The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-10-03
The Case Reviewed.

The Scimitar, was not qualified to sit in the case,
rendered unanimous opinion last Monday, that
the Alexander Mormon ticket, should be placed
upon the official ballot the democratic ticket
of the state. There has been determination among
the genuine democrats of Idaho that une1ss the
Mormon people would support the party platform,
they should not participate in party conventions
The real democrats of the state insisted pledging
the party, by resolutions, that if given the power
they would enforce the constitution of the state
relating to the franchise and to poygamous living
The Mormons and their allies insisted that if
the constitution made effective, many Mormons
holding high ecclesiastical positions would be sent
to the penitentiary and that Mormon people would
be dsfranchised The Mormons made their fears
and their determination plain, by repudatlng the
party platforms in the 1904 and 1906 campaigns, and
refusing to support the party candidates More
than this they denounced the leaders of the demo-
cratic party and cast their votes for the republican
candidates The genuine democrats refused them
seats in their conventions of 1906 and 1908.
The republican supreme court has decided that the
Mormons had a right to elect delegates to the 1908
convention of the democratic party and that the
convention had right to deprive them OF seats
Stripped of all verbage the court denies the right
of the democratic party of Idaho to determine the
qualifications of delegates to its conventions
party said at CCeur dAerle III I9Uo, Dy refusing 10
allow three Mormon delegates from Bear Lake
county to sit, that Mormons were not eligible. The
party could not have made it decision more plain,
because there one to contest even the seats
of these three Mormons from Bear Lake county to
the Coeur d. Alene convention of 1906. The conven-
ton said from the fact that they Mormons they
could not and would not support the platform the
candidates of the party, therefore they should not
be allowed participate in the framing of the plat
form the naming of the candidates. The party
only said this, but made it plain that it intend
ed to recognize in the southeast only those who sup
ported its contention against Mormon practices The
party in 1908 at Twin Falls and again at Wallace,
re-afhrmed its position by seating as delegates
those who were in full accord with its determine
ton to rid the state of Mormon domination in poll
tics and of poygamous practices The supreme court
says the party had no legal right to prevent the
Mormons from sending delegates from the southeast.
If they elected delegates under the form of law
they were qualified to sit The democratic party in
and through their attorneys before the
supreme court took the position that the party had
right to protect itself, and that the court had
right to question its decision
In these Mormon counties where the contesting
delegations came from, ie, Fremont Bear Lake,
AID Oneida, the Mormons in such tre-
mendous majority in joint of numbers that the
non Mormons, the American democrats could de-
pend only their state party to protect them in their
rights The supreme court says the party could not
legally afford this protection to the minority in these
Mormon counties. There is no higher tribunal to
appeal to- The decision of the court is final The
Alexander Mormon ticket will be officially recog-
1ized as the democratic state ticket