The Teton peak., 1904-09-01

career as IL was possible 10 ldhS
i'll any vacant spot on the political
horizon and we can not blame Fred
for the political things he makes
Mr. Heitfeldt do. We do object,
however, to Mr. Dubois and Mr..
Heitfeldt, as representatives Of the
Democratic party or any other par
ty. posing as the leaders who eX-
pect to enlighten the corrupted and
benighted people Of Idaho as to the
conditions they have fallen into
and to place them once again upon
high moral plane.
We have recently made trip
through the northern part of the
state and we don't believe that you
can find in this OF any other coun-
try a more intelligent, independent,
moral, loyal and hospitable people
than inllabit North Idaho They
were not made SO by Mr. Dubois
nor by MI Heitfeldt and it doesn' t
seem to us to be necessary for them
to get into the Dubois Heitfeldt
band wagon i'll order for them to
get upon that high moral plane SO
tenptingly held out by the Press.
When we remember that this
Mormon question was UP once and
settled and that the scars have
about healed; when we remember
that during ali the years of that
fight, the Democratic party OF Ida
ho fought the Republican party
bitterly upon that issue; when we
remember the vindictive vitupera-
ton heaped upon Dubois by the
Democracy for his leadership i'll
that campaign, it seems like a call
from the grave to now listen to the
cry of the Democracy for the revi
val of issues SO long dead that they
are mouldering.
The Republican party years ago
settled the Mormon question in
Idaho; settled it finally and ire
vocably and settled it III, spite
of the united opposition of the
Democratic party; settled it just
as it settled the tariff question, the
money question and all other ques-
tions upon which it once declares
itself and the Democratic party is
now just as far behind on this
question as it has always been on
all other questions it has ever had
the courage to take stand on 1t
is again attempting to. revive
dead issue.
But let us be charitable. Per-
haps it is not the Democratic party
this time. Perhaps it is, after all,
the work of Fred 7. Dubois from
beginning to end. Henry Heit-
feldt's political principles, ideas
or thoughts are only dittoes.
What we have said about the
people of North Idaho applies
equally to the people Of South Ida
no or to those of any other part of
the State. We have no Mormon
question iii Southeastern Idaho and
as there are no Mormons III North
Idaho, there certainly can be no
Mormon question here. 1t was,
however, Fred T. Dubois last
chance-a very slender thread up
on which he might land himself
once more in the U. S. Senate.
But it will not serve this time.
In regard to the domination of the
Mormons i'll politics, it is neces-
sary only to call attention to the
fact that two years ago Mr.. Dubois
sent his representatives (after a
thorough coaching) to Salt Lake
city to inform the heads of the
Mormon church that they must de
liver the Mormon votes in Idaho
to the Democratic party or be dis
franchised. To their everlasting
credit, be it said, these gentlemen
showed the fellow the door. Oh,
no Dubois is not a politician and
he would not think of having the
Mormons vote on his side.
1t is because the heads of the
Mormon church absolutely refused
to interfere with the politics OF the
members of the church on the de
mand of Mr.. Dubois, that this
question is raised at this time by
Mr.. Dubois and every man i'll this
part of the state knows it; 1t was
common street talk here two years
ago.
Only party lacking in princi-
pies and weak in leadership woulC
allow this question to be engrafteC
upon it by man who has no more
interest in the principles and doc
trines of the Democratic party thai
the writer has, but who has al
honored Office in his grasp anc
hopes, by hook or crook, to ono,
more secure it for himself, even i
he has to kill off the Democrat,
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