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Show 111 ' i . Mr. Clagsf one's Claim Thai If ; Brady Spent More Than the I j Law Allows. I I' j I ,'j EVERYBODY BELIEVES IT; I M 1 SUIT IN SUPREME COURT I, f " 1 ! i Brady Employs Counsel, and a I 1 Big Fight Is Sure to j'j Come. 1 ' ' ' BY 0. E. AENBY. I t j' , Special to The Tribune. 'l V BOISE, Ida., Sept. 15. James H. ' Brady has been nominated for gov- l 1 crnor of Idaho by the Republicans of II I' the state, as appears from the incom- r ; 1 'pletc returns from the various counties ji of the state, in the first primary oloc- Hi ' 1 1 : tion ever held in Idaho, li j According to the terms of the new ; Idaho primary law, candidates for gov- j ernor are limited in their expenditures j of funds for campaign purposes to $750. I ' The lav provides that proof presented , to u supreme court of an expenditure of I ! 1 money in excess of that amount, oper- J , ates to the disqualification of any such J I 1 candidate for the ofiice of governor. I I il Paul Clagstone, the Republican speak. I I i er of the last house of representatives, lias given out his intentions, in specific terms, to call Mr. Brady to book for ' I his expenditures in the campaign just j J closed, resulting in a defeat of his own j I aspirations as Hie Republican candidate ' 1 1 for governor.- He has traveled from his jl home in Bonner county, the most, north- I' ern -of the counties of Idaho, to Boise, It and is hero to stay until the case is pro- , J sented and the decision rendered from I i j this the highest, court of final dctermin- i . ation of this subject. r'; Brady in Defense. I .) Speaker Clagstone has evidently con- , ..'j vinced Governor Brady of his detcrmin- " j ation to force Inn: to defend his expense ', account against the operation of this law, which he has filed with the sccre tary of state, showing an expenditure I of $(316. or $135 less than the sum pro i; " hibiled him as au expense account under un-der the law In proof ' of ' this conclusion, conclu-sion, the governor has employed such able counsel to defend his case as Hon. Edgar Wilson and Hon. .Charley Cava-naugh Cava-naugh of Boise. Speaker Gladstone has not yet, announced his attorneys, but it i3 needless to sny ho is making the strugglo with the co-.operrition of scores of his Republican friends in the capital city. I am not advised of the details of Clagstone's proof. I do not know a single item he proposes to produce to serve to push the governor over the line to his political finish. In itt? present pres-ent status the case is a serious one and interesting from standpoint of practical politics. In all the fullness of the Clag'stono charges against the Brady expense account; ac-count; the case is a Republican mix up. The governor is a Republican. Ilo has employed Republican attorneys. The speaker is a Republican and scores of Republicans here in Boise, some of them state office holders, are helping him. The supreme court are Republicans, Republi-cans, and in the event of an adverse decision the law presumes that a Republican Re-publican state committee will bo required re-quired to name another candidate for governor. All this turmoil comes about to the embarrassment of the approaching state campaign which is short at best. His Huge Expenditures, From my view point the miuds of the people are settled in the conviction that Governor Brady has actuallv expended more than $750 and for that matter more than $7500 in his primary enm- ' paign. This has been the universal com-i mont of too many people over southern south-ern Idaho during the past ten weeks., to admit of serious denial. Supporters of tho governor mnko no serious denird ot the charge. Some defend him ami condemn the law. while quite all agree that it is very doubtful if lie has nol so covered the various paymonls that a sum in excess of his sworn statement cannot be directly traced to the governor gover-nor himself. 1C for instance Clagston: should prove tho employment of Will Gibson as Governor Brady's agent, in a. sum to exceed tho Sol item mentioned in the governor's nccoimt, anothci might be brought forward to tcstifv that he paid Mr. Gibson. Vet the people peo-ple would believe, the evidence to 13 an evasion. If the $(5000 item allege 1 to have been paid by tho governor for the Rexburg Standard should be proven to Iit?vo been pnid by Gibson 'or bv another, the public would still be of the opinion that Governor Brady furnished the money to take the paper from Barney Bar-ney O 'Neil's political support and place it to his own. , If tho governor should take oath with uplifted hand to high heaven that, ho had not subsidized the Evening Capital News of Boiso', no one acquainted with him or with the past history of the daily would believe the statement. Wedge of Dissolution. Tho Clagstone charge against Governor Gover-nor Brady may mark tho entering wedge to dissolution of tho Republican party in Idaho. The party is in dire straits in its present condition, without the addition of proof boforo the supremo court of a direct charge of law-breaking on the part of its nominal head, the governor, whom tho party has renominated renom-inated ns thoir candidate tor re-election. The chairman of tho stale committee ond the speaker and George Fletcher have been defeated at the polls, and they all have their many cogent friends who rofuso to believo in the sincerity of Governor Brad3 Tho direct primary has done for tho Republican party that which has always al-ways been charged it. would do, viz., riveted tho charge that the Mormons nre with Governor Bradv for tho pur pose of that degree of protection which ho has and will give to them. This charge is of more than passing consequence to tho intelligence of tho citizenship of tho non-Mormon voters of tho state' of Idaho who, for the most part, aw guided by a lofty degree of pure Ajnerican patriotism. The Republican party of Idaho hns survived three elections through tho agency of this directed Mormon vote, agninst charges of a coalition with the Utah hierarchy. Mr. Brady has yielded lip tfio "pound of flesh" with the same idolatrous devotion to the Mormon system sys-tem that was adhered to by his predecessor, prede-cessor, Governor Gooding, whose ambitions ambi-tions he served as chairman of tho Republican Re-publican state committee. Tho six southeastern counties have been the one and in one instance the (only dependable salvation of tho Republican Repub-lican party of Idaho. A Severe Tost. In tho contest iusf closed, by which the direct primary has been given a sc-vcre sc-vcre test, an issue has arisen that has irnpressod almost onc half of tho Republicans Repub-licans of the stnto which risen above any and nil principles of parly consideration, consid-eration, namely, that "graft'' has entered en-tered into the Republican management of Btato affairs. This large majority of the party can logically lay this embarrassing embar-rassing condition at the feet of an unholy un-holy allinnco between tho Gooding Brady machine and the Mormon church. In partial corroboration of tho existence exist-ence of a compact between Governor Brad' and this southeastern Idaho Mormon Mor-mon vote, directed from tho heads of tho church in Utah, no hotter proof is roquirod than the boastful words of tho governor himself in an interview published in the Coeur d'AIeuo PresB during his last visit north, in which ho said this: "Tho Mormons! I have always been strong with them, nnd they are with me, both in matters of policy and during dur-ing the present contest." Enough said! That suggestion solved the problem! The fulfillment of this statement put tho other candidates of tho "Republican party out of business". Brady's vote in the Mormon counties would have nominated either O'Neil or Clagstone. But they had failed to mako the alliance. Brady made it, and Brady won! No land board scandals swerved tho Mormons one iota from tho expressed ex-pressed will of the leaders, and Brady triumphed! Just what Republican principle is augmented by such an un-American system sys-tem is difficult of solution. How long the mad paco is to exist and to what end, is problematical! May Solve tho Problom. It may be the Clagstone intervention with the supreme court will solve the problem for the Republican party. Perhaps Per-haps it may be turned over to the people peo-ple with Governor Bradv ns tho. e.nndi- : date- of the Republican party, with the added embarrassment of proof not sufficient suf-ficient lo sustain the charges in a court of law, but proof just the same. Whatever tho outcome, the Republican Repub-lican party may have some trouble elect ing its candidate for governor, and if elected, the state of Idaho may hove some problems to face of graver proportions propor-tions than ever beforo in its brief but interesting histor', for the day of grand juries is abroad in the land, and a very wholesome spirit of inquiry into ques tionablc official conduct possesses tho j public mind. There is no legitimato reason why a decent, high-grade, scrupulous Republican Republi-can party should not win in Idaho, entirely devoid of an unholy alliance with the Mormons. Even if the nominal nom-inal head of Republicanism is overtaken by justice in subsidizing .newspapers' and generally in purchasing his renom-ination renom-ination with his hoarded wealth, are these fractures a greater moral sin; are they more stupendous sins against patriotism pa-triotism than encouraging church dictation dic-tation in politics: protecting polyganvy and permitting illegal "graft" 'by associates as-sociates in ofiice, as Governor Gooding did, and as Governor Brad' hns done so recently? The Republican party is about duo for a wreck on the sand bars of its own distinguished foll |