Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-16
THE IDAHO SUBTERFUGE.

THE IDAHO SUBTERFUGE.
Idaho papers have great deal to
say about the anti-"Mormon" aglta-
tion which has hcen stirred up In that
state, and which received formal ex-
preston at the Weiser convention. a
widespread opinion Is entertained that
the willy politician who worked up the
scheme for the insertion Of the
thoroughly undemocratic plank In the
Democratic platform there, and is try
ing TO induce the Republicans through
his organ--the Idaho Statesman--to
commit a similar act OF folly, has In
view the fact that he Is unlikely NJ
reelection by either party IN It's pres
ent shape, and therefore means to
manipulate the anti-"Mormon" move
ment so as to form what viii be new
party ON that basis, and on IT climb
back into the seat which he fears he
will otherwise have to vacate. This is
not our forecast It Is that perceived
by number OF our Idaho contempor-
aries. The Pocatello Tribune takes this
view, and copies long article from
the Boise Capital News from which
we take these extracts.
"The vital issue at Weiser was
whether the man who once disrupted
the Republicans In order to secure Of
flee IN a silver state. shall, now that
his adopted party In In the minority
disrupt that party and attempt to re-
tain that office by making It's Orgnni-
zatlon simply personal machine to
do his bidding, even TO the extent of
subscribing 10 the most pernIcious Of
all un-democratlc doctrines. Mr.. Du-
bois won by that shrcwd political
trickery that has all along character
lied his career and IL remains to be
seen what the real democrats Of Idaho
VIII do In the premises, II Is safe to
say, however, that thousands OF them
VIII refuse TO endorse his program at
the polls, because Democrats are first
OF all patriots, and are quick TO discern
the difference between a party organ
ization and a mere machine.
The men who are leading this reig-
ious-polltical crusade are not Demo-
Gratis, neither are they Republicans,
hut rather belong TO that shifting
class Of politicians who are always adj
vocating something new Mt each sue
ceedlng election Read the list of the
men put prominently forward at that
convention, trace their records and you
win not find proof Of this assertion
lacking.
Such men as these cannot or viii
not believe that principle is more to
be desired than expedlency, They
h.. q
intolerance, and label the awful mem
ace TO our constitutional rlghts-De-
mocracy.
They would demand federal inter-
ference with our police regulations to
suppress vice and brand the invasion
OF states rights with the stamp OF the
immortal jefferson"
The Caldwell Tribune, Republican
paper says the Idaho Democracy is not
in harmony with the national Democ.
racy and the movement at Weser was
fostered to give the former an issue,
II says further;
THAT Is one reason for resurrecting
the old Mormon fight Another
reason In the necessity to Senator Du-
bois Of disruptlng the parties In this
state, He begins TO feel that he cannot
much longer ride the Democrat bron.
cho. Every day It becomes harder for
him to remain In the saddle, and unless
he can create a great diversion, he is
liable to be tumbed off very soon"
''ro the purpose OF organizing n new
political party the first essential step
is the disruption Of old parties This
can only be done by bringing forth "a
paramount issue. senator Dubois Is
now In labor with that kind OF an of
spring. He proposes that the Mormon
question shall be paramount In Ida
no."
The ST. Anthony News has this pun
gent paragraph on the same subject
Senator Dubois and his Ada county
delegation have at last arranged mat
tiers for the Boise Statesman. which
has long been In disrepute with It's
party, II viii now be an easy matter
for that sheet to line up with the
Democratic party. Wonder what the
honorable senator proposes doing with
the Capital News which expounds
genuine Democratic doctrine, not the
stripe advocated by ldahos senior SEN
ator. WIN he undertake 10 force Il
into the Republican party as ne valnly
Gratis az the recent convention"
The Pocatello Advance puts the mat.
ter IN this way;
1.-THE action Of the Wciscr convention
was not directed at vice that exists
IN the state, That was made clear
in the discussion that the advocates
Of the passage Of the resolutions
ceased 20 pretend that such was the
case and argued along the line that
their action was justified by the neces-
slty Of an attack upon religious
body. The question was at once placed
where II belonged as one OF whether
the party should place itself on rec
ord as being willing 20 go back 10 the
old A. =. A, doctrines and attack a
religious body upon the theories adj
yocated by that old organization, or
whether II should take the broad
ground that certain Vices bearing upon
It's marital relations should receive
the condemnation of the party
ITO the doctrine that the party should