The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-06-17
JUST ONE ISSUE

Rupert Record
In sense, there is just one issue
in the forthcoming campaign. That is
whether or not the temperance cause
shall remain in the ascendant or be
overwhelmed by the liquor forces.
There are other issues. to be sure,
but there is no other which, in prac-
tical effect, compares with that to
which we have referred. This is be-
cause the liquor interests of Idaho
have determined that Governor Brady
shall be overthrown. They look up
on him as their arch enemy. That
is because he has done more toward
closing saloons than any other man
who ever came before the public in
the state of Idaho. Those interests.
in the last legislature, exhausted all
their ingenuity in an effort to under
mine the governor and defeat local
option legislation. They resorted to
every kind of corrupt practice that is
known to the manipulators of legisla-
tive sessions. They stopped at moth
ing whatever. There was nothing too
debased for them to stoop to. The
history of that session cannot be re-
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when the cause of local option tri-
umphed-and so very largely through
the efforts ofthe governor-the liquor
interests registered a VOW that he
should never again be returned to
the gubernatorial chair.
They are organized in every Sec
tion of the state. They have con-
tributed money in large amounts to
bring about the governors defeat.
They are resorting to all the tricks
known to politicians in order to mis-
lead the people, and they will con-
tinue to employ such methods until
the candidates shall have been named
and until the polls shall have been
closed in November next. They have
sought to bring other candidates into
the field in the primary canvass who
could divide the anti-liquor vote. So
far, they have failed. What form
their activities may take in the future
none can say, but the friends of tenn
perance in every precinct in the state
need to be on guard to protect them
selves against being deceived. Decep-
ton has always been one of the chief
instrumentalitis employed by Satan,
and the liquor interests, which in a
sense are the corporal representatives
of Satan on earth, are skilled in that
method of conducting campaigns. |
They would deceive the very elect |
were they able to do so, and they
will deceive many unless every per-
son who is loyal to the temperance
cause resolves that he will not, in
the most remote manner contribute
toward the success of this great men,
acing power that aims to strike at the
welfare of the commonwealth. If |
the Whiskey interests can divide tha
temperance vote they will thereby |
weaken the party at the November
election
There is little doubt that it was
originally planned by those interests
to induce candidates, by misrepresen-
tation and flattery, to come into the
field in such numbers that it would
be impossible to consolidate the vote
upon some one who was known to be
in opposition to the representatives of
the saloon power. That hope has been
abandoned as far as present indica-
tons go. but still we cannot tell what
new maneuver may be devised and,
for this reason, this paper urges every
anti-saloon voter to determine now
that he will vote for Governor Brady
for denomination and reelection, and
refuse to listen to the arguments put
forth by any person, whether he be
simply misguided individual or a
tool of the liquor interests.