Show IDAHO PEPUBLICAN A dispatch from Blackf aot Idaho which appears elsewhere in this issue of TUE Ht1tALJ is intersting and amusing reading read-ing and places all tho gentlemen named in it in an unenviable light According to he correspondent Snoop and other leading lead-ing Republicans had Mr R S SIEXCB of Bear Lake county in tow induced him to ookupon the wine when itxvasred stuffed him with a lot of stuff about tho intention inten-tion of the Mormons to vote and then in uced him to unload the twaddle upon the Jefferson Democraticclub oC Boise And thus something of a sensation was created the object being to help the Republicans in general an Mr FjEDDaiiois in particu larin the comming state election Truly ocstiic correspondent express it correctly when he snys Republicans of Idaho are getting into close quarters when tho leading officials of the party resort to tricks hat would be a disgrace to tho leaders of a gang of rowdies from the New York Five Points It looks as if they had no hope of winning by fair and square means as if hey were desperate and were going to rely on tricks and crooked politics to carry them through The antiMormon yell is one of the tricks but we apprehend that ho fraud is so transparent that nobody will be caught by it If there is a man in Idaho who can speak authoritatively as to the intentions of the Mormons regarding tho suffrage it is President WILLIAM BUDGE and he says with emphasis that the Mormons will not take the test oath and will not offer to vote Nobody will assume to deny that President BUDGE understands what he is talking about nor will anybody who knows the man assume to say that he talks at random We dont believe it has ever been the intention in-tention of any considerable number of the Idaho Mormons to try to get around the test oath law for of all those with whom wo have conversed on the subject not ono has suggested the making of an effort to vote Since the supreme court decision affirming the validity of the test oath law the Mormons have considered themselves out oft politics in Idaho The writer asked a prominent Idaho Mormon in the presence of a number of his coreligionists from the > state what the Mormons would do in the matter of voting tho United States supreme court having upheld the law His reply acquiesced in by all present expressed ex-pressed the prevailing sentiment among the Saints in our norther nneighbor Said he We can do nothing and will try to do nothing We can only wait until a sense > of justice induces the people to abolish the law lawwill It will be idle for DUBOIS and the Republicans Repub-licans to J try to drag the Mormon question into the coming contest The battle must be fought on legitimate lines between Democrats and Republicans and the party that has the most votes will win |