Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1906-10-13
Voice from audience: We won't be-

the assertion Would any citizen OF
Idaho have a person who was direct
~ or indirectly guilty or In any man
ner connected with the perpetration
Of that awful outrage, the murder OF
| Ex-Governor Steunenberg. 90 unWhip-
ped Of justice? l know no voice will
be raised on behalf OF such a crime.
VIII any man, having studied the du-
1 ties OF the executive officers Of state
government charge that the governor
Of Idaho has violated the law in APP
pretending those to whom the finger
of evidence pointed as probably guiltyY
/ think not Have they apprehended
them? VIII any man charge that they
have not been dealt with since their
apprehension as the law directs? 1
think they viii not. II they will not, of
what do they complain? What senti-
ment would be behind a complaint
against an officer who has performed
the duty that the law laid upon him
In apprehending criminals and turning
them over to that other great tribunal
that will deal as fairly with them as
the blind goddess holds the scales true
10 the center. Held in prisonl Where
would you hold man charged with
so heinous a crime after he had been
indicted by grand jury Of your own
fellow citizens. TO discredit the prob
ability upon which they are held for
l
citizens who sat upon the grand jury
discharging their duty under their oath.
Delay in trial. They brought II on
themselves. They took an appeal from
the Judgment of the United States
circuit court. They appealed to the
United States supreme court against
the judgment of that court, knowing
knowing that under the law the trial
could not proceed until the appeal had
been disposed Of. And they took that
appeal so near the end of the term
of the United States supreme court
that they. felt confident that no de-
cision could be rendered until October
That court meets on the first Monday
OF October.
am not going to try a murder case
every time l speak in this campaign
but here in this community where
have heard IL more than once and
where 1 have seen 1t in print more thar
once that these men were being de-
: prived of some right which you and
have under the law / feel impelled tC
lay the case squarely before you. Dc
you doubt the efficiency of yourselves
to deal with these questions? Do you
doubt the honesty OF the jurors tina
are composed of you and your fellow
. citizens? Every one of you as a citi
zen Of the United States is liable L
perform jury duty you might be on
of these jurors. Would you want you
fellow citizens to appear against yol
and say that you would be perjure'
i jurors, that you would not give then
, a fair trial2 Is any man entitled Z
: more than a fair trial? Do you wan
! them to have favors extended L
, them?
: Now take the case as / just presente
! il and keep it in your minds and whe
III
lican party and its nominee for gov
ernor that men are being deprived @
justice at his hands repeI 1t from you
: minds because there is no word of trut
in such charge. (Applause).
70 Business Administration.
Z, How well the business affairs of tn
- state of Idaho have been administers
y you perhaps know as well as l.
, have reviewed them as one who bein
= absent from the state the greater pal
- of the time, must take the statement
p that are furnished about whose trut
- and authenticity there is no doubt.
y read in those statements confidence. el
. ficiency and conscientious performanS
I. of duty. l read in those Statement
= the record of We'll done thou serval
~ OF the people"
y He is before you to be voted for al
other term. Can you ind good re'
son for rejecting man who has mat
e such a record as Frank r. Gooding hi
y, made as governor of this state? TIL
le is no hour in which to be controll'
e by personal feeling unsustained
ia Judgment. These are public question
~ The office of the Governor Of the sta
ia of Idaho, especially to the people
Oh the city where the capitol is locate
II. Is very trying one. He is under 20
le eyes every day. Men, countless M
As and women are asking him to
ne things, do this and that, or to refra
IS from doing this and that. The tris
ls to him are sharp ones. The duty
10 arbitrary and yet plain one and
n must perform IL not according to {
IN miscellaneous although the console
IL tious judgment of a community. b
ke according to his own judgment, on
+ own responsibility, and you must ma
II allowances for difference of opiniC
ne but you must yield to the judgment
en- those you have chosen to be JUICES.
ne The state officers that have be
IL chosen by the Republican party as I
n candidates in this contest are m
n tried in public duty, found compete
ne not ACCORDING to the judgment Of
p men but according to the judgment
Ii the men who have been best situat
py to Judge of their fitness. Those we
OF the men that the party sent to F
se you are the people who sent the
he They were your agents. You sent th'
down there to select candidates
ne those various offices in the state, a
to they acted conscientiOusly. If they {
1 not IL reflects on you who sent the
VS. You had no business to send men W
on will act in any other manner to
At state convention. II is your duty
m self governing citizens to see to II Il
II the men you send to conventions {
in good men. l believe in the major
me rule / believe In the majority of
~ own party, be II for me or against I
10 and II has been both ways during
les lifetime. (Applause). l have learr
I'M that the great underlying principle
oh this government is majority rule. n
,se jority in contests between the part
an majority in contests within the parti
Contests within the parties are
to be denied. They are not contests
determination, they are contests for
80. sition. When l use that term posit
use It in the relative sense. CO
~ tests between the Republican pa
~ and the Democratic party are &C
~ tests for humiliation. That is the
~ ference between a contest within "
70 party and a contest between your pa
ne and another party. l do not me
iuS humiliation of the individuals.