Show MORMONS IN NEW MEXICO THE taic small email foundation for many of ie e cries that arouse arouse the country over mormon influence in politics is exposed in the me case of the cormons mormons Mor mons in new mexico as explained by the albuquerque citizen as follows it will be remembered that during the campaign last year for the adoption of the constitution the enemies of that instrument used as ope of their th ei y reasons re V for opposing P P osing it the alleged fact that we had so I 1 many mormons cormons in the territory that there was danger that they might get control of the government and make new mexico a mormon commonwealth well a bulletin j just received from the census bureau shows that the entire number er of persons of that faith in this territory at the time the campaign was waa in progress last summer was just that is is not a very formidable host certainly but then it take a very large capital to set a democratic howler up in business and the mormons cormons in now new mexico probably serve edthe dAhe purpose just as well as if there had been of them but aside from all questions of politics the official document from which we quote will probably serve to put to rest the uneasy minds of those who have been perturbed lest the territory should be overrun by the followers of brigham young from the experience we have had thus far the most coolheaded cool headed men in the territory are of the opinion that it would not do us any harm either moral I 1 ly or physically to have a few more of ae the same sort ay of settlers with a gentile population of over a hundred and fiat fifty thousand we certainly have nothing to bear fear from the political influence of a few thousand mormons cormons Mor mons and as thrift thrifty and industrious tillers of the soil oil khz thear settlements in arizona show that they have but few equals among any class of people in the united states |