The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-08-01
Last Desperate Stand.

1t is so apparent that the boilers the
p1oy of the Mormons that every understands it,
in Idaho. The Mormons making their last and
desperate stand The supreme court of the state has
declared the "test OATH self executing The Nor
understand that if the "test oath" that is to
say, if the constitution of Idaho, providing the
qualifications of voters, is enforced they vote
They did not take the test oath for ten years and
they cannot take it Every American citizen if
Idaho took it during those ten years and can take
it now.
The democrats of the state are making their fight
to the end that the constitution of the state shall
be obeyed The republican party of the nation and
state has made compact with the Mormons to
block all attempts to suppress poygamy enforce
the constitution of Idaho.
When the democracy of Idaho prevails at Wallace,
they will provide enforce the constitutional
requirements for voting.
This will carry the state for the democrats for the
Mormons who vote the republican ticket sod1y will
not and cannot vote. The republican party of the
state is under the control of this solid Mormon VOTE
and the leaders of that party, who the bene-
ciares of the DEAL have become discredited that
the rank and file of the party are anxious to re-
pudiate the combination
The attempt of the democratic boilers to place the
democracy of the state under this same Mormon
influence has signally failed After the Wallace con-
VeIluOn the democrats Will proceed TO invoke the
constitution of the state and to make the effective
and in this will be aided by the self respecting re-
pub1icans
1t is possible that some of the leaders of the boilers
who standing sponsor for polygamy and the
abrogation of Our state constitution NAV have been
deceived.
1t is most significant fact that democrat of
southeastern Idaho democrat where the Nor
mons live in great numbers has joined with them
1t is fair say them that possibly some of the lead
of this boilers movement may have been deceived
Giving them the benefit of the doubt, we state
that, in Judgment all the leaders were not in
fuenced by unworthy motives and that some of them
have been deceived.
The Boise edition of the Deseret News being now
and for some time controlled by the Mormons the
deectabe, douby indicted, Frank Martin, and the
odoriferous w. H. Cassidy, of Idaho county, of
course cannot be given the benefit of the doubt.
Their performances have been so in keeping with
their past records that they precluded They be-
long exactly where they and should not be dis
turbed 1t is to be hoped that they will take their
open stand in the future with the republican machine
and the Mormons
After the Wallace convention, when the demo-
crats-not the Mormons bolters-wil declare for
Bryan, the national PLATFORM the Idaho constitution
and the suppression of polygamy in the state it will
welcome all democrats who will support the national
and state declarations.
The party in the state is big enough and broad
enough to admit that some of its strong and big
have been deceived and when they accept the
verdict of the party as rendered at Wallace, to
forget.
1t will be easy and such simple affair to take
the constitutional requirement for voting that these
deceived leaders of Idaho democrats will become
very impatient with their Mormon allies when these