The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-05-23
Tribune and the kendriCk Club.


Latah county, and especially of Kendrick, most
soundly for their nsistence that the MORMON
ISSUE IS A VITAL ISSUE.
Here are the Tribune's Gliding words to the dem
ocrats of Kendrick:
The Kendrick branch of the Latah county faction
declares that the Mormon issue is the vital issue in
the state. We do not know of anything that makes
it vital or any other sort of an issue Wherein do
the Mormons touch the life of the Kendrck man
politically socially? The average Kendrick man
a Mormon in his life and is more
affected by the Mormon religion than he is by the
extravagances and superstitions of Buddhism But
there matters by which the average Kendrick
man is affected, which touch his affairs every day
of his life These deal with the laws and taxes of his
state and involve the question to whether the
fruits of his labor to be taken from him to
support parasites and favorites in office whether
to merely meet the necessary expenses of applying
the laws and maintaining the government, ecOnomi-
Cally administered.
Here the Tribune places the matter of taxes
against that of morals 1t passes up the state const
tuition and tries to divert the Kendrick democracy
to matters of the administration of state government
Here would be fair statement of the case from
the standpoint of the Tribune:
1--WE SHOULD SEE TO ITTHAT JOHN JONES
OF LATAH COUNTY IS NOT GETTING
THREE DOLLARS A DAY FOR SCALING TIM
BIER FOR IDAHO ON THE HEADWATERS
OF THE CLEARWATER WHILE WILLIAM
JONES IS GETTING FOUR DOLLARS A DAY
FOR APPRAISING LAND IN BEAR LAKE
COUNTY, WITHOUT ANY REGARD TO
WHETHER CONGRESSMAN FRENCH IS AP-
POINTING POLYGAMIST POSTNIISTRESSE
TO OFFICE (AND THEY ARE BRINGING
YOUNG HELPLESS CHILDREN INTO THE
WORLD IN OUR STATE AGAINST THE
SPIRIT AND LETTER OF THE CONSTITU-
TION-THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF OUR
COMMONWEALTH, THAT HE MAY MAKE
POLITICAL DEALS WITH THE HIERARCHY
IN UTAH TO CONTINUE HIS REPRESENTA-
TION OF IDAHO IN CONGRESS-"
This represents the measure and the scope of the
Tribunes defense of the Mormons and their man
ipuations in politics.
The Scnitar wishes to be distinctly understood in
the matter of the nadequacy of the business manage
ment of the present state administration and the
necessities of change for the betterment of the
teria conditions of the people of the state But to
measure this shortcomng with that of the danger of
the existing alliance between the republicans of Idaho
and the Mormons Of Utah to deprive the democratic
club of Kendrick, and the people of Idaho, of en-
forcement of its constitution childish and the
occupancy of such premises is lamentab1e
The Tribune is satisfied with condition which
permits French to appoint such vioator of the law
of God and of man to office, that he may be the
political beneficiary of the diabolical treachery to
his state constitution. Not so with the Kendrck
democratic club The Tribune is willing ready and
anxious to be party to the bringing into the world
of helpless children with the sorry brand of poygamy
on their helpless brows Not with the Kendrck
democratic club. The Tribune is anxious to pay
humble tribute to a system in politics that will per-
petuate in power corrupt republican Mormon ALI
ance that effective laws, harmonious with the express
terms of organic law may be trodden under
foot. Not SO with the Kendrick democratic club
ic nf ,rn111e to be