Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-01-13

or more of space to name them all,
when they are already so well known
and so active?
Many Conferences.
After midnight and daylight con-
ferences. and conferences into the
small hours after midnight and be-
fore daylight, the statement was con-
veyed to the faithful: 1--WE have
Brady beat; ONeil is the favorite
in every county in north Idaho ex-
cept Idaho county. and we have not
been down there yet"
But there is not a friend of local
option in the entire list named, if
Harris support of the measure that
passed be excepted support which
came only after it was ascertained
that there were enough democratic
senators who would support the
pending bill even though a majority
of the republican senators should
break away from their caucus action,
as was at more than one time
threatened. Therefore, it may not be
taken as conclusive that what these
gentlemen say about it, represents
the sentiments of the people of those
counties
These same men viii return north
and give out the statement that the
south is united against Brady-that
he has no friends left, that the senti-
ment against him is Overwhelming.
A condid and impartial study of the
situation fails to reveal the truth of
these statements, either in the north
or in the south
Et Tu, GOoding.
If these gentlemen would confine
themselves to the statement that the
politicians are almost unit against
Brady, they would be pretty well
within the facts. With but few ex-
ceptions. this is true Even Gooding,
the man whose fate was saved by
Brady, for whom Brady sacrificed
much in time, money and ambition
even Gooding, the prohibitionists, is
against Brady and is quietly doing all
that he can to foment trouble.
Godding is not for O'Neil, however.
Gooding is for nobody but Gooding
and those who are for Gooding.
"Gooding is jealous of Brady" said
a man who keeps as well posted in
political affairs as any man in the
state, and who is not Brady man,
either. "Gooding is chock full of
ambition yet" continued this man.
He wants to go to the United States
Senate, and he believes he can beat
any other candidate. but he is ex.
tremely anxious to kill Brady Off
not because he hates Brady so much,
but merely because Brady, he thinks.
is in the way
The Real Fight.
But whatever else the contending
factions in the republican party may
say at this time. whatever efforts
they may make to conceal the fact,
however hard they may attempt to
sidestep it. the real fight in the re-
publican party this year will not be
between Brady and O'Neil. or be-
tween Brady and anybody else, or
between O'Neil and anybody else
The real fight will come. even if it
is not now in full force. between
factions arrayed because the pledge
made in the last republican state
platform to enact an effective county
local option law was kept
Those opposed to that law. though
they may say they were not opposed
to it, Will be found working alongside
those who may say that they fav-
ored the enactment of the law but
are not in favor of putting it into
effect in the counties; that is, that
they favor a local option law on
principle, but oppose prohibition
under it.
Those favoring that law in the re-
publican party. that is. those really
ia favor of prohibition under the law
will be arrayed on the other side.
Democrats Likewise Minded.
The democratic party is not suficf
emily alive yet to begin making
noise, but it is safe to say when il
opens its drowsy eyes it will find
its followers aligned in very much
the same way. Those opposed t6
the local option law and to prohibi
ton under it, viii be found on tn,
other side
The first great battles will b'
fought out in the primaries. wher,
, people in this state, for the first time
Will walk up to the polls and cas-
: their ballot representing their actua