Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1907-08-15
ALLIES DESERT HIM.

POlltlcs IN tho republican party
are happening thick and fast in
the southern part Of the state.
Old line republicans are pointing
to Gooding and shouting che did
it."
A political wreck, without hope
Of salvage, the governor sta nds prac-
tically alone. His allies have been
deserving him one by one, and
those who at one time essayed to
champion his cause, are seeking
other political berths.
State Auditor Bragaw has refus-
cd to draw any more deficiency
warrants for the governor, and
standing with the auditor are At
torney General Guheen and even
Secretary of State Lansdon. The
Mormons in the southeast, whose
votes alone elected him last year,
have turned against him and are
wrathy.
Infatuated over this detection OF
his former political associates,
Gooding has set about in wild
endeavor to batter down all opposi
ton. He is reported to have
"feelers" out in all parts of the
state sounding the members Of the
legislature, for the purpose of as
certaining whether they would
stand for an additional appropria-
ton to carry on the prosecut tons
against Meyer and Pettibone,
should he call special session.
Not only is he trying to reach
the legislators through personal cor.
respondence and through friends,
but, it is said, he has sent out a
part of his well-known detective
force on missions Of inquiry among
the law makers.
But the results thus far have
not been satisfactory. When the
legislature provided for she defici-
ency Of over $50, 600 and then made
an additional appropriation of $50,
600, the members were told that
this would be ample to carry the
prosecutions through.
Now that Haywood is acquitted
a further appropriation would sim
ply arouse the wrath OF the tax
payers to higher pitch, and the
Legislators are not anxious to throw
the state still deeper in debt.
They figure that the republican
party already has enough sins to
answer for at the 1908 election.
A year ago, to save his political
head, Gooding saw fit to make his
campaign on murder case. He
now fiods himself cornered by the
came issue, on which he sought re-
election. 1t has been a verita BILE
boomerang and none know it bet
ter than the governor.
E. E. Gillespie Of Boise, who
was delegate to the last republi.
can state convention at Pocatello,
in an interview given to the Salt
Lake Tribune, said:
''In the last campaign we had a
law-and-order, made-to order issue
to save the scalps Of the delectable
crew who have about swamped the
republican party with their boss
rule, which was perpetrated at the
POcatello convention.
81 was an insurgent at the Poca-
tello convention. l came down
with a Gooding delegation, but
was not bound to support Gooding,
and did not, either in the con.
vention or at the polls. A more
shameless betrayal of the party and
OF party interests in the interests
OF the few Of this wrecking crew
has never been chronicled to nv
knowledge than the performan css
of the Pocatello convention.
However, this crowd is now
thoroughly discredited, and since
the states prosecution fell down
miserably in the Haywood case,
the deadest political duck in Idaho
is Governor Gooding" Wallace
Times