Show IDAHO TEST OATH the salt lade herald is quite at I 1 loss oss to fasten the stigma of the idaho toss tos oath on the republican party it kos knows full well that a democrat framed tho the test oath aid championed its causa cause in the idaho legislature and that ti is ia due dua to tn Demo democratic cratin treachery that the oath ever became I 1 law it ignores the facts in the case however and an imported missouri editor of the staff relates from a democratic standpoint some of the disadvantages of reconstruction of course this missourian knows whereof he speaks because wo we dare say ha h passed through the unpleasantness of reconstruction the herald begins its narrative in in th se sa words T the he retroactive political test oath does not coma from poland nor ireland but strange r as it may look is ia the creation of th the e lie ile publican party of america the party part y of freedom and free soil then the n after relating some incidents connected with a test oath required by missouri just after the war the article classes bosses as follows A quart er arof of a century later we find this relic of despotism nestling in ia the mountain mount ain f fast fastnesses nesses af the far wes west f the same came weapon of intolerance and proscription despite the tha scathing eca thing execration of tue toe most august authority in the land the effect sought to be produced on the tha mind of tf the to reader is that the republican party is responsible for the test oath in idaho the salt lal lake 9 tribune ig ia liberal it holds holdis a neutral position so far a 83 local parties in utah or idaho are con corned hern here is whai it says the original test oath in idaho was nm dratted drafted by a democrat who was a are I 1 an american as lives but wh wha krew knew through and through ih v hn in had watched its for 6 or twenty years and who was daiel wined mined that the spell of the I 1 ad ruled utah with an iron band ban forim i F e first should not interfere with tea t ea bev cv erin eminent ment in our neighboring territory and d that law when submitted to the fhe hi highest tribunal in the count conaty con nty v was declared 6 blared ta be constitutional constitution ml the argument in favor of the law was made by a democrat and a southern demos crat at that who knew all about ahe reconstruction laws which were wera intern posed when the hurricane of the war passed parsed and when all that region was left tum hline in thia the waves of sorrow anger hate discontent and poverty |