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Show H I ! THE S0KJI0S OF IDAHO. HE j J The Idaho "Mormons" seem still flHJ f ' to bn an element of agitation In the HHEJ I 3 I minds aud plans of Idaho polltici- HHjf I ' JBbuis, although those dctaudei cltl- flf j flfliens attempted to ULe no part in HHf - ' Ifl16 Stt election and are cutting HHHi r' I9e n0 S010 ia tue PIiUc3 of iho Prcs" HB ' 1 lKent- The fear that they will make B fME same new cflbrt to obtain and ex- HIE ' i flfcrcisotaorlghtsof which they have anol i 4 SKeeu robbej, ditturba the equanlml- ( I HiaE- ilflaW toc Ecbemer3 wno know tuat J IS; j9BHorcion" voters would sot act in nnnaV ' i fijc ISfS: TJle worst demagogues of the new HSl ' 1 l&M 4eStato 3re not content with what has IE i 3P W been done in the way of dlsfran- HHjl ; Sp JHf. chisement for Church membership, EBB i l" mt 3es11'e tnat somo further un- HHE I republican measures shall be de- HHM i -vised. The shaky candidate for the HflE ! L United States Senatorahlp proposes HJQ i : h new legislation to fit the new sltua- flHE ' tion created by the recent action of flHE j j I the "Mormon" Church lu relation flflj ' i ta polygamy. He wants the Blate HHB ' legislature to invent some fresh EHJ t provisions to prolong the disfran- HflE ! clilsemcnt of the "Mormons." His B ' ' views and desires, however, are HHE , not shared by all the active poiltl- Hfl i ! f clans of Idaho, and the Indica- fll !- tionsara that his influence is on the BS wane. Bh very comprehensive letter on BBS i ' Idaho affairs from Boise City, ap BBl peared in the Chicago Timet of the BflH i I Slstult. It discusses the question Bpfl of irrigation in an able manner and HHjBg - t, touches on the sutject of the sen- HHE 1 1 atorshlp. The following paragraphs BlB I ft in it relate to the "Mormon" BlB I question: 88H .3 "The next subject ot Importance to HSHj W , cngago the attention of the legislcture HB will be as to how the Mormons can be IHSH a l kept away from the polls. This elo- HHE f meat prevails largely in the fonr nnaHi I e' cm cncntlcs Bingham, Bear lakp. Cassia, andOnelda. Daring the month of February, ISS3. a law was 1 passed providing that a test oath be Oflj v, i administered to the voter of the Ter- BBn ' ntory by the terms of which the elee- HB tor must mako affidavit that ho did not HHMt IwloDgto any order, organization or HBB association that taught, advised, conn- HbH s seled or encouraged its members or HBfl devotees, or any other person to com- HBB j mlt the crime of bigamy or polygamy, BBl ' ' or aDV other crime defined by law, or BJBflj I to enter Into what is known as plural BBH or celestial marriage. The oath is BlB much longer, bat the forego- BBb ios i3 lts saD3tace- If it was not HVB taken the elector could not vote. BBS If a recasaut Mormon took it and BBS voted the democratic ticket he was in- HBK ' dieted for conspiracy in attempting to BB j i evade the law, and as none of his BvB I . creed were allowed to sit upon juries SB j ' the conviction was quite certain. BlB ' ' Tho who took sach oaths were BJHC men who had withdrawn from the Aa charch, bat no amount of evidence BBfl i could be adduced to convince the BJBa I coart and Jury tha; the accused was BBk honest in his recantation. The Mor- HBBJ mons have alsrays contended that Bf polygamy was no part of their creed, BJBfl but was only permissible, and that BB anyorallof themcoald take the pre- BBE' scribed oath, bat the courts and juries BBJ seemed to know more abont such BBS matters than did the Mormons them- BtBI sslves, or at least assumed to know. BjBj In Jan"aT. 1S33, the legislature BIB supplemented the actoflSSS by pro- (viding that any person withdrawing I from the Mormon Church might ap pear before a clerk of the district oourt and subscribe to ths test oath, BJ when he might receive his first pa- Pera. After the Iapo of two years the HbBJ j backslider could again appear and BVB I withtho aid of two witnesses, who BBc were not Mormons, show to the court BBk i be had kspt the provisions of his BBjj - oalb, when the court might make an BBS order permitting the registration of BflBJ the applicant. BBC "The ot 165J lias been declared BBl legal by the Supreme Court of the BKj TJmiodSiatci. bat the latter has not BS8 i been passed upon. On tho 21th day of BSB ' P ember President WoodrufT. the BBS bead of the chnrcb, issued a manifesto BBC denying that celesta! or plural mar-BBS mar-BBS riage had been pracJced for a scries o? BBfB years or was now being performed BBjl ' wiihin the pale of the church. lie BBB also forbade all Mormuns from enter-BBB enter-BBB ing into the prescribed relation. The BBfl twelve apostles ratified the edict. The BBB act ot 1SS9, passed by the Idaho legis-BB legis-BB latnre. relates only to such as have BH "withdrawn" from the Mormon BBB churshandnottoanychangeofcreed BBj The Mormons are, therefore, at the BBC present lime legal voters. As there bv are out auout 6J0 out of the MM voters BBB of that class in the Stato who are Re- BBjB pabheans, and these were permitted BBj io vote at the last election through the BBl connivanoe of federal offloois, some BB IV. legislation will bo presented by which Bll W, lh iIono, caa be lept from the Bl nk Plls la th8 'Qtare- ll would be dim- BCv 1 cult to tell how thU can be saccess- BBw "yMcompllshedwithouttheensct- H I "J'n'of ancrpaitartoUw, but onr BBt Itepublicac friends will be found equal BB to tho occasion. They avow openly BB) that lncy intend to keep the proscribed BB) sect cuminaally In tho Supreme Court BBl I aDd dnnn tha interval from tho vot- BBj -ng places.' ' BBJJ Tho next paragraph alleges some- BBJ thing that will be new to most of our BBj rcadert: BBJ VTho Hon. Alexander II. Mayhow BBJ bas announced his intention of con- BBJ lcsUng the seat of TTillls Sireet in the BBJ next Congress. The grounds for such BBS contest will be open bribery practiced Bfifi ad " C0J Mormon votos received BBJ by Sweet. It is intended to compel BBL the Republicans to take the ground BBJj tht the Mormon vote cast for Sweet BC was legal or lose their representative BBB iu the House from this Slate." BBB If six hundred "Mormon" voted BBB In Idaho at the last election it Is BBB something that people here know BB nothing about Wo regird the tory BBB as mere rumor, but at the same time BBB we know that tie very Republicans BB who were the most violent in de BBB nunclatloa of the "Mormons," BBB would rrnve all earth and the lower BBB regions if possible to gain the votes BBJ of thoss "Mormons" whom they aj- BBJ feci to despise. BBCj ' Anaconda, Montana, Stand I -' ard gets eUH further awBy from the I mirkaud takes it for granted that the "Mormons" voted generally in BJ Idaho, an J that they supported the BBB i Republican ticket. Itsayt: CJ ', "It was tho twelve hundred Mor- BBBj mons In Bingham, Bear Lako and BBJ Cassia counties, the sixty dagoes on BH ,, tho big ditch in Ada County, and the BBC' four bunarfd colonized voters In BBB Washington, Shoshone and Latah BBBj , counties that made Mr. Shonp gov BBB crnor and garo a large mior!tyof BBJ 1 Idaho's legislature to theTepublicans. BBJ A One does not require to look far fox BBPg , convincing proof as to the reliability I BRjPr l! of these assertions. I Bf )' ' 0DS donles that the entire Mor- j Bf ' uonvotein Idaho was cast forAhe' BB ' BBBBBBBBBBBBmbCSSI Bopablican party. The Mormons boast of it, the Bepubllcam admit it, the returns provs it. ''Everyman upan that ticket was elected, and the big Mormon vote, cast In direct violation of the law of the State, helped make the "grand Republican Repub-lican victory." The Standard U away off. The "Mormon" vote was not cast atalL A few persons who had been "Mor mons" may have deposited their ballots, but no recent scceders, any more than the genuine "Mormons," participated in the Idaho State election. elec-tion. Neither do they appear to be at all anxious at present to engage In politics or tue their influence on behalf of any party, for they have been shamefully treated by all. Still, it Is very sure that a people so prosperous and so thoroughly possessed of all the qualities that make good citizens, cannot long be kept under the heel of oppression or be ignored In the midst of a republican repub-lican commonwealth. They are bound to be free and also to be influential, influ-ential, and though they may be quiescent for years, in tho very niture of things it is certain that their time will come |