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Show THE DUBOIS INTERVIEW. There are some incongruities, some lapses of memory in the prepared interview sent out by Senator Dubois. His emphasis on the statement that Utah was formerly Democratic, he will, we think, find it difficult dif-ficult to establish. In the old days prior to state-"d, state-"d, Utah was simply "agin the Government." It is true that in those days Mr. Scott of Pennsylvania, Mr. Black of the same state, Mr. Washington of Tennessee and Mr. Mills of Texas fixed up a programme to have Utah admitted into the Union. Mr. Scott drafted a constitution which a"ter two or three weeks' deliberation was adopt ed by a Constitutional convention of Saints, but the business miscarried. Since statehood was obtained, Utah has been Republican. It is true that when Mr. Bryan was first a candidate for President, Utah voted almost solidly for him, but that was on a single issue. It was a crucical year and the effort was to save the leading industry of the state from great loss if not annihiliation. But it did not make men who believe be-lieve in a protective tariff, in internal improvements, improve-ments, in honest progress, Democrats. We believe be-lieve that Senator Dubois himself was a Republican Republi-can when he took what he deemed to be the most direct course to try to save silver, and that he drifted away from his Republican beliefs later; that there was a close corporation formed by Mr. Bryan, Senators Cannon, Pettigrew and Dubois and Representative Towne, to organize a new party which should evade many of the obsolete features of the two old parties, and with the Populists Pop-ulists as a neucleus start out on new lines. But that "died a bornin'," so to speak. Had there been no Church interference Utah would have gone Republican last November as usual. But the Church dictation centered upon electing a Legislative ticket to insure the election of a particular par-ticular man, who is an apostle of the Mormon church, senator, and to this the Americans of Utah objected and keep objecting. When the Senator charges that certain Gentiles Gen-tiles have sought Church influence to help them, we believe he is right, the more shame to them, but when the Senator declares that there is no objection to the election of Mr. Smoot because he is an apostle, the Senator gives away the fact vhat his whole interview was intended as an insidious in-sidious bid for Mormon votes in Idaho in the future, fu-ture, for no man has declaimed louder or oftener than Senator Dubois that Mormon apostles are not, from the very nature of things, cannot be citizens cit-izens of the United States. To believe that in this recent statement the Senator is sincere is to charge that his memory has so much failed him that he should be the solicitude of his friends. |