The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-25
(OOTENA| VOTERS
/ ARE FOR BRADY
But by So Small a Majority
as TO Make Him
Grieve.
HEY DON'T LIKE WASTE
AS HIS STAFF EXPENSE
1awIey Has the Better Position,
but He Cannot Carry
K0Otenai.
BY G, E. ARNEY.

socidal TO The Tribune.
-cOEUR D'AI.ENB. Ida. Oct, "a
~oeur d'Alenc City Is he second city in
.oint Of population in Idaho 1t is To-
<5fed amid the pine trees on beautiful
|<,,,ng slope OF ground on the northerly
.o,ch OF the great Occur d'Alene la1tc.
Since the general election Of 1908.
roeur d. Alene City has been the seat OF
<oyernment Of i{ootenai county That
.,as an intensely bitter struggle in which
incur TAlcne won ovor Rathdrum, a
mailer town, on the. Northern Pacific.
|Helye miles 10 the north, IN the heat
Id this contest of two years ago, much
.ffentio 10 parties and to candidates
.as lost. The overshadowin- issu was
he court house. and the county records
involved in ihc change OF the seat OF
county government.
In thc election. destined TO pass down
|oto history I'm the minds OF all the par
|.clpants. owing 10 its bitterness. over
>icht thousand votes were cast in koo-
Ie,,aj county on this county scat question.
RhiIe only 1881 OF these exercised thclr
Preference for governor. OF thcse erect
5rs. S9is voted for EEady, Rcpubneann. ;
y
ror IInterman. Socialist. This gave
era,Iy a ma jority oil IaIT over Alexander.
aia democratic opponent.
q 4 have canYasscd this situation mere
ma az Harrison, which two towns Nlll
nrobnbIy cast as many votes on NoNem-
.cv as the remainder of the county,
ma al court here today | have conicrreu
xjth many voters from outside precincts
hi, The county
I Thrre Is IL greater divergence Of opinion
rrncc slightly calculated TO make :, , enc
.um that old familiar tune, "Oh. Wha'
A Liar Everybody IS!
4 Kooienai however. will i'll my juds-
|oent. return q majority OF her votes lot
grsdv for governor. but this majority
nm ic so reduced as TO afford him slight
coulforl probably not 10 exceed oVo
Temperance Question Leads.
! Tho temperance question / find 20 be
|he leading one here. although the gov
>rnor will suffer loss through the record
N the state land board, which Is under
<oiue exposure hero, and through MS
rerklcss expenditure of funds at the
AIaskan- ukon exposition when he VS.
led Seattle I'm June of 1909. with his
siafr. Generally speaking. Brady is re-
cardcd as the dry and Hawlcy the
tget'' candidate. and not much attention
Is paid to the reason for such conclu-
lion. This appears as firmly fixed in most
minds as the old 11cd tIlal every fNS
publcau is for the Union and every
Democrat a rebel.
AS a. matter OF fact, many Brady Re-
pubIicsns realize the force of the arsu-
nent that. freed from partisan lies, Haw-
ey occupies the better position. For
nstaDce, local option carried here on
November Ii, 1909. by l54 votes. Since
.fHt time there have been nineteen men
punished for illegal sale OF liquor Al
but three of these pleaded guilty, TWO
ire now serving terms of ninety days il
khe Iootensi county jail for bootleg
ing" Three men were fined $500 eacl
here today for Illegal selling Of liquor
There is no place now In this metropolis
of old Kootenai county where liquor Is
on sa.c TO the public. There may. b'
sporadic cases OF an evasion of the law
5ut the local option law In Kootena
rounly is being enforced, Public opinion
Is divided - 10 the popularity of th'
|8w, but | am inclined 10 the belief that
affer practically years trial Of the re
form act, il would be indorsed by "A lar
ger majority than the l54 by which j
cnrried No one doubts Hawlcys sinceri
~ TO enforce the local option law, bu
many are OF the opinion that Brady vii
sfsnd for an advance step on the ques
hon. looking 10 statewide prohibition
Probably at the next session, and hence
Pre being guided toward him for thi!
slnsle reason.