The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-16
DOES NOT RETURN
TO FACE CHARGES
IdahO's Republican Candidate
for Secretary of State Ii
Under a Cloud.
BUT. HE CONTINUES TO
SPEAK FOR HIERARCHY
Prosecuting Attorney Seems to
Lack Nerve, Although the
Evidence Is Plain.
Special TO The Tribune,

Special to The Tribune
WEISER, Idaho, Oct 15-"I am not
coming home until / get good ready.
Tell them to fly at it, The above is
the wording of telegram sent by Ro-
bert Lansdon, Republican candidate for
telegram telling him to come home and
clear up the charges preferred against
him by the Republican Board of County
Commissioners Of misappropriation Of
County funds and falsifying the re-
cords. Lansdon IS in the northern part
Of the State making campaign speeches
for the Republican Mormon ticket while
he is charged with criminal offense.
The prosecuting attorney, who is a
Republican, has SO far refused to issue
o warrant for his arrest, fearing the ef-
feet it will have upon the State ticket,
A conference of leading Republicans
was held this morning and this after
Boise, it is presumed to confer with the
Republican State Central committee.
The spectacle of candidate for the
| State ticket for one of the most i'm
portant Offices In the gift of the people
| Of the State who is charged by mem
bers of his own party with criminal
ofense, canvasslng the State for that
weep
Was in Trouble Before.
This is not the first offense with
which he has been charged by the
Board of County Commissioners. When
| his term as assessor expired an expert
was employed by the County Commits
sioners, who after spending two months
| on his books reported a shortage of
nearly $1,000, 1t was nearly three
months after the expiration of his term
| of ofhce before the shortage was made
| good Three of his bondsmen petitioned
TO be released from his bonds, stating
! that they did not believe he was a pro-
| per person to be trusted with the hand
ling of the funds OF the county. by rea-
son of his profligate habits and gamb
ling. which being prohibited by law
makes him appear as not being law
abiding citizen.
Lansdon is the man TO whom Cover
nor Gooding said, "Lansdon, if you will
| deliver Washington county to me IN
the Pocatello convention, [ will put YOU
on the ticket for Secretary OF State. "
BY means of which the lowest ward
politician would be ashamed. the Wash
lngton county delegation was manipu
lated for Gooding. In one instance at
the county convention to elect delegates
to the state convention, the credentials
of one precinct which had five anti
Gooding delegates in the hall were
stolen from the credentials committee
! and the precinct was not represented IN
the convention. The five anti-Gooding
delegates would have controlled the
convention against Gooding
This afternoon the prosecuting attor-
ney and chairman of the Republican
| County Central committee went to
Boise and it is stated they went there
for the purpose of asking Brady what
they should do in the matter The pros
ecuting attorney did not have the well
fare of his county and party sufficiently
at stake nor respect for his sworn oath
| to act on his own volition and issue 4
warrant for Lansdon s arrest.
The publication of the expose in the
| Tribune of Sunday has occasioned great
excitement in this city and the outcome
is watched with intense interest by the
| public.