Show FIGMY NEAL CeIn eel au OriEl asEg Very whlck He triage t as Original TUB Very New York 30A Washington special says Governor Neal of Idaho passed through here yester day In conversation on the ques tion of Mormonism he said I hope to see Congress take hold of this matter at once It is treasonable treason-able organization and has no more claims for peaceable existence than bad the Sons of Liberty and the Knights of the Golden Circle It is hostile to the institutions of this government The Mormon priesthood priest-hood has gone systematically to work to obtain a controlling influence influ-ence in this government I have heard it preached time and time again in their tabernacles that they must spread out until they had gained political control of the entire Pacific Slope and then with senators sena-tors and congressmen and votes n the electoral college after these rap idly developing territories had become states they would hold the balance of power between be-tween the two great parties They now coalesce with the democrats demo-crats in Utah and in Idaho and by that means we have democratic delegates when outside of the Mormon Mor-mon population the republicans are largely in the majority It will continue con-tinue to do so in Idaho Montana Wyoming and Arizona They are sending out colonies all the time into these territories still however keeping the centre of their power at Salt Lake City so that all marriages must be performed there at the Endowment House In answer to a question as to whether the Mormons in his territory terri-tory were polygamists the governor said Certainly they practice polygamy poly-gamy much more openly in Idaho than in Utah because there is no way to reach them with us Marriages Mar-riages take place in another territory terri-tory Utah and consequently our court has no jurisdiction and the territorial authorities are powerless to deal with them T6 what extent do the Mormons exercise political power in your territory ter-ritory By a combination wih the democrats they control the legislature legisla-ture having 23 on joint vote against 13 republicans They control Oneida I I county which has a pepulation of some 7500 about 4000 of which are i Mormon In Bear Lake county the south eastern corner of the territory there is no soul living except Mormons Mor-mons having a population of 3200 I They intend at the next election to 1 demand of the democrats that a I Mormon delegate shall be sent to Congress in return for past support of their measures They are bacom ing bolder all the time and lately an order has gone out from the head of the church forbidding any good i saint from selling to Gentiles They mean business What do you propose to do byway by-way of remedy i vernment > must go right at it now and cut it out by the roots If not in the end it will have to be put down at the end of the bayonet Already they think they can defy the United States and I have seen a mob of 2000u Mormons in Utah march by the federal court when it was in session and hoot in derision of the United States authority I have seen a flag borne covered with insulting in-sulting mottoes and I have seen it tagged in the dirt We must get this thing now or it will cost bloodshed to put it down Governor Neal will return to the capital after Congress meets and will make a personal appeal to congressmen con-gressmen to do something to throttle this monstrous reptile while it can be killed peaceably |