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Show BREEZY LETTER FROM A. f. PARKER Editor The Tribune I again call tho attention of t.ho peoplo of tho northern counties of this state to tho significant fact thai tho legislative session just closing clos-ing ha3 niado no effort to restore the constitutional con-stitutional elector's oath; and to tho further fur-ther fact that the Mormon minority ruled tho roost and dictated to tho Gcntllo majority ma-jority what legislation should or should not bo enacted. Probably there are alleged American citizens who are proud of the record thus mnde, but I am not of therm To a disinterested parti' It must appear strange that no member of the legislature legisla-ture dared to Introduce a bill restoring the constitutional elector's oath, although there woro avowed anti-Mormon Republicans Repub-licans and Democrats In both houses who desired such action. Of course, It was well understood that the mere Introduction Introduc-tion of such a measure would havo subjected sub-jected them to tho Insults of such hull-necked hull-necked Mormon bishops as Hart, Hunt and Pugmlro, who absolutely controlled tho senate and would not allow such a measuro to be oven printed. 1 recall that when Senator Ileyburn was re-olected, Mormon Bishop Hart In tho senate and Mormon Bishop Johnson In tho houso wer selected to make tho nominating speeches. When Borah was elected to tho United Slates senate, two years fdnoe, ho, also, was placed In nomination nomi-nation by tho same Mormon dignitaries. Polltlcul donls sometimes lead up to queer coincidences, do they not? r I noto further that a commercial body at Payetto has sept resolutions to Governor Gov-ernor Brady protesting airalnst the appointment ap-pointment of any meinher'rJl" the Mormon church as state commissioner of Immigration. Immigra-tion. Of course, tho protest will bo useless, use-less, for a Mormon will ho appointed to the oftlce. . Tho possession of this Important Im-portant office by l Mormon or jack-Mormon Incumbent Is one of tho main coiv-HlderalIon.s coiv-HlderalIon.s for Mormon support, of tho" Ropubllcun state ticket. It Is the settled set-tled policy of the Mormon hierarchy to make of Idaho a sure Mormon stato Hko L'tah and Wyoming. With control of the offico of stato- commissioner of Immigration Immigra-tion In Mormon hands, Its machlncrv can ho used to colonize tho sagebrush counties coun-ties with Mormon colonists. This has been the Mormon policy In the past. The possession of this offico, maintained by state funds, has boon of Immense importance impor-tance In Importing Mormon converts, and thoroby Increasing the powor and Intlu-onco Intlu-onco of tho Mormon church In this state. Brady, of course, will remember his creator, cre-ator, tho Mormon church, and Is foxy enough not to repeat the fatal mlstako of ex-Governor John T. Morrison, who refused re-fused to do tho bidding of tho Mormon church when It demanded the appointment appoint-ment of Godgc C. Parkinson, a high official of-ficial of the church, as state commissioner commission-er of Immigration. This act of ex-Governor Morrison turned every Mormon against him and defeated him for re- nomination. Slnco then. Morrison has been politically dead, although ho Is one of the few bright and clean men In the public life of Idaho Republicanism. His offense consisted In rofuslng to appoint Parkinson because Parkinson was an ex-convict, ex-convict, who had served a term In the penitentiary, at Bolso for concealing and harboring a nasty polygamlstlc fugltlvo from justice In the territorial days. But this samo Parkinson, If I remember aright, wa3 good enough to fill the position posi-tion of a regent of the stato university under appointment from Governor Gooding. Good-ing. li U 1 It Is a safe proposition that cither Wal-Us. Wal-Us. editor of the Rexburg Standard and ohlof clerk of tho present legislature, a Mormon from the hotbed of Mormonlsm, or llober Q. Hale, present chief clerk In the office of state commissioner of Immigration, Im-migration, will bo appointed v to that office. of-fice. Halo has really been the commissioner commis-sioner for tho past two years, Col. Allen Miller of Idaho county being simply the servile llKurehead of the Mormon contingent. contin-gent. Halo Is a Mormon older, who" preaches Mormonlsm In the Boise church, and last summer at tho Mormon cele-bratton cele-bratton hold on July 26, delivered an address ad-dress in which tho Mormons were lauded as angels, with wings sprouting from their shoulders, while the Gentiles were denounced as devils Incarnate for the "persecutions" which "they arc alleged to havo Inflicted upon the saintly saints. The-address The-address was published In the Mormon Capital-News and forms one of the most unique pieces of literature In my scrap-book. scrap-book. I havo not scon tho Payetto resolutions, but surmlso that thoir objection to tho appointment of a. Mormon as stato commissioner com-missioner of Immigration Is based upon the oblectlonable fact that past and present pres-ent Mormon and jack-Mormon Incumbents Incum-bents of that office have spent tho public funds In advertising tho Mormon counties among Mormon people, to the detriment of other sections and other counties of the state. The office as administered of late has been simply an annex of the i Mormon church. This fact is notorious In the southern counties, and it Is generally gen-erally undurstood by tho highbinders of both political parties that this particular offico Is a porqulslte of tho Mormon church, bought and paid for by Mormon 'votes, with tho purpose of using It to promote tho growth and power and Inrtu-enco;poljtlcnl Inrtu-enco;poljtlcnl and otherwise, of tho Salt Lake IilortLivhy. Iet me ask ari'J'rcaVlcstate agencv In Lewlston, Xez Perco, GrVngeytiM&i;5Ios'v, cow, or elsewhere In norttoofh Idaho If they have over known of any newcomer being attracted or directed to our section sec-tion by any act, official or otherwise, of tho state Immigration commissioner, or 'by literature or advertising or other form of publicity emanating from the offico of-fico of tho state commlsslonnr of Immigration? Immi-gration? Tho sole purpose of the offico under Mormon domination Is to bring In Mormon settlers Into the Mormon counties. coun-ties. Hence tho phenomenal Increase In tho Mormon vote In this slate In the past few years. How do the Gentiles of northern north-ern Idaho like this prostitution of a stav offico for sectional and political purposes? Yours for constitutional government. A- F. PARKER. Grangovllle, Ida.. March 12, 1900. |
