The Washington times., 1904-12-18

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displease their neighbors. " said the wit
ness. AT one town il was impossible Ia
get anyone 10 preside and / had TO take
man there from some distance away.
At another place ] appealed 10 Nor
mons and got one OF them 20 preside.
Toward the end of the campaign
there came 10 me by letter open threats
OF interference in the meetings and also
reports that the Mormon Church was
going TO take hand. The threats were
never FULFILLED. however.
On cross-eNamination by Mr.. Van
Colt, witness said:
In 1902 il was charged that apostle
Matthias CoWley went through one OF
the counties of Idaho saying that the
church wanted the Republican ticket
elected and that Apostle John Henry
Smith had visited there tor the same
purpose"
Q. Did Apostle Smith say there had
been revelation on this
\. His personal presence there was
the direct revelation 20 the Mormon how
TO vote.
Legislature Controlled.
Witness. commenting ON John Henry
Smiths activity in having a law
passed giving the people a bounty on
sugar. admitted that so far no payments
had been made because Of the interpo-
sition of the State auditor. An appro-
priation of S20000 had been made, but
the tirst years claims amounted &c
$4,000 This difference had caused the
subject to be taken up and the law was
declared unconstitutional
Q. Did a Democratic Legislature pass
this sugar bounty law?
A. Yes. Anything that the Mormon
Church asks for i'm Idaho is granted
whether there is a Republican or Dem
ocrutic Legislature. When the sugar
business was taken up. il was made a
public occasion. Members OF the hier-
archy came up from Salt Lake City and
they laid the cornerstone with great
sOlemniJy-
Women Support.
Taking up politics. witness told Of the
election ia 1885 and following years, and
said he believed the failure OF Gov
ernor Morrison to set denomination
was the 1rst instance regular custom
had not been followed. He told al
length of the success of Republican
State Chairman Gooding in getting the
nomination and of his subsequent cleo
tiCn As 10 who voted for him witness
said. No man can be elected in our
State without the Mormon support
Attorney Van Colt submitted 10 Wit
ness "a table showing the returns in the
last State election. a total OF A.64 Tor
Gooding while Heifeld's vote was
2;l92 Counsel tried Ia SHOW that Good
ing would have been elected even ii the
votes CT all the six Mormon counties
were thrown out but witness explained
the vote in another way, saying there
were Mormon colonies elsewhere which
had affected the total vote. The exam
ination went into the details of the In
creased Republican vote, Van Colt en-
deavoring 10 show that there was a
greater increase in non-Mormon coun-
ties than in strictly Mormon counties
Il don't think so" declared the wit
ness. ''In Mormon counties the Repub-
leans got practically four times what
they did in 1907.
Ran Ahead of Roosevelt.
Q. There We're some local disturbances
TO account for IL; were they not2
a There weren't any local disturb
anccs. There was a fight on one grand
principle
principle late- You do not think Mis-
souri, went Democratic because of the
MoTmons, do you2
A. I am speaking only OF Idaho. l
don't know what they do in Missouri,
but I know what they do Ia Idaho.
When you consider that there are 10000
Mormon votes in Idaho and Goodiugs
plurality was only l7000, / think We did
pretty wei
Roosevelt had over - COO i'm our State
so that we cu5 down the plurality from
Roosevelt, on whom no issue was made
as l2.0oJ on Gooding, on whom au issue
was made. In Mormon counties the
plurality OF GoOdiug was much more
than ROcsevelt's was.
Ia response 10 Inquiries from Lr. Du-
b0.s, witness quoted election returns %
show that in Mormon counties Gooding
had run far ahead of Roosevelt. but in
the rest OF the State the national ticket
showed the general increase which pre-
vailed throughout the country.
Witness told OF the Jack Mormons,
OF Genules, who act ia sympathy with
the MCrmous because Of believing that
otherwise their business interests would
suffer
Mormon Support