Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-11
WHY THE PLANK
WENT THROUGH.
Tracherous Conduct Of Anti.
Mormon Element at Weiser
Convention
OlSREOARDEO THEIR PLEDGES.
WOuld.Re Champions Of Morality Have
Records That That Wolld Make
Decent Men Blush,
snccInl cnrregnondonce.

Special Correspondence.
Rexburg, Idaho Juno 9.--rhe Weisar
convention was far from being q fair
expression OF the Democracy Of Idaho
for the reason that IL had become gem
orally understood by at least one wing
Of the pnriy that nothing IN the nature
Of AN anti Mormon resolution would
be discussed the understanding being
that nothing other chan un9reiudiced
declaration from the people as TO their
choice for n Democratic president of
the United states should be brought
before hc convention. Thus thrown OF
their guard q has since been learned
that the anti-"Monncn' element mad
been secretly perfectinB thcir plans ana
quietly electmg anti Mormon sup
uorters ~ delegates from the various
counties Until they secured a comDina
ton 1t has rarely been my lot 20 wit
ness Those VINO nave been DECEIVED
and they are those who have heretofore
'lcpresented the Democratic party iu
Idaho. are eXasperatcd M the trcachcry
displayed by men whose pCsltl0ns would
lead anyone To- expect them TO pursue
Ia more honorable course
when the resolution wns first present
cd It was under the guisc Of being IN
the naturc of a resolution to suppress
Vice and in the interest OF good morals
as so uearherously advocated by SUI
porter uf the measure whose record
along those lines would make an honest
man blush. hut an amendment TO IN
Cudc all other sexual Vices as wen as
.polygamy and unlawful cohabitation.
was booted and scOrued'at thus show
ing that the element making such Tight
was i'm favor OF the continuation of
prostitution and that their chief
object was to ride on the wpye Of public
excitement into popularity politically
at the expense OF the good name OF
hundreds OF thousands OF the best citi-
2ens OF the United States.
stll have confidence that at the
coming state convention TO be held al
Lewiston IN August much different
sentiment viii he expressed, as the re-
spectacle element of the party are de-
termlned especially since the late COM
vention. to ut ldaho's Democracy out
of the gutter into which II has for
time fallen.
The Mormon" people comprise APP
proxlmately one-tllrd of the population
OF Idaho. and their record has shown
them to be at least equal to any other
portion Of Idaho's citizens In the way OF
good citizenship, and as such they baye
the respect of the better element Of the
state and from this standpoint | can
not help but feel that those who per-
sistently abuse SO large n portion OF our
commonwealth wlll surely meet their
Waterloo when the entire populace OF
she Gem State" have an opportunity
90 express themselves at the ballot
AS TO the effect It viii have ! have
no doubt that Il viii have It's Influence
I'm tanning the flame of anti-"Mormon'
fire more or less throughout the nation
by those who are carried away with ex-
citement ON that queBtion, but when
brought squarcly before the representa-
tive Democracy OF the nation | still
have confidence that they viii think
more OF government OF the people, for
the people and by the people, than to
allow such local question that belongs
entirely to the people, to be dragged
before the United States courts ana
practically taken out of the hands OF
The people, where true Democracy In
Stats 1t properly belongs.
Much praise IN due to the minority OF
The convention, who, although nom
mormon" made n heroic night In their
behalf Their manly defense for fair
ness will be long cherished in the
hearts of all fair minded people who
witnessed IL.
THE QUESTION AT ISSUE.
Discussing the same subject the Po-
Catello Advance, non Mormon
Democratic paper has this to say;
The action OF the Weser conven-
ton was not directed at a vice that
exists i'm the state. That was made so
clear I'm the discussion that the advo-
Gates OF the passage Of the resolutions
ceased to pretend that such was the
case and argued along the line that
their action was justified by the neces-
sity of an attack upon religious body.
The question was al once placed where
81 belonged as one OF whether the party
should place itself on record as being
willing TO go back 10 the old A. Il. A.
doctrines and attack a religious body
upon the theories advocated by that old
Organization, or whether It should take
the broad ground that certain vices
bearing upon It's marital relations
should receive the condemnation OF the
party.
10 tho doctrine that the party should
become the inRtrument by which any
body calling itself religious should be
attacked. there We're many that could
not consent, to the offer 10 make the
action Of the convention cover all the
vices alluded to and thus remove the
religious aspect Of the question, the
majority would not consent.
IN order TO Illustrate completely the
difference that existed between the
contending factions OF. the convention,
the following Is printed. Read the