The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-28
BOMB THROWN IN
CAMP Of H|ERARCH
Hardness Interview on Idaho
Situation More Than Nor
mon Leaders Expected.
MACHINE OF THE CHURCH
IS LOSING IT'S POWER
Papers of Three Counties Have
Already Broker Away
From Unholy Alliance.
Special TO The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune.
BOISE, Ida, Sept. 2I.-The publ
cation of the Hardness interview on
the Idaho situation threw a bomb in
the campaign of the Mormon Repub-
licans from which they have scarcely
recovered.
II. o. Hardness has been a resident
of Idaho for thirty.fve years. He
was member of the constitutional
convention from old Bingham county,
and has been familiar figure i'll Re-
publican State conventions as long as
the memory of the oldest Republican
politician of Idaho. HIS interview is
being read with interest all over Ida
bo. His logic makes laughing stock
of Borah s. statements that there is
no Mormon issue in Idaho.
The rank and Gle Of the party won
der why Harkness would leave his
alliance with a dominant hierarchy,
a polygamous power, representative
Of one of the most un.American ma.
chimes that ever undertook TO dominate
the voters of n party in a political
campaign. His letter is but another
evidence Of the fact that the woman
hood and the manhood of Idaho Is on
trial in the Gem State this fall with
Judge Stockslager and Fred Dubois as
the representatives against everything
unboly, unrighteous and uu-American
which The Mormon church stands for.
While Gov. Gooding and w. l.. Borah
ere candidates for Office and stand for
everything that the Mormon church
does, and everything it indorscs in Utah
and in Idaho at this time.
Deserving the Machine.
The undoing Of the plans and pur-
poses Of this unholy alliance between
- IL Nd tha hISr.
mon church is near at hand, Evidences
beyond the letter Of Mr.. Harkness, be
voud the utteranccs Of Rev, DR., Pad
dock and Prof, Carlson Of Weiser (both
Republicnns), are at hand. Already in
north Idaho five Republican papers
have left the machine and are urging
the party 10 purge itself OF this ALI
auce,
Gov. Goodiug had nothing in his ad-
mlnistration TO recommend him for re-
nomination, and he has nothing TO rec
ommcpd him for rejection as Governor
of Idaho. save alone his subserviency
60 n dominant church, up-American in
it's practices, with headquarters IN
Utah.
W, f. Borah has nothing 10 recon-
mend him as the nominee OF the Re
publican party and would never have
! hcon lis nominee, had he not cstab-
lishcd friendly relations with tho Nor
mon hierarchy as Apostle Smoot 3 at
| tornev. gnd had nc not received their
| sunnort for the nomination at Poca.
telIo, because tho Mormons believed
that by uniting Gooding aud Borah
! who we're the bitterest of political
antaponists) they would stand Il bet
Ter Show to defeat Mr., Dubois, who
| seeks locally and nationally. the undo.
| ;no Of this uu.AmerIcan institution and
It's nefarious practices.
These north Idaho papers cover three
counties. viz, Kootenai. l.atah and Nez
/ Pcrcc. and are owned and managed by
| those who have the courage and Tho
strength Of character TO withstand the
subsidizing instincts that have caused
= number of south Idaho papers 10
Weld their principles, aud by no doing