Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1910-05-27
LIQUOR QUESTION
|NSTATE CAMP PAICN
The wet" Interests Organizing
in Each County

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 practical
effect, compares with that to which we
have referred. This is because the
liquor interests of Idaho have deter
mined that Governor Brady shall be
overthrown. They look upon him as
their arch enemy. That is because he
has done more toward closing saloons
than any other man who ever came be-
fore the public in the state of Idaho.
Those interests, in the last legislature,
exhausted all their ingenuity in an eff
fort to undermine the governor and de-
feat local option legislation They re-
sorted to every kind of corrupt prac-
tice that is known to the manipuiators
OF legislative sessions. They stopped
at nothing whatever. There was
nothing too debased for them to stoop
to. The history of that session cannot
be repeated here. Sufficient to say
that when the cause of local option tri-
umphed-and so very largely through
the efforts of the governor-the liquor
interests registered a vow that he
should never again be returned to the
gubernatorial chair.
They are organized in every section
of the state. They have contributed
money in large amounts to bring about
the governors defeat. They are re-
sorting to all the tricks known to poll
ticians in order to mislead the people
and they will continue 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 cand-
idates into the field in the primary can
vass 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
temperance in every precinct in the
state need to be on guard to protect
themselves against being deceived.
Deception has always been one of the
chief instrumentalities employed by
Satan, and the liquor interests, which
in a sense are the corporeal representa-
tives of Satan on earth, are skilled in
that method of conducting champaigns.
They would deceive the very elect
were they able to do SO, and they VIII
many unless every person who
is loyal to the temperance cause re-
solve that he will not, in the most re-
mote manner, contribute toward the
success of this great menacing power
that aims to strike at the welfare of
the commonwealth. If the whiskey in
terests can divide the temperance vote
they will thereby weaken the party at
the November election.
There is little doubt that it was orig
inally planned by those interests to in
duce candidates, by Misrepresentation
and fiattery, to come into the field in
such numbers that it would be imposs-
BILE 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 indications go, but
still we cannot tell what new maneu-
're may be devised and, for this rea-
ION, this paper urges every 'anti-saloon
Toter to determine now that he will
Tote for Governor Brady for renomina-
ion and reelection, and refuse to lis
en- to the arguments put forth by any
'erson. whether he be simply a mis-
.uided indiyidual or tool of the LIQUOR
interests. Rupert Pioneer Record.