The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-02
DESPERATE WORK
TO SQUARE ITSELF
Boise Statesman Is Now Twist
ing Around to Justify
DespicabIe Stand.
DOES NOT HESITATE
TO DO CRAWFISH ACT
False Statements Fill Columns
to Boost Candidacy of
Gooding.
Special TO The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
WEISER, Oct. 1.-The Boise States
man is getting desperate. Having moth
ing else to say for its party, it IS now
attempting to deny the assertions made
by its owner and managing editor un-
der oath during the progress of the
Smoot investigation in Washington ci-
tv. At that time Mr.. Cobb, proprie-
tor of the Statesman and VIM. Bladder
son, managing editor, stated that they
knew of their own personal knowledge
that the Mormon church did interfere
IN the politics of the State of Idaho,
now they are trying to crawfish out of
it by stating that certain dignitaries Of
the Mormon church have done certain
things for which they have been Sc
verely criticised, but they are matters
which will be regulated by the church
jtself-God save the mark-without the
interference of the people.
How ridiculous this sounds to the
people of Idaho who know full well
how the matter will be settled by the
church They know well that tho Nor
mon church is already settling these
matters and settling them TO the. sat
isfaction of the church and not of the
people. They know that if they sit
down patiently and wait for them to be
1iehted by the church as suggested by
the Statesman the hierarchy Will get
q hold upon the State that 1T will take
wears Of work on the part of the people
to get rid of it. Such statements are
ridiculous on their face and the States
man knows it but in order to say some
thing that will bolster up the cause OF
its masters is willing to make itself III
diculous In the eyes of the intelligent
people of the State who have formerly
regarded its statements as worthy or
credence.
Under False Colors.
The Statesman is endeavorlng to
make the people believe that Mormon :
ism is not an issue In the campaign,
but is created an issue by Senator Du-
bois to assist him in his effort for re-
election to the Senate. That journal
will not make many persons believe
that, even the Republicans know that
it is a live and burning issue, although
many of them shut their eyes to Its
menaces. AS stated by prominent
Republican at the Opera house IN this
city recently, it is an issue that the
Republican party in Idaho can no long
err close their eyes TO if they expect to
maintain their organization In the
State.
In its issue of the 29ih, 1t again
slops over in its silly gush about the
necessity Of re-electing Gov. Goodlng.
Among other silly things, 1t says that
security of life and property IN Idaho
rests upon his reelection. What rot!
AS though Judge Stockslager or any
other law-abiding man could not pre-
side over and protect the life and prop
erty Of its citizens as we'll as the man
who now rattles around In the Guber-
material chair like a mustard seed III
pumpkin shell. 1t is a disgrace to
the citizenship of Idaho that its lead
ing journal should make the assertion
that there is- but Que man In 1t who
is capable of being its Governor. TWO
years ago this same journal SAID or
the man whom it now lauds to the
skies that he scarcely had the ability
mud education to look after the welfare
of band of his own sheep.
The Republican State Central com
mittee has engaged Senator Hepburn
to canvass the State, but now they are
sorry they did Hepburn has the pc
culiar faculty of saying the wrong
thing at the right time. His declara'
tion the other day in one of his
speeches that the test oath is still d
part of the constitution of the State of
Idaho and that it did not need an act
of the Legislature TO make IT IN force
has cast bombshell IL the Republican
ranks, and the leaders are falling over
themselves in their effort to rectlfy
the Senator bad break and square
themselves with their Mormon allies
Borah Not Popular.
There is we'll grounded suspicion
In the minds of many persons IN Idaho
that Senator Hepburn would not shed
many tears if Mr.. Borah should be de
feated in his race for the Senate. II
fact it is intimated that he would mo-
be averse TO placing few stumbling
blocks In his way, hoping thus to de
feat him and eliminate him from th'
race for his toga two years hence
Whatever may be said Of Hepburn, h
is not lacking in sbrewdness and poht
ical acumen.
In it's further efforts to help to cx
tricate it's party from the desperate
straits into which it has fallen in con
sequence of it's unholy alliance with tn
Mormons, the Statesman stoops T.
falsehood in asserting that in 100
Senator Dubois entered into an alianc
with the ynamiters-meaning th
Couer 'Alene miners-and encourage,
them in their lawless methods. Ever
citizen Of Idaho, be he or she Reput
Ican or Democrat, knows this is no
true as no moro lawabidiug or peace
loving citizen stands on American so
today than Senator Fred L. Dubois, an
when his political enemies make sue
an assertion against him they al
simply strengthening him IN his tgh
P. & B. Paint makes your old iro
work look like. you ID been investing
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