Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-06-21
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Some Opinions on State
Politics. 6uberndtOridl
and Senatorial Pos
sibilitieS.

dacy cf DIR. Hugh France, of Sho-
shonc county, for the govcrnorship,
takes the wind out of Governor
Gooding's sails, in so far as his
claim for denomination rests on the
ground of his fight on the Western
Federation of Minrcs; for the rae
son that DIR. France has record
along the same lines. Continuing,
the story says:
w. E. Borah, who wants the
state convention to indorsc him for
United States senator, and whose
! aspirations are being opposed by
Governor Gooding and State Chair
man j. H. Brady, is unquestionably
behind the France movement. 1t
goes without saying that Mr.. Bo-
rah's friends -possibly Mr.. Borah
himself rise up and solemnly
deny this assertion. And the very
fact that they will deny 1t illus
trates a peculiar weakness of Mr..
Borah's campaign for the senate.
Mr.. Borah knows in his heart
that Gooding,, although pledged to
odEROlb ilAii, 10 1e3 eittSe AfAS Ne~%'0A
dacy for the senate; he knows that
the governor is for Brady, and that
the underlings of the state admins
tration in every county are for Bra
dy, and he would like to see Good
ing defeated. But, bold as a lion
where his own interests are not
involved, he has a shrinking tinid-
ity in his senatorial fight that pre-
vents him from lining up with his
real friends and fighting his real
enemies.
Mr. Borah has encouraged DIR.
France to become a candidate for
governor. He will expect DR..
frances county to bring in dele
cation which will vote to indorse
him (Borah) for the senate, but he
will not lift a finger to bring in
this (Ada) county for France. He
will be content that the Ada county
delegation shall support his sena-
torial candidacy, and will not try
10 swing it to France, unless, per-
chance, he sees at the last moment
that it is safe for him to do so.
Undoubtedly the France men are
counting much upon MIR. Borah' s
support for their candidate, though
most of them have been in Idaho
politics long enough to know better.
1t is apparent, however, that the
fight against Gooding will have to
be wagcd without any assistance
from Mr.. Borah, except where he
can stick a pin into the governor
quietly. Hoping and praying for
Gooding's overthrow, Mr.. Borah
will not lift hand in the open to
accomplish it, though he hopes to be
its beneficiary and will feel ILL
treated if he is not.
Not so Governor Gooding.
Whatever his faults, he has the
courage to fight and to fight in
the open, and, while he is not act
ually parading his antagonism to
Borah, he is making no effort to
prevent his henchmen from setting
up the pins tor Brady. In this he
has the advantage, for while the
anti-Gooding support will not have
any real reason for gratitude to Bo-
rah, should they win, everything
Gooding, and everything that
Gooding can control will be for
Brady. Some of Mr.. Boarh's best
friends fear that his hcsitancy,
his timidity and his shuffling on
the gubernatorial question will cost
him the senatorship They are adj
vising him to fight fire with fire
they are warning him that Gooding
is against him; that his success
means Borah's defeat, and his de-
feat alone means Borah's victory.
But Mr.. Borah is stayirg at home,
hoping that other people will beat
Gooding and then hand the senator
ship to him on silver platter.
DIR. France was coroner of Sho-
stone county when the Occur
d'Alene troubles broke out in 1890
The sheriff of the county was sum-
marily removed from office for sym
pathy with the Western Federation
of Miners, and DR.. France was APP
pointed in his blaze. He co-operated
with Governor Frank Steunenburg
and the United States military
authorities in making the Occur
d'Alenes too hot to hold the Miners
union, and he has a long and active
record as an enemy of that particular
organization. He is at present a
member of the legislature.
BOrah. Brady and Beatty.