The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-10-19

rying In his vest pocket thousands Of
votes. But he does not even carry his
own. CApplause)
II you go TO the community where
they liave reported this disaffection you
are liable 10 hear there from some dis
gruntled person OF the great disaffec-
ton that exists in some other part Of
the state from which you have just
come. And so it is.
NO Disaffection. na.Ats
l have circled around this state since
the convention. When / went out Of
this hall | went westward, and north,
and around again, and have come
through the east and the south Of the
state, and have spoken In all Of your
counties, except Bear Lake and Oneida,
and l expect to speak in Bear Lake
county tomorrow night, and i have
learned something of the sentiment Of
that there was stampede from the
Republican party in the neighbornood
county that lies to your west-Cassia
sounty--and i went over there, and I
looked into the faces Of the largest audi
ence that has ever been gathered in that
county for any purpose; and / read there
the same spirit Of intelligent adhesion
and patriotism to the Republican party
and it's principles that I see in this
audience tonight. (Applause). And !
will undertake to say that vote in this
hall will show that three fourths of 1t
are true to the principles of the Repub-
ican party. (Renewed APPLAUSE
The disaffection that they will tell
you exists over there only exists in
their hopes that 1t might exist--that's
al. (Laughter).
I spoke to those new communities
ast night al Rupert, the night before
1T the town that bears my own name.
They came in there from the sagebrush
held with the hope that the government
would give them water for their crops
the coming season, They came in there
70 listen and sit In the school Of gov
eminent. They came in there to con-
slider how they could best perform the
duties of citizenship. And we met TO-
gether and talked over these questions,
md talked with them after l left the
rostrunl, and | know that in these COM
munities three-fourths of them at least
are Republicans and will vote the
Republican ticket at the coming cleo
lion. (Applause).
The Mormon Bugaboo.
When these people came to Idaho this
willy Democracy conceived the idea,
Now, here are new communities, new
people, TO whom the conditions in Idaho
are new, and we will go down there
ana we VIII put on false face, and we
will scare them into voting the Demo-
cratic ticket" (Laughter). And they
went down there, and they put on the
most hideous countenance that you ever
heard of, and behind it there was the
is all there was behind it. Applause
and laughter). They told those people
they said Here now, you are strangers
in this community, and you don't real
lze the danger that turks for you. Your
aomes which you are just establishing
upon these new lands are liable to be
m night
Mormons, OF a polygamous practice. I
You don't know, new people, how great
this danger is. 1t is true we have lived
in Idaho long while, yet we have es-
capped them, but that is because we are
Democrats, and that Ls the only way
to escape them--iS TO vote the Demo-
cratic ticket.---vote for the legislative
ticket that will send me back to the
senate, says my colleague, and 1 will
fix them for you" And the United
States senate has no more power TO
in the state of Idaho, or in any other
state, than has a justice of the peace
in the state of Florida or the state OF
Maine. not bit. But to hear them
state their case, you would think that
all ne would have TO do was to go back
there and just turn little crank and
out would come d bill, that would ami
nilate polygamy and the Mormons with
it. Neither the congress of the United
States nor the president OF the United
States nor any part of the federal gov
eminent, has any power to regulate this
question. You might change the consti-
lution of the United States by violating
or changing it's present principles, and
violating the principles of the Declara-
ion of Independence and the basic prin- |
liples upon which this government was |
of freedom of conscience
the people of the United States might |
vote new constitution or change the |
present one, SO that congress could leg |
slate for the state; but you will not |
10 it. You will never take back that |
declaration and protest Of your fore
fathers, who cried out against being de-
)rived of the right of their conscience,
he right TO worship God according to
heir, conscience; you never will change
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