The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1906-10-13

commission OF this crime Of polyEanlN. |
And when they do, it is the duty of cv-
cry one of you or any one OF you. who
knows of the oftense TO report IT, ana
TO do your duty as citizen--to prose
cute ii, just as you would if you knew
that man had committed burglary in
your ueishbors house or stolen his prop
crty. 1t is your duty to prosecute him.
1t is your duty to not only prosecute
a Mormon poiygamist, but it is your
duty 70 prosecute polygamlst OF any
other deuominatlon-an they are no,
all Mormons tApplause)
Republican Doctrine.
l state the position of the Republican
party upon this question, now and in
the past, and l pledge their future. be
cause / shall he a member of that party
just so long as l am on this earth.
was born before the Republican party
but it will outlive me when my memory
mas passed from the minds of men. You
can always count that it will be found
on the side of good government, virtue
in the home, protection against insidiou>
Viz pbChultllN VI any hlIlu upon the
aome-there you will find the Republi-
can party. Whatever there is of patri-
ptism, whatever there is of dignity and
GOOD American citizenship, you owe ii
to the Republican party, because with
out that party there would be no nation,
there would be no citizenship OF the
nation without the principles of that
party, as they We're represented by the
founders of our governments by the
men who fought the war OF the Revolu-
ton, who made the constitution, and
they We're Federalists, ana they made
against the opposition OF this Demo
crazy. without those men there would
be no nation, and without the Republi-
can party, from 1860 on--aye from 1856.
because that is where the issue was
first made-without it, there would be
no nation today--dissevered states
the United States of memory--this old
Republican party, that is represented by
the people of this nation.
Calamity Howls.
1t is nine years ago only when disas-
ter was promised and dissolution was
representative year ago, or six in this
month-when Democratic orators were
going up and down this country telling
you that unless the policy of this party
was changed, toward the Philippine
Islands, that there would be anarchy.
and that the nation was1a fall into the
contempt of the world. And yet none
of these things have happened-none of
their. threats have come true--because
the Republican party stands, as a mass,
between the people and these threaten
ing disasters, until today We stand as
school master of the world, from which
Too.
arbiter for peace in the world, whose
voice is potent to stay the armies Of
empires on the other side of the world,
and TO cause them TO lay down their
arms and return to the peaceful walks
of life-leaders in every avenue that
tends to the enlightenment and the up
lifting and the civilization of mankind :;
that is the Republican party of today,
for which we speak tonight
Law and order.
In this state it stands for law and
order, first. When / say law, l mean the
aw made by authority of all the people:
| mean law made in the open council of
The people in their Legislative nails;
that is the law that it stands for. for
It's enforcement, for punishment for it's
nfraction-that is what the Republican
party stands for in Idaho; 1 have come
as close to it as any man in the state.
the power from the state government,
by lawless men who had no regard for.
the rights of others, who were willing
20 trample down their fellow-laborers,
in order that they might climb on their
wrecks 10 fancied happiness and pros
perity. But l saw the strong arm of
the law reached out-by a Democratic
sovernor-expressing the sentiment of
the Republican party and backed by
M ri nP
standing out an exception to his party,
afterward denounced and execrated by
his party-and murdered by his party,
for the principles that they have traf-
licked with in this state when they met
n convention in this state and made
bargain with an element of the citizens
Of Idaho, that if they would support
the Democratic ticket that they would
undertake to guarantee the pardon of a
murderer in the cells of the penten-
tiary, sent there for committing MUIR
der, from Shoshone county, and l refer
o Paul Corcoran, and the Democratic
party made the contract and they kept
1t and when they were elected to power
they pardoned him. They need not
come before the people in this hour
claiming adherence, claiming that they
ire shocked at the actual outcome of
their own policy of government here at
home. The governor of the state is its
executive and administrative officer.
The legislature makes the laws and ii
is the duty of the executive to execute
them and administer them. We have
a law against murder in Idaho, and 1t
is crime punishable by the extreme
penalty of the law. A man who is
charged with it, upon the responsible
oath of another citizen, is to be appre-
hended and brought within the reach of
the laws investigation. He is deemed
innocent until he Is proven guilty. II
ne fees from the state he may be
brought back, and under the law of
Idaho the man who is a party to the
commission of the crime of murder, by
conniving at it, assisting it, contributing
to it, whether it be the sending of an
emissary to do it, or the firing of the
shot, close across the line, that man,
under the laws of Idaho, is made a prin-
cipal, and he should be made a princi-
pal. He is not only a murderer but a
coward. He does not 90 it with his own
hands, but hires an ASSASSIN to do it.
And our law--your law--made by your
legislatures, says that he shall be as
guilty as though ne were the principal
And is there a man in this audience