The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1904-11-04
MCCONNELL TO DUBOIS,
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name Of those in whose employ you
are, the humblest man or woman III
the commonwealth has right to
challenge you to defend your posi-
ton before an audience Of your con-
stituents and if you cannot maintain
your contention the people have
right to retire you and your cohorts
to the oblivion you deserve. The
fact that you refuse to meet me in de-
bate to which challenged you and
that too at time and place where
you were billed to speak, and did
speak, was an injustice to the rank
and file of the party you claim to
represent as no stronger evidence
could be had as to the fallacy ofyour
arguments than your refusal to meet
the issue.
On February 5th last year while
the omnibus bill looking to the adj
mission OF the territories Of New
Mexico and Arizona was under dis
cussion, light was being sought on
the character Of the Mormon people
in those territories, that proper safe
guards might be enacted in the bill.
Senators Hale and Beveridge turned
to you for information as to whether
the Mormons still practiced poly
gamy, you being senator from the
state of Idaho, where large Mormon
population was known to exist, and
living in Mormon county, were sup
posed to know the status of those
people and if you did not know after
residence of SO many years in that
locality what under Heaven did you
know about Idaho? You said to Mr..
Beveridge, You had stated as plain
ly as you could, there is not any
polygamy SO what is the use Of hav-
ing law against something that does
not EXIST" My dear senator you
will find these remarks Of yours on
page 1854 of the congressional re-
cord Of February the fifth last year.
learn that you now say in your
speeches that you were mistaken and
prove it by product of polygamous
marriage, who says that in his youth
he was pointed at as an illegimate
child. A man who by dragging in
to this discussion his family record
besmirches the character of his moth
er and brands his brothers and sisters
as being the offspring of the concu-
bine of an accommodated Mormon.
His testimony, if accepted, proves
that you were trying to deceive your
fellow senators and had so little know
ledge of affairs in your own neighbour
hood and state as to render YOU I'M
qualified to represent our people.
But your remarks on the Mormon
question i'll the present campaign as
well as those of the witness, who SO
lightly esteems the sacred name of
mother, not only reflects upon the
members OF the Mormon church, all
of whom you consider criminals, but
you also impeach the intelligence and
morals of the thousands Of Christian
gentle women and men who live
among the Mormon people. If the
conditions are as you state, is it pos
sible that these men and women to-
gether with the ministers OF their
churches and many denominations
are represented in the Mormon coun.
ties, have SO little regard for deceucy
morality and the purity of the home
that they keep still about it and
through all these years have covered
up this continuing iniquity until first
Mr.. Stalker and next woman from
Pennsylvania, followed by a detective
tell us about it, Blackfoot is your
home. 1t is located in a Mormon
county. You have had family for
several years and in common with
other citizens yon have had an op-
portunity to see and hear. Men are
sometimes neglectful of what trans.
pires in the domestic affairs Of their
neighbors, but women, God bless
them, are ever on the alert and it is a
safe guess that no case of coniupal
lnfelicity Or marital improperly in
villages such as are found in Idaho
ever escapes undetected, and if what
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