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Show tjwraiiiispgis -' U0V TllEV DO IX 1)AH0. "Jlgrraorui" and Some on-'4.Mor-nions' Excluded from Voting. Ii. 6. Wliittirr, district attorney for Uingluun County, Idaho, has caused to be iublithcd the following liL-tructlonM 7b Me tfejiertiW-, JicsUrhrl and Jtuijtxof Ji'rc'.hn In Jhnghatn Ohify, dafio: UenUcmcii Havinr? Had several rtilUtrftsfor my tlplntan regarding youf dulies iu tho coming regietra-tlon regietra-tlon aud election, I take this method of replying to it at once, and giving my vlctrs to you all. I think tills matter can to lot treated by dividing it and answering answer-ing it in the form cf these nutations. nuta-tions. 1st, Aro members of tho Mormon Church legal Toten, ar.d entitled to register and vote In Idaho? -ml. If not, who shall lie treated and considered as Mormons? 3rd. What are the duties required by Iawif oulcers of election, and :iaJly this cfcns of people? To tlie first Ianswcremphatlcallv, no; they are not Tim reasons are fcet forth in scctlou 5-Jl xevlseil iat-utes iat-utes of Idaho, and in section I, on pagu 14, of the laws of th-: fifteenth ece-lon W U16 Idtiid legbdalure, amctidatory of tho aboie section, 001, and also in section 3, article b, sutlrageaud election, of the constitution consti-tution of tlio State of Idaho, all three of whlcli are too plain to need quoting or comment from me. To the second I reply: All who on Jauusry Ift, l;sSS, w cru mvmlx-r-of, or ad bated wltli, or aided, aU-t-ted or encouraged tho Murmou Church. For reasons for this see section 1, pago 11, of the fifteenth session la cltesl above. Ill sup-Jo sup-Jo rt ul that I also ipiotu di-ci-ioli" vf courts aud the proclamation of the governor of Idaho, as follows: Thu supreme court of Idaho In Chamberlain vs. Woodiu, page 117, advanced sheets of lVlllc Jlerwrter, No. 23, says! "In view of all the tetlmntiy, we must conclude with thu court U-Iote, tlial these ixi'le (referring to the Mormons who withdrew from the Church to vote 011 Nov.fi, ISSp,) Jid ol ait bona fide, that such withdrawal resulted from a concert of action, most likely through tliccouus. I of their leaders, and for the sole nunuse of evading (lie law; and that they were not entitled to Vote. In Wooley vs. WaUVns, 2d Pacific Rejiorirr, jogo 102, our stiprcnio courlJtlsu decided 'tliat the order, oganliatlon or association known as the ' Club,' or regular branch of the Mormon church, teaches, advb, couie-clii and eutaiurages its members, mem-bers, devotees and ethers to commit the inline uf bigamy or jlyganiy a a duty arising from mcmU-rship iu such organ ustliou or association." Governor Ueorgo 1.. Shoupln his citation proclamation rays: Tlie spirit and ir.lcul cf the regirtratkin law nnt-l liu compiled uith. Tbcat-leiillou Tbcat-leiillou of county commbsloners registrars and Judges of election is called to au act of the 1.1th session of tlie Idaho legislature, approved January Jan-uary 21th, IsSil, entitled nu act to amend section -VII revised statub-s of Idaho, which law must 1 enforced en-forced by registrars and judges of election. Now If these people were not voters ou November 6th, 1SS-, as decided in CliamU-rlaiu vs. Woodiu, they are ui.l now. If they weru memeers cf an Inhibited organization or-ganization In tMoU-r, ISss. as decided de-cided iu the Wooley vs. Watkius ease, they are the same now, and any of Uiem otic-ring to register or vote should be promptly refused permission per-mission to do either. To the third subdivision of the subject, v hat Ste the duties of supervisor, sup-ervisor, registrars and judges of election under the law. I uoiihl km: It is the duty of suja-ivisors to tea; that the registration list of their pnxiocU am Kojsrrly rcvlsetl and corrccttal U-fore n-g-islratlou comnicficcs; to kta-p a ek watch on tlie doings of n-gi-trarsaiel judges of election, and tu see that ca-h nnd urcrv one w 1h is allotveil to rrgrrfrr Is a legally qualified voter, and for tho means of enforcing tlieir autbority.they are hereby referred to Hon. Freemoiit Wood, United States Attorney for Idaho, under whos immediate jurisdiction the)- are appointed, ami under wIiom! direction they arc supjscd to act, and to whom they slioulil promptly rejioit any attempt to evade the law. The duty of regirtrars Is fully set forth iu na-tlolis ,VJ, .VW, .ViTaud ."ifsof the RevivtsIStatutesoflilaho. The)- should study these can-fully. They will see from these sxatkras, and I hereby instruit all registrars in Riiigham county thai it is their duty to first imt every applicant for registration under oath, as provided in first suUIivisiou of section 00 1, Ik-vl-tl Statutes of I daho, and examine him fully under thu various laws above referred to, and divisions quoted, as to his present qualifications qualifica-tions as a voter and also as to his qualifications on January IbSS, and especially as to his niemU-rship or atlitlationsatsiid date in any inhabited in-habited organization of which the ait of withdrawing in Ui-totn-r or November is prima fttac evidence, aud to pcrcmiitorlry refuse n-gitra-lion to all whose nuners under oath do not fully satisfy such naris-tntr naris-tntr that they arc In the fullest sense of the word legal voUrs ot Idaho. The dulh-s ol judges of 1 batkm arc to see that all not legally registered, regis-tered, or not legal voters, do not get their ballots into the lallol box of tlieir respective precincts at the coming Stile ejection. Iu conclu-ioii 1 will say tlialall political parties iu llingham county prefers to only want a fair ballot and an honest count Tho county committee of the democracy at a late meeting passed a resolution as follows: oJrciTBalitHUie wilt of Ibnconi-Miuec Ibnconi-Miuec aad convention to conduct Ibe conntydceltoB lUSeUrm accordance nub the Uwa or Idaho, and of the I'aited stale aslnlerprrted bylhe eeartf. and we call cp"n all oSeera of etccttoa to act naawali fiedly taacenrdiBce therewith iathcr f oraunce of their daUea. All otlicr parties should concur in tlie above resolution. And so, in conclusion, I express the hope that all officers of election will study the laws and decisions, on whlcli this opinion is lrawsl, carefully, care-fully, .and governing thoin-elvi thereby will give us an a'solutelv fair, full and free I allot and fair and honrt count of undoubtedly legal voters at the county electlou In Ringha-n County, Maho. K. S. WllITTIKR, Dist Ally. Itlngham Co.. Idaho. IIlNUIIAM, Idaho, Aug. 30, IS90. |
