The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-05
BY G.. E. ARNEY.


BOISE, Ida, Sept 4.-Governor
Brady has made his eleventh hour visit
to the Mackay dam, This he did on
Saturday prior to the Tuesday last di-
rect primary election.
On his return to bis home. Pocatello,
be gave out this statement in the Trib-
une of that city: 81 find that reports
sent out by the correspondent of The
| Salt Lake Tribune are cNaggeration of
the conditions, no doubt sent out for
malicious purposes,
On the following morning, Sunday,
prior to the primary election, Governor
Brady caused O special to be printed IN
the Boise Statesman, as though sent
| from MacSay, which special read as
follows: After the meeting the
Mackay Miner issued a special edition
setting forth the good news
Governor Brady is shifty politician
He deals in craft and, in this instance,
in falsehood. The correspondent of The
Salt Lake Tribune does not deal in
exaggerations. The Mackay Miner is
sued no special. Four weeks ago [ went
to Mackay by call from three Mackay
gentlemen-,all Republicans-and while
there went over the details of the
correspondence between the governor IS
Office and a committee of citizens of
Mackay, who, because of the facilities
Of the Idaho state land hoard, had been
compelled to send to California at a
! $500 expense to themselves and bring
an engineer to the Mackay dam to be
assured Of the accuracy of their
premises as to the danger confronting
them. Even then they failed of relief,
That Is the reason they sent to Boise
for The Salt Lake Tribune correspond
ent to go to Mackay,
I promptly published copies of tele-
grams and of letters passed between
the citizens committee and the COVER
nor, together with an epitome of the
report of J. B, Lippincott, whom the
citizens of Mackay had brought from
California to advise them.
land board had then a copy OF the Lip
pincott report, they had refused the
simple request of the citizens commit.
tee of Mackay to appoint board Of
competent engineers. of which they
should name one member. The COVER
nor had justified his course in this di-
rection in letter to the citizens com
mittee of Mackay, n portion Of which
| I published In my story to The Tribune.
| No sooner had The Tribune contain
ing this story reached Boise than the
state land board met. reversed its
previous order, and named the commit
tee according to the very reasonable
request Of the citizens committee of
Mackay. all of whom arc reasonable
men.
In my story. I called attention to
board to give the Mackay dam situa
! tion that degree of prompt considera-
tion which the gravity Of the case re-
uuired. | veutured the assertion that
the trip Of the governor to briggs, in
Fremont county, on July %. TO make
Mormon address on Pioneer day, in
dieatcd his utter disregard for the
plight Of the Mackav people, and his
preference for his own political for.
tunes other than the administration of
the people s business,
/ i predicted that Governor Brady
would so manage the affair that no re.
port OF a committee of engineers could
possibly be received before primary
! day These predictions were correct,
and the people of Mackay. whose appre-
ciable confidence I had in the forma
tion of my story, are of the opinion
4 that the accurate published statemenU
in The Salt Lake Tribune served as the
medium which drove the board from
their mad game of politics, to attention
to the protection of their lives and
their property, according to the con-
clusious in the Lippincott report.
What "maliclous purpose his OK.
plain this true condition is beyond the
grasp of the minds of the Mackay
people, who are the most vitality in
| terested.
The unvarnjshed facts are that the
governor coined the idea that there was
anything malicious in The Tribune
" writenp,' as he did the idea that
the "Mackay Miner issued a special
edition setting forth the good news. "
Both statements were distinguished
falsehoods. unworthy the dignity of a
chief executive of any commonwealth
Let us pursue the scope of the gov
ernor' campaign system step fur.
ther On Saturday evening his press
agency from Boise sent story to the
Lewiston Teller which appeared on the
same evening, in which we find these
words: f His delay in 60
ing TO Mackay was for no other pur-
pose than to aid the people and prop
erty owners of the Wallace candidates
home town -
This noteworthy prevarication will
strike the people of Mackay as strik-
iugly comical The governor had the
Lippincott report on July IA. ten days