Show IN IDAHO The Mormon people in the Southeastern South-eastern counties of Idaho seem to bein dead earnest in the matter of an independent inde-pendent party organization As a matter mat-ter of course they do not expect to elect their ticket should they nominate one but they can be free and independent independ-ent in their action and they can at least avoid being used by ungrateful Democrats Demo-crats only to be kicked and abused wnen they have performed faithful service The Bear Lake Independentwhich is the recognized organ of the proposed new party speaks its mind fairly and plainly in regard to John Hailey and the dishonest dis-honest cowardly course the latter has pursued with respect to the Mormons who did so much to place him where he is In the latest issue to hand the Independent in ana rticle inquiring Who areour Friends says One thing more we can say in favor of the Republicans they are true to their friends We believe their standardbearer exMar shal Dubois never goes back on a friend We wish we could say as much for our Democratic De-mocratic friends 1 and their standard bearer honest Jttim Hailer Two years ago Mr Hailey came through these counties coun-ties soliciting Mo mon votes Mormon influence in-fluence at the Convention aided very materially mate-rially in securing his nomination Mormon votes secured his election Well he had no sooner been elected than he allowed himself to be interviewed by a son 01 Belial who wrote lor the Salt Lake Tribunc and in tht interview declared himself ready and anxious to put every polygamist in the penitentiary We have reason to believe be-lieve that some of his staunch Gentile friends were disgusted with him because of that interview This man whom we have helped to make when in Washington in the summer of 1885 working for the removal of Judge Morgan declared to AttorneyGen eral Garland lhat if the Federal offices in Idaho were given at once to Democrats he would have more Mormons in the penitentiary peniten-tiary in four months than the Republicans had convic ed in four years In other words he could deprive hundreds of Mormon children of au education through sending their fathers to prison and all lor the dignity dig-nity and majesty and vindication of tbe law and of course certain political capital for honest 1 John This same man is now going go-ing about the Territory gloating in his detestable de-testable course He is tue standard bearer of the great Democratic party Mr Hailey will probably nothave the effrontery to come down into southeastern south-eastern Idaho al he did two years ago and make promises for votes He worked that act successfully once but he could not do it a second time > especially in the present temper of the people who remember how completely he sold them out after having used them for his own purposes as long as their services could be made I available The one thing to be regretted in this I contest lor the Idaho Delegateship is that Hailey is not opposed by a better man Cowardly and ungrateful as Hailey has proven himself to be his rival is worse in every respect thin he and would bring further disgrace on I the Territory were he elected Upon the principle that a home scrub is better than a carpetbag plug the people of Idaho are going to elect Hailey and continue him two years more in a position posi-tion where he can control the Federal patronage of the Territory and manage officials and affairs to his individua l Jiking |