The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-08-08

Bprah, however, has six years befof
him IN the senate. He was neye
more than a retained lawyer in tb
ease, and, unlike Goodlng, he neye
favored making political issue o
the Stennenberg prosecutions n,
the time bis term expires In the sen
ate the people may forget the Hay
wood fiasco.
4 but II Is Governor Cooling, NOR,
than anybody else. who has been cru
Iciied politically by the HAYWOOD
trial The prosecution was a Good
ing prosecution from sthe beginning
The night Steuaenberg was assassi
mated Cooling, who was then FACING
poiitica! destruction, saw change n
make great political coup. He took
personal charge OF the investigation.
fof The crime, hired detectives and
spent money like water to run down
the alleged mlrderers. Everything
was Done in the limelight, with a
iuil quota Of press agents, photo.
graphers and tem-tom heaters. Sen.
satIon followed sensation. Every.
thing was done to the accompapi.
ment OF brass band Orchard con.
iessed, and bis confession was herald.
ed to the world. The arrest OF the
three alleged eonspirators was accom-.
plished with all the yellow features
that vivid imagination could con-
jnre.
With the thee men safe In iaii
Tue announcement was made that to
insure law and order In Idaho the re-
election OF Gooding was imperative.
The man was distastefnl to the great
majority of his party. But he had
the Mormons solidly, and this fact.
together with the bulabaIoo be had
Kicked up over the Steunenbery case.
and which the Statesman had kicked
up for him, brought about his re-
nomination, although to win at the
Pocateilo convention Ire had TO con.
cede a convention nomination FOR
Senator ". f. Borah, Heretofore his
enemy. This was one Of the things
which the Statesman exacted.
Then with Ipblushing shameless
ness, Gooding dragged Frank Steunep-
oerg's corpse into the campaign. and
proclaimed that his defeat would be
a triumph for lawlessness and disor,
der and dynamite. He ignored the
fact that he was hooked up with
Mormon outlawry and lawbreakinc
in the southeastern counties OF the
state. He ignored the fact that
Chief Justice Stoekslager, the demo.
cratic and anti Mormon nominee.
was one OF the most conservative.
level-headed and law abiding citizens
Of Idaho. His campaign degenerated
into maudlin plea fer votes on the
law and order issue. and the governor
himself presented tine undipnified
spectacle Of trying a murder trial on
every political stump in the state.
This Law and order issue furnished
President Roosevelt with an excuse |
10 aid his friends, the Mormons. He
sent Secretary Taft into Idaho to |
plead for GoOding's election on the
ground OF law and order. The real
purpose of Taft's trip was to carry
cut Roosevelts deal with the Nor
mon hierarchy. 1t accomplished lit
tie or nothing except to disclose the |
real attitude Of the president.
Gooding was reelected, but not on |
his record in the Steunenberg case. |
although his cohorts at once set up
The cry that law and order had been |
by his reelection. The
semitic counties, where men voted |
heir convictions without interfer-
snce, gave stitT majority against
him; but the practically unanimous
'ote OF the Mormon counties saved
him. The result OF the election hu-
Guoding and cut him to the
Iuick, reelected though he was. but
re had some hope for the future IL
iayw God were convicted.
A change OF venue was granted In
he HAYWOOD case to Ada county, the
enter OF the wealth, the culture and
he conservatism of Idaho. The peo.
lie of Ala county, true, had shown
'hat they thought of Gooding's law
nd order issue 10y giving a majority
0 St0ckslager; but IL there is coun.
' in Idaho where there is little or
o sympathy with labor unionism.
nd where conviction CT Haywood
ould have been secured. il Is in Ada
Dunty, where the capital OF the
late is iocated--a county far removed
-om the troubles Of the mining re-
ions and whereof there was any
rejudice in the case lit was against
le defendants. \ jury Of farmers,
additionally hostile TO labor unious,
as empaneied to try the case.
Every circumstance, therefore. 4,
semed to conspire to render Good +,
Ig's humiliation aud defeat when :
ley came more complete and last {
&c lie virtually tried Haywood in
court Of his own choosing: the ID
Try was one predisposed toward con- |
ction. Ard yet this court aud jury e