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Show j EASY. I Senator Dubois demands of his brother Senator Fairbanks that he shall discuss the anti-polygamy plank of the Democratic platform. That should be easy for Mr. Fairbanks; he would but have to say that it was practically a plank stolen from the Republican Re-publican platform of 18G0 44 years ago; that those were the sentiments of the Republicans who J pressed the prosecutions of what Avas unlawful in the Mormon creed and practice, until those proso- cutlons brought the revelation from President Woodruff, doing away with polygamy and causing the President and Apostles to promise that there should never be any more domination of the people, peo-ple, by the priests, In matters political, that from childhood he has had but one opinion about any rule or practice of any people in the United States, who have assumed to bo a law unto themselves them-selves and to defy any laws of the United States. If he only' knew enough of the situation sit-uation he might ask Senator Dubois why the Democratic National convention sat down upon the caustic plank against the Mormon v practices which he carried to St. Louis, and adopted a mere platitude which every man, woman wo-man and child in the East endorses, and did that merely to try to catch the influence of the different differ-ent organizations of women in the Bast. Senator Fairbanks can well afford to decline, on a hurried tour, discussion as to the further remedies needed; in as much as his brother Senator, Sen-ator, who is a very bright man, and who has bean prospecting for that end for years, has never been able to locate a true fissure vein; but he will have time to express his opinion of the wisdom of springing a new party by Republicans, on the eve of a most important Presidential election, with the knowledge in advance, that four-fifths of all the recruits they could possibly muster would be Republicans, and thereby jeopardize the Republican Republi-can electoral vote of the state. |