The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-09-11
DUBOIS NOMINATED.


Fred Dubois. ex United States Mar
shall OF Idaho, has had his ambition to
be Delegate to Congress grstified up to
the point of being nominated to the
position For two years he has ac-
lively and industriously labored to that
end. and on Thursday the Republican
Rnd snti-Mevmon convention of the
Territory voted according to the In
structions given by Dubois agents, and
did their share towards helping the
gentleman to the prize ne has so long
and earnestly cOveted.@ 1t may be here
remarked that there was no other anti
Mormon Republican who bid for or
Wantedahe nomination. Whether this
backwardmess was due to the preVa,
lent belief that no member of the party
can be elected, or whether all were
awed into retirement 10y the greatness
of Dubois, has not yet appeared.
Ase believer in Democratic doctrines
and a well-wisher of the Democratic
party, The HERALD is sincerely
glad that Mr.. Dubois has been
nominated. Wes are! s.pleased be-
cause we think that he will be easily
beaten. There can be no doubt of his
defeat ii the Democracy will be honest
with itself and not commit plumbers as
it did two years ago, The members of
that party are largely in the majority
In the Territory; they can elect their
candidate if they will. gland bury Dubois
so far out of sight that he will be for
gotten. But there must be no monkey
ing; there can be no internal qusrrels,
no private venom to vent;
no pretty spites to be given
loose rein; if the Democrats would WIN,
they must work togetheriharmoniously,
and leave their family jars to be ar
ranged outside of the present contest.
Asa matter of fact, Dubois is not
generally liked throughout the Terri
tory. The odor of the carpet Dagger is
rank ABOUT him, and Idaho is
not unlike the other Territories
in is suspicion of the man whose
stake In the community consists solely
of "a Federal commission. Now and
then a man comes into a Territory to
occupy. Federal Office who manages to
gain and retain the respect and con-
tidence of the community, but as a rule
the carpet-bagger, is not an object OF
admiration in the dependencies, aud
there is rejoicing rather than sorrow
when his term of Office expires. Du-
bois is.nO exception to tie rule. He is
not at all popular. He is cunning,
however, and is more willy as a polite
ian than those by whom he is sur
rounded. He has endeavored tO-make
the Mormon problem q big thing in
Idaho politics, and has done all he
could to'bury party lines, with the view
to drawing the line between Mormons
and anti Mormons; he has posed as
the most valiant and determined of
the anti MormOns, and through his
shrewdness in the manipulation of
primaries and county conventions has
succe ded in having himself nominated
by party that is more anti Mormon
than Republican; he proposes to fight
on q platform that is not Republican,
but is snti-MCrmon, and if elected it
will be, mot By Republican, but by. anti.
Mormon voters. We do not believe
that the people of Idaho have entirely
lest their senses; that they have for
gotten that there are political principles
to be Enade prevalent, or that they are
going to lose their heads over question
in which they cannot possibly be
Interested. If the democrats are wise.
if they have not gone mad, they viii 90
into the contest as Democrats, when if
they Win stick to their party principles.
gnoring matters which do not concern
them, and which can have no proper
place in political campaign, there can
be but oneoutcome to the SIGHT, namely:
victory for the Democratic nominee.