The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-03
IDAHO WILL THROW
OFF MORMON YOKE
This Is Statement of Well
Known Republican of Gem
State.
EXPRESSES CONFIDENCE
In SUCCESS OF DUBOIS
Best Elements Are Determined
Not to Be Controlled b.
Hierarchy.

Walter Brown, resident of Ogden,
but for many years a prominent mine
operator and manager in Idaho, is in
the city for a few days. Mr.. Brown
is manager of mines at Atlanta. few
miles north of Rocky Bar, where he
spent the season, as has been his custom
for many years past.
Mr.. Brown g acquaintance in Idaho
covers wide range, extending, as it
does, over the greater portion of the
State, and be is probably as well in
formed upon the actual conditions that
exist there as any man in IL. In a
conversation with a representative of
The Tribune he talked frankly and
freely from the standpoint of staunch
and lifelong Republican Of the politi-
people in the present campaign, but
dlsclaiming any pretense of being In
any way an active politician.
Mr.. Brown takes the same interest
in politics that any well-disposed citi-
zen should, nothing more, when mere
ly party issues are before the people
for discussion and adjudication.
In Idaho this year. Mr.. Brown
says, cit is not a political question
at all The domination of the Repub-
hcan party, and through it the control
of the political affairs of the State by
Mormon church leaders, inspired by
counsel Of the church hierarchy in Salt
Lake, is tho problem that confropts the
voters OF Idaho in the present cam
paign. The Republican party, by it's
leaders, who are high up in the
church, many of them polygamists, and
openly living their. religion by practic::
ing the same, aided by lot of
subservient Jack Mormon Office seekers,
has been and is being prostituted to the
latter's aggrandizement and the
formers domination in the politics Of
the State.
$50 long as this state Of affairs
exists, the leaders are perfectly safe,
for the reason that every Republican
in Idaho who aspires to high political
office must first promise obedience to
the mandates of the church party
leaders to the extent that they (the
lcaders) shall be protected in their IL
legal and immoral practices.
Gentiles Getting Tired.
''The Republicans of Idaho, that is
the great majority of them, are getting
weary of this enforced subserviency and
this sort of leadership. This is the first
time the voters of Idaho have had an
opportunity 10 meet this issue squarely,
and you NAV rely with confidence that
Mormon leadership of the Republican
party will be thing Of the past after
the next election, and that the boast
will no longer be made with any founda-
tion of truth that the Mormon church
holds the balance OF power In that SOW
ereign State. The people who are set
Ting Idaho are too intelligent too pa
triotic, too jealous of good morals and
pure homes, to let it be said of them
that by reason of party affiliations they
contributed by their votes to perpetuate
such disgraceful and vicious condition.
They are going to give them setback,
and that, too, at the next election.
81 want to give you pointer, and
base my judgment upon my knowledge
of the people Of Idaho. 1t is this:
The opposition to Judge Stockslager
for Governor and Dubois for United
States Senator will only carry the
southern tier of Mormon counties, and
not all of them. Stockslager will be
elected, as will Dubois, by good and
safe majorities. The unpopularity of
Gooding and Borah throughout the
State, outside of their Mormon friends,
is surprising. In some sections Of the
State person would hardly know that
Dubois had any opposition. The Re-
publican candidate for Governor is
looked upon with great disfavor, even
In his own party His arrogance and
subserviency to the Mormon church
political leaders are disgusting. The
party Will not support him to any great
extent, except in the Mormon settle
ments, where he bases his hopes for
success, he being assured by his leaders
that be will get the full vote OF the
Mormons, irrespective Of party.
"Seuator Dubois, the man without a
stain, who has served the State ably
and faithfully, comes before the people
with clean hands upon an American
platform and asks for Endorsement by
the American citizens-men and women
Of Idaho That the people who are
settling up the Gem State, the great
interior commonwealth, will support
him, admits Of no doubt. In voting for
the men who will elect a United States
Senator, no Republican is stultifying
himself, or compromising his Republic
anism, by thus indirectly voting for
Dubois. He is acknowledged TO be the
ablest representative of the people
Idaho has ever had, In so far as his
line Of action in the United States SEN
ate is concerned, he is in accord with
the administration on every great re-
formatorv measure that has come be-
fore the Senate which has for it's object