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

own. NAppIauSe).
If you go to the community where
they have reported this disaffection you
are liable TO hear there from some dis
gruntled person of the great disafec-
ton that exists in some other part OF
the state from which you have just
come. And so it is.
No DisaFection.
l have cirCIed around this state since
the convention. When | went out OF
This hall l went westward, and north
and around again, and / have come
through the east and the south of the
state. and l have spoken in all of your
counties, except Bear Lake and Oneida,
and l expect TO speak in Bear Lake
county tomorrow night, and l have
learned something of the sentiment of
the people in this state. l was told
that there was a stampede from the
Republican party in the neighborhood
county that lies to your west-CaSsia
county-and l went over there, and l
looked into the faces of the largest audi
ence that has ever been gathered in that
county for any purpose, and l read there
the same spirit of intelligent adhesion
and patriotism to the Republican party
and it's principles that l see in this
audience tonight (Applause). And l
will undertake to say that a vote in this
nall will show that three-fourths of il
are true to the principles of the Repub
lican party. (Renewed applause).
The disaffection that they will tell
you exists over there only exists in
their hopes that it might exist-that's
all. (Laughter).
l spoke to those new communities
last night at Rupert, the night before
at the town that bears my own name.
They came in there from the sagebrush
held with the hope that the government
would give them water for their crops
the coming season They came in there
to listen and sit in the school of gov
eminent. They came in there to con-
slider how they could best perform the
duties of citizenship. And we met TO-
gether and talked over these questions,
and / talked with them after l left the
rostrum and l know that in these com
munities three-fourths of them at least
are Republicans and will vote the
Republican ticket at the coming cleo
Lion. (Applause).
The Mormon Bugaboo.
When these people came to Idaho this
willy Democracy conceived the idea,
Now, here are new communities, new
people, 10 whom the conditions in Idaho
are new, and we will go down there
and we will put on false face, and we
will scare them into voting the Demo-
cratic ticket" (Laughter). And they
went down there, and they put on the
most hideous countenance that you ever
heard of, and behind it there was the
leering grin of greed for Office, and that
is all there was behind it. applause
and laughter). They told those people
they said: Here now, you are strangers
in this community, and you don't real
ize the danger that turks for you. Your
homes which you are just establishing
upon these new lands are liable to be
invaded any time, day or night, by the
Mormons of a polygamous practice.
You don't know. new people how great
this danger is. 1t is true we have lived
in Idaho a long while, yet we have es-
Democrats, and that is the only way
to escape them-is to vote the Demo
cratic ticket,-vote for the legislative
ticket that will send me back TO the
senate, says my colleague, and l will
fix them for you" And the United
States senate has no more power TO
make laws to regulate that question
in the state of Idaho, or in any other
state, than has a justice of the peace
in the state of Florida or the state of
Maine not a bit. But to hear them
state their case, you would think that
all he would have to do was to go back
there and just turn a little crank and
out would come a bill, that would ami
hilate polygamy and the Mormons with
it. Neither the congress of the United
States. nor the president of the United
States, nor any part of the federal gov
ernment, has any power to regulate this
question. You might change the consti-
tuition OF the united StateS Dy violating
or changing its present principles, and
violating the principles of the Declare
don of Independence and the basic prin
ciples upon which this government was
formed--that of freedom of conscience
the people of the United States might
vote new constitution or change the
present one, SO that congress could leg
islate for the state but you will not
do it. You will never take back that
declaration and protest of your fore
fathers, who cried out against being de-
prived of the right of their conscience,
the right to worship God according to
their conscience; you never will change
the constitution so that that right may
be taken from you. (Great applause).
FREEDOM of Conscience.
That right is as dear to you today as
it was in the days when the revolution
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