The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-22
To cultivate the wheat that it may ripen
Co the golden harvest.
All Mornlonized.

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60 the golden harvest.
All Mormonized.
AS they approach the commonwealth
from the east they will not be met by
Democracy which, in its opposition to
polygamy, Is driving TO the Republican
Instead. through a vicious supreme court
decision, they will meet a Mormon!zed
Democracy whose leaders are crawling
on their bellies TO the destruction OF their
vest buttons. in imitation OF that sy3-
tenn of politics which gave Idaho a Good
ing twice and followed it up by giving
1t Il Brady, a Chamberlain, Lansdon
and a McDougalI.
tirely divorced from principle and eager
10 place sacred constitutional provisions.
the idols of tho trainers Of that docu-
mcnt, on the auction block for sufficient
votes to elect a governor this fall.
They will meet a Democracy doing
nothing to expose the breaches OF trust
by this Republican state administration,
lest those revelations might defeat for re-
nomination tho present chief executive,
Governor Brady, whom they bclioye can
not stand before the great jury, the pco-
to be held In November
They will observe their own party lead
ers frantically chasing after new gods
heretofore unknown TO Republican party
platforms or campaigns In the Gem of
the Mountains" issues entirely foreign TO
those which they have been discussing at
They will meet their Republican gov
crnor, their Republican speaker Of the
house and their Republican state chair
man all in the throes OF bitter contest
against each other for the nomination
for governor, and their governor and OK
governor leading a prohibition campaign
that would have done great credit thirty
two years ago to ST. John or today TO
IL Carrie Nation
They will meet ministerial constitu-
cncy as ambitious TO see TO Il that both
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the United States senate by All ardent
Prohibitionist as were the Mormons and
state supreme court OF the past four
years that laws should not be passed
In Idaho against polygam1Sts and their
defenders.
Sitting in Sackcloth.
These TWO able senator's will find a
cogcnt force OF the Republican party sit
ting in sackcloth and ashes because OF
their refusal TO follow In the wake of
Governor Brady and ex-Governor Good
ing In their plan to gain political power
through tho Injection into Republican
party politics of statewide prohibition,
and if j err not from an occult observa-
ton from without they Will find the
rank and file OF the southeastern Idnho
.'stone wall vote" instructed from Utah 10
support theso leaders In their alliance
with the preachers that polygamy may be
overshadowed in Idaho by prohibition,
They Will observe vast sum of wealth
being used by men high in places of state
to cover up the deficiencies in point Of
ability and errors in public records they
have made In their game as the trusted
guardians of tho sacred legacies OF the
people.
they will observe public officials who
were poor when chosen to public office
reveling in wealth, and II they pause to
examine the records they Will find gross
attempts to appropriate public moneys.
the cndowments OF the people, for per-
sonal political advantage and for personal
financial gain.
These departures from the customs of
our fathers arc political equations with
which Senators Borah and Hepburn must
reckon. They arc here In Iduno, and n
busy constituency IN part knows, and in
part suspicious, the usurpation OF au-
thority.
They will, n they search the record.
detect the evidences OF a rank perversion
OF authority, and Of graft as well. on tho
part OF the state land board, which is
the people OF Idaho, whom these sena-
tors have been striving to serve with
distinguished ability while at the national
capital.
i, will he of more than passing inter
est 10 the observant to see the effect
which these things have on Senator's
Borah and Hepburn. and the effect which
they have on conditions political In Ida
ho when they return TO their constitu-
cucy-
Opportunity for Good.
There Is opportunity galore for them
to exert an Influence. Tho dominant
porty of Idaho needs fumigating. The The
state house should be renovated. The
land board should be sterilized.
Favoritism. pcculation and fraud
should be buried In the deep graves Of
political deception together with the am
bitions of those present land board
members responsible by acts OF commits
sion. or omission. for it's existence, and
truly the men and women OF this state
would be proud II one OF these senators
/ would constitute himself as the hearSe
driver and the other az the sexton IN
TO 10 be perfectly plain. the people, Of
means of Information arc being watpG,d
by the gold OF the usurpers The bnsi, I =,
closed doors and such advice only given
cut as suits tho members OF the Doard
the majority OF whom have grown riGh
! through rcveliug in the assets al tue
people: how much. the people arc Ior-
! hidden to know The executive branch
during the days OF the legislative as
| scmbly uses It's power 10 influence legis-
| lntIon and in some cases. for the benettt
of executive employees. that they may be
| enriched in this worlds goods at the eN-
pcnsc of the donations 10 the rising gen
erations
The legal head of .the executive de-
lpartmcnt OF the state government ma.
proven Il traitor to the sacrcd asaetS OF
Inc state school fund. and, should they
desire. they viii find his name entered
on record in a civil case, IN defense oi
thieves who had already delrandeo lh5
hos state school fund out OF thousands
OF dollars. :, =,
These are serious charges. well wortl
the distinguished consideration OF dis'
tlnguishcd senators.
| II these cancerous growths arc no
pruncd. If the knife of DESTRUCTION is no
laid at their roots. Idaho VIII not be :
wholesome state In which 10 1.-Two. muci
less a state that will honor anyone I'
rcnrcscnt in the highest legislative body
OF the country
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