The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-11-15

mabcTidl ulutfcuCts uiu eAtst tfuui
1865 until 1895. In the future there
must be two political parties With as
wide divergence In their policies as
the poles. BRYAN Is being ridiculed
by the corporations, and the men
who believe the corporations sbohld
rule, for his advocacy OF government
ownership OF railroads While the
socialists have always believed that
the government should own the rail-
roads, Bryan taking up with this
Idea came rs a surprise TO many, but
the Idea Is bound to grow.
-.
The results of the recent campaign
has established the fact that there Is
a Mormon issue In Idaho. and one Of
huge proportions. II partyisn could
have heen eliminated, or the ques-
tion OF making the test oath effect
I've. without bringing politics into
the question no doubt there would
have been \ greater proportion OF re-
pup.icans have voted rs the majority
Of the democrats voted. When IL Is
considered that Stockslager carried
almost all OF the GENTLE counties,
even by the small majorities by
which he did, IL Is evident that
Cooling owes his election to the SOL
Id vote OF the MOI mon counties. OF
course the republican leaders, evsn
10 this county, will tell Us that the
causc OF Cooling running ten thou
sand votes below what he received
two years ago Is due 70 his personal
unropularity. In sense this may
be true, but II must be admitted
that a large share Of Gooding's un'
popularity was due wholly 10 hi,
!. espousal Of tho Mormon cause. Tn
questionably Mr.. Cooling can nnt
the cause OF his defeat in Ada coun
ty, where he should be especial!
strung, to the Mormon issue and ais,
TO the general feeling that his recot'
on the manipulation of our publi
e domain Is not entirely above aues
u tion.
y The Meyer and Haywood affair Ia
. no doubt host Mr.. Gooding man
votes, many more In fact than he Ina
gained by his pernicious activity
= regard TO the guilt OF these mer
: Until they are proven guilty they nj
|" supposed to be innocent. That Is
70 ma kim Of Law as old as Jurisprudence
/. But when Mr.. Goodina permitte
> himself TO say In his interviews tia
= these men we're guilty OF the heinot
y crime OF the murder OF Frank Steul
~ enberg, before they were placed
70 trial, the laboring men OF this sla
O. considered II an insult to the eau
- Of labor. For that reason he just
v lost many votes that he no don
u would have received. For the 60
!" ernor of a state to get out on Il
Y hustings and declare that he stan
10 for enforcement OF law, and I'M
NC mates that men like Stockslae
a stands for directly the opposite he
W arregating qualities TO himself Will
'f- 1t is safe 10 presume he does not y
~ sess.
he
OF ..
,,s IL was a doctrine which many
m Us could not appreciate nor und
m. stand why the election Of Goodi
len meant that these men would he e
,er yicted OF a crime and turned free
Stockslager was elected. II was p
sumption on the part OF Mr.. Co
Ing TO asy or even intimate that
ne civil courts could not handle th
lat cases OF that the judges would not
or their duty when IL came TO the u
zoe Every good citizen OF Idaho, and
iid Is safe to asy that they predomin
.ic- about ten TO one, trust that tn
MS men will suffer for their crime II u
Ut, are guilty and will be turued loos'
LOT they are innocent. For Mr.. Good
iuh or any other man ~ say or suga
mas that all the virtue Of mankind In
DIS state OF Idaho Is centered within
tic republican party Is supremels ridi
sm lous, yet no doubt there are SC
by people who are Just that prejudice
not
, a
bc One OF the remarkable facts In
hin last election Is that Robert Lansd
and the candidate on the republican u
A. ct for secretary OF state, ran
for ahead OF Gooding In this county;
I he that his vote 10 the state Is well
Use with the rest OF the ticket. IL
IN he remembered that Lansdon is
der indictment for embeEzleme
and Is under bond for his appeara
and Ia court In Washington county.
for only way to account Tor the vote [
e,e. he got is that the enmity sgal
,eet Cooling. where u existed in
ieal minds of the voters that the I-ans
INST case was entirely lost sight OF.
ar. Wis either that or tie Old sdy
and that "Some men would vote u
,,ek ;ellow dog II 1t "as on hi ileket
amy proving tue. Laus'hn VAS Va
or. over from The Iusticc c'pri 10
district cnurt. and sbrn MS