Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1906-11-02
CHALLENGE VOTERS
An Attempt Made TO Intimidate
Electors In Southeastern Idaho
THE SCHEME WONT WORK
Every Qualified Voter. Regardless Of
His Religious Belief, will be Per-
mitted to Cast His Ballot.

The latest move of the men who
have secured control of the Demo
cratic party of Idaho is in effect al
attempt to fulfill the threats con
tanned in Dubois Occur d'Alen.
platform in the matter of dlsfran
chising the members of the Mormon
chnrch. Beaten and disowned in
every county in the state, Dubois
has now caused to be- published a
statement that he intends to employ
. gang of brow beaters to act az
challengsrs in the southeastern Ida.
no precincts, with a view to fright
ening away from the polls consid-
erable percentage of voters. Ennis
saries have been sent out from
Duboisocratlc headquarters in Boise
to this section Of the state, with In
structions to spend Dubois and
Stockslager money In the employ
ment of men to prevent, If possible,
the casting of q single Mormon vote.
Challenges are to be made the basis
OF a contested election. 1t is pre-
sumed that in order to get the sup
port of Stockslager to such a plan,
promise was made to include the
office of governor In the proposed
contest. Before Stockslager joined
the movementit was the plan to
throw out every Mormon vote for
congressman and mem bers of the
legislature, since the latter will, at
the coming session.. elect a United
States senator. The idea of the
Democrats, apparently, is to carry
their protests to Washington, alleg-
ing that the Mormons of this state
are not legally citizens of the United
States and should not be permitted
to exercise the rights of citizens.
1t is bluff and will fail. Every
voter who desires to cast his vote
be he Mormon, Catholic, Methodist.
Presbyterian, Christian Scientist,
Jew or Gentile-will be permitted
to do SO on election day and without
delay. No gang of browbeaters
can prevent the exercise by an
American citizen of the right of
franchise in Idaho or IN any other
state in the Union.
The Democratic party of this
state has fallen into the hands of a
certain coterie of individuals who
seem willing to stoop to conquer; to
ssoop so low IN order to attain their
desires that they befoul the very
name of citizenship and make mock
of law. 1t seems hardly fair to
charge the rank and file of the Dem
ocratic party with the sins of its
self-chosen leaders, but the fact re
mains that every nominee on the
Dubois platform, the principal plank
Of which pledged the party to con-
daut a religious persecution and to
disfran :hise one-fourth of the popu-
lation of the state, knew what to
expect. The Dsbois policy is being
put into practice trife earlier than
vas expected. But it is here In all
the black infamy of its treason,
With all it's shameful slander upon
$he people. The men nominated at
the Occur d'Alene convention knew
Ind declared that Mormon d,sfran.
fhisement was their purpose. It
as their one hope of carrying the
hate.
y What will the people do under the
circumsiancesf Will they vote into
Powsr . clique of fpolitical assasslns?
pr will they, by their votes on Nov.
th, uphold the right of citizenship
nd say to Idaho Duboisocracy:
We are free men; we will not
lornish the fetters with which our
oes may bind us. y,
Every voter on. November 9th,
hether be be Republican, Demo.
rat, Duboisocrat, ssAmer,cann
ytyite, Socialist or Prohibition