Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-11-15
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MoRMoNIsM STILL THE ISSUE.


state demonstrated one fact that
towers far above all other issues
that the Mormons hold the balance
of power; that this power is consol-
idatcd and is under direct, absolute
control of the church rnagnatcs in
Salt Lake, who employed it with
AN entire absence of tact and dis
erection that only men who are drunk
with success would dare to at.
tempt. The truth and accuracy of
this assertion needs no further
demonstration than is furnished by
the election returns, that Judge
Stockslager carried by big MAORI
~ the state outside of Little
Utah. the six counties in the
southeast that have been colonizcd
by the Mormons, where the vote
was practically unanimous against
him.
Republican bosses maintain that
the church does not interfere in poll
itics, though few believed that as
.Sertion before election and none be-
licve it since. Democrats opposed
TO those now in control of their
party say that this condition was
brought about solely by the inser-
sion of the ant1-Mormon plank in
the democratic platform. They have
mo grounds on which to base that
claim, except the general inclina-
stion of human nature to fight those
Nvfo are avowedly opposed to us /;
which does not apply in this case.
The votes of the Mormon people
were originally sold to the republi-
can party through it's representa-
tive, Mark Hanna, in 1896, and
all that have been needed to make
good in any given contest have
been delivered ever since. For in
stance, in Salt Lake the other day
5000 votes were taken bodily
from the democratic party and
dumped into the hopper of Smoot's
republican machine. Chat is, in
this last election. when national
issues were involved, the demo-
cratic ticket received 5000 less votes
than it did in the municipal cleo
tion last spring. Now, in Utah the
democratic party has not antago-
.Dizcd the Mormon church. On the
contrary, it has fawncd upon and
ioost-lickcd the church; the party
machinery of county and state is
controlled by Mormons. 1t would,
therefore, seem to be quite clear
that the Mormon people do not vote
for or against any political prin-
ciple, but vote as they are instruct
4 =,
structions are in favor of the re-
publican party, as per the old
-Smith-Hanna trade of 1896. Had
the democrats of Idaho not adopted
abe anti Mormon plank they would
doubtless have received more Nor
mon votcs-and less white votes
but not enough of the former to dc
any good. MaevriciS is therefore
impelled to repeat and emphasize
late campaign; that it was good
politics to insert that anti Mormon
plank.
And it is going to be still wis
er, more clearly good politics, for
abe democrats to adopt the same
party policy, more strongly and
boldly enunciated, two Years hence
for the paramount Importance of
the issue can never again be OBJ
secured by any false alarm about law
and order. Hidebound republicans,
good citizens otherwise, have had
their mental eyes opened to the con-
summated danger, and will remove
ii. If these republicans chance tc
be allied with Christian denomi.
nations, especially if they chance tc
be trifle bigoted, as many gooC
,citizens are, then they will join al
the more readily and enthusiastic
ally in this work of rcdecming the
state from church and Jsck-Mormor
rule. They will see federal anC
minor state offices filled !. witt
these chosen people, just as sur
.as the edicts of Fate. This will
mean that you and | and all of u
will be taxed with discriminatin,
adverse inequality to pay these of
Ulcers, ten per cent of all of which
salary will go into the alread
-zsvcrflowing Golfers of the Churcl
of Latter Day Saints The avcrag
schurchman will object to this pro
gram, like a house afirc.
There is one phase of the stu
alton that is not as it should be
In many crusadcs the leaders en-