The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-06
IN IDAHO.

The Mormon people in the South
eastern counties of Idaho seem to be IN
dead earnest in the matter of an indie
pendent party organization. AS mat
ter of course, they do not expect to
elect their ticket, should they nominate
one, but they can be free and independ-
ent in their action, and they can at least
avoid being used by ungrateful Demo
Gratis only to be kicked and abused wnen
they have performed faithful service.
The Bear Lake Independent, which is the
recognized organ of the proposed new
party, speaks its mind fairly and plainly
in regard to John HALEY and the dis
honest, cowardly course the latter has
pursued with respect to the Mormons
who did so much to place him where
he is. In the latest Issue to hand, the
Independent, in ana rticle inquiring
who are our Friends?" says:
One thing more we can say in favor of the
RepuDlicans-they are true to their friends.
We believe their standard-bearer ex-Aar-
| Sudt OuDOlS never BOCS DdCA On q lEl6uus
We wish we could say as much for our De-
mocratic friends ~ and their standard
| bearer honest (?) Jshn HALEY. Two years
| ago Mr.. HALEY came through these cOun-
| ties soliciting Mo mon votes. Mormon in
| fluence at the Convention aided very mate
rally in securing his nomination; Mormon
| votes secured his election. Well, he had no
sooner been elected than he allowed
| himself to be interviewed by son oil
| Belial, who wrote for the Salt Lake Tribune,
and in tn I interview declared himself
ready and anxious to put every pOlygamist
| in the penitentiary We have reason to be.
| lieYe that some of his staunch Gentle
| friends were disguised with him because of
that interview. This man, whom we have
helped to make, when in Washington in
of Judge Morgan. declared to AttOrney-Gen-
eral Garland that If the Federal offices in
Idaho were given at once to Democrats he
would have more hormOns in the peniten-
tiary in four months than the Republicans
had cOnyic ed in four years. In other words
he could deprive hundreds OF Mormon
children of al education through sending
their fathers to prison, and all for the dig
nifty and majesty and vindicatiOn OF the law,
and of course certain political capital for
honest (?) John. This same man is now go
ing about the Territory gloating in his de-
testable course. He is the standard bearer
OF the great Democratic party.
Mr.. HALEY will probably not have the
efrontery to come down into south
eastern Idaho as he did two years ago
and make promises for votes. He
worked that act successfully once, but
he could not do it a second time,
especially in the present temper
of the people, who remember
how completely he sold them out after
having used them for his own purposes
as long as their services could be made
available.
The one thing to be regretted in this
contest Tor the Idaho Delegateship is
that HALEY is not opposed by better
man. Cowardly and ungrateful as
Haley has proven himself to be, his
rival is worse in every respect than he,
and would bring further disgrace on
the Territory were he elected. Upon
the principle that home scrub is better
than a carpet-bag plug, the people of
Idaho are going to elect HALEY, and
him two years more in posi- !
ton where he can control the FederaI
of the Territory, and manage
officials and affairs to his individual |
liking.