Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-27
DUBoIs's "IF."
IDAHO Paper Points Out He Might
Carry 1t Still Farther.

Senator Fred I, Dubois has figured
auite prominently IN the politics Of Ida.
30 for many years, aud has figured with
Bgures, but the late lamentod election
Do Idaho and its uWful results have
fayed In his mathematical bump, and
ne reckessly throws figures together
and apart and proves to his own en-
lire satisfaction by doing violence TO
mathematical accuracy, that the Nor
mons are responsible for the over
whelming result, lie was recently in
terVieWed and made the startling state
ment that the Republican majority on
the state ticket was the Mormon vote
OF about 10000. He AYERS that II the
"Mormons" had voted the Democratic
ticket land here we will add that Il
they had they would be good, patriotic
cIuzens), the Democratic ticket would
have been elected by 10000. II the Nor
mons had divided evenly Hcitfeli would
have been elected and the balance Of
HE ticket would have been defeated By
lmall majorities. The senator figures
that 1000 Gentle Republicans support
ID the Democratic ticket and 10000 Re-
publlcans supported Heitfeld. The six
Mormon counties gave the Republi-
San ticket 10000 majority and the nom
Mormon counties gave It 1850. There
vas but very little difference IN the Re-
publican majorities IN Mormon" and
con-" Mormon counties I'm proportion
10 the votes cast Dubois may figure
aud figure, add and subtract and reach
results that might have been n they
hadn't been otherwise, but the returns
ire against him. He may tumble and
scramble and mix up the figures with
airy suggestions and gauzy theories,
but they Will with mathematical and
measured step waltz back In regular
9rder TO their right positions. and sus-
Tain their long standing reputation Of
Dissemination TO lie, even though their
manlpulators may be le-able to err or
iesignedly call out "preyarication In
lhe center and all hands round" and
'or time appear to mix up the figures.
but they viii get around TO their props
N places and mutely but eloquently
lustain the old time declarations that.
Truth Is mighty and will prevail" and
hat figures Will not lie." Now that
NE senator has been associatlng figures
6lth IFS" aud arrived at the mistaken
'ouclusion that II the "Mormons" had
not voted or had divided evenly Helt-
leld won have been elected, Ii cannot
se considered impairment N this pro-
,ess OF reasoning Is carried a little fur
her ~ the Republicans had dyid-
ID evenly or had not voted at all, the
'esult would have been different, or
1f' the Democrats had all voted the
Republican ticket, Just imagine the |
Wfulness Of the result
A reasonable supposltlon would be |
mat II the "Mormonsn had not voted, |
Mat are known as the Mormon" coun- |
Hes would have gone as did the other !
puntles OF the state-al gone wrong |
.rom the senator's point Of view. The |
act is that the Republican wave swept |
lFer all the counties Of the state and |
vas as impartial as the rain that falls |
lIke upon the Just and the unjust"
That Is Just all there was to It. and |
'he senator can figure and figure. with !
9r without his addtlone. subtractlons
ma Ifs" and try TO reach results OF
Nhat would have been, should have |
9eeu or might have been II Il could |
awe been otherwise than Il really was,
lhe fact stands out boldly that It Is as
u was evidently destined TO be, and
would be Just as II is, "Mormons" or no
'Mormons.'--Idaho City World.