Show I IS THIS DEMOCRACY I From time the Rexburg Idaho Current My record Is an nn open book I have never nevel worn the collar colar of or any denomination nation or corporation I ask no one to support me for what I am but hut for forthe forthe the time principles which I stand for This Thus choice bit of or rhetorical bombast bom- bom bast basl Is taken n from the time speech of oC Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor ton Dubois Dubols berol before the time recent Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic convention after aCel his hiis Indorsement Indorse ment meat as United States Slates senator to succeed succeed suc sue coed himself On One cannot help holl smiling smiling smi- smi smil smil- ing at the time superb egotism of or the manI manI umanI man uman I am nm It I breathes through every elY e sentence of or his hla speech This Is characteristic char char- o of him latin He lie never ne makes an au address anywhere without telling what he lie Is and what hits his hi record has been Neither a n Fourth of or July oration oration oraton ora ora- tion ton or a 3 ten minutes talk to o mothers mothel Is complete completo without dragging himself into It I. I Even g en the tIme memorial address addres which he lie recent recently delivered In lii honor honorof of Abraham Lincoln could be given en cn without eulogizing himself more than ho did th time the martyred dead ItIs It Itis is doubtful whether there Is another an nn- other mun maim In lii public life tola today who has such unlimited conceit conceit And Amid Ane what has he lie accomplished For more than twenty years cars he has hans po posed d before the time people of oC Idaho and amid lived by hy grace grce of their suffrage Where is the monument he hu has ha erected that will wi perpetuate his Iris memory What hat debt deb does his tate state owe him today that has not been paid many tunes times Ills His Ils record he f.'s says Is an open hook book Such a u statement seems a huge Joke What hat does he ho mean Certainly not hot that his political course has been straight and amid consistent consistent It I would bo be bohard bohard hard to conceive a more uncertain erratic and anal wobbly career than his has been He lIe Ie has advocated ad and stood stool for ever every political creed In time tho states state's calendar The rime principles he lao denounces today he lie swore by a a few years ago The Mormons he hie now no seeks to disfranchise dis dis- franchise are time the same mimic people whose votes voles ho he sought in h the last Jast senatorial campaign The Thc polygamy which so offends s his pure sensibilities and amid threatens the tho moral mOal life of time the state at present Is the tho same that he lie asked ed edLo lo help elect him irini six years ears ago Now he lie is ashamed of Mr French Ion for sitting sit sit- sl- sl ting Ung between two apostles of tIme the Mormon Mornion Mor Mor- mon nion church chinch who ae are not polygamists and defending them at that time line he lie heas was as not ashamed to campaign the time tate stale with wih polygamists and ami speak for Cor forthe the Lime same samne platform night after night Such uch rank i hypocrisy Is enough h to tu tomake tomake make all al thoughtful citizens sick Do not vote ote for Cor me Co for I what I tr I am am but hut for Cor the time principles I stand for Cor he exclaims exclaims Mr Dubols Dubois you OU stand for Cor no principles Your life lre has never ne been governed Go b by bu any army higher principles than timan your sour our own selfish sel se- fish ambition You whine about the time hierarchy hIerarch In Salt Lake Lako controlling the time politics of Idaho You know that lint such an arm assertion Is I absolutely false ahe And you know too that 01 you OU have imae t ha sought ought harder harel for Cor church support to further your our political ends than an any man mani In Ini the time state You know that If I ever there was a time LInac when the church leaders leader are taking no part In Inthe Inthe the time political a affairs s als al's of Idaho that hint tune time Is the time present And nd yet you OU make an nn issue of It f. f You hiring hang the tue entire Democratic platform upon a wicked slander You make It I an instrument for or the tIme destruction of religious liberty lib Jib Jb- Jb crt erty and yet et dare attach It Il to the honored names of Jefferson anti and Jack Jack- son Aye Are you Ol presume still farther Carther and amid Inject your OUI own dead name Into It that lint the time burlesque on Democracy may be complete The Time Issue Isue In iii this campaign Is 12 clearly drawn The rime Republican party stands for religious 1 liberty and arid dares to maintain the rights of American citIzens cit cit- The Time Democratic arty parly seeks to subvert ert these sacred principles It I goes before tho the people asking that the time franchise be conditioned upon n a religious test oath It I asks s further that mat offenders against the lie law be bo depOlt de deported do- do ported l and tried In iii distant counties countes of or tho the state thus Implying that there are arc certain sections where helo the time people are arc unwilling to enforce the tho law Such an Insinuation is absolutely false as all citizens know That Is just what time the tyrants of England sought to 10 do before the Re Revolutionary war ivar We re do not nol see how American citi- citi zens zeus can ask asIc for such support a n plat pint form or om how candidates could he be found who vimo w were we're lo willing to lo stand on onIL It IL Such un American principles desere deserve de do- serve sere to lo be defeated and amid we feel sure that the they will wil be be Those who are acquainted acquainted ac- ac with wilh time the Mormons in iii time the state slate know that time the they do not deserve to bo ho singled out special targets who must be ruined that a discredited politician poli 1011 pol- pol ma may retain his hils office If I they break tho the law prosecute them If Ifan Ifan I an educational test Is necessary IY before before be he- fore Core a citizen Is permitted to vote vole let them be compelled to meet the tire re requirements re- re as m others meet them but do not condition their franchise on a religious test |