The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-30
HIS STAR is WANING.
The Position in Which Fred T.
Dubois Finds Himself.
BE SEES A sNAG IN CLAGETT.
The DOings Of the nlegitimate Body in Boise
-Freddy's Chances are Said TO be
Very Remote.

correspondence OF The HERALD. There
is nothing more certain under the sun than
the fact that the star of Delegate Dubois is
waning in the political armament and that
of William H. Clagett, of Shoshone county,
is rising. The gentleman last named has
an enviable reputation as an orator and
lawyer and represented Montana in Con
gress something like twenty years ago. The
plan Of Dubois has been to submit the lille
Ultimate constitution to the people at an
election where everybody could vote and
no statutory provision could punish such as
were not voters or those who made false re-
turns, then convene the trump" legislature
and have himself elected United States
Senator with Governor Shoup. This being
done, it has been his suppositiOn that Con
gress would accept the constitution and
that ne would Immediately be sworn into
office, where he would have nothing to do
but
WAIT QUIETLY FOR THE PRESIDENCY
TO come to him in the natural course of
events The friends of Mr.. Clagett are not
satisfied with this programme and have ar
ranged one of far different nature. They
wish after the constitution is framed to
have Governor Shoup ask permission of the
President to call a special sessionof the leg
islature for one day, in which TO pass law
Iegalizing the election (which the constitu-
ton is submitted, and in the proclamation
to limit the power Of such legislature to
that sole object. In order to do this the
governor must state bis rea IONS t calling
the convention in writing to the President,
who will exercise his discretion in the
premises After the constitution shall have
been adopted Clagett's friends propose that
an election shall be held under it, as well
as in accordance with an act of Congress
which it is presumed will be passed. This
course would be legal, and by RETROSPECT
tive clause in such act this convention
might be legalized. Both of these parties
are proceeding upon the assumption that
the constitution will be ratified by the peo-
pie and by Congress. Should the election
be a legal one and there be no ballot box
stufflng, the acceptance is more than doubt
fUl, for the instrument already contains
MANY UNPOPULAR PROVISIONS
which, when explained to the people, will
create a great prejudice against it. AS to
its acceptance by Congress, that, too, is
more than doubtful, as was intimated by
Mr. Burroughs when here at the time he
drew up the substitute for the test
oath, and it is almost certain the Senate
will never accept it from intimations
thrown out by several Senators of the Re
publican faith It will be found that the
Republicans have taken bigger mOuthful
than they can swallow. One of the attOr-
news on the test oath case from Salt Lake
city, who was attending our supreme court
last winter, informed your correspondent
that he shoald endeavOr to got that case
advanced on the calendar. In considera-
ton of the fact that moro than a thousand
voters stand disfranchised it would seem
in all Justice to be an easy matter TO do so.
Should he succeed, and the case be heard
and decided, as almost all lawyers believe
it will be, in favor of the applicants, where
will be the constitution and statehood!
But aside from this, it will require fortu-
nate circumstances almost amounting to
the miraculous and perversions of law
verging upon revolution to boom the ridicu-
lous, illegitimate thing into the importance
of a state paper designed as the foundation
of a sovereign state.
The idea of calling together territorial
legislature, elected with no such object in
view, to select United States Senators
should be sufficient to consign to
POLITICAL OBLIVION
the man who would avail himself of the
great wrong as we'll as he who would ed.
vocate it. aid, assist or abet. We can
imagine no greater wrong, swindle or cheat
upon the people. As forgiving as the PEG
Die of this territory are-and in the past
dllOl-BtA obuLAhEY AeAAoC LSbNAAioY NiCSCB-
ton, cheating and swindling have been
treated as if they were virtues-We can
scarcely believe that they would cOuute-
nance the preparation of such an outrage
70 accommodate any man or class Of men.
Il was the last feather that broke the
cancels back, and the perpetrators of such
a piece of rascality would cause the people
70 turn upon those who have so long
imposed upon their good nature. Under
standing the designs of the Dubois ring,
the Hon. George Ainslie introduced the
following resolutions in the convention on
Saturday afternoon last:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this conven-
ton that no election for any of the officers pro
vided in the constitution Of the state OF Idaho
shall be held until the said constitution is ap
proved by Congress and under the provisions OF
an act of Congress.
Resolved. That no United States Senators for
the state OF Idaho be elected until the converting
of the first legislature elected under the pro-
visions OF the constitution adopted by the con-
Tention.
These resolutions are made a special
order for Monday next at 10 o'clock am.
It is understood a great many Republi-
cans will support them. The pop
tatives CT the last legislature may
be judged when it is stated that in this con-
vention of seventy-two members there is
but one who was in that house, and that
one a Democrat-A. S. CLANCY, of Latah,
who opposed the majority in all their do
ings. II must be remembered as well that
this convention was
NOT ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE,
but by politicians who are far less scrupu-
lous than the former.
We think with proper leaders there is a
clear Democratic majority in the territory,
notwithstanding the DISTINGUISHED element.
During debate in the convention the past
week, wherein the Republicans were
charged with bad faith in packing the con-
VentiOn with a majority Mr. Clagett as
serted that Shoshone county was Republi-
can. This Judge MAYHEM denied, saying that
four hundred Democrats voted FOR the Re
publican candidate for delegate He did not
give the reasons why, but it was the eggre-
gious humbug about lead that enabled the
Republican leaders to deceive the unso-
phisticated miners of that county-lead
matted with silver and other metals sent to
our refineries affording profitable labor to
a large number of our citizens, and the
lead of which can only be used for roofing
or burned to ltharge to be used for paint. !
This deception cannot be practiced a second
time But that is not all. Our candidate
for delegate last fall was killed by profes
sed friends-men who wanted him out of
their way politicallY-he was set up to be
knocked down Elections have gone by de-
fault the last four years. We have now
new leaders and plenty of them to guide on
to victory and the Republican who is
elected to Congress or any other territorial
or state Office in the future will find he has
no walk over.
ct re report of the commit 9e on manufac-
lures, agriculture and irrigation has been
before the committee of the whole, but has