The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-08


from Weiser on today's trains Many
Of them went out on the trains east
and west early this morning. but few
remained until this afternoon. Senator
Dubois, ex-senator Heitfelds A.. G.
Arnev. private secretary TO senator +
Dubois John b. GO0de and several (
others went TO Hot Lake, oregon !
Senator Dubois VIII remain there un- /
tin Saturday, when he goes to Blakfoot /
TO attend to some personal business. +
AS soon as this can be concluded Send- /
tor Dubois Will go to Washington, de /
win be in st. Louis two or three days /
before the assembling Of the national /
convention.
viii Consult Bailey.
Asked just before he left Weiser (
about tie antipOlygamy and unla"Iui 4
Capitalization plank the Idaho deleSa-
ton Will try to have inserted ia Lne +
national platform, Senator DUBOIS seslu /
he had not made up his mind regarding 4
its wording. I can make no definite 1
statement with reference to this mat /
ter" he continued, until after i nave /
talked with some first class cOnsttu- /
tiOnal lawyers L am going to take I
the question up with Senator Bailey |
among others, prior TO the assem- ollils I
of the convention. Senator Bailey IS 4
one OF the best constitutional authOr- /
ties in the United States, and expect /
d.
to be guided ia large measure by ms /
advice
cot one thius you may rest assured, /
however the Idaho delegation TO the /
national convention viii carry out IT'S /
instructions most literally on the sub /
ieCt of that pOlygamy plank. / peleNe I
it is time for the party to go on record 1
on it, If il is decided that the con- !
stitutiOn can be so amended as TO give /
congress tie power TO suppress the eVH /
I'd r-Tr. IN r--H n
nay judgment, be inserted in the plat !
form
Dubois Congratulated.
Senator Dubois has received numer-
Gus congrs tulations for the great fight
put up by himself and his loyal ASSOC
ciates i'm favor of the anti-pOlygamy
and unlawful COha bitatiOn planks in
corpoTated in the Idaho platform. (
When, several months ago the sena-
tor decided TO make such figEt some
of his best friends, among them men
who are thoroughly posted on Idaho !
politics. told him that his cause was
just, but that he could hardly hope 10 /
win. win or lose" was his reply, Il
propose to put somebody on record on
this matter. i do not believe the ma
iOrity of the Democrats of Idaho viii
be afraid 10 declare that those VINO
practice pOlygamy and unlawful CO.
habitaiOn in this state should be
punished"
Idaho Democrats United.
A rather astonishing note i'm the
past convention talk among the dele
gates. in view of the strong speeches
that had been made on various ques- :
tiOns on both sides, was the harmony
note. The general feeling seemed 20
be in favor of letting bygOnes be by
cones, TO the end that the party may
win d victory at the pous next fan.
A prominent delegate from Fremont
county, one who is q member or the
Mormon church, and who strongly OPP
posed the adoption Of the anti-poly-
Eamy resolutions, declared that Ee
would do all he could TO help the par
tvs candidates.
After ALL" he went on, Il am in
Clined to believe that it was a good
thing TO put those planks I'm the plat
form. The younger MOrmons, myself
among the number, resent church in
huenCe i'm politics as strongly as the
. Gentiles. We do not believe in or pTac-
ice Polygamy, either Our opposition
to the resolutions was by no means an
. indication that we cOuntenance poly
gamy. We considered them q slap at
our church as "a church, but we are
still Democrats and we expect to keep
on fighting the party's battles
Hearst Was Lucky.
a much discussed feature of the
convention has been the instruction
for William Randolph Hearst. For
that instruction Mr.. Hearst may thank
former Senator HeitfeId. Senator
Heitfeld was ON the ground early
working for Hearst and he never
stopped working for a moment until
after his fight had been won. And
singular fact is that If an honest poll
of the delegates could have been taken
it would have showed a clear ma
jority against Hearst OF that there
is not the slightest doubt. II there
had been no proposition before the
convention except the proposition 10
instruct for Hearst the resolution of
instruction would have been voted
down to a certainty. How, then, did
Hearst VIM The answer is, politics.
The outside public may not know il
but people familiar with Idaho know
that what Idaho politicians do not
know about the gentle game of poll
tics is hardly worth knowing. The
Mormon resolutions saved Hearst.
Senator Dubois was much more deeply
interested in the adoption of those
resolutions than I'M Instructions for any
presidential candidate. He was, in
deed, in favor of instructions for no
candidate though he believes Judge
Parker should be nominated.
Dubois Settled the Matter.
When the senator reached Weiser
he found that great many of his
friends were red-hot Hearst men. on
principle he did not want to oppose
them Without some support from
Senator Dubois the Hearst resolution
would have been lost; without support
from the Hearst men, the anti-polyg-
ANN resolution would have been lost.
Senator Dubois had not, il is said,
made up his mind not 60 oppose Hearst
instructions until after the Hearst
caucus had rejected the proposition
from the southeastern counties TO
vote for Hearst if the Hearst people
would vote against the auti-pOlygsmy
planks This loyalty 20 him led Sem
ator Dubois to give the Hearst men
the seventeen votes of his home dele
cation from Bingham county, thus
insuring at least 147 votes. majority
Of the cOnYentjou, for Hearst.