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Show WARNING TO IDAHO DEMOCRATS. Indications arc not wanting that a. Jtrenuous effort is under way to hem off tho Democratic party in Idaho ou any procedure this year to enforce thc Constitution of thc State on tho law-abiding law-abiding and loyalty clauses. Salt Lake City being the maelstrom of Idaho politics poli-tics so far as thc church control of them is manifest, we hero naturally feel the movement of the whirl before it is evident even in Idaho. That is one of tho phenomena resultant from the control of tho xiolitics of a State by a power located outsido of that State. We notice that on Thursday evening even-ing the leading editorial in tho Dcs-eret Dcs-eret News, thc church organ, is devoted to Idaho politics and to thc demand that tho Democratic party shall throw Senator Dubois overboard. It makes a fervent plea against tho introduction of thc Mormon question in Idaho and calls upon thc people of Idaho to stop it. In the courso of its plea the News says: "It is tinio for thc sano men and women of all political parties to stand up for the law of the laud and demand that religious and political issues bo kept apart and each bo settled in thc domain to which each belongs." That is good American party doctrine, doc-trine, but the trouble is that tho church leaders won't hold to it; on the contrary, con-trary, where they have the opportunity to mix religion and politics they invariably in-variably do so. ignoring tho News's precept. If the church leaders in Utah would do here as the News hj'pocrit-ically hj'pocrit-ically and pompously says, "keep religious re-ligious and political issues apart," and keep their chief ' loaders out of the political po-litical iTena, there would be no Mormon Mor-mon question in Utah any more than thor-o is need of it. in Americau communities com-munities in general. . The difficulty, however, is that whenever we insist that this shall be done, tho church organ or-gan comes out with an indignant protest pro-test claiming that wo are trying to de-privo de-privo citizens of their political rights; that thc high officials of thc Mormon church have just as many political rights and privileges as anybody else, and that it is unconstitutional for any one to object to these loaders exercising exercis-ing thqsc rights. As long as they do mix in politics, however, control primaries pri-maries and conventions, dictate 'nominations, 'nomi-nations, select candidates and mako them the church cundidates, through thc approval of the quorums to which these candidates belong, it is absolutely .impossible to separate church and State in politics and civil affairs. It is tho Mormon leaders themselves who insist upon this ini?:turc in Utah, and who indignantly protest against any intcr-feronre intcr-feronre with their political rights ar. American citizons, to control civil affairs af-fairs where they c,in. And yet in Idaho the church oau demands that j politics and religion shall bo kept strictly apart, and that there Bhall be j no religious question in civil affairs. The church, howover, interferes in 'Idaho pontics to tho fullest extont that it is abjo to do. The church ia not as powerful in Idaho as it is in Utjih, or it would dominate that State precisely as it dominates this. In Utah thc church voto is u tremendous majority of-the total vote. In Idaho the church .voto. is a decided minority of the total vote. Iu Utah tho 'church-arrogantly. Ml selfishly, and recklessly takes control of bpth parties, and of tho civil affairs af-fairs of thc State, and protests that it is being persecuted if anybody objects to its political and civil control. In Idaho it is not able to take control, but it protests against any ono objecting to its iutcrforenco and holding and exercising exer-cising tho balance of power iu its own interest without' regard tp party principles, prin-ciples, party names, or party welfare. Evidences are multiplying that tho church is seeking to capture tho Democratic Demo-cratic party iu Idaho. It doos not need to capture it in Utah, because it naturally nat-urally has it; and without thc church there ia no Democratic party, nor .Republican .Re-publican party eithor, in this State. In Idaho there is a Democratic party, but tho JJopublicau party has fallen into thc sad disgraco in that State of being practically tho church party. Thc Democratic party has avoided this so far, and has stood for thc Constitution of tho State, demanding that all citizens citi-zens shall abido by the law and render ren-der their supreme civil allcginnco, so far as Stato affairs arc concerned, to tho civil authority of tho State. It is just this attitude on tho part of thc Demo-ci'htic Demo-ci'htic party that tho church is now seeking to break down. By treating with certain of tho Democratic leaders and promising them tho church support sup-port for their ticket this fall, it hopes to call off thc so-called "persecution'' which it claims to havo suffered by reason of thc attitude of tho Democratic Demo-cratic party horotoforo on what is known as tho Mormon question. Tho bait that tho church holds out to thoso Democratic politicians will be found by tho timc-sorvcrs among them to jbo an alluring one. Tho x church has nothing to loso by cutting looso from tho disorganized dis-organized and tainted Kepubllcan party in that State. It has used that party for its vilo ends until the party is covered cov-ered with slimo and offal." If it now discards thc Itepublicau party, which it has used and disgracod so that the people peo-ple no longer havo cither confidence in it or inclination to support it, and can capture thc Democratic party, then both parties in Idaho will bo pretty thoroughly thor-oughly degraded, and the church will bo supreme over both, precisely as it is in Utah; although hero it rules both by sheer excess of numbers, but in Idaho it would rule by superior tactics, bribery, and trickery. Those Idaho Democrats who aro listening to tho siren song of tho church with tho idea that they will .bo carried to victory by the church vote this fall, havo a good deal to learn about church manipulation manipula-tion and church treachery iu politics. Tho church usos the politicians of ono party or tho other indiscriminately to serve its purpose, and then ruthlessly and without tho least regard to thoir feelings, interests, or standing, throws them into tho guttor after it has used them as a doormat to wipe its feet upon. This well-known practice of tho church might fairly cause tho Idaho Democrats who may be thinking of closing an understanding with tho church this year to give them tho victory, vic-tory, to consider what thoy aro about, and to come to thoir senses in a realization real-ization that while they think they may be using tho church for thoir own purposes, pur-poses, it will turn out with thcni as with everybody else who has had that hallucination; that, in fact, tho church ia using them, and will cast thorn asido as rubbish as soon as that use has served its evil purpose. |