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Show DEMAND TEST OATH BEAM USED Democrats of Washington County, Coun-ty, Idaho, Speak Plainly of the Mormon Menace. RECORD OF SENATOR DUBOIS FULLY INDORSED State Convention Is Asked to Indorse William J. Bryan for the Presidency. Special to The Tribune. WEISER, Idaho, July 26. Tho Washington count3' convention, the first Democratic convention to meet in the State in tho present campaign, to elect thirteen delegates to the Stato convenion, to meet at Coour d'Aleno City, August 6, met in this city this evening. There was a largo attendance attend-ance of delegates, nearly ever' precinct pre-cinct in the county being represented. Resolutions were passed affirming the party's allegiance to the principles princi-ples of the Democracy, as taught by JcfFerson, Jnckson and Brvnu. and recommended rec-ommended tho indorsement of William Jennings Bryan by the State convention conven-tion for the nomination for President in 1908; reaffirming allegiance to the Democratic State platform of 1904, and favoriug the enactment and enforcement enforce-ment or laws prohibiting polygamy, adultery nnd kindred crimes. They also recommended that tho Mormou test oath, as contained in the revised statutes of the Stato of Idaho, section 57.1, bo re-enacted; indorse tho record of Senator Fred T. Dubois and recommend hiB nomination for re-election to that position oy the Stato convention, and denounce tho Republican Republi-can Stato administration as one por-mcated por-mcated with graft, bossism and dishonesty, dis-honesty, nnd a disgraceful oxamplo of Mormon control and interference in politics, and as being detrimental to tho advancement aud welfare of tho Stato, both materially and morally. The following wero elected ns delegates dele-gates t C. H. Donnison. J. IT. Ilnrris, E. A. Vansicklin, E. D. Ford, A. L. Frcehafer, J. IT. Bolan, F. E. Smith, E. K. Coulter, Frank Harris, P. 11. B. Moulton, R. C. McEanuev, F. Galloway, Gallo-way, J. H. Anderson. Tho delegates wero uuinatructed as to Governor. |