The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-01-02
REBELS FORCE
HEPBURN INTO
IDAHO FIGHT
Gem State Senator Compelled
to Rush Home to Save
Scalp.
ACCEDES TO REQUEST
OF NUMEROUS FRIENDS
ENEMIES TRY TO PLEDGE EIGHT
ZEN LEGISLATORS AGAINST
HIM.
SPECIAL to The HeraIdO

Boise Ida. Jan. 1.-The days develop
ments i'm the Idaho senatorial situation
may ne summarized as follows:
Senator w 3. Hepburn is coming TO
Boise to appeal in person on the scene
Of activity He leaves Washington to-
morrow arriving Wednesday. Hepburn
headquarters opened in Iddn-ha. General
Joseph Perrsult in charge deal Is be
ing promoted by northern leaders and a
state officer to bury the political knife
in the senior senator. Supporters of Sen
ator Hepburn are confident that he will
be reelected.
The following is a copy of Senator Hey
burns message.
washington. D. c., Jan. 1. 1909.
ITO Hon. Joseph J. Perrault, Boise. Ida.
Telegram received. Have every con-
fidence in legislature, but because of
urgent request of friends, will leave for
Boise tomorrow, arriving Wednesday
morning. W. b. HEPBURN
Stand-Patters Will Fight.
That the Hepburn stand-patteTs intend
to be in evidence during the preliminary
skirmish was evidenced today through a
telegram received by Mr.. Perrault from
A. II. Common of Wallace, one of the lead
ing politicians of the state and a staunch
Hepburn man. With the advent of Con-
nor it is eandidly admitted in political
circles that there will be things doing
The northern politician asked that reser-
vations be made at the hotel for a party
of six, all Heyburnites. including the
senior senator's former law partner, John
P Gray, who is an ardent Hepburn
champion, and the politician who was
and did nominate his former law partner
as senator at the Republican state con-
vention last faI- Conner. Gray and Per-
rault will take the Hepburn fight in hand
and it is expected that the trio Will stamp
out all opposition.
Have the Knife Ready.
It was learned this morning on the best
of authority, coTTobOrated in many in
stances through prominent politicians.
that the deal to bury the political knife
in the back of Senator Hepburn has been
launched: and that for the past two days
the scheme has been progressing without
interruption The facts have leaked out,
however, and one Of the most startling
features of the deal is that it originated
in the north-Nez Perce county-and is
now being promoted in the political arena
among the legislators in the capital city
by one of the acknowledged leaders Of a
Republican political wing in that county
with the assistance of a state officer who
was reelected at the last general cleo
ton.
Trot Out Ozark Horse"
In league with this deal is the an
nouncement that a dark horse Is in
reality to be successor OF Senator Hey
Dufn PROVIDED Iildl DldnS 90 tHltrfEli- III
other words, the promoters are using as
a blind the name of one of the party
leaders whom they claim aspires to be
United States senator. and who they
know cannot be elected regardless of the
fact that a large amount of his money,
It is alleged. is at present being expended
BY his lieutenants for the purpose OF
advancing his interests. This aspirant is
said to stand high in the ranks of the
party and had much to do with the ms
nipulation of the recent campaign.
In order to cinch the little game. the
senatorial manipulators in charge of the
deal are only anxious at the present time
to obtain the pledges of eighteen OF the
senators and representatives who viii
not support Hepburn. They then figure
that they can go into the joint session
and defeat the senior senator. The Hey
burn supTcSrters are confident that the
deal will never see the light of day when
it comes to terminating into a successful
issue. In the first place, they state, the
required eighteen cannot be obtained and
that there are not enough senators and
representatives who will be led by the
deal agitators TO violate their pledges.