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Show IHU W LIKE A iwo-Kciecos Coming Republican State Convention Con-vention in Idaho Promises to Be Lively. BORAH IS LIKELY TO THROW BRADY OVERBOARD llr "Timber Bill" Purposes to lff B Haro ThfoS8 Just the Way He Desires. (It ! gpedal to Tho Tribune, fll Mf 'BOISE, IaU Ju'v 12, A rather .new flM phaM of the factional war In tho Re-Bf' Re-Bf' publican camp of Idaho has Just been . 3 flucovared. At any rate It Is general ru- I ner that Borah and tho dupe3 who are j Ti I plartoff tho rolo of his henchmen aro the 'W'l I I IdUgators of a plan that Is being lnld i -i ? to forestall tho political ambitions of kWj ' "' Brody. Lansdon, Hastings and possibility possibil-ity ?2? t Heybum, who aro seeking nominations ! J' t the hands of the next Republican state -5 I' eonventlon. Up to dato these gentlemen 5 erldently have considered Mr. Borah and St b his political apologists their friends, but TQui i tipnarently falso deductions luive been j .'aide by tnoso whom the autocratic tfjt m junior eenator from Idaho Is about to "throw down." iffi. It Is belloved tho recent meeting In 7 'If Chicago resulted In sending Bishop Hart, i wL EonuYs bosom Mormon friend, to the I imf Mormon priesthood to get It to throw j ' tWiT- Brady, Lansdon, Hastings, and possibly j to"- Heyl)urn, overboard and plaoo Borah In 4f absolute control of tho party machinery t 'dthe stato, probably with Barney O'NVil j . Jr'ts his choice for governor and little 'Borah manlklnB along down tho line on i -3aR the Btate ticket. j!' Tho scheme might be a good ono for - TL. Borah and his deiuded followers through ; WK the nntc-clcctlon mix-up, but It would i m- only result In disaster to the Republican party and ticket should the plan be car- rfl i Hi ritd out, for the Idaho voters at the polls . 18 ImW ould register a stinging rebnko to the i man who. during all his career In Idaho, t 'Ult' ' played the rolo of a political flll-iffimP1 flll-iffimP1 initorer and who has always deserted his i benefactors at cvory turn on the high- j iLmW" Prsoal expediency and thrown j BflKT down some of the bc3t friends ho ever , UhuWiJ tad- I VIAkMWI D.nh la for Tlnrnli first. Inst iinil nil ' uta? tht time, and his sole ambition seems to Sawl M to control something In the Interest . flf of his own personal advancement. Some ILi w" 0119 very c'ose t0 tl,c statosman from -Idaho at Washington somehow conceived mS&c Idea that Borah was to be chosen j3jr epokesman for tho Taft administration In i jfifc the United States senate, but nothing! ' JKfdeflnlto was given out as to the manner ; W !iufcJIn hlch tho prize was to bo landed bj! 5S' ,he Illustrious idahoan. who hns been Uj&MMwr obliged to secure from Washington in- " "SjK.ipIratlon for his doubting constituency. ! fTOMSf 'n short, the situation In the Rcpubli-"'''"Wittii Rcpubli-"'''"Wittii party of this state was never moro tWTtiiB, deplorable and there was never bott.-r jrQ3pcct for a decisive and permanent ' T fPlIt In tho ranks than at the present T .IK, time About every Republican of any , ! Prominence wants to control things, and j tfnUNfr tho mlx-up Is Intense, with cuss words QMtMT' for each other flying thick and fast. It Is Borah and his few hirelings ; PaM- against the field, both sides fighting j'li w ferociously for control and dictatorship, . iuUMF the coming state convention of Root Ro-ot l Publicans at Boise promises to bo n ver-f7wK ver-f7wK i.Itable two.rlng circus. The recent fed- i ral appointments, the Boise basin tlmbur 3f-T fraud casos and sovcral other things will i ""Hpjrc largely In tho fight for control of fife-'lhe party In Idaho, and ueforo the contest ! r.tSm '' c'Mcs political scalps will bo hanging all' |
