The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-02
THE IDAHO PRIMARIES.

mon church leaders in Salt Lake City
have not lost their grip on the politics
of that State. Governor Brady is sue
cessful at the primaries by virtue OF
the controlled Mormon church vote. He
was in this city at the Governors con
vcntion and had to take the lie three
several times from Smoot in regard to
matters Of fact which be was undertak-
ing to tell. He did not dare TO resent
the insults, because if he had done SO
Smoot would have had the Mormon
vote turned away from him. Therefore,
Brady submitted quietly, swallowed the
insults, went home and, by the church
leaders help, quietly bagged the Nor.
mon vote.
He needed it. too. because without
that controlled vote he would certainly
have been defeated His course as "A
member of the State Land Board, his
subservience to the Mormon dominance,
has bad faith toward the people OF
Mackay with respect to the bad dam
work at the Lost River Narrows, his
crawling difference to and eulogy of
Parkinson, president of the Oneida
stake in spite of the fact that he must
have known Parkinson TO be thief
and robber, (since repudiated as such
by an apostolic commission from his
own church), set him firmly in the pill
lory of public contempt Men who walk
upright and do not crawl despise with
utter loathing the sort of spinelcss pol
itical sneak that Brady has proved him
self to be
The apparent defeat of Miss Cham
berlain, the present State Superinten-
dent of Instruction, by Miss Shepperd,
is welcome news, and we trust that it
may be confirmed by the complete re-
turns. This, with the other changes,
will probably make bctterment in the
State Land Board that will make for
purity and good service. 1t will also
have decidedly elevating effect upon
the public schools of the State.
The Democratic nominations in Idaho
appear to be good and satisfactory,
and II the party had not gone to pieces
at the last election on the partisan de
cision of the Republican Supreme Court
made apparently for no reason except
to advance the personal political inter
ests of Judge Ailshic in removing from
the campaign his only competitor for
reelection, the Democratic party would
have been this year in an excellent posi-.
tion to win in Idaho. All that that
party needed to do two years ago was
TO keep faith with its own record and
It's own members, run true on the lines
that 1T had chosen, and this year it
would have been "A compact fighting
force, and would have had bright
chance for success
The defeat of the standpatter can
didate for Representative, Mr.. Hamer,
by MIR. French, insureent, is a crafty
ing indication that the Republican party
OF Idaho IS getting into line with the
Republican policies and party control
of the future, in the country at large
The time of the standpatter is gone
by. The insurgent has come to stay
and to take charge. 1t is rather com
zeal to see the dismay of Speaker Can
non, Vice-President Sherman, Paine
Lodge. Aldrich and the rest of the gang.
at the revelations of insurgent strength
as shown in the successive elections
and party declarations throughout the
country. Wherever Republicanism is
alive, active. Jubilant, and powerful it
Is so by virtue of the insureent or pro.
gresslre leaven that is enlivening the
lump. Wherever the standpatters are
In control, as In Ohio, the prospect of
success is gloomy. and defeat looms up
large and menacing at the election. In
New York "the old guard" is horrified
at the idea of the insurgents making
war on the committee IS choice of Vice
President Sherman for temporary chair
man at the Republican State conven-
tion, and raises it's voice in protest
against such radical and revolution
ary procedure. Nevertheless. Mr., Girls
com, in charge of the progressive ele-
ment of the party, hurs back defiance.
and says that if any indignity is in
ficted upon the President of the
United States, that indignity was
brought on by the old guard,'' that
put him into the breach and used him
for its own selfish and malignant pur-
poses. And Mr. Roosevelt s square
adoption of insurgency in his Kansas
speech will make the dry bones rattle
The prospect is that Vice. President
Sherman will go down TO defeat, and
that Roosevelt will walk triumphantly
over his body to the chair of the New
York State convention.
In fact, the way that the politics of
the country are shaping now, there docs
not seem TO be any strength whatever
for the standpattcrs CT "old guard. -
The insurgents arc taking charge every
where, and in insurgency alone does
there seem to be any prospect of sue
cess for the party. The purblnd Utah
bosses are Ignoring insurgency Just now,
exactly as the standpatters ignored it
while they were having gay revel in