The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-29
IDAHO SITUATION
GIVEN IN NUTSHELL
l.. A. McCarSSar of Mountain
Home Talks of Gem
State Fight.
MANY REPUBLICANS
STANDING " DUBOIS
Kew Settlers DO Not Propose to
Submit to Yoke of
MOrE3aiSm.

| IL, a. McCargar, OF Mountain Home,
Idaho, well-known civil and mining
engineer of that State, is guest at
| the Wilson hotel, on mis- return from
Boston and New York, where he has
been for several weeks on business.
As TO the political conditions in Idaho
at this time, Mr., McCargar said that
| he was not in any sense what might
be termed an active politician. He had
always been a Republican on all ques-
! tlons affecting National legislation,
and would vote this year as heretofore
for the success of the Republican par
ty If conditions were such as to JUS
tlfy an American citizen in upholding
the present leaders of the Republican
party of Idaho. In the present cam
paign they base their hopes for success
upon the great majority which the
party had two years ago and they hope
that party fealty which is sought to
be impressed upon the minds OF the
people will continue to hold the people
In check, and Will blind them TO the
active conditions which confront them
by appealing to pride and their allegi
ancc TO party.
This appeal TO party pride and
party loyalty" Mr. McCargar said,
will not in my judgment succeed in
holding the people within party lines
IN this campaign. Idaho is settling up
more rapidly than any other State west
of the Missouri river. The new set
tiers comprise a high order of citizen
ship, the majority of whom are from
among the most enterprising citizens
of the Eastern States.
Strength Of Dubois
''The great majority of the settlers
In Idaho during the past two years and
who will vote at the next election, it
70 u llt i
herein, In my judgment, lies the
strength of Dubois. These people feel
a keener sense of horror of modern
Mormon practices than if they had
lived among them for years as we of
the West have had to do. We have
seen so much of 1T that our sense of
horror has become in a measure
blupted.
"These people know that which we
have known for years, that the leaders
of the Mormon church in Idaho con
tinue TO live IN and practice polygamy.
They further know that these same
men are the real leaders of the Re
publican party in Idaho today. They
know that through these leaders the
Mormon church dominates the politics
or the State; that not one candidate
on the Republican State ticket would
be there except by the grace of the
leaders of the church, who get their
instructions from the hierarchy IN
Salt Lake, and their names are not
there by imposition of terms, Do you
think Borah would have been irdorsed
by these men IN the Pocatello con-
ventlon had he not been the attorney
of record for Reed Smoot, with an
understanding that in the event of his
election he would be their representa-
tive and attorney and use the power
which his exalted position as United
States Senator would give him to up
hold and shield them in their illegal
hardly. Of course, when accused Of
being mere hirelings of the Salt Lake
hierarchy, subservient tools of the
church, they hold up their hands in
holy horror and deny that the leaders
of the church in Salt Lake have or seek
to have anything to do in Idaho polit
les. Their denial will not go down.
The records are against them.
History is Cited.
'FIt is not ancient history, only
little over three years old, that Apostle
tied Boise when the legislature was in
session and sought to have the test
oath eliminated from the Idaho con-
stitution, He was only partially sue
cessful. But it had this effect, it
brought Mormon law-deficrs out of
IHclr nO!cS, una since lndC Illnc IHe
Republican party in Idaho has been
taken charge of by the most most vic
ious and subscrvient Mormons in the
State These are facts, and this is the
political situation in Idaho today. We
Republicans Of Idaho are not support
ing Dubois because he is n Democrat.
We are supporting him because he is
clean man, standing upon platform
one plank of which commends itself
TO every free American voter in Idaho
irrespective Of party. In the Dubois
Borah contest politics count for but
little. The people have an opportunity
to place their seal of condemnation
upon the party that would perpetuate
priestly domination in political affairs
and they are going TO do it, and do it
good and hard. Republicans can stand
a good deal, but when the sanctity Of
the home and the morals Of the people
are in jeopardy, YOU will find that the
good, the noble, the virtuous women of
Idaho will be found working shoulder
TO shoulder to repell their invasion. In
doing which, they will re-clect Dubois,
the cleanest and most astute represen-
tative that Idaho ever had?
Get your windows fixed uv the glass
meu, Morrison, Merrill & Co., 2S Main