Show ID I'D Borah Dora h str e ets es t I- I I'D D I I u s t ilem L ht I Idaho Senator Elect Elect Disproves Silly iII Story Sprung by Fac- Fac Fac 1 tt lion llon Which h Would Discredit the R Republican Party j i From Th The Outlook New I York Ia ch 2 I 1 I quote a n par paragraph grah from v nn an Article which appeared td In your valuable mn magazine a ln under r date of oC D De De- f comber 29 1905 1 1 In In Idaho where of or cOUl course there e s W was gs s no nil church influence the results tell ah nit Interesting k story It mu must t be hi understood that hal the northern counties tJ fir Gentile i the southern c counties 11 ire I I Th The great groat r at hattie battle wn wasas JI t to whether lh l' l S 'S Senator its Democrat Oem Dem who ha ui b been 11 r very active I In combating the political I r schemes of or the Mormons 0 II Ii In Idaho shoud succeed d himself lr In I ti lII tho United d States senate enat Now ow the me northern counties or Of Idaho I Democratic h small nali by m mu- mu k fr- j while the r and I Mormon I cOlm counties les went n COIL can 11 Uy l I Immense f majorities A Acler cl clear cler lino n of cl cleavage rl runs rtin n across s Idaho On one side of that line e the people vote ot one on the I oilier wide another wo way was l There I is I 1 ohl ohly oHe thing to explain li this L fact One Otto one side skie of ot this the Mormon l church IU kate totes how t US Its adherents vote ote on an the jile other th the Mormon hierarchy lees does I not l cl control and American moth moth- rind and l' l results SUll obtain The above noo dots does s a n great t Injustice to toa toi i 1 a 0 state ShOuld 1 ii n condition of af- af falfa nils exist such as In Indicated above It would h he deplorable In the extreme extreme ex- ex I have no right to assume I. I that the writer of ot this article r wilfully sought to misrepresent the facts act and ana yet et It is difficult to understand how liv ono could sum assume to Inform the pub pub- He lie upon tipon n a subject about which he h. is Ij isso so o woefully Ignorant lie lees does not nol foe seem em to know even en the geography of the tho state slate l lituch h less e fl Its politics and andu andI I u a t most casual Investigation atlon of the r re results rt- rt hf of the thc last a l campaign will disclose ills dis close the utter Ule r falsity of ot the lite facts oct n hove above f set Hot l forth I It i l that thal lh the northern counties re Gentile but hut it H I Is not true that the I southern counties cn countIe coun coun- are arC tIe ties tIcs At t len least t si six Ix of the southern ln counties are exclusively Jr I Gentile coun nun ties tIcs H It I Js is true that on one fl of the principal questions of th the campaign was vas wash whether h th t er CI l' l Senator Dubois Dubols should returned he-returned to tn the thc United States SUitS senate but hut it I Is absolutely false that as we WI are nrc gJ fn to tn understand from Crom this article he carried carl the northern counties or the O counties And It H Is equally false that a line or of cleavage runs r- r through Idaho upon on one side Jo-Icle of which was ns found the the- vote ott for 01 Senator Du boiM boC anti and upon t the other t Hide against I 1 imi h by reason lessen on of or Mormon dictation Senator DuboN did not net carry a 0 a. a single 1 Gi count county in the he north H lie He I carried one member tn In lit ono one county suit ami throe three In another out of tit A total i hl i hip of three twenty In th the legis legis- lature lattire The county in which ho car- car the tho three hr e members ha has ha always ot-en ot a 8 D Democratic county count with one exception and antI that hut was the tho presidential year in which was a aen en candidate nd I d a e. e Coming to lo lh the southern counties he I carried but ont one Gentile county In the south which county ha has haf f Very ery r generally general general- I ly been Democratic In off Mf ff years arg For I Illustration In Ada da a county where the I Mormon question hn has ha hec been 1 more morp thoroughly thor thor- J discussed ell than in other count county In the state and which i is exclusively ex ex- I clu elusively Gt Gentile Gutile the thi Republican candidate can call for or governor go lost the county by some five fl hundred while the Republican Re RI publican n J legislative i ticket t was wa elected h by from twenty one hundred to 10 lw- lw wen wen- ty five hundred If Ir the l Issue of Mel Mor- ol prevailed pre at nt all 11 In the stole 1 it was upon the senatorial malt matter Elmore Elmore El- El anti and more county a Gentile county count nevertheless n s also a a. Democratic county count 1 returned d fn one me member J out of or two ReI Re Re- I publican Ow Owyhee Owyhee- h county a Gentile county and also abo a Democratic count counts returned one generally speaking member out CUt of f two Republican In 10 other worl words in the exclusively fI G Gentile Gentile Gen Gen- n I tile We counties the Republicans elected CICCICi two thirty members and the D Democrate Democrats Demo Demo- j I crate crotts eighteen en If there thel I Is a line of I cleavage n in Idaho the question que arises Where Jull Js is the line located There Ther I Is isone one thing that Is positively po certain i and anI that I Is that thol it is not between the i 1 G Gentile and ancl Mormon counties and lh he writer of ot th the mentioned above 1 article could have hn known that had h he I Ide de desired to be Informed before h he communicated comI com coin hi his exceptionally valuable I article to In the public Had 1181 It not he hen n n for fot some factional difficulties in th the Republican parry outside of the which arose entirely i Mormon question and which were duo due Entirely to local questions the Democrats Democrats Demo Dimo cral would not ha have C to exceed five rt m members mb rs of ot the legislature The only counties in lii which we lo Jot t r Re Republican Te- Te publican members of oC the le legislature i where w we tte should have Hc elected were wel those counties s In which local faNino t al aJ troubles trO prevailed I believe helle thaI thoi e every C 1 wf informed well man regardless of or politics will vill admit should i he speak candidly that there were not U live e hundred hundred hun hun- I dred drel votes otes changed rl in North Idaho b h breason reason of oI the thC Mormon question I Bol Hoise Idaho V. 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