The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-01


IN power 1t can say to any Individual
of either party. If you agree to support
measures favorable to us, we viii make
you senator, governor or put YOU in what
ever office you may aspire to- Is not this
great power inimical to the best interests
of the state? VIII IL not build up in our
politics the system OF 'bOssism,' to tram
pie on the aspirations of our people? Was
not this great power of the Mormon HE
rarchy lately exerted at POcatello. when
in convention in which three polyga-
mists sat two men. were permitted to
prepare slate and parcel out the Of
fices of this state. without regard to the
choice of the people, but always with tie
approval of the Mormon leaders? The
motto of that convention seems to have
been, IF we please the hierarchy the
people can be disregarded.
What John Henry Did.
Have we not seen in Boise the polyg-
amous apostle, John Henry Smith. of the
Mormon church, endeavoring to coerce
legislature and to change the clear pro-
visions of the constitution OF Idaho
against polygamy, which he said were so
Objectionable TO his people. and has not
this been testified to by leading Republi-
cans of Idaho?
Have we not seen the polygamous
apostle, Matthias Cowley. masquerading
as book agent and visiting homes in
oneida county with she statement that
inasmuch as he was the spiritual adviser
of the people they must listen TO him in
political affairs? Have not the people of
this state seen Apostle Penrose likewise
polygamist, leaving his office in Salt
Lake City and coming at the request of
political leaders in Fremont county, Ida
no, and changing its political complexion
in night? Is there in this demand that
the Mormon hierarchy should refrain from
interfering i'm the political affairs in Ida
no any partisan politics? If so, then the
evidence of leading men, both in the Dem
ocratic and Republican parties, must be
disTegarded. Who can view the last seS-
sion of the Idaho 1poiC1afttra 1yifh
blush of shame mantling his cheek? Did
not Representative Ainey. a Republican
OF Canyon county, stand up in the house
or representatives and declare that he had
been approached by members of this &c
cleSiastical organization and told that If
ne voted for certain measures his useful
ness as legislator was ended? Have the
men of Idaho become so docile in their
subsection to Joseph +. Smith of Salt
Lake that such a statement can be made
by one OF their representatives and they
not resent it2 Was il partisan politics
when, acting under their constitutional
duty, the judges of the supreme court of
this state wisely suggested TO the legis-
lature of this state that a change Of We
nue. bill be passed i'm the interest of JUS
tice! And yet was this Democratic poll
tics when this measure advocated by the
supreme court composed OF two Repub-
means and one DemOcraD and introduced
by so prominent a Republican as Judge
richards of Ada county in the house. the
Mormon speaker left the chair and de-
SNtiuliS 10 tHt IlOOr OF the mouse. Cnar
acteriZed the bill as the weapon of char
acter assassins, and with passion declared
II an insult aimed at the Mormon people
Why? this change of venue bill was be-
ing discussed in the senate. Senator Nc
Beth, in advocating its enactment stated
that If this bill should be passed it would
be the death blow to polygamy, and on
this statement, Notwithstanding the rec
OmendatiOn of the supreme court of the
state, and in order to continue this alb
hcrrent practice the influence of the
Mormon hierarchy in the senate forthwith
killed it.
Partisanship Denied.
Are citizens of Idaho who are striving
to lift Idaho to the high place occupied
by her sister states in civic authority and
public morality to be called partisan when
they insist that laws which have proved
effiCaciouS i'm other states i'm preventing
disease and I'm fostering public health be
adopted in this state? If i'm agitating
against the control of the affairs of Idaho
by the Mormon hierarchy we be called
partisan. we point to the experience of
DR.. France. Republican representative
from Shoshone county in the last legis-
lature. as an example of the power of the
church to oppose and defeat the best in
teTests of this people. DR.. France. at the
request of the state medical board. intro
duced a board of health bill which in eff
feet provided the machinery for stamping
out epidemics and contagious diseases
and provided for the collection of the vital
statistics Of the state. Idaho is the only
STATE OF the american Union WnlCn mas
not such a law. and TO the credit of the
medical profession of this state they en-
deaVored to place Idaho in line with the
best medical and scientific information by
collating and copying the best part of
each law from the different states on this
subject. DR.. France introduced this bill
and was thereupon told by the represent
atives of this Salt Lake hierarchy that il
he eliminated the provision regarding the
registration of births the bill could be
passed: otherwise il could not. Upon his
refusal to truckle to this plainly immoral
demand the bill met the same fate as it's
predecessors by being defeated at the
hands of the Mormon influence. Thus to
hide the evidence that they still preach
and practice polygamy the Salt Lake HER
archy have exposed the people of Idaho
to contagious disease and possible death
by keeping the state from having the
necessary machinery to effectually quar-
antine against disease.
Not Personal Question.
There is but one issue to be presented
TO the people of the state. in view Of these
incontrovertible facts above stated, viz.
whether or not the people Of Idaho shall
enjoy political Independence and whether
or not they shall cleanse this state of the
crimes now being practiced within its
borders. l shall not permit the person.
alities of the different candidates to en-
ter into the discussion. but / shall insist
at all times that the question Of the sane
tity of the home and political liberty is
greater than the aspiration Of any candi-
date; that the great question to be an
swered and settled at the polls I'm No
weber is whether vice shall be effectively
suppressed and individual political liberty
be preserved to each citizen of Idaho We
must make sure that the state lives be
fore we discuss the question of politics.
Time for Action at Hand.
Il am not appealing to the partisan
sentiment of the Democratic party, but
rather l am addressing in this campaign
all the citizens of Idaho. regardless of
party; to Democrats and Republicans
alike, because their interests are being
injured in the most vital places; to the
women Of Idaho regardless of party af-
filiations, because crime is practiced in
this state which particularly affects them.
We have before us the ever continuing
struggle of a democracy-the preservation
OF a liberty dearly bought and heroically
maintained. 1t is a fight for first prin-
ciples and all that is most dear to men.
Before any other question can be an
swered. the people of this state must. by
their solemn votes, affirm that liberty is
dparpr them than fhpir arfxr ,ff