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Show BEN FIXED IT. A perfectly truthful gentleman who lives in Idaho says that there is one town up there in the southeast portion of the State, that was always overwhelmingly Democratic until this year; that a few days prior to election Ben Rich went up there and stayed over night at the bishop's house and returned next day. That on election day the vote showed that the town was solidly Republican. Republi-can. It was just such work as that which caused the men of Illinois, who a few years previous had welcomed the saints to their soil as a persecuted people, to rise up, kill their prophets and drive tho rank and file beyond the boundaries of their State. The Saints are very strong in this inter-mountain inter-mountain region, but they are not as strong as is the government of the United States. Their chiefs should keep in mind that every time the church has essayed to clash with the Federal government the church has got decidedly the worst of it, and they should not press their tyrannies too far. |