Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-09-18
THE ~FIETHY POOL IN IDAHO.


IDAHO politics comes as near
70 forming the "fllhy pool'' which
is common term Of description, as
anything TO be found in the Union.
II has developed as many shiny
creatures and as much corruption In
that region as in any part of this
great ami glorious country. The
course pursued towards the @AIor-
mons" who are among the most
industrious and wealth-producing
citizens Of Idaho, will form the
darkest pages in the history OF the
Territory and OF the State. Both
Republicans aud Democrats have
Iabored and struggled and lied TO
obtain the Mormon, vote, and
men who have failed or who have
succeeded have been about equally
treacherous and unprincipled in
their treatment Of the people whose
suffrages they desire.
The present attempt to make
political capital out Of anti-sAior.
monism''is cowardly and contempti-
bic. 1t is founded on falsehood
and shows the innate meanness
and dishonesty OF the dema-
gOgues who are at the
bottom Of it. The pretense that
the "Mormons intend to vote in
spite OF the test olth, is kept up not
withstanding its abslrdity, ami it Is
surprising that those who maintain
1t do not perceive the folly Of their |
own assertions.
The Republican correspondent Of
the "Liberai'' organ in this city.
IN a long string Of nonsense, makes
a new charge. He says:
THE Mormons in Bear Lake
County, under the lead Of President
Bulge. state that they do not intend 10
vote yet the Church leaders will no:
allow the registration officers to come
at the lists.''
What have the ''Chureh Leaders,
to do with the registration lists
Could anything be more preposter-
Gus than this? Yet this stuff is
printed as a "special' aud thus the
anti-"Mormon. feeling is fostered
among the unreflecting.
A short time ago the Republican
Attorney for Bingham County. de-
string to prevent any Democrat from |
voting, as well as TO show his anti ,
"Mormon" virus, gave the follow 1
ing official advice to registration {
officers. {
hereby instruct all registrars in
Bingham County to first put their an
plicant FOR registration under oath
and examine him fully as to his ouaIi-
ficaiions in January l, ISIS. and e.
pecially as to his affiliations at sad
date with any inhibited organization.
aud to peremptori.y refuse registra-
ton to all whose answers. under
oath, do no; fully satisfy such regis !
irar.n
The same legal luminary now =
announces hIs disgust with the mr. :
ty he was Serving, and his indie I
pendent candiaature for the Office s
Of State Senator, and says: t
Il have been knitted in the house a. i
my friends with a merciless feroci,v 4
and treachery unparalleled in nv n
political experiences, and it has been q
done 50 often and 1 have been made a a
OF 50 much and So uni Il
Nersaiiy by the same men b,,-o Il
worked and spent my money viii, L
and for. that I would be less than
human not to now assert nv man. Il
hood" '''A'i 4
The Democratic Convention \, n
Boise, which repudiated the dele. II
gates from Bear Lake County who !
were elected by the regularly caiIeI .,
county convention, showed the q
Of the 50 called Demo. N
ratio organization in theneg STATE to
The leaders wanted to make a Il,tIe HI
'apitai out OF show Of opposition list
o the "NlormOns, - and 50 accented an
delegates chosen by a handful of No
Norm'n'=eaters, aud rejected the "a
e iar ueieg ltes, including IN. -
hartman Of the Bear Lake Counts y
committee, On the pretence thai .,
ley were "Mormon'' DELEGATES.
he fact il, none Of them were hi,
iem5ers Of the Church. Some NJ bu
lem never had been, others were col
ceders who had not been members ties
r years. one or two Of them were del
Mormon" parentage. but the jus
gection to them was founded on MS
lsehood built up on cowariiee. and PEG
mented with ;reachery. a,
"h ie politics in Idaho rem,ins -.
It's present foul condition. the doe
i2rmOn" Residents ofthe Sta,eare ana
I'll out q its mire aud turmoil. A. we
parties there is little cboiee- A. ton
mea there is less. The whole owl
'ay' with two or three exceptions to d
7sents list OF demagogues and SOU
ami until justice una
mes uppermOst aRd better men Naie
ne 10 the front, the ssAIormons,,
rather afford to walt the march
events than to mingle in the
loHOus strife and dabble in the It
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