The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-07-25

order to gain some greater advantage in the future"
The manifesto cast aside and disowned some
time ago. after it had gained for the church re-en-
reimbursement release from prisons and the restora-
ton of its escheaed property.
Notwithstanding appearances, the church was not
then conquered 1t teaches and practices po1ygamy
retaining the plural marriage revelation in its
books and giving place or publication to the
revelation that ostensiby revoked the plural marriage
revelation And the Jack Mormon is of the same TN
quenchable faith. He may be vanquished and hum
bled, but not conquered. He may return from Twin
Falls discredited and defeated. He may encounter
humiliation as party representative at Denver. He
is not conquered, for to yield is to deny the faith
AS measure of expediency, he is now counse1ling
concession. He wants to compromise, but that he
is seeking to gain greater advantage in the future is
plain the surface, for he asks that the Gentes
abandon all they have sriven for that there may be
peace
He the public that there would then be har
mony and great democratic victory would follow
and, through Jack Mormon intervention, Mormon
ism would become strongly enthroned in the dem
ocratic party it is in the republican party and all
of Idaho would belong to the church.
That the hierarchy has used the Jack Mormon as
ally of the church almost from the beginning is
a matter of record. Governor Ford's History of
Illinois says;
In the course of the fall of 1914 the anti Mormon
leaders sent printed invitations to all the militia cap
tanS in Hancock county and to the captains of the
militia in all the neighboring counties in Illinois,
Iowa and Missouri to be present with their companies
at great wolf hunt in Hancock and it privately
announced that the wolves to be hunted the
Mormons and Jack Mormons, a slang term applied to
Gentiles who favor the Mormons
The alliance is therefore an ancient one From as
far back 1914 the defenders of morality and the
laws have had the Mormon to contend with and
his generation itself along with the renewal
of the bone and blood of Mormonism
The Jack Mormon of today, after months of recent
conflict in behalf of the supremacy of presty power
and, after having been overcome by the God-fearng
people of the state, is soliciting a compromise on
terms that become peculiar under an analysis of
the situation.
The democratic party stands for the constitution of
the state, demanding legislation for the enforcement
of article of section of that document, purely
local contention The thermometers" of the Jack
Mormon faction under the stress of defeat represent
that they are willing to make peace their terms be-
ing the abandonment by the democratic party of all
local issues
The party must, of course, reject any such prop
osition for it would involve abandonment of the
paramount issue of the state campaign and would
give to the herarchal organization all it is striving
to win at the polls
Such is the Concession" through which the church
expects to gain "some greater advantage in the
future" and the church is still using the tools it
has employed since Mormonism blossomed in the
soil of Illinois.