The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-06-13
Where the Boilers Stand.

Senator Dubois came out of the political contest
in Idaho completely victorious" and that he "was
in absolute control of the Twin Falls convention and
he and his friends chosen the democratic
partys delegates to the Denver convention" These
congratulations will not be read with any pleasure
by the kindergarten politicians that opposed him and
are still pretending that they don't know they were
whipped
Besides giving attention to the decisive Idaho vic
tory over the hierarchy in its cartoon department
the Salt Lake paper reviews the campaign of the
enemies of the democratic party and asks:
And, what was it all about? The only portions
of the platform that see that would be likely
to any contention in the democratic convention
the final two paragraphs; one demanding COM
pete separation of church and state, and the other
the enforcement of the state constitution relating to
suffrage and favoring plank in the national plat
form calling for amendment to the constitution of
the United States prohibiting poygamy.>
There was, of course, no other visible subject of
contention, and it can easily be presumed that the
hierarchy would fight to the last ditch prevent the
party from committing itself in favor of the issues
named in the platform
The leaders of the anti-consttution faction would
in addition to the gain made by the Mormon estab
adjustment have enjoyed control of the democratic
party and the patronage may have at its disposal
had they been victorious. But, in the final outcome
they stand committed as is suggested by The Trib-
une, only to the union of church and state to op-
position the enforcement Of the state constitution
and against a recommendation for the enactment
of national law for the suppression of polygamy,
1t is not believed that faction can long thrive
the advocate of church control in government the
advocate of anarchstc disregard for the constitution
the opponent of legislation for the suppression of
crime against decency This would be a harsh judg-
to utter against any body of se1f-respectng men,
but when they place the charge against themselves in
a clearly defined of conduct that eliminated in
violent attempt to overturn the sacred principle of
majority rule the judgment is of their making.
In continuation of its discussion of the attitude
occupied by the disturbers of the late convention,
the Salt Lake paper says:
The fact is that the boiling democrats in Idaho
have placed themselves specifically and determinedly
on the wrong side of all these questions And yet
there is not one of them who would privately hest
to admit that the side taken by Senator Dubois
and by the regular democratic convention is the
right side all of them. Those democrats there
fore, have made mistake, of character and
principle, in putting themselves the wrong and i'm
moral side of all these issues presented. And as
politicians they have committed tactical bunder be-
yond remedy when they bolt from the regular
vention and set themselves up separate fraction in
the party pleading as an excuse for the existence
of that fraction the wrong side of every moral and
civic question upon which the split turned
The three platform declarations which the
contention these, taken from the plat
form it adopted by the Twin Falls conven-
ton
We demand a complete separation Of church and
state and denounce any and all attempts at church
dication and interference in the political affairs of
Idaho
We demand the literal enforcement of the provis-
ion of section of article of constitution relat-
ing to suffrage and the enactment of any laws that
may be necessary for its effective operation and we
instruct delegates here elected to the Denver
convention to vote for the adoption of plank in
national D1atfOrm faVOrno an TO he