Show MORMONS FRANCHISED disfranchised DIS the ike court says bays no I 1 mor mormon mon can register in idaho 1 t fin EXE EXERCISE of RELIGION A MYTH Imbe nhip in the church chuh nade hade a ground tor for disqualifying voters the following telegram was received in ID this city last evening BLACKFOOT idaho oct get 16 special to the NEWS I 1 the deci lion don in the woolley mandamus case MS ns rendered this afternoon at three the judge jade reviewed the whole case at great length lad and said in substance that the statute in question is constitutional tut tat ional that the church of jesus christ of latter day saints is an 0 or r whose doctrines and teachings gs are within the inhibition of tola law these doctrines and teachings ill have not net been repealed or changed ID lathis this territory so as aa in any way to deat such organization here or else mere and that membership in such church organization is inconsistent with the of L tich member to vote under this law tue the application for order of mandamus was therefore de tied the opinion of judge ju dge berry is a very lla borate affair cp vering over thirty pages of type typewriter writer copy the testimony was reviewed at great length specially apeci ally that given by budge nibley parkinson and thomas the substance of the decision is in brief I 1 that the law containing contain ine the test uth oath had already been declared causti by the supreme court of idao and judge berry was bound to reppert that decision I 1 2 that although the evidence went I 1 indicate that the practice of polygamy or bigamy had bad neither been ale al alsed counseled nor encouraged with in the past two years yet it was shown that a like modification had been made in the teachings and doctrines ol of tae general church in such a way as to reach the whole body of members in ID that church and of which mr woolley was one to change a doctrine of this or any other organization 1 movement to that end must be general in its character it must be real leal not temporary the members of the church are governed by the action of the general organization and not by local divisions no such movement lifts W been made by the chu church ack as a body snell course coarse might have been expected at the last general conference foutas fout as no movement of 0 the kind had taken liken place it was safe and proper to conclude Coa clade that nothing or of toe the kind might be anticipated la in the near future 3 8 that outside of the fact that win budge badge president of the stake in which the applicant appi cant lived had bad received mid given orders that the be members 0 of f the church belonging to his stake should cease preaching polygamy or plural marriage and the presidents of other stakes is in idaho had bad been given give n similar orders the fact remained that tb at the he doctrines of the church remained unchanged and thae w who ho had bad been riven given the instructions still believed in the doctrine it did not appear that the practice of poly polygamy Kamy was abandoned by 41 the church or plural marriage elim to bated abed from among its doctrines bat at it did appear that polygamists were retained in full fall fellowship fellows with ill all the rights powers and privileges of 01 those who were u nb ab polygamists the bourl therefore could see no reformation in the matter in a way that was 8 desirable and therefore could not pant grant the request of the petitioner |