The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-06
.IDAHOANS SLIP
DOWN TO UTAH
Rival Republican Politicians
Trying to Enlist Support of
Church Officials.
BRADY AND BORAH ACTIVE
GOV. COOLING, TOO, WOULD LIKE
SOME CHURCH AID.

PiIgrimages to Zion are becoming fash
ionable among Gentle Republican poll
ticians of Idaho. Within the past two
weeks Governor Frank r. Gooding, State
Chairman J. H. Brady of Pocatello, and
+. S. Distrfck, also of POcatellO, who is
grooming himself a candidate for gov
ernor, have all been in Salt Lake, and
common rumor ascribed their presence
here to a single motive, viz: the desire
70 enlist the support Of Mormon church
officials in behalf of their respective
candidates and ambitions.
There is no evidence that the church
has committed itself to any of them; in
10 the charge OF having conYerSed with
President Joseph F. Smith for the very
good reason that President Smith has
manifested a great impatience-to use
mild word-tOWard Gentle politicians
who come accounting his favor But the
Idahoans have been consulting with the
lesser officials of the church and with
Mormon politicians who are supposed,
who claim, to have influence.
Goodine Was the Last.
Governor GOoding was the last to visit
Zion. He came here ostensibly to attend
q meeting of the directors of the CONT
mental Life Incidentally, however, he
took occasion to do a little electiOneering
among people who have no vote in Idaho
in behalf of his own denomination. The
governors Idaho organ has declared
that, in view of the great responsibility
which rests upon the governor in the
Steunenberg murder prosecutions. and
the fact that his course therein must be
''Vindicated," it would be aln- ost a crime
Tor anybody else to aspire for his shoes.
Nevertheless Governor GOoding is
mighty fearful that the crime will be
committed, and that his party will ratify
The governor occasionally proclaims
with JUNCTION that he is an EpiscOpalian,
or, rather. member Of the Church of
England; but II some Mormon dignitary
would have a good. healthy life-siZed re-
Velatlon that ne ought TO be renominated
and reelected. the governor would feel
much comfOrted in spirit.
Brady Would Be Senator.
Mr. Brady wants church support for
his senatorial candidacy. He bases it on
the fact that he managed the last state
the anti-MOrmOn standard, and that he
won great victory. In his testimony
boosted much Of his astuteness, and told
how he had used Dubois speeches
among the MormOns TO prove that there
was a big Mormon issue in the state, and
had instructed his speakers in Gentle
counties to proclaim that there was no
Mormon issue Naturally Mr. Brady feels
that such high minded political general
ship should receive its reward
The particular revelation that Mr.. Bra
dy desires communicated to the MOrmons
in Idaho is that it is not meet and proper
that the Republicans should nominate a
candidate for United States senator in
their state convention. If that were done
Mr.. Brady fears that the nomination
would go to his more popular rival, W. E.
Borah. and that his own HerCulean labors
Of the last campaign would go unre-
warded.
II Mr.. Brady can get the no nonina-
tom revelation, ne will be content for
the time. OF course, should the Republf-
cans be fortunate enough to elect a Re
publican legislature. Mr.. Brady viii make
another pilgrimage to Zion about Yule-
tide and ask for a revelation that the
faithful vote for him for United States
senator.
Borah Wants II, Too.
". z. Borah also yearns for Mormon
support AfOretime Mr.. BOrah "cussed''
the hierarchy. When in 1903 the obese
Hepburn snatched the toga that Mr.
Borah had intended for himself the man
who loOks-but doesn't aCt-like William
J. Bryan. waxed exceeding wroth and
vowed vengeance on both hierarch and
hierarchy. He had much to say about
running Idaho politics from Salt Lake -
But Mr.. BOrah has seen a new light
AS proof of his repentance he points to
the fact that he signed his name to Reed
Shoots answer to the protest of the I'M
EOdly Gentiles in Utah. Alsa that he took
the stump in the last campaign and
GRATED with great elOQuence that there
IS TO Mormon issue in Idaho"
In fact. Mr.. BOrah was one Of the mis-
siOnarieS to the Gentiles mentioned by
Mr.. Brady in his testimony at Washing
ton. Brady sent BOrah on Dubois trail
and BOrah turned loose q torrent of Ian