Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-03-26

entitled to vote under the consti-
tuition of this state, we might
challenge them at the polls and con-
test the election, if their ballots
alone derive Mr.. Bryan of the
three ELECTORAL votes of this state.
But the Mormons will vote next
Novcmber-and they are entitled to
vote until this question is settled |
either for the republican nomi-
nee for president or for Mr.. Bryan. I.
The constitution nowhere de-
mands the disfranchisment of the
Mormon people for any crimes COM
mitted by the hierarchy in the
past, but section a authorizes the
legislature to require of the electors
other qualifications than those con-
tanned in section 3. In view of of
section the Mormons may &c dis
eastern Idaho two years hence.
The Mormon issue is not liable to
get away from us and we may meet
it at the proper time. In fact the
difficulty promises to be in letting
/ go.
Again, no matter what platform
we may write this year, upon and
across the same will fall the shad-
ow of the stalwart form of William
Jennings Bryan. We may declare
that other issues are paramount,
but before this campaign is two
weeks old we will find that the edit
ors are writing, the campaigners
are speaking and the people are
thinking exclusively about who is
to be the next president of the
United States. Even as oil and
water are not mixed by being
placed in the same vessel, but the
one rises above the other, just SO
will Bryan's name rise above
! every other cosideration, platform
declarations to the contrary, not
withstanding. Hence, declaration
franchised by the legislature be-
cause they are members of an or
: ganization that has taught poly
: gamy in the past. Accordingly the
] first session of the Legislature OIL
] this state provided that every cleo
y tor take an oath that he was not {
: member of any organization which
t teaches or ever taught polyagmy.'
f, This, of course, disfrauchised ever,
d Mormon. We may as we'll fac
the fact that it is the Mormon in
S terrier ence in our political affair
e that we deprecate most sincerely
e and absolute disfcanchisment is tn
# only remedy for it. Agitation c
: the Mormon question must end ul
h timately in defeat or its disfran
= chisment The point l want
n emphasize is THAT if we declar
is mon people the party will spl'
ii from its center to its circumferenc
W and MIR. Bryan will not receive
n single Mormon vote in the state
Of For mypart, my duty appears plair
= In all human probability this wi
D. be my last chance TO vote for IL
{, election of Mr.. Bryan as presidel
IN of the United States. AS 40 hin
n it is now or never. But n
be friends need entertain no fear bl
n that the Mormons will be in soutl
s. for disfranchisment can not
MS made an issue in the Gentle coui
b. ties of this state to offset the Mo
all mon votes that Mr.. Bryan is sure
es lose in the Mormon counties.
to / cannot agree with my crit
MS that thsi position involves either
to backward step, even from Il
it standpoint of Mr.. Dubois. If.
ms mans wife and child should t;
ng overheard and the husband al
ng father plunge in to save them a
its do everything in his power
III. rescue them, but the wife shou
tic drown before he could reach he
he what should he do? Choke +
i'll child and drown himelf becaue
on could not save both? Concedi
on it is the duty of the 'democra
lid partyt o strive to bring about be
of the election OF MIR. Bryan and
not disfrauchisment the Mormon