Arizona republican., 1890-11-17
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FOR PRESIDENT IN lse0, JAMES G. BLAINE, ---- OF MAINE
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 A New York Star reporter interviewed Hon. Fred Dubois, of Idaho, few days since, from which we quote few items as follows:
 "The Star's readers would like to know" said the reporter to Mir. Du bois, "whether the Mormons will not be rein vested in political power in Idaho be- cause of this new departure of the Church in renouncing pOlygamyP
 twill the Mormons be reinvested with political power in ldahoW said MT. DebOis. "To that l answer, most em- phatically, mol We have been fighting there for six years, unitedly, to take away their political power, and just after having succeeded we would hardly restore it to them without some reason. We were right in contending that they are not American citizens in any sense of the word, and nothing has transpired of which have heard or read to cause us to say we were wrong. All the mem- bers of the Mormon organization are ruled by the head of that organization at Salt Lake. At the command of that head every Mormon in Idaho, as well as Utah, votes with one or another party, for or against any candidates. The in dividual members of the Mormon organ ization do not think or act for them selves politically. You cannot argue with them-you cannot pursuade them. They are not in sympathy with our form of fgovernment-theyk know nothing about it and care nothing about it. That is our chief objection to them from a polit- ical standpoint. They owe their highest allegiance in all affairs, civil as well as ecclesiastical, to the heads of the church and will not obey the civil authorities if their leaders counsel otherwise. They never divide their vote and will cast it solidly for the Republican party one year in one State and for the Demo cratic party the next year in the same State. They do not investigate political questions at all-do not discuss them and rely on their leaders entirely for guidance in political matters.
 You can easily see how corrupting their influence is in politics. They have generally voted the Democratic ticket in Idaho, but are now willing and ready to transfer their allegiance to the Republicans. Neither party, how ever, in Idaho desires an alliance with them, because each party fully under stands that if they once make an alli- ance with them they are completely in their power thereafter. The Mormons are in no sense attached to our system of government, but have a complete gov ernment of their own, to which they render implicit obedience.
 "The Idaho test oath disfranchises all Mormons in Idaho. Its constitution saI afffbf far in, ious courts and was finally sustained in the Supreme Court of the United States. The Idaho people made it part of their constitution and were so admitted as a State, and a similar law was introduced in the last Congress to apply to Utah known as the 'Cullom-Struble bill Idaho was certain to send two Repub- lican Senators and a Republican Mem Der of the House to Congress, and it was pretty certain that they would press the Cullum-Struble bill. There was noth- ing left for the church to do but to abandon polygamy, unless they sur rendered their political power without further struggle, This they could not do and maintain their iron grasp on their people, so they announced their abandonment of polygamy. While l feel that they did this with great reluct- ance and as a choice between polygamy and the greater misfortune to them--the loss of political power-still they can never re-establish polygamy as it was in 1882. The conditions and surroundings have so changed that that would be i'm possible in this country.
 ''I am quite sure that the coming Legislature in Idaho will disfranehise them, and that they will not be allowed to exercise the privilege of the franchise there until it is plain from their conduct in Utah that the leaders no longer exer- else an absolute control over the Mor- mon masses in all political matters. l am equally sure that Utah will never be admitted to Statehood so long as the State there is completely absorbed by the church. Generally l would say that the most offensive part of Mormonism, the close union of church and State, re- mains as offensive as ever."