soon acquired
3 sood-siZed band. Being thrifty and
with an eye 10 business the Governor
rapidly developed in sheep until at the
over 100000 head
Eight years ago the Governor entered
the political arena, and by reason OF
his wealth, was elected Representative
of Li..colu county, Of which ne assumed
control as political boss. II is charged
in Shoshonc that the Governor, who
was largely interested in town property,
secured the incorporation OF the town
by deciding lots 10 his sheep herders for
the consideration OF 81, thus epabling
them 70 vote. In this way MS two
brothers were elected trustees and the
control OF the corporation thus passed
70 Frank +. He promptly secured
light and water franchise and other
valuable concessions.
It was not until four years ago, how
ever, that the Governor leaped into the
political limelight Of State politics. As
chairman of the Republican State COM
mittee, he 50 delighted the Mormon
hierarchy that two Of its apostles,
John Henry Smith and ". T. Cowley,
both polygamists, were sent into Idaho
N the interest OF the Republican party.
It had been an extremely hard-fought
and acrimonious campaign. Bryau had
swept over the southern counties ii a
special tram, and In series OF rousipg
speeches seemed to have carried the
tide o. battle for the Democracy. Il
was az this juncture that the Republi-
cans appealed TO the hierarch TO save
the day, and in sheer desperation Smith
and Cowley were throwp into the
breach.
N one HVuI S1bGf TAX EEElNdj Oh ~ pos
tie Covley III Basa!t, Bingham county,
there was Democratic CONSERVATION;
the subtle hand of tie church had hyed
a Democratic stronghold IN the twin.
king of an eye. Just three days Of
quiet campaigning by these two apog-
ties, aad never an open meeting nor
public utteranees, was sufficient TO
change the politics OF the State. For
this splendid public service Frank r.
Gooding two years later received the
Republican nomination for Governor
and was Overwhelmingly elected,
Coarse in His Language.
A. Governor of Idaho, Mr.. Gooding
brought 70 the Governorship all his
coarse manners of the range, his speech
raucoug. ill-chosen and copiously pune
tuated with profsne AID obscene epi-
rhet. Some idea OF the shock OF first
contact with him may be gathered from
the experience Of D. Worth Clark, one