The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1908-09-03
ON[ PAST
HISTORY I!
T. Parker, Of Grange
vile, Gives Some His
tory Of Political Con-
ditionS In..IddhO.

VISlVuO Ass OVs
Iangeyille, Idaho, Aug. 25, 1908.
10 The Recorder: ncte with re-
II that my great and good friends
ssrs. Tannahill and Fogg have un-
ded their alleged political griev-
ces upon the public through the
bune since the adjournment of
Wallace state democratic conven-
Sn. Both gentlemen labor under
delusion that nobody loves them
more. In this they are grievous
mistaken. We all love them-just
much as we ever did. Let them
their tears and consider the froz-
facts which / will now present for
eir solace, comfort and edification.
There is no anti Mormon issue in
bah or Wyoming. Both these
htes are absolutely under the polit-
II control of the Mormon hierarchy
Salt Lake City. The democratic
rty of Utah and Wyoming is dom.
Rted by and Is the willing and SUBJ
rvient tool of the Mormon church.
bt it avails the democracy of those
|ateS nothing. The Mormon vote is
brown solidly to the republican party
Utah and Wyoming, Just as 1t is
Idaho.
In 1904 the vote of Utah was:
Roosevelt, republican, ........ go, 446
arker, democrat. 49,. :. .33, 4l3
&apublican majority ......... 29,033
EOral vote. INSTRUMENTATION. .10l, GA
! In 1906 the Utah vote for congress
haD was:
lowell, republican. AZ, 566
Powers, democrat ........ ..27, ,02l
republican majority .15 ,545
The vote of Wyoming in 1904 was:
loosevelt, republican -. -. 20, 461
Parker, democrat. ......... s 904
majority. IL ,563
Potal vote....... ..............3O 80 65I
The Wyoming vote for congressman
|n 1905 was:
Aondell, republican. ........,. 1881
Hamm, democrat. t............ 9,0l7
majority. .......... 1854
And thus we see the same solidar-
lty OF the Mormon vote for the repub-
|ican party In Utan and Wyoming
tnat we have in Idaho. Ex-senator
Dubois is no more responsible for the
conditions 10 Idaho than he is for
fhe same conditions in Wyoming aud
Utah. In all three of these Mormon
lzed states the chiefs of the Mormon
church are opposed In vigorous activ-
lty to everything democratic. The
bead Of the Mormon church is on rec
prd as publicly stating, in a political
address delivered in the Seventeenth
ward hall of Salt Lake City in 1894,
That no good can come out of democ-
racy, and that any man who voted
the democratic ticket was soft
Drained incompetent for whom
guardianship papers should be issued.
This self-styled spokesman for the
Almighty further states that be
would refuse statehood to any COM
munity where democracy controlled.
Utah was admitted to statehood by a
democratic congress, and the procla-
nation admitting her to the sister
hood OF states was signed ny demp-
cratic president. This result was
accomplished mainly through the
work Of Hon. Joseph Rawlins, the
then democratic delegate from Utah.
Jnseph +. Smith, speaking on behalf
OF the Almighty God declared:
Il do not believe that any honor is
due TO Joe Rawlins for the gift oi
statehood, and l believe that by the
grace Of the democratic party Utah
will enter the Union a republican
state.
Ever since the admission OF Utal
TO statehood the full power ana In
huence of the Mormon church ha'
been uncompromisingly cast for tn
republican ticket. At the democrat
ic celebration OF JeffersoD's birthday
at Salt Lake City in April. 1gOs
Brigham III. Roberts, Mormon
democrat, used the following siguiti
cant language:
To be frank, cannot say wheth
er We will be successful in Utah o
not. l am free To confess
and do 1t in the interest OF goo
feeling and peace that when | TAX
into account the circumstances tha
nave surrounded our struggles. tn
oiscouragement and manifest unfair
ness that have been ours. | am aston
ished that there is single GeDtll
leit In the democratic party 10 Utah
We sormons Who have been true
the democratic party have also ha