The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-16
OH! BORAH, BORAH,
WHAT DEAL NEXT?
Rank and File Church Republi-
cans in Idaho Are Asking
This Question.
YOU HAVE BEEN ON
ALL SIDES THIS YEAR
What, Oh BOrah, Can the
People Look for Next
From You?
Special TO The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
BOISE, Ida, Sept. l5.-The Repub-
licans are all confused over the status
of affairs in Idaho. They are uncertain
as TO the terms of the many hidden
deals which brought Borah and Gooding
together at Pocatello.
The rank and file of the party are
now holding up their hands in holy hor-
ror and saying to each other: "Oh
Borah, Borah, Borah, what deal next
must We look for from you7' "You
started out 20 modify the tariff, but
you Immediately abandoned that con
tentlon. Then you started out to break
down the Republican machine, and at
the behest of the Salt Lake hierarchy
you became part of it, when the
misty photograph of you as United
States Senator rolled in sight. Then
you announced that Roosevelt would be
the issue in this campaign, and imme
diateW you trade of your devotion to
his favored theory Of benefit for the
great West and stand out with the
President most bitter antagonist on
the forestry reserve issue. What. oh
Borah, what can we look for next9 Take
us gently into your confidence and pre-
pare us for these sudden changes OF
hearth
Treachery Is Feared
Ruick 8 attack on John Henry Smith
in the Idanha hotel here during the
Irrigation congress has opened the argu-
ment among Borah s following that the
Mormons are treacherous and may not
be intending to keep their promise to
elect Borah. They fear, like Ruick ex-
pressed it, that their design is to defeat
Dubois, their open enemy, at the polls
and then later to defeat Borah, their
secret enemy, in the Legislature, causes
them alarm.
Chairman Brady's last interview in
southeastern Idaho seems to lend color
to this suggestion in that he did not
view with any alarm the break in
north Idaho because (as he put iO it
only applied TO the county ticket. This
gives Borah g friends the cold chills,
based upon the fear that Brady Cat the
behest Of the Mormons), will run the
headquarters here in the interests solely
OF his friend, Gooding, and the re-
mainder of the State candidates of the
Republican ticket, which Brady and
Gooding selected and the convention
approved (after submitting the list for
the approval of the Mormons) at the
Pocatello convention.
Gooding- -Borah Feud.
The deadly hatred existing between
Gooding's following and Borah s fol-
lowing uOeS NOT suDSluc. II is lHlpOsei-
bic to make warm political cohorts out
of cold political opponents of long
standing, by magic wave of the all
powerful Mormon hand over the heads
of these different contending political
forces.
Their Pocatello deal, based entirely
on the spoils of Office, of which Good
ing, Borah and the Mormon church are
to be the sole bencfciaries, does not ap-
neal TO the rank and file of the Repub
lican voters of the State of Idaho.
Borah now accepts Hepburn s forest
reserve attitude, which is opposed to
President Roosevelt s views and TO Sen
ator Dubois's views, and as result
of this additional trade among the lead
ers of the Republican party, Hepburn
has modified his original determination
to make but three speeches in the cam
paign; he will now make twenty
speeches.