The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-05
idaho ISSUES;
A CRISIS IS ON
The Real Issue Is, Shall There
Be Honest Government
There?
STATE LAND BOARD
Is BADLY DELINQUENT
The People of the Gem State
Are Threatened With
Vicious Graft.
BY G.. E. ARNEy.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special TO The Tribune
BOISE. Ida, Aug. 4.-The Idaho sta te
land board delinquencies is subject
which viii not down! Try as may the
three present members OF the board who
appear as candidates for renomina ton
for their respective offices, they cannot
divert the issue. II is the absorbing topic
In the political arena of this state today
and should the party renominate any OF
the three-James H. Brady for governor.
!. Belle Chamberlain for superintendent,
or ID. c. McDougall for attorney general
the Republican party will be at once on
the defensive. for the people of all Idaho
arc asitated and they will demand a thor
ough investigation OF what has been done
py past state administrations.
speaking cdtorially In its Sunday last
issue the Idaho Daily Statesman, the
says in relation to the state land board
record:
The Republican party will only lose
caste with the public in proportion as
me republican voters may saddle their
ticket with individual office holders whose
actions have been shady.
II seems to the Statesman that the
Idaho issue in the coming campaign may
be summed up in two words Honest
government. "
In this the Statesman is entirely cor
rect! II has less than thirty issues left
IN which to Impress its views on a read
ing clientele, and ii is fair TO state that
In no one issue will il undertake to sug-
eest to the Republican party the wisdom
on placing either Miss Chamberlain or Mr..
Mcioougal on the ticket as candidates of
their party for Endorsement at the polls.
Each. TO say the least. Is involved in
shady state land board transactions.
Each has certainly profted by Inside
information received through the be-
trayal OF that confidence reposed in them
by generous people. Neither OF them
can be elected. II nominated. because they
cannot justify at the bar of public opn-
ion for the Carey act land they have
acquired and for the favors they have
granted. at the expense of the people to
their own appointees.
Bradys Delinquency.
Governor Brady, while not proftinc
financially has profited politically by
questionable deals as the chairman Of the
state land board. He has aided his asso-
ciate members who have profited flnan-
cially in cloaking their pecuations. leav-
ing an inquisitive public to guess what
is the scope Of the fraud committed by
them AT the expense of a deserving pub
lie.
He has refused to admit newspaper men
and taxpayers to meetings of the state
land board when in session on matters of
scandalous character. and he has publicly
justified his course 10 tie protection OF
his compatriots whose acts he has seen
III TO condemn.
The Republican party has a state chair
man. He is the head of his party in
Idaho today. He stood sponsor for Cow
ernor Brady, Superintendent Chamberlain
and Attorney General McDougall In the
that they were unworthy OF the confidence
of his party imposed in him. he stepped
into the race rs a candidate for COVER
nor. This Is Barney O'Neil OF Wallace.