| Show THE IDAHO INFAMY tim THE so called anti auti mormon organs those who are piping for the overthrow of the democracy are showing much distress of mind concerning taase several thousand mormon voters what they intend doing when v voting time comes again etc rest perturbed spirits rest ane idaho democrat will tell you all now and give it to you straight that those persecuted citizens will exercise their great constitutional rights in the future as they have in the past and every esery lover of freedom in fd idaho ait alt will stand every by y them in it you have about twelve months in which tu to chew this little cud cad of information and you ought to have it well ted when the time is up idaho democrat if it ever a class of people were treacherously dealt with on earth the mor mons of idaho were by their professed friends when the democratic party permitted them to be stricken from the botin voting lists at one ofte blow it was the most conspicuous piece of fatuity the most flagrant example of ingratitude in the history estory of political organizations in the united states and what that does not contain in the way of treachery and corruption need not be looked for anywhere year after year vear for a decade or more the mormons cormons Mor mons of our neighboring territory trained under the democratic banner through sheer preference preference of the principles which ft t represented to those of the opposing organization their votes kept the democracy in la power powen all along and well was it known to be so for all this our brethren instead of demanding the lions share ot of the spoils for lor their indispensable assistance ay at would have been the case elsewhere and with other people were content with just so much af the loaves and fishes as they were able to gain ain aln by bv their votes in the one une county in which they preponderated in return for which giving the other branch of the party everything thin else in the territory this arrangement might ml have continued contin ved till the crack of doom but for the treachery of the theN walls Valls the Crawford sand others of that ilk who perhaps tor for a consideration perhaps out of joure moral turpitude sold the party parly out root and branch by assisting in chi ot the Mor Mormon mons sl a piece of infamy that could hever have been accomplished without democratic aid A tew lew of their votes added to those of the republicans in the legislature did the thing thim the test oath passed the thu suffrage was taken from nine tenths of the botin voting population of bear lake county and the democratic party was thus relegated to the rear where whre it will remain until the infamy by means of which keuch huch result was accomplished is overthrown the situation sittia tion is not so serious merely because of the dominance of one political pirty party or the other so far as that goes the history of the church shows that we have little to hope for irom from either or any of is the absolute deprivation of political politic 1 ri rights pats for no other reason than a re religious 11 zion relief different from that of their enemies ithac makes the state of affairs prevailing re in idaho a source of alarm if f 1 it can be done there it can be done elsewhere has in fact already been advocated for utah and when a class of people who are not only residents I 1 but settlers thorough thoroughly h ly identified with the country and its interests are denied the exercise ot the very principle upon a which republicanism in its national sense depends are we not drifting into deep water very fast local self govern ment is not looked for and the withholding of if this right was thought to be certainly enough ii for the most radical advocates of a satrapy put ut to go f urther further and deny us representation ten sen 1 tation tatton at all and finally to suppress vr ur political identity alto aito altogether ether ethen t ii a little more than w was joked for especially at the hands bands of hse for tor whom our people have done i ant aoi were willing to continue doing so asking only fair play and equal agis rig as their reward it was one of the lost villainous instances of trust mety treason ever recorded inthe lathe in the markind mysterious annals of poll poil ties uner the circumstances with a portion 0 its own and all of the other arty grayed against jt it the democrat fla carty arrayed a dubish I 1 uz such sentiments aa as those copied above exhibits a degree de ree rde of courage haon and independence highly h hl y commendable it Is so rare t that thad h t a newspaper with sufficient st aLuIna stamina and principle to tell the truth and shaine shame the devil especially when an unpopular cause is the object of oppression can bu be found thau thac wo we republish our idaho s lines with genuine pleasure it Is not because they are favorable to our people not because they are so very unlike most of those printed in other sheets on the same subject not because they are democratic but because they are bravely said and are truthful |
