The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-20
Idaho Senator DenOunces JO-
seph F. Smiths Revolving
Manner of Life.
BRADY -G00DING GANG
FRIGHTENED BY OUTLOOK
Question in Idaho Is Well De-
fined; SmOOtiSm
Must Go.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
BOISE, Ida, Sept 19.-Senator Hey
burns talk on the nature of the tes-
timony of the high ecclesiasts at Wash
ington during the Smoot trial lends aid,
comfort and encouragement to the Dem
ocrats in the State, who are vigorously
opposing the Mormon church in its
opera tions in Idaho this fall lie char
actcrized Smith s testimony ms revolving
and every feature of his countenance,
his attitude and his voice showed the
strong feeling he had as to the nauseat-
ing character of Smith s testimony and
as to the disgusting life he was living.
as the head representative OF sour.
rilous political-rehgious regime, or
which he is the most conspicuous con
spirator Heyburn S reference TO tins
matter drove conviction TO the hearts
of his hearers that Senator Duools
speech of few nights before was not
only scripturally true, but that he and
his party were fully warranted by the
facts in making this the paramount is'
sue Gas il isl with the voters OF the
Commonwealth of Idaho in the present
political campaign.
This recalls TO the minds of the old
time Republicans of the State the vlg-
orous attack which Hepburn made when
n delegate TO the Moscow Republican
State Convention in 1892, when that
convention passed resolution pledging
its next Legislature TO strike from the
statutes of Idaho the operative features
Of the ''test OATH
Opposed to Smoot.
Nobody who heard Hepburn in his adj
dress believes that his utterances were
susceptible of any other construction
! than that of opposition to Apostle
Senator Smoot, when il comes time for
him TO act in his Senatorial capacity,
on the pending motion Of Senator Du-
bois now in the Senate, that Smoot Is
not proper person to occupy seat IN
I the United States Senate from tho
! State of Utah, That being so, the lines
are superbly fixed between the right
and wrong of the Mormon issue In Ida
no today. Brady, Gooding, Borah and
company were all disturbed beyond
measure at this portion of Senator Hey
burn s. address. They are OF the stripe
that condoncs anything that viii ele-
ideals which are higher than their
greed for political preferment, and they
! are willing to fasten upon the State of
! Idaho the dominant power OF this trca-
sonabe organization in order to acccn-
tuatc their own political aggrandiZc.
| mcnt. HeyDurn mas hlEh regard 1Or
! the WE'LL being of this Commonwealth
and the preservation of the spirit and
letter of the test oath, provided in the
Constitution OF the State of Idaho,
Wish He Had Kept Still.
Borah. Gooding, Brady, French &
Co, wish that Hepburn had not said
what he did against their partners in
misery, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Lnttcr-day Saints. and the State Central
committee is said to be industriously
laboring with him to coase giving ut
terance 10 these features of his address
in the future itinerary which he is
scheduled to make over Idaho. 1t is
doubtful whether they can crush Mr.,
planted his standard on high ground,
and as n rule, he is not man who
will reccdc from II lofty position which
ho takes on account of principle.
1t is going to be hard for Mr., Brady