The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-09-26
The Democratic Case.

secretary of state to place the democratic ticket on
the official ballot, Referee Hart went to Backfoot
last week for the purpose of taking testimony
few witnesses were examined in Bingham county,
after which stipulations agreed to by the at
torneys that rendered further progress in that d-
rection unnecessary.
The referee was not compelled to visit Bear Lake,
Fremont and Oneida counties in pursuit of testimony
after the admissions both sides agreed to
and he returned to Boise last Sunday accompanied
by the attorneys
The stpulatons accepted by the Mormon attorneys
are deemed sufficient to throw the Mormon case
out of court for they surrendered pretty much every
thing that had an important bearing in behalf of
their trumped up charges.
Making loud noises in Boise and facing the facts
in Bingham Bear Lake, Fremont and Oneida
counties two entirely different experiences.
The attorneys for the Mormons used every poss-
ible subterfuge to escape the order of the court
that compelled them to face the evidence in the
Mormon counties and it was only when the court
threatened them with the consequences of refusal
that they turned their unwilling footsteps in the di
rection of the contested section of the state.
Once there their courage oozed out and they
were glad to return the shelter of the hosptabe
groves of Boise. The inhabitants did not treat them
we'll down in the southeast. The Gent1les OF that
section are deeply III earnest III the contest against
Mormon interference in politics and government,
favoring the democratic party and ticket without re-
gard for their normal political preferences.
The Mormon attorneys compelled to listen to
great deal of plain talk from the Americans, more
than they have heard in years in complacent old
Boise.
The public will remember that the answer filed by
the Mormon attorneys to the application of the dem
ocrats for order giving their ticket a place on
the official ballot laden with all sorts of charges
1t was stated that conspiracy of tremendous
magnitude had been formed through which Dubois
had taken violent possession of the democratic or
ganization and had through intimidation and fraud,
compelled the party to yield to his will That
violence threatened the situation at Wallace and
that the safety of the boiling Mormons was en-
dangered
There was an abundance of that sort of
tional stuff the extravagances of the Mormon at
torneys reaching the point of absurdity. Not an
effort has been made by them to prove any of the
charges they uttered in their answer although por-
ton of their investigation made at the home of
Mr. Dubois where the evidence if any could be
found would be lying around in the largest install
ments
Instead these trafickers in character stipulated
that there were two factions of the democratic
party that one faction organized the Wallace con-
vention and the other faction attempted to gain
control of the convention and, failing, boted the
convention The democratic management
charged anything more than that
The whole effort of the Mormon attorneys to
establish proof of their remarkable and untenabe
statements failed utterly and after they have drawn
their pay from the Mormon church for their ignobe