The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-12
PARK|NSON'S
RAILROAD STEAL
Certified Copies of the Official
Record Showing Two In
stances.
HIS POLITICAL "PULL'
WITH STATE OFFICIALS
The Unholy Alliance Between
Republican Party and the
Mormon Church.
BY G.. E. ARNEY.

special TO The Tribune.
BOISE, Ida. Aug. l1.-Unimpcach
able testimony of the records of public
men appears 10 he the food for which
the restless public hungers. Mud
singers s'muck- -rakcrs' and "char-
acter assassins' are popular terms of
reference TO those who undertake to
clarity a polluted atmosphere attend
ing the public service.
With all the seriousness Of injured
virtue, men viii contradict, deprecate
and dcplorc published expositions of
party associates, until it becomes dis
couragng TO the less courageous to
take mp and pursue battle against theft,
skullduggery and official graft.
No altar becomes too sacred to such,
upon which 10 slay. or attempt 10 slav.
men who are vigorous in their aims to
bring about righteous order Of civil
government.
PRINT photograph of a receipt issued
TO George {. Parkinson for his "pass
from "Pocatello to Nampa, - for trip
taken on June 81, 1906 From the State
university fund of Idaho George C.
Parkinson, while acting as regent,
collected this $3.50. which would have
been the price of his fare from Poca
rode on his pass: hence he did not pay
the fare OF $3.50. He put in his bill
for it, however. and collected the $3.50,
hence he stole it, Stole it from the
State university fund. and he still has
i, and by the powers that be, he
intends to keep. IT. And by the, use of
those powers = he aims to crush down
and suhmerge and destroy opposition TO
his plan of operation.
II Is this ''power that protects this
rascal, 1t is always some power OF
another which serves to screen rascality
and prevents the majesty of the law
from its triumph over the ills attend
ing political system
II is this power that is potent in
Idaho, which needs pruning.
NominaIlv Arthur Hart gave the
true version of this power to the
Rolapp committee in his testimony at
Preston, when hc tried to Justify him
self for not preventing Parkinson from
depoSiting several thousand dollars of
Oneida irrigation district money in
the names of his children in a Salt
Lake bank, when he said Parkinson
wns valuable TO the district because
of ''his political pull in Idaho and his
influence with certain men IN Utah. "
As crooked as be is. Hart would not
deny that IN this statement he referred
TO The state house forces at Boise and
TO the church officials at Salt Lake.
Those Who Condone.
lneSe are inc y powers tnaC are
causing the downtrodden men, women
and children of the dry deserts of the
Dayton, Clifton, Weston and Preston
country to eat the dry husks instead
of the fruits of square dealing.
No two things since the beginning of
the controversy of the rights of these
people against the power of this man
Parkinson have so discouraged the peo-
pie as ldaho's attorney general and
Ida no s Governor
1t YVES cruel blow when, in the
weakness of his power, d. C.. Nc
Dougsll turned his back on these poor
people whom he should love and de-
fend, and against the behests of the
state of Idaho, and went to Malad to
defend this man Parkinson, whom he
should have known, if he did not, to be
plundering thief.
1t was Il more cruel blow to these
struggling people when Governor James
Fl. Brady went TO Preston aud domi.
cled at the home of George C. Parkin-
son, and on the following morning. in
the presence of and 10 several hundred
children. with maturing minds, compli-
mented the Christianlike conduct
and the prayerful example, of this
distinguished embeZZler to the children
lnder the hearing Of his voice. when he
lid know he 'as distinguished en-
>czzler.
H'St dlt JHe ludUO powers, ana
up TO date the hierarchal "influence
IN Utah. has been the other side
If the corkscrew behind which this
lngular political ecclesiast has seen fit
20 hide.
An Unholy Alliance.
The alliance between the Republican
party and the Mormon church is con-
1ition in Idaho today, Mr.. Goodine
was its builder. and Mr.. Brady is its
residuary legatee.
The record these men have made are
The property of the people who have
'Epaid the freight
Here | give only one month Of the
record of George G, Parkinson ms a
member Of the board of regents Of the
Idaho State university. Each item
shown for railroad transportation in
either Idaho or Utah represents iudi
vidual graft, personal theft by George
c. Parkinson.
Question. Why was he permitted TO
do these things?
Answer. He had a political pull in
Idaho and influence with certain people
in Utah,
He was n member Of the Republican
state committee of Idaho then, and he
is a member now.
lie was president of the Oneida stake