Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-10-18

1.-THE southern Idaho and salt
Lake papers report that there is a
general purpose to take the Mormon
contention out of the democratic
party and to organize an American
party in other counties for the pur-
pose of carrying on the warfare.
Many republicans, among whom
prominent names are given, are
said TO be ready to unite with such
new party. This also is the proper
and Logical step to take. The Trib-
une has never believed the Mormon
question had any place in demo-
cratic politics. On the contrary, it
has seemed that the Jealous REFORM
ers who succeeded in injecting this
controversy into the democratic
party were attacking the basic prin-
ciple upon which democracy rests.
If then the party can rid itself OF
the hindrances of this issue, it
will be left free to pursue and pro-
mote the policies that make men
democrats, leaving others free to
follow the course of their own con-
victions. -
Thus sayeth the Lewiston Trib-
une, and more erroneous exposi-
ton of fundamental democracy,
stated and implied, would be diff
cult to formulate. In the first place,
the Mormon question necessarily
"'has a place in dem ocratic poll
tics. Z" Democratic party policies
were originally founded on the fed
cral constitution; it has ever been
the party of strict construction of
that graf instrument, has sustained
many a defeat and triumphantly
survived in its never ending fight
TO preserve our national organic law
intact. The constitution forbids a
union of church and state, and the
mormon question, - here in Idaho,
is nothing more nor lses than that.
bubble, side step and thimblerig
the facts as yJu will, that is what il
amounts to. The opposition to CIV
ing the question a place in demo.
cratic politics comes from Just two
sources; first, those who deem ii {
political crime 10 drive any voter
from the party, who would form ar
alliance with the devil against tn,
Saviour of the world in order t
win a party victory; second, TIT
Mormons themselves, who have thu
same reasons for objecting to thei
church dictatiou of Idaho state pol
1tlcs that a second-story worke
has to law furnishing burglary.
So far IS the organization of
third party in the Mormon countie
of the southeast is concerned, it
merely a movement of good citizen
ship to circumvent the technical
titles of the election law, that hor
est, independent people may have a
opportunity of expressing their wi
through the ballot box on this para
mount state issue. The Mormon
.own and operate the republics
part of the state. In these cour
ties the Mormons, acting undo
instructions from the Beehive ten
pie in Salt Lake, have captured II
democratic organization, repudist'
abe state platform and made of Il
party a tool of the church to
used by the republicans The fe
white democrats living in the
Mormon counties wont stand T
that program, so have organized Il
American party, and are joined
the movement by reputable repu
Iicans, who also decline to we
the yoke of the hierarchy.
But no one need fear or hope tn
any other political organizati
can take from the democrats of Id
no this issue, that will ultimate
place that pasty again in power
this state