The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-12-01
UNJUST AID UuWARRANTABLE

Rock SPRINGS, WYo, Nov. 49,
chronicle dispatch-Special to Tribune. j
Delegate Dubois passed through here fol
w ashineton. He said the Mcrmons are
making q bitter fight for the removal Of
Judge Berry. Bishop Bulge is at Wash.
ingtoh pushing the demand for the re-
moval Of Berry. Governor Stevenson's
report just issued shows conspiracy to
turn the Territory over to the Mormons
deeper than was anticipated. It takes
grounds against the test oath, compli-.
ments Mormon thrift, industry and NOR.
ality, and virtually invites them to pos
sess the Territory. His report creates
bitter feelings among the Gentiles of Ida
no. It was written in October when he
expected carrying the election for the
Democracy before the people had spoken
against Mormon rule there.
If such utterances as the above
were ever made or authorized by
delegate Dubois, can there be any
thing more far-fetched, ridiculous
or absurd than is the idea of SO
constituting Governor Stevenson's
late able report to the Secretary of
the Interior as "a conspiracy to turn
the territory over to the Mormons,
deeper than was anticipated" and
the assertion "that his report Gre
ates bite: feelings among the Gen
tiles %
If such expressions are genuine,
we wonder what kind of hallucina-
ton of the brain our delegate was
laboring under at the time he passed
Rock Springs; or was such balder
dash the offspring of the magma
ton of some ignorant ass of tele-
graph operator who knows as much
about Idaho as a baboon does
about heaven.
Governor Stevenson's report has
been complimented wherever it has
been received as an able, exhaustive
statement of the resources and con-
dition'of the territory, and nowhere
has there been any complaint about
it either by Gentle or Jew, or from
any other source. The assertion
that the report stakes grounds
against the test OATH" is utterly
false; no allusion whatever is made
to the ''test oath" in any portion of
the document.
And because the Governor COM
pliments the Mormon people in one
county of the territory upon their
persevering and industrious habits,
their progressive and prosperous
condition, it is no ground for be-
lieving that "an invitation is extern
ded to them to possess the territory"
as the above senseless special infers.
The following, which is copied
from the Governors report, does
not SAVIOR much of a Conspiracy"
to turn the territory very deeply"
over to the Mormons: "All the
best citizens of Idaho have no wish
or desire to persecute, wrong, or
Cypress the Mormon people, nor do
they wish to deprive them of any
Of their rights as American citizens,
but they do insist that they shall
abandon the practice of polygamy,
bigamy and plural marriages, in
conformity to the constitution and
laws of the United States, and also
the laws of the Territory of Idaho"
From the above forcible and de-
cisive language of the Governors
no sane person would believe that
he was in sympathy with the Nor
mons either before or after the re-
port was issued, nor that he enter
tanned thought when writing it of
which way the election would ter
inmate.
1t is due to the people of Idaho
that Mr.. Dubois, if he is the author
OF, or IN any way responsible for
this unjust, understandable and un-
truthful attack, should speedily re-
flute it, and not allow such unfoun-
ded misrepresentation to appear
IN the press of the country.