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Show INGE ATE SI INGRATESI Tho Desorot News has a defensive political articlo in behalf of its church, and in the course of its remarks it refers re-fers to Senator Fred T. Dubois and makes tho following cxtraordinnr-statements cxtraordinnr-statements concerning nim: There wag a time with him when the Mormon people were "too sweet for nnything. Tho United States did not anywhere any-where contain n better clnss of citizens. Tho Ktones concerning them which had been circulated throughout tho country -were unwarranted by the facts. The practices which had been obnoxiouc to some very good pooplo had becomo almost obsolete nnd were rapidly passing away. There was no occasion for any objection to thorn and they could bo relied upon as honorable, thrifty, virtuous nnd industrious bulldors up of the State. Thst was the Dubois stntoment concerning them when they were helping him into high public stations. But when the timo came that ho sought to gain their faror by demands Mpon leading churchmen church-men and thny would not yield to his im-portunitios. im-portunitios. but left him to his own devices, no language at his command was too vile or vigorous in their denunciation. AH this is a matter of historv; tho proofs are at hand whenever nooded. We do not think there is any nocessity to produce them at present, nor is It probable that they will bo required In tho future. Probably in all tho record of infamous in-famous ingratitude in this world there never whs anything more ignoble or moro false than tho foregoing statement state-ment mado by the organ of the Mormon Mor-mon church. This is tho real history: Fred T. Dubois had opposed polygamy and the. Mormon church influence ih politics in Idaho, had been instrumental in securing a test oath under which members of tho Mormon church could not vote, had been the determined and successful advocate of a lest oath provision pro-vision m the Constitution of the State of Idaho. Previous to Utah's State- ?r00.(i ,hWBR ln,tl10 Senate of tho United States and was recognized as tho best intormed and most aggrcssivo opponent in National public life of tho ei t the ""OP chiefs over affairs of State, and of tho polygamous praer tices of the chieis. When tha mnS ei'- ?oL1BSU01d. br, President Wood-rutt Wood-rutt in 3890, and in the succeeding time when it became necessary to convince Congress and the country of tho sincerity sin-cerity of the Mormon leaders in tho recession from polygamy and ecclesiastical ecclesi-astical rule in politics, Fred T. Dubois was sought put by Mormon leaders and waH besought to accept their solemn pledge of honor delivered to him nr-Bonally; nr-Bonally; and, after a considerable period pe-riod of consideration m which ho bo-camo bo-camo convinced, by both Gentile and Mormon testimony, that the old ficht had been terminated bv a complete surrender of the offensive practices' ho al hed himself with the movement to obtain Statehood for Utah. Naturally Natur-ally hq could not do this without also certifying that polygamy had come to Rn Lnd ?nd tlmt thereafter tho units of the Mormon community were to be froe to act for themselves in tho common com-mon citizenship of this country. io political return was made to him: neither tho Mormon leaders nor the Mormon peoplo ever helped him into any, high place, or any other public station. He was already in the Senate 0 f-th(l nited States, placed there without .Mormon assistance and acainst the desiro and tho labor of Mormon apoBtlcs. In 1896, when he was making mak-ing a campaign for re-election tho Mormon Mor-mon chiefs wero opposed to him, and the editor of the Deserct News campaigned cam-paigned Idaho against him. To quoto the church organ: "All this is a mat-tor mat-tor of history: tho proofs are at hand whenever needed." Fred T. Dubois never received, in all biB political careor, nny political help from the Mormon leaders. Previous to his first election to tho Senate of the United Statos ho . had always bcou tought by tho church and had always beon fighting the church. During His first term in tho Sennto tho Mormon church supplicated him to accept its Bolemn covenant; believing in tho integrity in-tegrity of human nature, nc did nccopt and indorso that covenant. At tho ensuing en-suing senatorial election, in 1800, nil the members of tho hierarchy who were m politics -were opposing Fred T. Du-boie. Du-boie. He was defeated, and in largo degree by Mormon intorforouco. When he again became a candidate for tho Sonntc of the United States, in 1000, the hierarchy again most bitterly opposed op-posed him and carried their interference interfer-ence and enmity to such an extent that those Mormons who were elected to the Idaho Legislature under a political (not ecclesinsticul) pledge to vote for Fred T. Dubois defaulted on their personal per-sonal nnd party convention obligation nnd cast their legislative voto agninsl. him. It takes a "peculinr" kind of an in-grate in-grate to beg a former enemy for a favor, receive that favor, return enmity for kindness, and then lie about, tho transaction. And that is tho "peculiar "pecu-liar ""kind of ingratcs that tho Mormon hierarchy have shown themselves to be. |