The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-18
Gov. Brady Says the State Has
Pronounced i'm Favor of
the Saloon.
BUT THIS IS EXTREME;
IMMORTALITY NOT IND0RSED
The Fair View Is That Nothing
Has Been Lost; All Can
Be Done.
BY O. E. ARNEY.

BOISE, Ida, NOV, l1-The temper
anco question is oven more interesting
In Idaho than before the November
eighth election.
During the campaign it was made an
issue beyond the warrant in the two
party platforms.
Tho Republican state platform prom
Legislature providing for an expression
OF the people of constitutional amend
ment providing state wide prohibition
Th" f tha e
cal option, which, when accepted by
counties. Is tantamount TO prohibition.
In the final analysis OF the ends which
both parties aimed at, each movement
proposed constituted a distinction with
out a difference. Each aimed at pro-
hibition. and In each the people must
rule before prohibition could be opera
Taking the simple wording of the Re-
publican platform there could be no
particular objections waged against the
plank. II proposed to let the people
say that they did or did not wish their
| constitution so amended as to provide
for statewide prohibition. IT WAS
thorough eXcmpl(icatfon of the motto
which has caused the Democrats some
considerable uneasiuess since election in
/ Fremont and Custer counties, Let the
People Rule
Construction Difference.
But there was a construction placed
on the differences between the two
platforms, and the two candidates for
governor. which pushed tho cause OF
temperance further TO the foreground OF
public thought than q casual reading OF
the respective platforms would admit.
Governor Brady and Ex-Governor Good
ing were alone in their eagcrness to en-
phaslze this difference in the Republican
1910 platform, Borah defended Ii only
from the standpoint of ridiculng tho
Democrats for finding fault with plan
which was up for settlement by the votes
OF the people. Borah is constitutionally
skeptical about Democratic sincerely.
anyway. Hepburn "poo-pooed" the whole
programme-l6cal option. state wide pro-
hlbition and all. French cvaded, as is
his constitutional characteristic.
Hawley and the remaining Democrats
defended The wording of the platform
and fastened along over the subject
with that degree of alacrity indicative
of fear. Once only did Karl Paine break
lose with an exposition OF his profound
views on the temperance question, for
which he has no. sort OF use, and then
lac gave the leaders of the Democracy OF
Grangcvllle such n case OF heart failure
that they retired carly aftor his ad-
dress to repair their shattered nerves.
Now that the end has come ard
every saloon In Idaho has been defeat
cd by Hnwlcy. who stands from county
local option, but who Is in reality
strict regulation" man. the question is.
the prohibition question in Idaho?
In Blackfoot they say the Mormons
have shown loyalty to prohibition. In
tionists are hypocrites. In many OF the
north Idaho papers the result is taken
as a sad commentary on women's suf-
fraGc.
Brady as Authority.
Governor Brady the defeated. becomes
quite an authority on tho subject. He
h1pIf hp
rible, and he himself appears TO be un-
consolable in point OF reconciliation 70
the inevitable will Of the people He
styles the situation as oalamttous &c
the moral status OF the people Of The
commonwealth In his query as to. why
should the people OF Idaho try to Hrlto
a book aimed to improve the morals OF
the school children when they have just
declared for the open ssloon'
This is rather an extreme view to take
of the situation.
The Republican party, blown into
power in the election OF two years ago.
with Governor Brady, Is responsible for
the legislation that has been accepted
by fifteen OF the counties Of the state.
TO which law Mr. Hawley and his party
are pledged by their platform of prin-
clples. There Is no indictment against
impossibIiity of adhering TO the spirit
and the letter OF their pledges 10 the
people
The Republicans have the state legis-
Brady's party Is possessed of fun power
TO make laws this winter II has sixty
long days in which to do as Its plat
form promised. But 1t Will not do il.
nlst the same This is no particular
SANDER to RepubIicansm. for the very
good reason that In their efforts to build
no a machine which was rapidly go
ing to pieces Messrs. Brady and Good
ing borrowed material from another
party which had an identity in this
state ic, the Prohibition purity, with
which to patch up their losses. and with
their excessive courage and their lavish
expenditure OF money they did actually
ovcrshadow the tencts OF faith OF the
Republican party with this prohibition
Issue.
The Fair View.
think il quite fair TO This situation
quite fair to Governor Brady and Ex-
Governor Gooding--to say that they have
moved along TO far in advance OF pub
lie thought In Idaho. They havo boosted
this prohibition Issue in Idaho In ad
vance OF sentiment In tho hearts OF
the people. They have presumed the
existence OF too much demand for il. |
In fact. It Is not here TO tho extent they
each figured. The sentiment for state
Wide prohibition may be violent in spots. |
nnd they have taken this violence for !
ius,ifica lion TO play il up" 10 the limit !
of consideration. SIS Republican Tenet
of fnith They must revise their judg |
mcut They have read the signs Of the |
times inpccuratcly, They must deal TO !
a greater degree In reform rs a basic |
en- before attempting TO pass reform |
legislation 10 which the public pulse does
not yet beat.
The local option law Is here and II |