Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-11

IN seeking renOmlnatlOn TO the
United States senate from the Repubn-
cans of Idaho at the primaries to be
held Sept. l, Senator Brady comes be-
fore the voters with a record of ac-
tual service as his platform. 1t is,
therefore. not necessary for him to
make his appeal on promises He can
instead lay before the people of the
state a record of performance.
The voters can then choose whether
they wish to indorse this record or
select in his place some one who will
merely take up the work where he has
left off after two years Of hard and
earnest labor and two years of valu-
able experience. Senator Brady has
had but a short time to show what he
could do, having been elected In Janu-
airy, 1918, to fill the unexpired term
of the late Senator Weldon B. Hey
burn. He took the oath of office on
Feb. 6, 1913. only 20. days before the
change in the national administration,
but he is willing to let the voters de-
ly active in their interests and re-
sponsive to their demands.
1t is his intention to ask the people
of Idaho not only to analyze his rec
ord as a senator, but also to look back
into his service as governor of the
state. He is proud of his record in
both offices and believes that his pub
lie career will bear the closest scrutiny
or the foremost interest in the pres
ent campaign, Of course, is his record in
the United States senate. In the year
and half of his service in congress
many momentous questions have been
up for solution-questions which af-
fected not only the welfare of the peo-
pie of the state of Idaho, but the people
of the entire country as we'll. He has
never attempted to dodge any respon-
sibility on any vote and will in the
near future publish a statement show
| Ing Just how he voted on all impor-
tant questions.
on the tariff. the currency, the i'm
migration question, the trust bills and
the liquor measures his position has
been bold and unflinching. In every
case he stated from the floor of the
senate just how he stood, and how the
people of Idaho would have him vote.
and when the vote was taken he was
there to be counted on the side that
careful thought and conscientious
study told him was right.
Fought for Farmer and Miner.
The tariff bill was the first bill to
come before congress, after his cleo
ton to the senate, vitality affecting the
welfare of the state of Idaho. This
bill. as approved by the administra-
ton, seemed especially aimed at prac-
tically every industry in the state OF
Idaho. While those who for years
have opposed protection have declared
that the tariff was the mother of
trusts" very strangely, in framing this
bill the hardest blow was aimed at
the farmers who have never been as
cused of combining and who could not
form a monopoly even If they were SO
inclined.
This bill instead of striking at the
wooden trust, which is engaged only In
the manufacturing end of the wooden
business and has its mills principally
in the eastern states left a duty on
manufactured woolens and removed all
of the duty from raw wool, of which
the state of Idaho produces an enor-
nous amount In other words, the
wooden trust was favored and the
woolgrower was left without any pro-
lection whatever.
So 1t was with all the products OF
the farm. This law carried with 1t the
Implication that the American farmer
was principally to blame for the In
creased cost of living against which
there had been such universal COM
plant, and 1t is interesting to note al
this day that, although the farmer is
receiving less for his products. the
ultimate consumer" of whom so much
was said in the tariff discussions. hai
not been able to detect any appreciablc
lowering in the cost of living.
Senator Brady stood for continued
protection OF the farmer, as a means
Of making farm life possible, contend.
ing that 1t was not fair to turn over
our markets to the Canadian farmer
lwho pays lower wages to his labor anc
Icontribiites nothing to American insti.