| Show J MORMON YOTING VOTING IN ID IDAHO AHO THE indianapolis journal line has the annexed paragraph the mormons cormons in idaho propose to vote at the coming election if they have to wade through blood to do it they openly announce that they do not intend to let a little thing like perjuring themselves by taking the required oath stand in their way they also announce that they will vote the democratic ticket straight this announcement however was unnecessary whenever any queer and vicious new force is projected into american politics it naturally falls fall into the democratic party the journal as well as many other papers at a distance from this region has been grossly deceived the mormons cormons Mor mons have not proposed or announced anything of the kind no such intention has bas been expressed by any person or paper authorized to speak for the I 1 mormons cormons Mor mons of idaho if the indianapolis journal can produce anything to justify its statement that the cormons mormons Mor cMor mons openly or secretly announce that they win perjure themselves we would like to see its evidence we challenge the proof also of the announcement that they will vote the democratic ticket straight further farther we denounce the statement of the journal as utterly and totally false assertions like those copied above have appeared in inthe columns of the sait bait lake tribune and have been repeated in idaho sheets which are little more than echoes of the organ of slander in this city the press of the country should know by this abis time that at least ni nine ue times out of ton ten statements in reference to cc mormon affairs that appear in that dishonorable paper are either whole cloth lies or falsehoods so near to such sheer fabrications as to be entirely unreliable from the best information we can obtain the cormons mormons Mor mons in idaho have not manifested any intention to take the infamous uth oath embodied in the anti republican state constitution they certainly have made no announcement of that character chy acter we believe they will make no attempt to participate in iii the political campaign in progress in idaho if they should do so there is no reason that we are aware why they should want to vote the democratic ticket straight or otherwise prominent democrats who ha have ve received r support in past times from the vot ersin Idaho have have gone back on their agreements betrayed have proven I 1 e a I 1 theo elves un unworthy orthy the confidence pt every honest man I 1 in a other Im instances atances they have exhibited such utter lack of ordinary backbone that they are to be despised almost AS ae much as the double tongued demagogues whose word is not worth a dime certain republicans who want office are endeavoring to make mahe another anti mormon issue in idaho similar to that by which they formerly beguiled some timid democrats and andT bribed some come venial democrats and so gained gai tied re republican ascendancy bend cen dancy ancy in a democratic terri tory they will play this forill for all it appears to be worth but there is ab sol iol nothing in it as the returns of thestal the state election will demonstrate fl we invite the indianapolis 19 journal and ana other papers that have echoed the lies on OH this ab subject t forged for ged in the falsehood factory in this city to watch the official biu odthe idaho election and theft to tell the established ea truth trot h in regard I 1 to this antl anti thormon story which we denounce as utterly without at foundation or excuse |
