The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-17
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+" USING ANY MEANS"

Under the above heading the Sioux City
Tribune punctures the Republican party's
inconsistency in profession regarding the
Mormons and dealings with them. 1t says
The practice of the II ,publicaIi party in using
any method whatever 10 secare it's ends Is
being we'll carried out in some of the new states
and notably in Idaho and Wyoming. Although
Republican leaders have vigorously denounced
! the Mormons in both House and Senate and
have used great amounts of political buncombe
against them, the moment that the Mormons
can be of any use TO them in a political way,
! they begin TO work them for votes. In Wy
orning they succeeded very well in securing
the Mormon support and they are using every
effort to acc 1mplsh ina same result in Idaho.
! The Mormons have no love for the Democratic
party because it is responsible for the legisla-
ton designed TO stamp cut their unlawful prac-
tees. But the Republican party is eager to
have the Mormons affiliate whit The Repub-,
/ lcan leaders want the Mormon votes, and as is.
their practice they are willing to resort to any
means to get tuen. And, also,yaS usual they
seek to cove: their own trail by shouting that
the Democrats are trying to effect an alliance
with the Mormons. Any one at all familiar with
the Mormon question will laugh at any mention
| of combination between the Democrats and
the Mormons, but great many people are not
familiar with this question and they may be mis-
led by the Republican hue and cry.
| The Republican party emphatically stoops to
conquer. Whether by blocks of five in New
! York and Indiana, coercion of employees in all
cities, or comb n stion with the Mormons of the
far northwest, the Republican leaders are quick
20 use any means to accomplish their ends.
Our Iowa contemporary might have
added to tho force of its illustration by re-
ferring to the manner in which Idaho and
Wyoming were admitted to the union.
Never was the hollowuess of a political
party's professions exposed more fully
than in the case OF these two territories.
In Idaho the majority of the Mormons,
comprising one third of the entire popula-
ton, were in the habit of voting with the
1 Democrats, because they believed in Dem
ocratic principles. This fact was notori-
GUS. 1t would not, therefore. do to admit
the territory as a state. and thus add
to the strength of the national Democratic
party. The Republicans needed more Rep
;esentatives, more Senators and more
electoral votes. and the way to. get these
+ was TO reduce the Democratic majority in
Idaho to a minority, and .hen make u state
t OF it. This could be done only by
y the arbitrary uisfranchisement of the
: Mormons. When the Republicans set out
to do thing they hesitate at nothing
They undertook to make Idaho Republican
, and take it into the union, and without
shame, sense or reason they denied the
D right of suffrage to members of the Nor
: mon church.
This done the same Republican party
stepped across the line separating iaht
from Wyoming and found that here the
majority of the Mormons voted with the
Republicans. To disfranchise them and
t deprive them of citizenship would be tc
: make Wyoming Democratic, ana tc
make it Democratic would be te
| lose an opportunity to get electoral
votes, Senator'S and Representative,
, The course pursued in Idaho had no in
fluence upon the party in dealing with
Wyoming. Unworthy and bad as the Nor
mons were in Idaho, they were loyal and
good citizens in Wyoming and could with
propriety be entrusted with the ballot.
The proposition to incorporate the Idaho
test oath into the Wyoming constitution
, WAS Indignantly Scouleu py hepupncanS
and Wyoming was taken into the union
, with her Mormon population standing or
an equal plane in the matter of citizenship
with other people. This was right and the
, Republican course was commendable, bu
the act was glaringly inconsistent witt
, Republican professions and past and cur
rent conduct. If the Wyoming Mormon!
are good enough to vote and hold Office 81
> are those OF Idaho, for neither are bette
= or worse than the others, neither more O
:, less loyal than the others, neither more o.
less devoted to the country and its laws an,
institutions than the others.
= The Republican party is hu nbuy