Show Prominent P Idaho Leaders Among Those Who Are Returning to Sanity at LastS Last BORAH BORAll of Idaho has vacated the political fence upon 7 SENATOR S which ho he has hns perched since the Republican cau national convention He is now within the Republican party enclosure supporting the thc ticket from President of the United Sta States down to the candidate for justice of the peace pence in the particular bailiwick which is honored b by his residence His previous announcement that he lie would support II prin principles principles principles prin- prin and not men and that he was for for neither Taft nor Roosevelt ma may be he considered as cancelled withdrawn abrogated and otherwise rendered of no account Tho The Idaho statesman has concluded that tho the party which has hns exalted him in the past is is good enough for tho the present pres pres- out ont and the future also we have no doubt his bis practical mind has satisfied satisfied satisfied satis satis- fied itself that this same party is marching to victory as usual The Idaho senator would have enjoyed more dist distinction if jf ho he had climbed into tho the party bandwagon some months ago Republicans who were were st hv by by Roosevelt buncombe buncom e earlier in in the season are arc re re- re turning m such numbers that it is difficult to secure any pe personal advantage ad advantage ad- ad au- au vantage from it it Of those who marched to Armageddon to battle for forthe forthe forthe the Lord many have murmured uncertainly after viewing ewing the assembled assembled assem assem- bled lesions legions guess we got off at the wrong place Not a fe v applied for furloughs long enough to deposit their valuables in in a proof vault while many others renewed their thi allegiance ance to the grand old party part with an almost unprecedented precipitancy The party after hearing the returning prodigals express their pleasure at being among the old folks once again in some instances has shooed the fatted calf off the front steps yawned slightly and remarked didn't know you had been away Nothing is so disconcerting d as to discover upon ones one's return from a n long trip that one had not been missed However er loyal members of the party will rejoice rejoice at Senator Borah's recovery from his bit temporary attack of dementia He TIe will be beable beable able to contribute much towards toward the success of the ticket in the Gem state as will former Governor Go Gooding who has announced his adherence to the real party of progress prowess Both these well-known well men have ha seen without doubt that a vote for Mr r. Roosevelt and his party of revenge is merel merely a n vote for the his professor and party of negation and futility A sur e survey of the situation has impressed upon them that paralysis to business would follow the success of Doctor Wilson and that every ever ballot cast in support of Colonel Roosevelt might as well be cast for the professor since that is the effect of it it Borah and Gooding are but two of the that k man many are re re- re turning The ties tics of party part are arc strong its principles have ha stood stood the tests of half a century grasping grasping- at the shadow and losing the substance does not appeal to men of intelligence for nn any long period 4 q 4 an obstinacy obstinacy- born of desperation the Tribune W Kearns organ still defies the United D Defies efie enes s States government Although the new Federal federal statute demands that each lady daily newspaper news news- paper in in the United States shall file with ith the Government postmaster general an accurate and sworn statement statement statement state state- ment of its circulation and publish the same in its own columns the Salt Lake Tribune persists in its disobedience The penalty exclusion from the United States Stales mails malls presents to the thc Kearns organ no terrors comparable to the thc sickening fear that rends its soul when it contemplates disclosing the secrets it has always al jealously guarded from those who have ave been supporting it W We e fancy fanoy that if the penalty included a n jail sentence for its officers the Tribune would gladly send s-nd its management into prison retirement rather than confess the fraud it has perpetuated upon its advertisers and disgorge the stolen goods The leading newspapers throughout the United States arc are obeying the law only those that have something to conceal are availing themselves themselves them them- selves of the opportunity givers given by the suit which has been brought bought to test it In each community the newspaper that has tho the circulation the prestige and tile the patronage is gladly doing for Uncle Sam what it has alread already done for those to whom it looks for support The Chicago Tribune among others published its required statement upon the first page as did The H Republican Herald which bears the same relation to the newspaper field in this state slate as does the great cat Chicago to its section of the country It i is newspaper of a source pride to us that we wc are arc marching in the van of that our business is in such condition that we can invite all the world to come and find inspect it The Salt Lake Tribune has our s sympathy C i 1 1 R R. R HARRIMAN and Mr l Roosevelt were M Roosevelt IVI very close friends They seem to have haved and d His Hi s been in constant communication an ing lurches lunches and dinners Friend Mr consulting over governmental govern govern- mental policies and appointments to be made by Harriman the Pre President dent The appointee slated to be governor govern vernor vern- vern or of New Mexico was abandoned by the tiro colonel upon Mr fir Harriman's objection to him Thero There was no rift in th the lute lutc until Mr Harriman in a letter to a friend mentioned mentioned men men- casually that he had raised for his friends friend's campaign in 1004 Then because the colonel objected to the country's learning of his close communion with influences which were then coming to be bo regarded as pernicious he contradicted Mr Harriman Since that that time nearly a dozen men mell who were in a position to be conversant with tho the facts have substantiated tho tiro story told by the railroad magnate The peculiar interest in this incident at this late date lies in the necessity that honest men who still believe in Mr 1 Roosevelt's P pretensions preten preten- reten- reten sr o ns w who yet regard him honest as ns truthful and sincere shall know him for what he is Mr Harriman I Roosevelt was sufficient sufficiently intimate with Mr to be asked for such favor a n there was no occasion for his lying about a n transaction whoso whose benefits if there were an any an had al already already al- al the ready habit y accrued to him So far as is known Mr Air Harriman was not in of disputing with men as RS to his veracity Colonel Roosevelt is is constantly in an nu argument with somebody 7 Which of these men was more likely to have been telling the truth And if the colonel falsified fal fau- in this tIus what will he do in other instances instances' J 4 eJ Jt- Jt 1 V 1 ft I I 4 r 4 Ii Y 4 TUP reformation of William J. J Flinn linn of Pennsylvania Penn Penn- Flinn Flinns Is s sylvania syhania seems hopelessly impossible He Ho 1 Indeed n d ee d a app appears rs so steeped in political vice that even Hopeless his close association with tho the fount of f all earthly y virtue does not soften his liis hardy and hardened Wretch nature For many months Flinn has been in tune with the infinite sweetness of the colonels colonel's hopes testing the depths of his unselfish self-sac- self ill iii the in interest of the poor and the tho lowly their known twin souls have that perfect harmony that admits of no sordid base emotions No ambition no hol holy has purpose the colonel hidden from his brother brother- in awns m-anns m the deservedly gre great t exponent of political purity in the Keystone Keystone Key Key- stone state Yet so 50 is practical the ire Flinn mind so is its commonplace working that he has totally failed foiled to hear that call from soul to soul that d distinguishes the truly sp spiritual and sublime and has donated donate d S 14 0 to the Roosevelt campaign fund fend actually y V We Ve cannot e cannot understand the of the purpose Flinn Flint i contribution or the composition of his hardened case conscience Had he trance into the been denied jellied entrance en- en entrance en en- Roosevelt holy of holies and md been in in the antechamber of the Bull Con compelled to remain temple of unadulterated his egregious blunder mi might ht be ascribed to ignorance purity its aud and therefore com com- But under the the- circumstances lio do no such sueh explanation i is plaus plausible One Oile must sorrowfully conclude that his purification did not nol take Flinn l seems a n s seared wretch with an atrophied conscience he might wight easily stand as a monument to total political depravity t Chinese Chinee officeholders are beginning beginning- to wear silk hats But not until they begin to pass around Connecticut cut cigars before Lefore election will the tho world regard them as the real reul thing I Evidently g the Now York police confidence There has department has r recovered its self- self been another sensational nobody has been automobile bile robber robbery 9 and y as Vf a i w I ti 1 l I. 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