The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-01-18
The Troubles of the Machine.

Newspapers of Idaho are giving some attention to
the controversies of the politicians ring at the State
House, as they have right to-, and are discussing
the differences between the bosses according to the
light as it is given them or the darkness in which
they may grope
The Occur d'Alene Press believes that the letter
in which the Governor fays the Auditor will prove
interesting reading to the people, coming at the time
of the acquittal of Pettibone regardless of their
personal feeling in these The Press remem-
bers that the people furnished the Governor money
without stint for the prosecution of the Federation
suspects and says it does not become him to befog
the issue after conspicuous and expensive failure.
Continuing, The Press remarks:
The question of convicting the assassins OF Frank
Steunenberg is not at issue in the official family row
between the Governor and Auditor and the Gov
ernors letter will have other effect than to con
vince the people that he is attempting to throw dirt
in their eyes for the purpose OF binding them to the
real facts
The people wish to see the murderers of the late
Governor Steunenberg run down and punished. The
Governor promised to do this and it comes with poor
grace from him to attempt to shit the responsibility
for failure at this time
In the opinion of the American Falls Press, "a
certain class of newspapers has taken advantage
of "an arrangement between some of the occupants
of the State House. to formulate charges against
the executive head of the commonwealth. But the
American Falls paper alleges that the reply OF the
Governor has the true ring and should put stop
to gossip"
1t will be we'll, though, not to overlook the fact
that all the gossip that centers about the charges
has been furnished by or another OF the es-
ranged" and that the Certain class of newspapers
have drawn their information from conspirators OF
old. who are cleansing their linen with the laundry
open to the gaze of the public
The American Falls publication is SO far gone IN
its admiration of the official brought to bay to
compare Governor Gooding to Abraham Lincoln, an
example of subserviency that will be shocking to
the sensib1ities of the admirers of the canonlzed
emancipation
The Nampa Leader-Hera1d is not at all wordy on
the subject being willing to rest its with the
assertion that it is Gin accord with the action taken
bv Governor Gooding in insisting upon prosecuting
the Federation cases.
Quite number of people not partisans OF the
Governor take the same view, the Nampa paper
is not in a class by itself.
After the accusations had been brought, all the
good citizens of the State favored judicial inquiry to
the limit just it has been made AS the Occur
dA1ene Press says, the trials referred to were not
the issue upon which the disgracefu chickering's of
the official combine were based
The Pocatello Mail frankly says that it has mo
sympathy with either faction, it appears to be
case wherein both sides exposed in wrong-doing.
The Mail evidently has some further opinions of its
own in relation to the of the unhappy con-
troversy that has so sadly disarranged the wheels
of the machine, for it says:
For instance, the State Auditor, Robert Bragaw
has been drawing salary from the State OF 5000
per month; his wife, Mrs. Bragaw, has been taking
from the State treasury her monthly salary OF SlOO
per month, and Robert Bragaw, Jr, son. up until
recently has been giving his services to the people