The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-18
FREDDY'S FINE FIX.
The Position in Which Mr..
Dubois Finds Himself.
THERE MUST BE NO TEST OATH.
ave Do not Like to Have These Fellows Act
as if They Owned U.s.
General News.

Correspondence of The HERALD. Dele
gate Fred T. Dubois has spoken, and yet
our people are not entirely happy. He
suffered himself to be interviewed by a re
porter for the Spokane Falls ReUicU a few
days since, and in guileless sentences gives
his views in relation to the admission of
both Utah and Idaho as states of the Union.
He tells the reporter that: with a few
isolated exceptions the people of Idaho are
unanimously in favor of the movement,
and, in fact, enthusiastic-that the opposi-
tion is not sufficient to be considered a
factor in the campaign" How disap-
pointed the gentleman will be when he
visits southern Idaho and takes in the stu
alton. He will find that the people feel
that they were outraged when, as was the
case almost universally in the several
counties,
THE RIGHT TO SELECT DELEGATES
was taken from them and transferred upon
political huckster5-County committees, who
had been selected with no such object in
view. The making of constitution is no
trivial matter. Every man has the ma
tural right to do whatever he wills so long
as he does not interfere with the same right
that God has bestowed upon his neighbor,
and such right can only be taken away by
delegated powers contained in the contract
between those who govern and those who
are governed, known as a constitution.
No usurpatiOn can be greater than for
few politicians to arrogate to themselves
the power to delegate these rights of the
people away. The latter think slowly,
particularly where their rights are inter
mingled with questions of law and abstract
principles. If
THEY ARE DECEIVED AND CAJoLED,
it must be done speedily. for if they have
time to think they will ''llick," and when
they do some one gets hurt. In the present
case too much time has and will elapse for
the successful carrying out of a sWindling
programme The people have plenty of
time to learn that the whole scheme has its
inception in fraud, and instead of being de
signed for the benefit of the people was
brought into being for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of individuals and to fill party and individ-
ual wants. Mr.. Dubois, in his interview
says: 1.-The people of the territory will in
sist upon some provision in the cOnstitu-
ton similar to our test oath, which dis
franchises MOrmons, and Congress, in my
Judgment, will insist on the same thing"
Mr.. hubOlS Will never succeed in this
pro- ion. In the management of party
affairs the delegate is no match for d. P B.
Pride The latter has been almost uni
formly successful where the two have
crossed swords Pride is a member of the
convention, a bitter Republican, and as
adrOit as any politician west of the Rockies.
He says there shall be no test oath clause
1t is true the Republicans have very large
majority in the conVention-unless some
bargaining is perfected between the clans
here and in Logan counties, almost two
thirds: but it must be remembered that
the Democratic party is
SOLID IN OPPOSITION
to the test oath at this time. There are no
'anti-MOrmOn Democrats in Idaho. 1t is
Republican or Democratic-One or the
other. There is no middle ground, and ne
who is not for US is against US Mr.. Pride's
following will probably be sufficient to
thwart Dubois in his designs The posi-
ton of the former in his party is so well
assured that it is a bigger job than Dele
gate Dubois would wish to contract for to
read him out. Pride is as cunning as a fox
and as dashing as Murat Dubois is eau
tieus and thoughtful, and the end to be at
tanned justities any means he may see fit to
use to attain a political object. Neither
have much scruple for that matter, and
both are cOmbatiye, never failing to fight
each other when the Democracy are not in
sight They strive to appear to outsiders
as a pair of brothers, and conceal their
grudges and ill-will as much as possible,
but the disguise is very gauzy. Go around
among the people and talk as your CORE
spondent has done, and there is but one ex-
preston among Republicans and that is,
I'VE do not like to have these fellows act as
if they owned US" There was never such
chance for some talented, honorable gen
tleman to
STEP IN BETWEEN
the two and knock things to flinders, as
now presents itself. If Governor Shoup
should direct his attention to political mat
ters entirely he could easily be that man.
His private interests are too vast for that,
however, and the moment his back was
turned there would come a sting-in other
words, it would require all of his time and
attention to hold and keep the lead. for the
other fellows have nothing else to do to
speak Of.
Mr. Dubois says that Utah will not be
admitted because CT 1.-The intimate relations
between church and state.'' The RepubIi-
cans have left New Mexico out of the
Union although its population warranted
its admission twenty-five years ago Why!
Because its people are Catholics, and that
does not square with New England ideas.
Solid New England, diminutive as that
little patch on the surface of Gods foot
stool may be, has much to do with the keep
ing of western states out of the Union.
The protective tariff, the father of all mo-
nopolies, is here, and when a western state
is admitted that does not draw its ideas
from the sickly literary pabulum she looks
on with unfriendly eyes. Every new state
hastens the day when she can no longer
rob and steal from manufacturing
people. Mr.. Dubois tells the reporter that
Senator Platt told him land, in fact the
whole delegation that in his opinion Our
bill will
PASS THE SENATE
before the house is organized, and l am al
most positive it viii pass the House with
practically no opposition" Mr. Dubois
should know better than your correspond
ent. But is he sincere! Does he not know
that it was once a cardinal principle with
the Republican party to oppose all test
oathsl Some Of Us who have arrived at
the middle stage of life remember how Re
publican orators howled themselves hoarse
and Republican journals were almost
afiame because a test oath was once i'm
posed in Kansas to support the Lecompton
constitution. Down with test oaths, said
they. 1t was heard from the pulpit, the
forum, the stump, the state house, on the
street corners and by the hearthside. VIII
they ignore this old party principle because
Mr.. Dubois wants to go to the Sanate! trom
Idaho! Not being on the ground, we have
no means of knowing how the honorable
gentleman has succeeded in upsetting all
precedents in his party. The statehood
feeling is very lukewarm in this city, be-
cause, among other reasons, a question will
arise as to the location of the capt. oil builG-
bly, have no trouble in retaining the build
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