The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-08-08
GOV. GOODING TO
EX..SEN. DUBOIS

The following open letter from
Governor Gooding, addressed to Ex-
senator Dubois, needs no explanation.
rhe Governor calls things by their
right names and he does not appear
to have suffered in the least.
To Fred T. Dubois:
| notice your articel on me, in the
Scimitar of June 81, is headed THE
Passing of Gooding." The difference,
Mr.. Dubois, between myself and you Is
that while l may be passing" you
have already passed" 1t is we'll for
the people of Idaho that this is so.
| have no apology to make for my
political career as state chairman or
governor. My merits or demerits l
shall leave to the judgment of the
people whose servant l am. l should
greatly regret it, if your statement
that the people of the state had lost
all respect for me was true; and 1t
would be only fair, If before making
such an assertion, you had pointed out
the things l have done which have
brought me the contempt and disre-
pect of the people.
There is one sentence of your arti-
Gle | want to call to your especial at
tention, in which you say: When one
To
support OF others, the Mormons aban-
doned him." 1t seems to me that this
is entirely to the credit of the Mormon
people. Let us look at the political
history of Idaho and see when the
Mormons abandoned you. 1t was just
at the time when the entire state lost
respect for you-when you entered in
to the arrangement for the pardon of
Paul Corcoran, serving sentence I'M
der a conviction of murder-the sole
consideration demanded by you for Sc
curing this pardon being the votes of
the Western Federation of Miners.
The people have not forgotten how
well you kept that agreement and dis
graced the state of Idaho Have you
forgotten that when asked what the
people would think of such an act,
you answered: "Oh, they will forget
it all within the next two years"
want to say, Mr.. Dubois, the people
have not forgotten, nor will they ever
forget your insult to law and order
and to common decency.
Nor have the people forgotten, Mr..
Dubois, the shame and disgrace your
| private secretary-the man who now
| edits your paper brought on the
penitentiary. 1t is this class of men
| that seems to be at a premium with
you, as you picked Mr.. Arney up after
an investigation that was a stencil in
the nostrils of decency, and made him
your private secretary For you he Is
fit associate. Let me say something
more to you, Mr.. Dubois, that IL a
leader should ever be needed in Idaho
for a moral crusade, you would not
be that leader. Some of your own
acts are too we'll known to the people
While others in this state have been
willing to give all for the fair name of
Idaho, you have dragged that name in
the mire from one end of the country
to the other. You have villified the
state and its people, and have caused
the finger Of scorn to be pointed at 1t
from every state in the union, by CIV
ing expression to the most villinous
falsehoods ever uttered regarding a
state and its Inhabitants. You have
held Idaho up to the ridicule Of the
whole nation, with only one thought in
mind-that 1t might advance your own
selfish political fortunes. You have
turned many honest citizens away
from the state by the story you have
painted of alleged conditions here,
making it appear as an unfit abiding
place for respectable Christian men
and women. You have cast slur on
the state that it will take years to re-
move, and you should be branded as
an enemy Of decency and good gov
eminent.
1 have a high regard for the Nor
omn people. AS body they may safe
ly be counted as among the good citi-
zens of the state. If have lost caste
with John Hart, who tore up the anti
pass bill in open session of the senate,
and with his kind, am glad of 1t; for
I know that he does not represent the
true sentiment of the Mormon people
in this matter. hope that have the
respect of the Mormon people as a
whole, for prize it highly.
You will find that I am not pass
ing" Mr.. Dubois. NV health was new