The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-18
|DAHO'S FIGHT
IS INTERESTING
Peculiar Political Conditions in
Gem State Have Recently
DeyeIOped.
HOT CONTEST OVER
NEXT STATE CHAIRMAN
Land Beard Scandal Figures in
the Game and Shows Its
Shiny Trail.
BY @. E. ARNEY.
to The Tribune.

BOISE, Ida, May 17.-Thc next con-
tention in the tense struggle now going
on in Idaho politics for the Republican
nomination for governor at the direct
primary on August 29 will be the seIec-
tion of n state chairman.
Hon. Barney +, O'Neil Of Wallace. who
has declared himself candidate against
Governor Brady, is the present chalr-
man. He is about to tender his reSiS-
nation to the state central commitlee'
who will choose his successor
While The contest for this nomination
thus far has been but preliminary TO
the real event. it has had suihciemt Sl,, iiln,
ger in Il TO Justify the conclusion l''9S
an extraordinary amount OF IeeluS Is
encende red, for the friends oil potn ttle
governor and the chairman are .Sa% St%' InI
together the harsher the terms apphcu
10 the opposing candidates and TO lhel
This tense feeling justilies the CON
clusion that each Of these big men IN
Idaho Republican party politics VIII eN-
ert an extraordinary effort TO sam s Com COZ
ticulsr time now that the chairman re-
signs to take his place as candlGatc
in the open field against the soNerhoE'
Attitude of Brady.
AS stated in previous article. runlor
has it that Brady had decided some
weeks ago to make Ex-Governor Goodlns
his state chairman. IL was not then
predicted that O'Ncil would release ms
hold on the craftsmanship. however Just
what Brady will do in relation 10 GOOD
ing now IS difficult 10 forecast during
Tho past few weeks some political ms,
tory has been entered on the record
which NAV serve to disturb TINS pre-
Suncd pact between Ex-Governor Good
ing and Governor Brady.
TO begin with. il Was Brady ana ms
following which made GoodinS. II Gov
ernor Morrison had not been distasteful
10 Robert j. Hayes: William T. Borah
and GAYLORD w. Thompson. he would
not have been disturbed in his first ana
only term with defeat for nomlna-
ton for second term.
This defeat was OCcaSiOned by GOOdinS,
and in point OF practical politics Brady
is today residuary lesatec to the po-
liticsl fortunes Of Ex-Governor Gooding.
Il was these men and their cohorts VINO
made Brady governor
Brady not only fell heir 10 Gooding's
machine. bat he being chairman during
ship, Is linked very closely 10 MN IN
the public mind today. In the hearts
of the women and tho men Of Idaho they
voluntarily regard one as equal 10 the
other in point OF political stature. Gov
ornoT GoodinE made a great ontcry AT
the time of the murder OF eN-GoVelnor
SteunenbcrE for campaign OF law and
order. Chairman Brady heartily sec
onded the wall OF grief
Governor Gooding. during the early
lavs of his second term. called the
county assessors OF the state together
and cndesvored 10 put them behind
plan to force the other four members
OF the state board OF equalization 10
levy heavy assessments against the rail
roads Of Idaho. and la ter asked the lcgis
lsture TO create a railway commission.
Governor Brady asked the legislature
20 pass public utility bill. the terms Of
which were almost as Objectionable 10
railroads would have been the COM
mission bill Of Goodinc.
Each Of these gentlemen have bowed
gracefully TO the every whim and behcst
of the Mormons. each joining the other
IL disPpsiagemGln.t Of constitutional law
political beneficiary Of this solid vote.
Each have made extreme use OF the
local option wave. in which effort many
Of the friends OF each regard them as
playing tho same brand Of politics they
do with the Mormons
Each administration has had an Of
ficial family which rcveled in the sacred
assets OF the commonwealth. through the
aid Of inside information. and here We
approach the apparent parting OF the
ways.
Gooding Clearly at Fault.
Governor Gooding. not only knew Of the
practice OF state officials and their at
iachcs acquiring lands under the Carey
act and in other ways. questionable in
justified the practice and bade members
of his political household enter lands
under whatsoever act, regardless Of either
the taste OF the moral iDi0uties Of the
situa ton: and near the end OF his second
term sat on the land board and fixed
contracts for water against Carey act
acreage for the benefit Of a railroad which
made townsite OF his sheep ranch, in
which toWnsite the railroad company be-
came part owner.
Governor Brady sat on the state land
hoard for more than n year. as Its chair
man during which period his three asso-
ciates were enrichng their respective
fortunes through these questionable meth
DDS, but when ono OF their appontees be-
came so open. public and notorious as TO
cause general comment he called the
board together issued an altogether COM
nnndable statcment in which he con
signed to certain dcfes, any number of
his present state land board who might
aspire for future political prcfermcnt; dis
posed Of the fellow who was caught try
ing 10 make money on the side and in
ferentialy took bulls eye shot AT the
regime OF Governor Goodinc. This is pre-
sumed To have disturbed the relations be-
tween these two mon whose respective
careers have been following parallel lines
so long and SO identically.
Where Issue Arises.
I. is therefore question of some con-
siderable doubt whether these gentlemen
would work In harness together as boost
er and boosted, as in DAYS gone by IT Is
not certain that Brady would. in view oi
the recent revelations in land board mat
tors care for Cooling TO become his state
chairman even II he could name a sue
cessor TO O'Neii. II is equally uncertain
in view OF the paprica which Brady put
IN ms INITIAL statement about those who
had taken Carey act land while serV.
Ing on Carey act land board. whether
the ex-governor would deign TO accept
chairuanship for Brady. even could hC
he named as O'Ncil's successor.
Gooding knows that the field OF scanda
in the statehouse has not been nrospectcd
based on the view which Brady takes o.
the situation in his initial pronuncio-
lnento. He knows also that even SO fa1
as the case has gone. the present COVER.
nor has not satisfied the, people
They expect Governor Brady To broader
tho scope Of his vision and, from an i'm
partial standpoint give to his constitu
cncy-al the people OF his state-com
plete information as to who have beer
and who are now on the stale land boarC
and attached Ia II. who have profited b,
their official positions; whom his owl
words-have tried TO serve two mas
tcrs."
II he did this he would not only in
Volve the ex-governor. but nearly all o
The members of the two state land board
who acted under Gooding and this woul,
tend 10 eliminate him as Brady's cholc