The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-23
Former Governor and United
States Senator Has a Few
Words to Say.
INDICTMENT OF BORAH
WOULDN'T SURPRISE HIN
Thinks Hepburn viii Be Re-
turned to the Senate; the
Haywood Trial.

shouldn Z be at all surprised If
Senator Borah has been Indicted bv
grand jury. NV early recollection Of
sacred history is that Jesus Christ was
once indicted, and. If He were on
earth today, T haven 7 the slightest
doubt that he would be indicted
again
Thus spake William !. Mcconnell.
former Governor of and former United
States Senator from Idaho. at the Will
SOD hotel Friday night In passing. il
should be remarked that Governor Nc
Counell is Senator Borah 3 father-in-
law and views with disspproving eve
what he regards as the Vaccinations
of the Senator s political enemies
1.-The truth is, went on Governor
Mcconnell. "that Senator Borah has
been attorney for some timber compa
nies. He has never taken any timber
land himself, and he has seen to il that
neither his wife nor his secretary took
any He is lawyer of standing at
the bar, and il is not to be presumed
that he advised his clients to violate
District Attorney Ruick could get him
Indicted -
"Is Mr.. Ruick his enemyi" was
''I infer So. replied Governor Nc.
Connell laconically
Thinks Hepburn Will Win.
Asked as to Idaho politics. Governor
Mcconnell expressed the opinion that
Senator ". 3. Hepburn viii he re-
elected when his present term expires.
''T see no reason he said, "why
we should drop a man who has made
n creditable record in the Senate. q
man who is reckoncd as one of the able
men of that body, to try an experiment.
don't think the. people see any rea-
son for it, either
"'How about the alleged Senatorial
ambitions Of Governor Gooding and
State Chairman BradyH' was asked.
"Well.' said the Governor, who ls
not enamored Of the peppery Gooding.
- Governor Gooding is serving his sec
ond term as Governor. / don sup.
pose he viii ask for another term, and
I have no idea that he could get it If
he did. ! don't know anybody in Ida
no who regards him as senatorial tim
ber. That also applies to Mr.. Brady.
He ism Z regarded as being in the sena-
torial class; but he may be the next
and that is what the office Of Governor
requires. " and the man who was him
self Governor Of Idaho twice looked as
though he knew what he was talking
about
4" second elective term for President
Roosevelt
"T,m for him" he said "because
he is an active, aggressive mar. lie
NAV be mistaken in some of his con
clusions. but he is fearless; and | would
rather have a fearless man who makes
a mistake sometimes than one of your
wishv-washy fellows that you can never
put your fingers on
He Would Hang Orchard.
Governor Mcconnell was rather re-
luctant about commenting on the Hay
wood trial, but ne did talk about Or
chard. ,,, :,
'sThe people of Idaho" he said.
"would strongly resent the granting
of the SLIGHTEST immunity for Orchard.
There isn't gallows in the state too
hiph TO hang him on. No man who
has made the confession of crime which
he has made should be granted any sort
Of immunity.
''Tbe Haywood case is up TO the jury
10 pass upon, and il doesn Z become me
IN discuss il while il is on trial. 1t
appears, however. that Orchard com
mitted great many crimes; that he
| dovotcd a considerable portion of his
time to the pursuit of crime. and that
somebody must have been paying his
oyncpses. Whether Haywood was do
ing so is question for the jury to
Governor NcConncll's home is al Mos
COW in North Idaho; but he is spend"
ing most of his time in operating
mining property in the Lost river coun.
try in Custer county. At three score
wears and ten he has started out to
regain the big fortune he lost in the
panickv DAYS of 1897, and; to all aP,
| pearances, he is as lively ana as rugged
o. no vas in the halcvon days when
! he was. along with George a, Shoup
and other stalwarts. a leader Of Re
! nublican politics in Idaho.