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Show SALT LAKER TALKS Of IDAHO SITIATIOil He Believes Stockslager and Duhois Ai;e Sure Winners. Win-ners. P. H. Riley, one of Salt Lake's substantial sub-stantial citizens and business men all his life a Republican, staunch and true, spent last week in Idaho on business. The nature of his business necessitates his traveling through several counties of the State" and meeting and conversing convers-ing with manv of the business men of Idaho. Mr. "Riley says he was surprised sur-prised at tho condition of the political situation as he found it in every part of the State that he visited. Tho Republicans, he says, utterly repudiate re-pudiate Governor Gooding. They havo no use for him on account of his Mormon Mor-mon church nfliliaiions, and wholesale leasing of the public lands for the benefit ben-efit ot himself and friends has rendered him obnoxious lo tho masses of his party, who openly avow that ,ey will under no consideration support him. They claim that the time to frco themselves them-selves once for all tom tho domination of the Mormon church in Idaho is most oportnue. Tho man who opposes Gooding Good-ing is a. man of whom ail Idaho is proud, irrespective of party, and they ieel that if Judge Stockslager is elected elect-ed they will have in him an executivo that will execute tho laws fearlessly and impartially in the interests of all alike. Mr. Riley scays. iu Senator Dubois, the' have a matchless leader, who had the moral courage to declare himsolf for Amorican principles, and to insist upon coming before his constituents, the people of the great State of Idaho, upon a. platform denunciatory of Mormon Mor-mon methods in politics as practiced by tho leaders of the Republican party in that State. On Election Day. "This he has done, and" said Mr. Riley, "I was assured, by scores of Republicans, that on election day tho peoplo irrespective of party, barring the Mormon element, will flock to his support like sheep to a shelter from the storm." "Did you hear anything about Borah while iu Idaho," was asked. I did," said Mr. Riley, "the recent visit of the apostles ot the Mormon church in Salt Lako, one a Democrat, tho other a Republican, to confer with Gooding, Brady, Budge, Mormon Republican Re-publican leaders, has fixed Bor3h plenty. plen-ty. As far as I could learn up thero among the staunch Republican leaders, their estimate of Borah is that ho has sacrificed his American manhood in his efforts to go to tho Senate. They look upon him as a pliant tool in the' hands of his masters, tho leaders in the politics poli-tics of his party, and obedient sorts of the Mormon hierarchy in Salt Lako. The first overtures of tho Mormon church made to Borah to receive hia services was when they enticed him to defend Smoot. Then in order to got him over body aud soul they endorsed him for the Senato at' their so-called Stato convention held at Pocatello. Mr. Borah, thoy say, accepted the overtures made, in doing which he forfeited tho support of every truo American man and woman in Idaho." "That is the sentiment of the people whom I met, mostly Republicans, while in Idaho. It looks to mo as if Stockslager Stock-slager and Dubois would bo elected beyond be-yond the shadow of a doubt." |