The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-26
A Talk with Editor Aulbacb.

Adam Aulbach, the editor of the Wallace
Free Press, who has become suddenly ia
nous through having been enjoined from
publishing in his paper comments on the
Wallace mining troubles, is one of the
Democratic delegates to the convention.
He is an elderly man with bushy gray hair
and gives one the idea that an Injunction
served on him would have the same effect
as the lassoing Of an engine. He denounced
the territorial reports which have been
sent out from Wallace, and said there was
no more need for troops in Wallace than
there was in Salt Lake city. The report
that train Of 300 miners had been stopped
by the strikers was deliberate lie-such q
thing had never occurred. The striking
miners were as loyal to the laws
as any class in Idaho. When Marshal
Pinkham went to serve his warrants
he was met with a brass band, no resist
ance was offered and every facility af-
forded him. Mr.. Aulbach bitterly de-
nounced the action Of Mr.. Dickinson in
calling on the governor for troops, and the
governor for paying attention to the call.
Asked what he did when the Injunction
was served on him forbidding him from
making comments on the strike, Editor
Aulbach said he issued his paper with the
editorial columns all blank white space ex-
cept brief note that the contents of this
column had been enioined from appearing.
In othor parts Of the paper Mr.. Aulbach
made it extremely lively for the Republi-
can Judge who had issued The monstrous
Il writ on6
of the mangled newspaper to every
Democratic member of Congress. The
whole press of the country took the matter
up and raised storm over the Republican
| judges interference with the liberty of the
press. The Now York Sun said Mr.. Aul-
bach ought to have been sent to the pepi.
Tertiary for not treating the injunction
with contempt. Hon. John M. Burke and
Hon. Alexander Mayhem confirm MIR. Aul.
bach's statement regarding the falsity OF
the telegraphic reports from Wallace. The
editor charges the whole thing on the
mine-owners, or persons acting in their in.
terests, and he says this class would be
only too glad to goad the miners on Il
some act that would render the calling in
of troops necessary.
THE INFAMOUS TEsT-oATH LAW,
There is no manner of doubt that one o,
the earliest acts the Democrats of Idaho
will put into force, if they gain control o.
the state legislature next fall, is the repea
of the Infamous test-oath law. Seven o.
the foremost Democrats Of the state. whom
l interviewed today, gave me their senti
! 70 hIc ot1h
George Ainslie, ex-delegate to Congress.
and chairman of the Democratic state com
mittee; E. A. Stevenson, governor of Idaht
under Cleveland; John Haley, Exon
gresham, and James H. Aawley, United
States attorney under Cleveland; Hon. Bel
Wilson, Hon. r. u johnson and A, e
Mayhem, who ran for Congress agains
Sweet are the gentlemen in question
Their ideas, briefly but emphatically ex
was passed by Republican leg
stature and signed by Re
publican governor. They were aide
by the votes Of several so-calle
Democrats, and elected by the anti-Mor
mon party by the most stupendous ballo
box frauds. Every straight out Dsmocra
in the legislature voted against it. By tina
law the Mormons were disfranchised an
Dubois was elected. The law was alway
an infamy and if it ever had any excuse fo
existance that excuse disappeared whe
the Mormons gave up polygamy.
'fThe Democracy of Idaho,'' said MI
Ainslie, "are united on this point, and
believe that if Democratic legislature !
elected the repeal of the test oath will b
one of the first things to which it will tur
its attention"
Mr.. HALEY said resolution to this effec
would have gone like wildfire if introduce
, in the ton, but the feeling was ths
1t should come up in the convention
nominate state officers, which meets i
Boise Aug. "a.