Letter from William Budge, 28 July 1888
Salt Lake City.
President Woodruff,
Dear Bro.:
You will doubtless ^remember^ my speaking to you several months ago in
regard to getting Brother Nibley, to assist me in the political campaign before us
in Idaho. Previous to that time he and I had travelled a great deal working at
these matters, and since then I am safe in saying that fully half of our time has
been used in this work. During the last six weeks we have travelled over 2500
miles by rail and paid every cent of our expenses out of our own fpockets. We are
both quite willing to give our time to the public without money and without price,
but we are unable to do that and then be compelled to raise money to meet our
travelling expenses; also we think we ought not to be required to do it inasmuch
as it is a labor which, in some respects, is in the interest of the whole Church.
With what we have spent in this business during the last three months, and
what we will be required to spend until the meeting of the Legislature in Decem-
ber next, it will take at least one thousand dollars to meet these expenses.
We are now starting for Boise, and on our way back will go through Cassia
county to look after the political interests of our people, and try to get them
all to work to one end, namely, that of securing the power in the land which justly
belongs to us. Will you help us to this amount?
