Show IDAHO POLITICS I I Politics may be said to be booming in Idaho The campaign is an earnest one and both parties are putting in their best work It is observed that f the Democrats are leading everywhere They are united and present a solid front to the enemy who seem to be on the run or at least on the defensive While the Democrats are full of praises for Hawley the candidate for Delegate to Congress in whom they express the most absolute confidence the Republicans Republi-cans are presenting excuses for Dubois brcken pledges and promising that he will do better if the people will send him back another two years Very few I however express faith in any promises prom-ises which Dab is makes even members mem-bers of his own party feeling that he has not been true to Idaho however obedient he may have been to his journalistic master in Salt Lake Two years ago many Democrats of Northern Idaho voted for Dubois because of his i pledges to them in the matter of the I annexation of the panhandle to Wash ngton Territory What those Democrats Demo-crats think of him now may be learned by reading one of the resolutions adopted by the party convention in I ILatah County the other day It is as I follows Ecsoh cd That we are In favor of the annexation an-nexation or the Pan Handle of Idaho ID Washington Territory and that we emphatically em-phatically condemn the traitorous action lof the present delegate to Congress Fred T I Dubois on this question who promised our people that he would not oppose our wishes I on this question if elected who as soon as I be was elected repudiated this promise I I that elected him and worked hard against I 1 s sAnother Another resolution adopted by the lame convention tells the estimate laced upon Mr Hawley It reads Resolved That we heartily endorse the Examination of Hon James u Hawley for Delegate to Congress by the Democratic iTeriuorlal convention because ne is an dahoan his interests identified as such I hat he has ever proven himself a straight orward honest man whose good character Kias never been questioned or assailed and ecause we believe he will have due regard for ourrlghts and desires In this connection we print below an Ixtract from the Murray Sun one of I he ablest and most influential journals If Northern Idaho It is a fair speoi faen of the articles now appearing in IeTerritorial press and tells its own tory of how the people up that way legard the claim of a Salt L lke news aper to own Idaho politically The Salt Lake Tribune in the zeal of its ood will and friendship Fred Dubois lae Republican nominee for delegate from Ibis territory is endeavoring to make the Mormon issue a monumental one that dabo will soon be looked upon as thoroughly under Mormon control as Utah Is today and so long as there is a Mormon ji the lerritorr there will be no chance for tatehood Not only is the Tribune going Jut of its province In its zeal for the reaction re-action of Mr Dubois but it is inflicting a ositive and lasting political injury in the people of this Territory which fill naturally aflect its Industrial process pro-cess as representation in the halls of Con Iress is of vital necessity The Tribune if wants to befriend Mr Dubois should nfine its advocacy to the real issuethe riff question and the less it says in the jiture about Dubois and the Mormons the Utter it will be for its candidate especially i North Idaho We desire to see an honest vase and neither the Tribune nor H M ennett te Ananias of the Republican arty can force a false name upon us On the Mormon question the Demo ats are pursuing the right course hey point to the fact that while lie Republicans were in power ie laws were not enforced id Mormons did about as they eased but as soon as the Democrats me into office there was a vigorous id determined application of the states stat-es against polygamists dozens of horn were convicted and punished It i also a fact which cannot be denied kat Mr Hawley as United States At rney has been the most earnest and oat conspicuous figure in the prose tion of the violators of the anti blygamy laws He and his followers jy publicly that the law will continue be enforced and point to the past cord as an indication of what their fare course will be Mr Dubois Auld punish a man for being a Moron Mor-on but the Democrats do not find in e statute books a law making belief Mormonism a misdemeanor to be inished by fine and imprisonment The tide has set in for Mr Hawley 1th such strength that his election by ii overwhelming majority is already eared and it now looks as if by No tuber Mr Dubois following will be small as to be scarcely worth count Ig except to illustrate how completely Je dude statesman II has played him llf out in two years |