The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-05-16

ment and intends continually to do SO, and as
reward it secures the Mormon vote.
Thousands of republicans at the last election
sented the position of the republican party and
voted the democratic ticket A great many more
thousands of republicans arrayed against their
party than then, and will vote the democratic
ticket this fall. They support the democratic party
because that party stands by the fundamental law
of the state and insists that the awful crime of poly
gamy shall not be allowed to flourish in Idaho Just
long the democratic party maintains its splendid
position, just long will it continue to gain sup
porters from the republican party, Our impression
is that it will gain sufficient this time to carry the
state
These we'll mentioned democrats who desire to
harmonic the differences alege as reason that they
want to win Their idea of harmony, however, is that
basis the democratic party should abandon the
principles for which it stands. Are these democrats
foolish enough to suppose that they would hold these
republican votes if they turned their party over to
the Mormons? These republicans voting the dem
ocrac ticket because the Mormons control their par
ty, and if the Mormons control both parties, they
would either vote their own ticket or not vote at
all You cannot appeal to a republican to vote the
democratic ticket in order that the democrats may
get the jobs; republicans are not particularly anx-
louS that the democrats should have the jobs, they
much prefer, other things being equal that the re-
publicans have them They care more however for
the good of the state; for the enforcement of
the law and for their manhood and for decency
than they do that any set of individuals shall have
the offices.
great principle is being contended for there is
no place for compromise. Mr. Bryan could COM
promise with the New York band and secure har-
mony there if he would abandon the principles for
which his national party and he himself contend
ing. Should he do this, however, he would not only
lose all the republican votes which may come to
him, but he could not carry enough delegations in
states outside of New York to be nominated In
addition to this he would be utterly disgraced and
his party would be destroyed
Even if the Ada county democrats could be gotten
together and all of them would agree abandon the
principles for which the party is contending and
should unite in sending delegation to the state
vention with resolutions and intentions similar to
those passed in Canyon county, it would not have any
effect the democracy of the state The democrats
of the state would have contempt for the demo-
Gratis of Ada county, but they would maintain with
the vgor, which has characterized the party in
the past that the constitution of the state must be
lived up to and an end put to polygamous living
There can be no harmony among the democrats
of Ada county unless all agree that the constitution
of the state shall be enforced all agree that in the
hope of securing Mormon votes the party shall
be turned over to Mormon control. Human nature
being constituted as it is; it does not seem at all
probable that all the democrats of Ada county can be
brought to accept either one of these alternatives