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Show THE CONTEST IN IDAHO. A careful Investigation or tho Idaho situation leveals that if there is a lair election there, Governor Gooding will bo returned re-turned by a handsome mapority over Stockslager, tho Dubois candidate. Not even tho dastardly scheme of the democrats to disfranchise tho whole Mormon people In Idaho can prevent It. Notwithstanding tho claims of various va-rious parties, careful inquiry shows that northern Idaho is safely for ft) Goo,1'ni" which means tho election of JW the whole republican ticket and the 'j overwhelming defeat of Fred T. Du-'j Du-'j bois as a political factor In that state, flie only dark spot In all tho prospect Is that when Idnho kicks Dubois out ho will como to Salt Lako and throw mud with tho Koarns gang. Tho northern part of Idaho will give Governor Gooding not less than 5,000 votes tho start of Stockslager, who has been playing a doublo-faced game to hi sown undoing. Tho southern counties in Idaho ought to add 10,000 to this figure. It is Impossible of belief that tho democratic nominee will get any Mor-mons Mor-mons to support him. Tho republican party has toted fair with tho Mormon people, and theso folks In Idaho aa veil as In Utah, ought to know their friends. - - - - From this situation it Is easy to sco republican success in Idaho, and tho downfall of Dubois. If tho Mormon Mor-mon voters had been as wlso and as courageous as they aro industrious, Dubois would not have dared Institute tho scheme of challenging every ono of them, In his effort to disfranchise them at tho present election. But it s likely that they have the senso and wisdom to call his bluff, and Insist on voting, as is their right. Governor Gooding probably will win without them; but they aro entitled to vote and ought to persist In doing so. n |
