The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-16
GOODING is WORKING FOR "DRY''
IDAHO IN LOCAL OPTION ELECTION

option be accepted By the voters of the
county.
The two dramatic figures in the present
campaign are eN-GoYernor Gooding for
the ''drys' and O. w Lawson OF Boisc
for the vets
Good!ng is campaigning tho county in
his automooile, making tNo and three
speeches 4 day. While Lamson is going
quietly through the county on a ''still
hunt"
The governor is we'll known here as
latter as secretary Of the Business Men
and Taxpayers league OF Ada county
during the recent conflict at Boise, won
some spurs.
speaking itinerary through Lincoln coun-
" by ID, l.. BoJlcv OF Meridian and c. l..
licllman, pastor Of the NJ Il. church OF
ShoShone They arc accompanied by
male punrtettc. which sings appropriate
songs
There are nine saloons in Lincoln couu-
y. In GoodIng there are none, But
attempt TO enforce the LAW against one
who sold liquor. One Lecper, proprietor
of pool room, where soft drinks" are
sold: mH Was arrested for selling bottle OF
chaser went directly from his place OF
business 10 a notarys office and labeled
tho bottles. made affidavit to the facts
OF his obtaining them. and mentioned 4
witness who was presumed by hin, 10 be
II co-dctcctivc In making the discovery.
\ warrant OF arrest was issued from
The probate court At shoshonc, and OH
The day oi the trial jury was demand
ed the co-detectiyc side stepped" in his
testimony, and an acquittaI resulted.
But The local option law Is very strin-
der it will he much easier to make sue
@csStul. There Is no such law In any
Of the Union OF States this ono In
Idaho, aud the plan for its enforcement
| linz. ./la
! IN the following statement
As the time approachc for the local
op'ion Jaw TO apply TO the counties which
have accepted IT, we will effect a law en-
torccnent organization. and hN the en-
ployment OF detectives will make those
who arc violating the law go out OF the
liquor selling business wherever they
may be And Doctor Hellman is A man
| OF courage. who can organize fight that
Is altogether worth while.
This Lincoln county situat ation Is quite
clear, There is but one hope for the
vets" TO win il. and that is that there
arc six or seven hundred mon working on
ditch gangs at Miner, Gooding and Rich
field all of whom must vote wet" In
''drys." This idea Is not credited seri-
ously, for il Is argued that the large
percentage OF the Miner outfit is Greeks
Who cannot vote, and that very many of
the Goodins and Hlchflcld force are
transient while sll OF them are not in
clined against local option. Ii is quite
clear that tins county. On the 18th. Will
| vote dry.
IL Governor Gooding's address al Mini
doka last evening he appealed 20 the au-
| dience 10 raise the standard Of morals in
! Lincoln county by wlpfng out the saloons
and argued earnestly that there was no
politics In The flght. but purely one issue
to be Scttied: that is. the home versus
the saloon. He charged that not only
We're the saloon forces being organized
| by the brewery interests through Lawson
| OF Boise and Jake Lochman. the owner
| of the Nampa brewery. but that his town
! had been visited by Robert j. Hayes of
! Pocatello in the interests OF tho defeat OF
| local option In Lincoln county. Mr.
| Hayes is well~known factor In Idaho
| Republican politics and one whose engi-
| neering powers FOR the nomination of
| Gooding Ms governor. both times he ran
and for the nomination OF Brsdy-aIso
now a local optionist-wcrc generally
credited with success.
Governor Goodinr appears to he as
much In earnest in this struggle as In
! years gone by in his ad'socacy of Rcpub-
! licap principles. through which he urged
The voters TO place his party in power
! in Idaho.