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Show I! SOME INTERESTING SITUATIONS IN I I IDAHO POLITICAL CIRCLES DEVELOP I HI -j (BY C. E. AENEY.) IH.a i Special lo Tlic Tribune, lil J BOISK, Xov. 29. Idaho poliUos is lm lioi'oniins nil cresting. Tlicrc is imidi 1 Ijj ' tnlk quietly llivoughout tlic stale, .As j usual tlio chief iniorcst centers in t ho iv J governorship. I IS Brady, (ho incumbent, is serving Ins I ''j .1 lirst term. His regime , is Jofs than a j year old. His advance to Iho execu-I execu-I J , tivo oliair was rn))id for he is practi-R practi-R j I callv u new man in Idaho, lie served Ijl' his 'pnrtv in (wo successive campaigns j J as its state chairman. From this pott po-tt .1 ' sition he walked into the nomination. "i a vear ago, without, opposition: but j 9 ivon at the polls by a reduced vole. !jwti Friends of the executive claim that 'l in his race at the polls he was hum-, jh: pcrcd by his friends; that Mr. Hayes y ( of Poca'tcllo, who waa h the brewing II ji! j business, created the impression that; & j lie was so allied with Hayes that he llH could not be. counted as n friend to local option, which, though defeated f in sifi.o convention, became an issue iji the campaign served 1o confuse the $ voters to the political detriment of ' j j Hayes was well known in local poli-vi poli-vi tics in Southern Idaho for a quarter of ' a century. He was the easy leader fit f of ihe Republicans of liannock county. I ' hia homo and the home of Brady, and HJ.T. i his management in sjnlo conventions ijlH j is credited generally with making Good-(ll(J;( Good-(ll(J;( jug the nominee for governor over Mor-jllif Mor-jllif rison in !)04, and in making Brady twice the state chairman, in 1001 and !3 ( The opponents of Brady eym .go fnr-; fnr-; t ther and credit Hayes ' with saving Brady from defeat "in the last state my convention, when the successful com-3 com-3 "it binatiou which occasioned the defeat 5j; of French for congress and Burwoll tiul for lieutenant governor was formed and tm successfully driven through the con-ilMfi con-ilMfi vention. I ftP These claims tend to engender some ilf, bitter feelings on either side of the X ' present situation, but so far as indi-hgiw indi-hgiw cations nro concerned, arc only side fijjif lights to the engagement, for "Brady js iu the saddle, while lluj'cs is out I fc There is an unwritten law in the jnfr political arena of Idaho that a gov-tm gov-tm enior is entitled to a second term at ilm the hands of his party, unless ho has jiffis transgressed sonic vital party principle, j-uj But once has this law been broken, and hJJ; that was when Gooding defeated Mor-aljr' Mor-aljr' rison for a rcnomination in Mill. jm Twico previous was it attempted, iiF lirst by the Republicans in 1S04, when HOjlj McCounell was renominated, and again iftj: by the Democrats in 1902, when Hunt tSs! was renominated. -M This one instance of the defeat of ?,nd- Morrison by Gooding left, a scar on Kt the Republican party of Idaho which rjjjjj 011I3 for the support eiven it by a con-jjpfi con-jjpfi siderable number of Democrats and the solid Mormon vote of the state, would iv$ have driven it to defeat. Wf But todaj' the situation is inierest-5J inierest-5J .ng. Brady has the governorship. So Iff far as Hayes is concerned, Bradv will 3jj lie free from tho charge of an alliance. JNi for he has burned the bridges behind (M him and come out squarely for local option and. for that matter, for stately state-ly wide prohibition. His pronouncements Jng on this subject have brought to his t,!'f aid a new clement in Republican poli-;-i ( tics, viz.. the Protestant clergy of the state. From present indications they are uniting in his behalf. As a striking evidence of this sug- festion wo quote Ihe following literal ines from the address of Dr. Charles L. Chalfnnt of tho First Presbyterian church of Boise, in his Thanksgiving sermon at the Congregational church last Thursday: a i''c have iu our exalted chief . executive and in our honored governor, examples of total abstainers who should be a pattern and inspiration inspira-tion to all our America, and especially our Tdnho boys." On the rostrum behind tho deliverer of these eulogistic words was soatod the pastors of the Methodist, Christian, Chris-tian, Baptist and Congregational churches and the captain of the local post 6f the Salvation Arm-. With the dose of the above sentence a pro- nouncpd chorus of "Aniens" resounded j through the chapel. The ministers of the state appear to accept Brady as the leader of the forces who are opposed to tho saloons. The governor appears to accept this leadership at the hands of tho clergy. This alliance seems to be mutually' agreeable. As a bulwark of hope to the friends of the governor, and his allies, wo have the voles of eleven out of thirteen counties in Idaho which have accepted I he local option provision of .the last session of tlic legislature, which act the governor's friends insist he was instrumental in passing. Tho two exceptions ex-ceptions aro Ada and Klmore counties. The former defeated local option bv nvrr Cllll vnlnc -iml llin lotlni- W tliir. teen. "With these apparent valuable assets at command, however, and a direct, primary pri-mary law to determine the noinineo of jhe Republican party. Governor Brady is not in the clear for a ro-noinination. There is a ''dark tcloud arising in the sky. The approach of opposition is persistently rumored. So much has been said over the state about a division of sentiment in honors for the Kepublican nomination for Governor that a resume re-sume of the .situation would bo incomplete incom-plete without reference, to it. Tho name of Justice of the Supreme Court .tames F. Ailshio is to frcquonth mentioned as the- opposing candidate for gubernatorial honors to further escape es-cape publioity. Ailshio is ambitious beyond his present pres-ent judicial acquiremenis. He is a young man, nnd has been ver3' fortunate fortun-ate in the game of polities. He was chosen lirst as a supremo .court judgo in 1902 and MJeeeedod himself in the election elec-tion of a year ago without opposition in either party. Before ho had been nominated for his second elective term! however, lie made a campaign for higher honors, and lost in the struggle. .Judge James II. Boatty of the Idaho Federal Bench, resigued and Ailshio sought to succeed him at the hand of President Roosevelt. He made a brisk campaign which was not well received by many of his part- leaders and bitterly bitter-ly resented by hosts of his former neighbors in Idaho county. .lames II. Brady was at that time chairman of the Republican stato central cen-tral committee. lie went personally to . Washington and met President Roosevelt Roose-velt and discussed with him tho appointment ap-pointment of a federal judge, llo presented pre-sented the name of his fellow towns man, d. ft. jjietncn 01 rocateiio. Ain-shie Ain-shie made the fight, of his life for supremacy su-premacy and gathered to his support acting Governor Gooding and Senator Heyburn. Senator Borah, who had just been elected, took sides with Dietrich and after a hard fought battle he defeated de-feated Justice Ailshic. During this campaign some of the most bitter and extreme letters and afli-davits afli-davits that ever found repose in the files of the white house were presented to President Roosevelt by Idaho county citizens and former leading Republicans of the state against Ailshio. This contest con-test left behind it man' scars of battle bat-tle that are not now, nor never will be, healed. V s While Ailshic has demonstrated his qualities of the order chosen by himself him-self as a politician, he has also tho element of a good hater. He refuses to yield in devotion to those who opposed op-posed him in his judicial ambitions and aspires for gubernatorial, if not senatorial sena-torial honors. He has some assets at his command. He is cognizant of these elements and the persistent rumors from men who should know indicate the probability of his entering the field in opposition to Governor Bradv in next year's enutcst for the Republican nomination nom-ination lor governor. Thoso who refer to his caudidacy are prone to call attention to his decision in the Budge case two years ago in which the right of Judge 'Budge of the Fifth judicial district court, was called to question because of the complaint in that he was a Mormon he had no constitutional right to hold oflice. Ailslue rendered tho opinion for the supremo court, sustaining a lower court in granting a demurrer to tho complaint. com-plaint. This decision was received by the Mormons of Idaho with signal eclatl Again those who speak of his ambitions ambi-tions refer to the fact that in the contention con-tention between the Mormon nnd anti-Mormon anti-Mormon wing of the Democratic party a year ago, when he was tbo candidate of tho Republican party for re-election lo the supreme court, he sat as a supreme su-preme court judge in the ense which was to determine the faction of the parfv entitled fo judicial recognition and joined in an oninion which gave recognition to the Mormon wing of the party, which said wing had left vacant the nomination of a supremo court judge. This decision was received by 'the Mormons of Idnho and of Utah and of tho world, with great and signal eclat! The Mormons aro fond of the opportunity oppor-tunity of evidencing their appreciation of favors bestowed and especially so when the favor savors of a thrust at Section III of Article Vf of the Idaho Stato const itut ion which inhibits believers be-lievers in polygamy from voting or holding anj- office of trust or prolit within the state of Idaho. They do not like to long postpone tho exemplification of this tendenev. The sooner they can demonstraf 0 this disposition the better tho effect upon weak aspirants for high political preferment. |