Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-03-16
BRADY H0N0RED
BY CITIZENS
FORMER EXECUTIVE GUEST AT
FAREWELL LUNCHEON AT
COMMERCIAL CLUB
Former Governor James II. Brady
Removes to POcatello.-Wil Here
after Work for Idaho as a Whole
With Politics in Background.

seats were an unknown quantity and
general good fellowship tinged with
shade Of real regret reignei SUI
preme at the farewell luncheon Civ
en- homer Of former Governor Brady
by the business men Of Boise at the
Commercial club yesterday.
The comfortable club dining room
was especially arranged for the oc-
casion and the function while short
was enc Of the most suspicious of
the year
The principal speech was made by
McCreedy Sykes who, in his usual
inimitable manner intermingled good
advice with a review of the years of
the governors residence in Boise.
He was followed by Mr. Brady who,
in an extemporaneous speech, paid
splendid compliment to his success
sor in Office Governor Hawley, who
occupied the seat next to the guest
of honor. and dwelt at length upon
his regret in leaving Boise and the
many friends he had made during
his term Of office.
Following the Introductory re-
marks by Walter S. Bruoeh who pre-
sided. McCreedy Sykes said:
"Mr. Chairman and Fellow Club
Members: 1t is a pleasant and hon
orable duty to speak on behalf Of
this club to one of our best loved
members the words Of friendship and
affection. I think that Governor
Brady would himself be one of the
last to wish that we should think Of
this day only in the regretful light
of a day of parting We have all
hoped that the governor might find
it possible to remain permanently
one of our very own but as he feels
that in his varied active work this
cannot be, we trust nevertheless that
he will be often with us, to keep
alive the pleasant intercourse of
friendship; that he will never think
of Boise as other than a kind of
home; that he will always think of
Boise as in the beautiful words of
the Latin poet-as a place from
which when absent he thinks himself
a wanderer, and to which when he
returns he deems himself no longer
away from home
Indeed, we have a lingering hope
that after he has been while in
the effete cast of Pocatello his heart
will warm more and more to this
other home of his, and that before
so very long he may see the error of
his ways and wish that he had bought
a return ticket.
"Then, too, at intervals, Governor
Brady, you will have to come back
When your unregenerate fellow cit
zens, not yet educated to the point
where they can endure smilingly and
with equanimity the compulsory ar
idity of Bannock county, make vic
ious pilgrimages in search of the not
wholly solid attractions of the cap
ital city, will not it be your duty, sir
to come with them, to check them il
their wrongful career and to cry like
Solomon of old, My son, if sinners
entice thee, consent them not
you have been a member of this
club for five years, a period longe
than most of us here, and you were
an earnest and efficient member
long before you came to live among
us. You we're one of the pioneers il
the great work of the development
of this great western empire of ours
many years ago you built the frs
great power plant in Southern Ida
no and from that day to this yol
have been ever foremost in the worl
of retaining and building up thi
mighty country.
I'VE know that you could no more
cease this great life work Of your
than you could cease to breathe, tina
you are one Of those born to be thu
great workers of the world; and W,
were proud indeed when last Janu
airy at Omaha the members of tina
great organization, the Western De
velopment league, with unerring in
stinct, selected you as their presi
dent, well knowing that to none 9th
er could so safely be entruste dth'
chief executive power of this grea
body whose work is coextensive witt
the whole western half of our ma
ton. 1t was a great Greek historian
who said, I cannot play on an.
stringed instrument but I can tel
you how of a little village to max
a great and glorious city and some
thing of that splendid feeling mus
Governor Brady, be rightly your
when you look about this great coun