The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-03
4 Is The Tribune Cores
.,deut's Judgment After a
PERSONAL Investigation.
ABSORBING TOPIC
IS THE GOVERNORSHIP
Land Board Scandals Are a
Strong Factor Working
Against Brady.
. BY @. e. ARNEY.
y. Tho Tribune.

.i,l 10 The Tribune.
soIsE. Idaho, Nov 2.-Ihe Tribune
~, have received my version OF the
nj political situation from a north
Id standpoint,
4 +hs aggregate it forecasts north
~ sor Hawley, a majority of the
,or.hern counties for a continua-
! a the present local option as
IA q statewide prohibitory law,
/, ,DnOsjtion to the creation of a rail
n commission. =,
Thsye ofttimes stated in my north
IDAHO letters, the governorship is
.haorbinp theme in the public mind
IN in the state of Idaho. 1t IS heard
liz trains, stage coaches, IN the
4 ths stores, on the street corners
}in the chapels.
4 deduct from the figures given in
N northern Idaho articles, one writ
{yom each county seat, / have fore
t, north Idaho for Hawley as fol-
S,dy-Bonncr, by 400; Kootenai, by
i.xley-shoshone. by 500; Idaho, by
|. Nez Perce. by 800.
aiah, a stand-off.
4 arriving at this conclusion I have
-ulted townsfoIk and country folks,
ublicans and Democrats, visited the
jduarters Of each county central
'rittee and talked with the chair
1. and have spent hours in conver-
III with strangers and acquaintances
a. PARTIES" wets' and "drys"
a with the clergy and the laymen
Tie siI northern counties Of our
Sp impressed with tho fact that no
nate estimate Of this north Idaho
1 can be gwen by a cursory exam
Ion such as [ made IN ten days
vs and stndy of conditions. / am
aIy impressed with the fact that in
nnin tho figures given The Tribune
las will be proven to be substan-
b correct, in the aggregate when
nturns come In from north Idaho.
A Tremendous Slump.
Ms forecast presages q tremendous
cblican slump from the candidate
Epvernor Of two years ago. and ap-
Ionly to him in the pending state
Hon,
b instance, two years ago the com"
n Democratic and Republican vote
Be SIX northern Idaho counties was
3, of which Mr.. Brady received
III. and Mr.. Alexander 3,59S. This
. Mr.. Brady a majority Of 3629
Mr.. Alexander. Ny present fig
On the gubernatorial situation fore
shrlnksgo of over 1000 votes in
vote Of Governor Brady this cam
q over that Of two years ago. Mr..
Fley, 1t may be fairly stated, is a
3 popular candidate than was Mr..
nnder. This does not, however, tell
Eory OF Mr.. Brady's probable loss.
many cases the position Of men
and against local option and state
. exhibition figures in the equa-
Many ardent temperance men are
'hswley because Of q belief in his
1nons to enforce existing law on
temperance as well as on other seri-
questions. Others are swerved in
2 choice By the protestations of
'srnor Brady to bring about state
prohibition.
q hswlev falls heir to the better of
1sfgNn IN the analysis for the rea-
Wat many ardent temperance folks
vote for him because of their be-
- The efficacy of the local option
duly enforced.
The Land Board Scandals.
e Carey act land board scandals
Z tne Brady administration have
! ipsen 20 defended as to relieve the
: q The ordinary north Idaho voter
tisud does not exist by q knowl-
oi the governor himself,
ls serves to dstract from the con-
prs W OF a sober headed constituency
.as quality OF faith and of depcnd-
4 70 Thich bis e1cellency is entitled
y ad:s ssaolects, the temperance question
presume l have talked with 100 Re-
Nm %ssns In the six northern Idaho
i. 's VINO ascribe reasons, all suf-
=, IL their own characters. why
snouid not vote this coming No.
,uel ~ atn for Brady Az his own sue
n iEf M governor. Their reasons are
= 9la efent but entirely lucid from