The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-01
WHY THE PROPHET
MUST NOT REIGN
ldahO's Democratic Chairman,
in Ringing Words, Lays
Bare the Truth.
SHOWS THAT P0LYGAMISTS
HAVE GOVERNED STATE
Clarion Call to Battle for
Liberty Made in Interest
of Purity.
Special to The Tribune.

BOISE. Ida, Aug. 31.-Chairman Lock-
! mart OF the Democratic State Central
committee today issued the following ad-
| dress to the voters OF Idaho,
| TO the People of Idaho:-In view OF
the great consequences which will arise
from the campaign OF 1906, and which NAV
| ahect for good or evil the destinies of
| the people OF Idaho for a long time TO
come, | have deemed It proper that a
! statement should be given to the people
| OF this State relative to the course to be
| pursued by the Democratic State COM
mlttee, OF which l have the honor TO be
the chairman.
"A convention OF the Democratic party
| lately held In Occur d'Alene City has
| declared In unmistakable words that DO
| lygamy and unlawful cohabitation must
| cease. and that the interference In the
| political affairs OF this State by the Nor
| mon hierarchy must stop: and It pledged
the party, II given the power by the peo-
| pie at the polls 10 carry into effect by
statutes Furnishing such offenses, that
| clause OF the State Constitution which has
| heretofore been at once the bulwark OF
morality and decency in the homes OF
this State and the weapon of defens.
against the political domination of an
unscrupulous and selfish allen olgarchy
which seeks 10 confuse the religious SEN
timents OF Its people by directing them
in their political actions.
NO parttsanship has dictated the
course OF the Democratic party In pre-
senting this Issue, for at all times, dis
regarding the possibility OF deriving ad-
vantage by trucking to the Mormon hie-
rerchy. the Democratic party has sought
TO occupy the high ground. Of citizenship,
which looks solely to the welfare of the
State and the preservation Of those homes
which are at once the glory and the safe
guard OF republic,
Polygamy Increasing.
I'VE affirm unhesitatingly that polyga-
my is not only practiced in this State, but
is increasing TO an alarming extent and
II the people of Idaho will entrust the
affairs OF government OF the State OF Ida
no TO the nominees OF the Occur d'Alene
convention and the Legislators from the
various counties who indorse the Occur
Alene platform. We viii pass such laws
at the next session OF the Idaho Legisla-
ture as VIII enable US to prove this as
sertlou, without which laws we are pow
erless 10 act. We af5rm that children.
the future citizens of this State. are be-
Ing born branded with illegitimacy and
deprived of their legal brthright and
reared in an atmosphere which must un-
dermine their moral natures. To abso-
lutely stamp out this crime, prohibited
by the moral sense OF mankind and 10
rescue these little children, SO that each
may stand equal In the eye OF the law,
unashamed OF It's parentage, we appeal TO
the motherhood of this State 10 stretch
out protecting arms over the children
reared in this vicious practice OF unlaw
full cohabitation.
The women OF Idaho have been given
at once great privilege and great
duty and we urge them so TO act in this
campaign that the claims made In their
behalf shall be vindlcated. VIZ, when
ever question OF morality should be pre-
he nrln
women would be cast fearlessly for the
right Can you, women OF Idaho. looking
Into the clear. innocent eyes OF your OWL
children fail 10 help us free the polyga-
nous children Of the curse OF bastardy?
Was II not taught on the shores OF Gall
lee that. 1t were better that millstone
were hanged about his neck and he
be cast into tho sea, rather than he
should offend one OF these little ones
Is that not living truth today In ldahoE
Is not the question whether or not you
will continue TO permit these little ones
to be offended, put straight 10 the hearts
of the women OF Idaho today In this cam
paign or. whether Joining with us. you
will put down forever the practice OF
polyeany In this State. There have ap-
peared apologists Tor the old polyga-
mists. but who, II not the women OF this
State shall be heard In defense OF their
young children.
lQanO Ill olo6laS0s
The state of Idaho stands pillorted
before the United States, placed there
by the sworn testimony OF Representative
French before the Reed Smoot investi~
eating committee OF the United States
Senate where, sitting between two po-
Iygamous apostles of the Mormon church,
he unblushlngly testified that the people
of Idaho condoned the crime OF polys-
amy and unlawful cohabitation In the
cases OF old polygamists. Do you women
OF Idaho condone the birth Of the chill
dren of the old polygamists, started from
their infancy by this system of crimeT
Last Julya forty-thrd child was born
to the third polygamous wife OF Joseph
F. Smith. president OF the Mormon
church). Are we to allow this statement
to stand regarding Idaho, or will the
earnest men and women OF this State
it?
mo less momentous In it's effects upon
The future of Idaho Is the interference
IN political affairs OF the Mormon hle-
-archy. AS Is we'll known. the Mormon
;otcrs hold the balance OF power be-
,Weeu the two great parties, the Re-