Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-10-13

compromise with your present gov
ernor and attorney-general for $25,'
600. They offered to compromise theil
$780, 900 or $175,000 claim for $4,000
but the board of examiners refused
to consider the claim. With the term
ination of the above matter, term.
mated my relationship with the COM
panies.
He stated that the next legislature
If republican, would undoubtedly pass
a law paying this bounty. Now, the
legislature could not pass any valic
law. 1t would be in the same condi-
ton that the law which they formerly
passed is, and that is, unconstitution-
al. am not now discussing the mar-
it's of any compromise. or any mora
claim which they may have aaginsl
the state, or not. I am simply calling
attention to the facts as they exist
which would make that bounty a
valid claim against the state.
But, in this connection, desire tc
call your attention to the relationship
which nv friend bears to the sugar
| trust. He voted. as you know,
against the Philippine tariff PROPOSE
ton to take the tariff off Of sugar
brought here from the Philippines.
find here. addressed to nv friend. a
letter. dated at Ogden. Utah, March
10. 1905. a letter from the Amalga-
mated Sugar company. down there in
Utah. where all Of these Mormons
live. Gaughter.) The letter is as
| follows: my Dear Senator: I feel
| to thank you from the bottom Of my
heart for your attitude which has aid
ed in bringing about the decision of
| the committee having before 1t the
I Philippine tariff bill. The
only other senator Of your committee
with whom I have any personal ac-
| quaintance is Senator Nixon of Ne
vada, and I was very pleased indeed
to see him take the stand upon the
measure that he did 1 assure you
that our community will always feel
under obligations to you for aiding us
in preserving this industry. Yours
very truly, David Eccles. President"
This is one Of the branches Of the
sugar trust which was interested in
the sugar bounty law in this state,
| and, while the legislature of Idaho
would have put $15O,O0O into the
pockets of the sugar trust. according
to my friend, he favored them to the
extent OF millions. ! do not say that
he was wrong. He may have been
right. / do not say that he has been
corrupted; l do not say that he is
today the representative Of the sugar
trust. l may admit that Senator Du-
bois acted in good faith, and may have
been right. Perhaps he was right.
But you can see how easily it is to
charge that simply because a man has
been at one time or another in sight
of corporation that he is the repre-
sentative of that corporation. Should
/ adopt the system of politics which
my friend adopts in this campaign, /
hn nrfn L..
ging that he was the corrupt repre-
sentative of the sugar trust in the
United States senate, and that he
looked after their interests and that
the Mormon church received the ben
eft of it.
I have here other letters from other
branches of the sugar trust, one writ
ten from over in Michigan, where they
had the same kind Of bounty law
that we have. 1t is along the same
line as the other letter. do not as
sumo, as / said that he is the repre-
sentative OF the sugar trust. / cannot
assume that he would place himself
in that relation. But 1t well illus
trates to you how utterly unfair the
distinguished gentleman Is in this
campaign when man who has thus
favored the sugar trust takes ad-
vantage of the fact that an attorney
passed upon the constitutionality of
a law to charge that he is the repre-
sentative of that corporation.
He charges in his speech, also, that
went to Pocatello with less than fifty
delegates. and trade with the Mormon
church for the balance Now, there
are some Mormons pretty close around
here that / made some dealings with
for the balance daughter and APP
plause). But I want to ask your par
t1cular attention to this statement, be-
cause it comes right home to the
veracity or to the information Of the
1t is very difficult to dis
cuss these things and say what /
would like to say before a mixed audi
ence Qaughter). but when have said
what am going to say, want you
to think of what l would like to have
said, and then you will have precisely
what l should have said. Laughtr
A statement is made here
in his speech at Boise that l went to
Pocatello with less.-here it is, Mr..
Borah went to Pocatello, and with the
vote of Ada county he did not have
fifty delegates TO his name, and he
could not get them. He had no one
from the north. and when he got
there the MormOns gave him the three
big Mormon counties, which made
him 100 delegates"
Now. ladies and gentlemen, went
to Pocatello-with 124 instructed DEL
egates. When l went into the cam
paign to seek the .,igh position of the
United States senatorship, declared !
through your papers that IL
was not nominated at Pocatello |
that / would not be a candidate. Aft |
er that went into the primaries of |
his state. in the respective Counties, |
and fought out the question, not with |
The Mormon church or any other COM !
oanies or corporations. but / fought |
t out right where the power should |
'est to select United States senator,
and that is down with the people. |
Prolonged applause.)
In the primaries of southern Idaho
submitted this question to the voters
and went to Pocatello with 124 in
delegates. instructed by the
respective county conventions to vote
or me in that convention. l did not
90 with less than fifty, l went with
"a.
When / got to Pocatello there were
10 delegates handed to me from the
southeast. / found. when arrived,
hat Shoshone county. although not
Instructed for ne. had 16 delegates
wearing my badges. and were ready to