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Show 4 Democrats ill j Carry Idaho. H I't Furnish Any Affida- SAl t's to Go With His gee Beld Assertion, sow I . ' lygaiuy Plank in St. Louis ltuj f Pla'form. ton ; !. RP TORK, July 31. "Through the n of the anti-Mormon plank In ).V( ftform of the Democratic purty, will be found in the Democratic rthis ycir. ' said Senator Fred I ii-P. Donnelly. National Com-M Com-M San from Idaho, who was pres-iked pres-iked the yamc opinion, lie East you can't conceive what . iorlaut Issue Mormonlsm hus be-""' be-""' jfi the West," said Senator Du-ffw Du-ffw "In Idaho, the feeling against I oism has grown to a point where j j jbe recognized as a political ls- kriow that Reed Smoot Is the rep-E rep-E 0 itlve of the Mormon church in nate and not the representative h- Joseph Smith admitted that through his permission that "Xa3 niade Senator. ay Hold Balance of Power. . ...1 generally recognized in my waist lot the country that Mormonlsm clor seven Senators on whom it iiint for support, and, realizing fdo the growth and spread of i in mlsm, there is the natural fear A f time the Mormon church may fill) to. hold the balance of power in mate. I, "e. in the East, where you know Ikurdy power of the Latter-day 'only through their proselytizing Ilea nnd their steady and coni-creasing coni-creasing missionary work, the jeonditlon is inconceivable. In ite and In the adjoining States w that Mormonlsm was' never so h dive, never so dangerous a thing lis tlne. It must be checked now ft'lll find it too late. "antl-Morinon plank in the Dem- k platform is going to mean more f K Party In Idaho than anybody fpart of the United States has 9. as a member of a commlt- $'ent to Chicago to secure the on of a similar plank in the Rein Re-in platform, but our efforts were S. i 1 k Prevented by Smoot. , Jplaintivf pleading of Senator J moot that such an act would lose gop 8,seat and cause the election of itjlft pcrat two years lience, had too weight to be overcome. The fnil-Jihc fnil-Jihc Republican convention to uch a plank will lose them Idaho 3W' vend other States In that seemed see-med i is id' -p"10" of Idaho are deeply in-fl in-fl In this question, and to them -yto ir more vital than anything else, s fori- His true polygamy Is not an is-, is-, . J I'Wa time, the fact that the Mor-str Mor-str ;hurch is constantlv becoming J, feply Involved in politics and is ....h- ra game that has the entire Vrior a stake, has stirred the peo-rc peo-rc fI.loho anl the adjoining States rai 3 sellug of resentment and antago- iri .?r lt ls known lhat back of the e U activity of the Mormon church ptention to re-estaDlish at some ,f tiS nu anything that promises -ImiKl ie institution of polygamy. - jwormon church is feared and , J ai,-vthlS Hiut promises to Z W"" Ulid breaI" lts advances citk in thousands of votes In Idaho." cw r" . |