Show GLORY AKD GBEATHISB The three grand routes by which I people attain to greatness might have done very well and answered every requirement once but it is not so now To be born great to achieve greatness or to hare greatness great-ness thrust upon one no longer fill the bill for the artiele is acquired in this day and age of the world by still other and vastly different means foremost of which is the j eniation of antiMormon bills presentation in the halls of legislation to do this greatness at abound is to secure The latest instance of incipient immortality acquired by reason of the tactics suggested above is Cola Col-A Wall of the Idaho connci The Colonel is a man of infinite jest and most excellent fancy as those hereabout will him Who know testify He is and always was a truly good soul a fact which In itself it-self should have requited any stated quantity of ambitious yearnings q his ambi but he is no such man r tion is made of sterner stuff he further and feels finer he looks would be great and is not without the requisite amount of gall to see him through The best evidence i offer of this fact ie the bill Tre can 1 recently introduced by him in that 1 branch of the Idaho legislature which fee adorns by his membership member-ship therein the literature is i so j choice and the language so exact produce the docameLt in that we pro 1 I full Here it is An act to amend an act on pages i 1 183 to 195 inclusive of the Revised J Laws Idaho Eighth Session entitled i en-titled An Act Relative to Elections I Elec-tions JSe it enacted oy tJte Liqeslative A It sembly of the Territory of Idaho as follows i SECTION 1 That section one of said act be and the same is herein 1 amended to read as follows 1 SEC 1That all male inhabitants i over the age of twentyone years i I shall be entitled to vote at any election l elec-tion for delegate to Congress and for Territorial district county and precinct officers Prooidtd they shall be citizens of the United j States and shall have resided in the + Territory four months and in the county thirty days when they j offer to vote next preceding the day of election and Provided further That no bigamist polygamist nor any person who is or has been a party to any form ot socalled Celestial i f Celes-tial or Spiritual plural marriage f nor to the perforanee of any sol so-l called religious rite or ceremony i whereby one man is authorized empowered em-powered or permitted to cohabit t with more than one woman nor I any person who now is or may f hereafter become n member of any 4 social civil political cabalistic or ecclesiastical society body organization t organ-ization or sect which teaches senor seno-r tions or permits any of the practices LeienabovG set forth or which authorizes or permits the promulgation I R promulga-tion or practice of any doctrinal rIte or performance oi any ceremony cere-mony or the practice of any secret device or aitifice whereby one man may be authorized sufferred or permitted I per-mitted or whereby such person may be induced to believe himself authorized suffered or permitted J to have more than one living undi i vorced wife at the same time or to practice uulawi 1 cohabitation or I sexual prostitution under any pretense whatever shall be entitled I en-titled to vote at any election held in t this Territory or be eligible for j j election or appointment to or be entitled en-titled to hold any office or place of public trust honor or emolument < t jn under or for this Territory 1 ri SEC 2That section sixteen of said act be amended to read as follows i fol-lows 1 J SEC i6If any person offering to vote shall be challenged asa as-a unqualified by any judge or 1 I S clerk of election or by any other person entitled to vote z z ac > any poll in this Territory one of the judges shall declare to the per i J t j c I i o iI I L = p 0 4 tl Vy son so challenged the qualifications ef an elector it such person shall then declare himself duly qualified and the challenge be net withdrawn one of the judge shall then tender him the following oath Yon do solemnly swear or affirm af-firm that you arc a citisen of the United States of the age ot twenty one years that you han resided in this Territory fur four months and in this county for thirty days last past That you are not a bigamist biga-mist or polygamist that you have never been a party to any form of socalled celestial or spiritual plural l marriage or to the performance of any socalled religious rite or ceremony where one man is or may be authorized empowered or permitted to cohabit with more than one woman and that you are not a member of any social civil political cabalistic art ar-t society body organization organi-zation or sect which teaches sanctions sanc-tions or permits the practice of bigamy or polygamy or which authorizes or permits the promulgation promulga-tion practice doctrinal rites or the performance of any ceremony or the practice of any secret artifices arti-fices or device whereby one man may be authorized suffered or permitted per-mitted or whereby such person may be Induced to believe himself authorized commanded suffered or permitted to have more than one living and undivorced wife at the Fame time or to practice unlawtul cohabitation or sexual prostitution under any pretext whatever and that you have not previously voted at this election Provided That when a person is entitled to vote only for a part of the officers voted for at such election elec-tion the oath shall be varied accordingly ac-cordingly and the cUrks shall enter the names of all persons on the polllists who are challenged and sworn in brackets and such evidence shall be presumptive evidence evi-dence of such votes and if any person shall refuse to take the oath eo tendered his vote shall be rejected I re-jected and provided further that I no volunteer m the service of the t United States be allowed to vote at I any election in this Territory This act shall take effect and be enforced from and after its passage Why voters should wait to cast their ballots next preceding the election and why it should be necessary to make such stringent regulations for the control of those who propose to vote at a time when such action could have no legal significance we are unable to state while the Colonel must certainly have overlooked that portion of the bill whichdoubtless unintentionally unintention-ally disfranchises people for unlawful un-lawful cohabitation or sexual prostitution pros-titution under any pretense whatever what-ever and the thing is emphasized empha-sized when the provision I occurs that such shall not hold office in the Territory Ter-ritory I The friend who drafted the bill must have intended tc perpetrate perpe-trate i cruel joke and got the Colo I nel to present it without revision Such measures as that presented by Wall in the Idaho legislature are i most lame and impotent conclusions conclu-sions the only explanation that presenti itself is the supposition that the Colonel wanted to do something some-thing for his salary He has certainly cer-tainly done it |