Show POLITICS IN IDAHO TIIE THE republican PUBLICAN KE CENTRAL COMMITTEE PLAYING THE antl ANTI MOR MON NION GAME pursuant to call a meeting of the se re pub licau territorial central tee was held at shoshone on sept ad an unusually large attendance was present the largest probably of any territorial committee meeting ever before held in idaho the best of feeling prevailed and the utmost harmony harmany nis mis was displayed after the I 1 ordinary routine business the following resolutions were adopted we the members of the republican territorial central committee realizing that the most vital and only political issue affecting the territory at large is the destruction of the power of the mormon church la in idaho and while we have maintained i this as a fundamental principle of the republican party we are not unmindful of the fact that the thy vantage ground now occupied by our party is owing to the patriotic and advanced stand taken by the anti mormon democrats of the and in view of the fact that there are no republican or democratic party organizations in several of the counties in this territory but that the friends of free government covern sovern ment therein 1 are united in common anti antl mormon organizations therefore be it resolved ite lie solved that we invite the anti mormon organizations of the territory to unite with us in the future in all conferences and conventions and in the selection of candidates and annunciation of principles to the end that I 1 free institutions I 1 in a this territory may be preserved from the encroachments encroach ments of the theocratic thao cratic government of utah territory resolved that by the acts of certain republican officials in undertaking to compromise the true principles of republicanism and by certain un I 1 lican ican and disgraceful combination combinations sought for personal ends tending to bring the party into bad repute in bartering away the influence of the party to secure mormon strength for local measures we feel called upon to disavow said officials and their said acts as bendin tending te to destroy the success of the party in the future and also to 10 denounce the course of a so called leading republican newspaper in supporting said acts resolved that we heartily sanction a and nd endors the action of the chairman of this committee in corm corn batting and os posing the efforts ofa of a certain combination who from personal motives would rupture the republican party and jeopardize its success in the future resolved that while we deprecate the temporary mormon triumph achieved principally through the efforts of our democratic dele aele delegate wate gate in congress in the removal of chief justice john johnt johnw T morgan accomplished as it etwas was by perjury and parte affidavits and while we denounce the said removal as a gross violation of the civil service rules and the public professions fes of the administration yet we i congratulate the loyal citizens of idaho irrespective of party upon the frustration of the tile mormon conspiracy in the tin appointment of a successor who in irl spite of partisan pressure has already given evidence of his determination to sustain aln uin law and decency boise 1 juh jah ini i |