Show WHERE TIlE THE HERALD WAS Wi AS The rhe few Cew readers of the Herald will vIll bear beal us out in the statement that that paper has committed Itself irrevocably to o the tho cause of ot Fred Dubois Dubols in Idaho The cause of or Fred Dubois Dubols In Idaho is the he disfranchisement of or the Mormon people e. e His lIls platform so declares and that has been the burden of or every speech delivered by a Democratic campaigner from rom the beginning of the present season eason And tho ho Herald has indorsed tho the crusade with the earnestness and whole heart method of or a fanatic trying try- try In ing ng to be temperate Here Is what the Herald said on the subject In Its Issue of ot August 12 1906 The ticket nominated b by the Idaho Democrats at Coeur dAlene la lat t nt t week should bo be ELECTED The Idaho Democrats ha u ha vu ted Dubois Dubols ns its their candidate for United States Senator From reports ery c man on the Democratic ticket Is of or hl high h chul character and amI good ol standing and nul their success it at t tho the is DEVO DEVOUTLY TO HI BE WISHED Should be bo elected should It Il Approve Approve Approve Ap Ap- prove the utterances of or the Coeur dAlene platform do you ou Indorse the demands of the Democratic campaigners campaign campaign- ers erg do you And yet ct you expect a Mormon to vote the Democratic ticket In n Utah this year carl You have ha less sense than you OU have hav credited to the Mormons Vh Why having separated them from all the world and proscribed them laving having laid upon them a burden which Is s laid upon no other othel class of or men in all ill the confines of or this republic do you OU think they will help you ou to power Have you so 80 poor an estimate of the common sense ense of or your our fellow citizens as that would Imply You think the Dubols Dubois officials nominated for Cor the one purpose of or disfranchising disfranchising dis dis- dis franchising Idaho Mormons Mor should be he elected And yet you OU expect Utah Mormons to vote your our ticket Thc They will not do It ft And it Is Coil folly to talk about church dictation They dont don't need any dictation tHc die tation to know kno what to do in a case so M plain The They MUST vote again against you vou for tor self sel protection It is the tho only recourse that is 18 left them Thc They are arc not dividing on church lines You and the party have separated them from all other people You have havo excluded them from the 1 general crowd and placed them In n. n proscribed category calegory of their own Yo You have told them hem the they are aro not entitled entitle to tho the franchise and you have ha urge urged the election of officials in an adjoining state whose one purpose Is to chiso chise Mormons Naturally you ou must mus be feared reared b by hy Mormons In Utah Naturally Naturally ally the they will vote against you ou And wh where r will hil they 1103 go o They The certainly can not hot join themselves thorn them m- m selves selve to tin thy earns part party I It ItIs Itis Is seeking the same end you are only the they are a more moro frank Crank about I It There is but one place for Mormons Mormon to come That Is the Republican part party There they thoy will Il get ct a square squar deal You are not offering It Yo You dl distinctly are threatening them with will cruelly unjust treatment The rhe Amerl Amen I kearns earns people are ate not offering 1 It They are openly refusing a n. square squar deal Other people ma may many vote ote their theoretical political preferences preference ma may lead them But Hut It is IR a serious condition for the tho Mormon And h he must protect himself with his vote He can canoto oto vote nowhere else but In th the Republican party part And we urge urso him to say so openly and say It now Tell wh why Declare yourself In all temperateness but with all frankness It Is a matter of or I cal life lire and death to you It Is be beyond beyond be- be yond ond that a matter of or preserving your you property rights of ot maintaining maintaining- your you our manhood and womanhood of ot safeguarding safeguarding safe safe- guarding your our homes The occasion warrants the most complete plainness of ot speech and th the most orderly of or ac ac- ac- ac tion In the Republican party part I is th the only home of or the l wherever he ho may live IIvo whatever may have been heen his past party affiliation Arid And If It h ho he must leave his own party It Is be because because be- be cause his party and those who sympathize sympathize with it has forced him him out In this good cause of turning meito men mei mento mento to the Republican party the Herald Heral has been almost as efficient a a. factor facto as the Tribune Itself |