Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-07-28
DUBOIS ANSWERED..

SWer TO the rawlings or Senator DUBOIS |
of Idaho. 1t reads as follows:
To a person from the western states
the irrational statements of Senator
Frederick T. Dubois of Idaho in an in
terview in the News recently are GER
tainly amusing. His statement that
the Mormons of Idaho, Wyoming and
other states adjacent to Utah hold the
balance of power is sheer nonsense. Ii
every Mormon in Idaho or Wyoming
had voted for Judge Parker at the last
presidential election they would not
have reduced President Roosevelts
plurality so per cent. For instance,
President Roosevelt's plurality in
Wyoming was 1859, and there are
not over 5000 Mormon voters in Wyo-
ming; and in Idaho the conditions are
practically the same. Senator Dubois
wants to convey the idea that the re-
cent great landslide of Democratic
votes to the Republican party in the
inter-mountain states and that he will
lose his political head was the result
of the Mormon church influence is RI
diculous. There was greater change
from the Democrats to the Republi-
cans in Kansas, Nebraska and Mime
sofa than there was in Utah. Idaho or
Wyoming, and that certainly could
not be laid to Mormon influence.
Because President Roosevelt and
the Republican party were popular
and Judge Parker and the Democratic
party were unpopular Senator Dubois
would say was occasioned by Mormon
church influence. If the Mormons
WELD an influence in national politics
they have very poor way of showing
it. Since Utah became a state only
two of the six senators elected were
Mormons-namely. Senator Cannon
and Senator Smoot; of the six con-
gressmen elected, three have been
Mormons, although rs per cent of the
population in Utah is Mormon. That
politicians of Idaho and Utah have
tried to force the Mormon church into
politics is from the fact that Senator
Dubois stated in letter while cam
paigning Idaho that Mormons were
criminals. Mr.. ]. II. Brady, the astute
Republican state chairman of Idaho,
had 10000 copies of Senator Dubois
letter printed in pamphlet form and
distributed in the Mormon settlements
of Idaho, but 1t did not make any per-
ceptible change in tn evote.
In Utah the politicians persuaded an
orthodox minister of the gospel to in
troduce the following resolution in tn
Ministerial association Of Salt Lake
City, an association of all the ortho-
dox ministers of Utah:
Resolved, That It be the sense OF
this Ministerial association that the
time has come for the election of an
out-and-out GENTLE mayor and CITY
council. the majority of the members
of which will not be tools in the hands
of the Mormon hierarchy"
This resolution was published on
September o. 1908. in the Salt Lake
Herald semi-Democratic paper. and
the other papers of Salt Lake City. If
similar resolution had been passed
by the Mormon church against the
Gentiles 1t would have been heralded
throughout the land. We have plenty
of evidence to show that people out
side of the Mormon church have r.
to inject religion into politics In Utah
and Idaho. But we have yet to find
a single instance where Joseph F.
Smith. president of the Mormon
church. has dominated or interfered in
any way with the political actions of
any individual or party.
Senator Dubois also states that four
of the Mormon apostles have taken
plural wives since September, 1890.
On the evening of March 10, 1906. Sen
ator Dubois, in lecture under the
oueni~ae NJ tho MOthers' congress- in