The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-25
POLITICS BOIL
UP At BOISE
Great Gatherings of the Lead
ing Men of Idaho
Politics.
SOME GRIN. SOME CURSE,
BUT ALL ARE BUSY
Democratic Leaders Have Fruit
full Theme in Land Board
Graft.
BY C.. E. AENEY.

Special TO The Tribune.
BOISE. Idaho, Sept. 24.-Polltics
held the boards in the capital city OF
Idaho the first two days of this week,
to the exclusion of all other considera'
tions
The Owyhee hotel was the center OF
activity. AS / looked over the lobby
Monday evening. I observed the past,
present and (possibly) the future OF the
Republican party of the state of Idaho.
There was Governor James III. Brady
moving about among the busy crowd,
making himself generally agreeable 10
the members of the state central com
mittee, pausing only long enough with
each man he met TO impress on him the
force of his astute diplomacy.
The ever smiling Barney q Neil, the
retiring state chairman and the defeated
candidate for governor, was at one
side of the lobby, surrounded by an
ca ger crowd OF good fellows, Joining In
the exchange of story and of eXperi.
ence. touching on the recent events or
the primary election.
Over in the center of the spacious Of
fee room stood George w. Fletcher. also
a recent defeated candidate for COVER,
nor, madly chewing the stub of good
Havana and telling his auditors of the
easy victory won by the ''wets In the
Ada county local option election last
fall.
At the far side of the office sat the
serious Young Speaker Clagstone In
close conversation with Lieutenant Gov
eTnor Sweetzer, evidently engrossed IN
the beauties of a state government, de.
void of the influence of money (aDd OF
spirituous liquors) in the eXlgencies OF
political struggle
In Chaotic Condition.
This particular Monday evening was
time when the events of the Repub-
lican party were in rather chaotic
condition. in consequence Of which other
figures in the newly initiated hosiery
of Boise became pertinent
The news had spread abroad through.
out Boise that the state central com"
mittee Of the Republican party was in
turmoil over some mootcd questions,
such as the choice of n logical man for
chairman; disposition of the temper
ance question and the possible crea"
tlon of n railroad commission,
To one side of the lobby sat EX-Gov-
ernor Frank r. Gooding, his face the
ashen hue of the Indian cigar sign
which graces the front door Of many
cigar stores of the metropolitan cities.
He was much agltatcd over the prob
able selection of Charley L. Heitman
of Rathdrum rs the chairman of the
Republican state central committee, and
his face bore the evident remembrance
of tense days when he had succeeded
in making the Western Federation of
Mincrs-one member of which organiZa-
tion Heitman had defended for a $4,000
fee-the chief issue of gubernatorial
campaign, of which he-Gooding-wa
the central figure.
AS Edgar Wilson entered the lobby,
and the news spread around that he
another one of the attorneys for Meyer.
HAYWOOD and Pettibone-had been the
author of the Republican state plat
form. the face of the distinguished ex,
governor took on an added hue of pal
lor!
The Brethren Represented.
Bishop John Hart. Of the Menan stake
of Zion of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Lntter.day Saints, occupied place
near the hotel register, the undisputed
representative of such prominent saints
as Nash, the successor on the state com.
mlttee TO the vanquishcd George C..