Show THE IDAHO SITUATION 1 the arrest of apostle john W IT y ai Jalda idaho lioon on the charge of inciting rebellion ye bellion against the laws of athe the united slates states calls attention to the situation of the saints in our bister sister territory to the north in order to fully understand the political status of id idaho he itis it is necessary to keep in view a little past put history prior to the elec thelast last legislature slature of that territory idaho bad bd been uniform ly democratic even at tha election of the J idaho legislature tl the D democrats elected by a large majority their candidate for de alj pie hon jno hailey now the hon jno hailey bad a personal enemy enany in a the person of one kelley the proprietor of offee tae states man mathe ahe old eat paper in the thi D territory kelley was an old and wealthy resident of the gem of the mountains and a republican hahey was a poor man and reputed true and popular democrat in order to defeat him kelley knew it would be necessary to resort to soane peculiar piece of cam 0 As the mormons under pret frest wm win budge aa as democrats democrat bad d always affiliated with 11 mr r hail hailed in politic politics kelley conceived ceia 00 6 lelahe the brilliant idea of denouncing noun cing candidate hailey as a jack mormon and waging a campaign J t on I 1 the basis of the mormon question clestion it was beli believed eyed cd that we there r 0 ro a large number of I 1 democrats em in idaho who were or mig might lit be made anti and it by kelly that these anti mormon democrats would vaili aagut mr hailey because he wa was a reputed mormon th et in accordance with these gaii id aae Y kellena Kel leya Sta statesman fennan raised the issue of the mormon question and suddenly aud denly became to idaho abut what the salt bake lake tribune Tri bunis w is to utah about a month or six weeks before the election of the last Legia legislature liture and of the present ji delegate elegate f to Con congress gresi the nhue mates hue and cry against the mormons was taken up by a con eld erable portion of the press of idaho and anti mormon sent ran high but the republican candidate for delegate g to congress and a carpetbag carpet bag state ita teeman 1 aman w was as so thorough thoroughly bly detested t est e d that many republicans refused to vote for dimand him and hon hou sam 4 am Jio houstan ustan an able ay lawyer er a 11 republican and a notorious mormon hater As a well as a very effective orator even went eo so mimsi far to take the stump and champion the election of hon john haile hailey Y as not a jack mormon and a beuer better man for delegate than the R republican apu epu u icat nominee Sing biser T the h e result was tl that ats although kelly and his paper succeeded in making the mormon question the great issue of the campaign yet they failed to convince the gens 11 tile tiles of idaho that hailey wakat heart a jack mormon and andee he was elected over by a large majority and thus the democrats elected their dele delegate zate to congress But butney noy comes the singular feature of the election kelleys anti ifor mormon agitation resulted inthe in the choice of a republican legislature the ibo first jn in the history odthe of the territory although the mormons of course elected members of that bi body ody in the counties which they controlled from among their own number numbers end voted with the democrate democrats the republicans still had bad a majority in both branches of the at tw time qu thera there v ere a allot I 1 1101 of federal N s sharks h arks in 1 yd adalio a arid they abere 1 l chie ch benyo dyAr altogether alto cether aber republicans republicana fic ana n s and t the 1 I r ass w W fbi tc lei ry y idov governor erno r of t the he te territory arit ory the notorious billy buno bunn was one of their number these crea creatures turca suddenly discovered that a republican legislature which they had bad not anticipated would bo be a convenient and profitable tool m their hands several of them wanted to prepare the way for their own future eleo elee tion as delegates Delegat esto to congress and as these aspirants were all republic cans they besought themselves how they could permanently cyer come the unquestionable democratic majority of oi ibo the territory noa it happened that the mormons in idaho held the balance of power between the democrats Democrat and republicans in that territory when they voted as they always did with the democrat democrate the republicans biere were inn in hopeless minority but the democracy short abort of the mormon vote kasnot was not equal to the task of coping with the republicans upon consideration of this peculiar aspect of the political complexion of idaho a happy thought struck the carpetbag republican aspirants for the territorial if they could only deprive the mormons of the right of suffrage rage the avenue to the attainment of their political ambitions would be open and republican prestige pree tige in idaho be established for years to come butkov but how could thia this disfranchisement be accomplished complis hed why lyby easily enough they conceived were not the legislature and the governor republicans and could they not enact a it law which would in im affect deprive the mormons of the ri right g bt to vote this thought r was as no sooner expressed than it was ac acted tea upon and the result w was the idaho test oath which virtually requires ires that a mormon must renounce his religion before he can exercise the rights of suffrage rage the nent lawyers of the country have bave concurred with the mormons in the opinion that this test oath act was unconstitutional and therefore vo id d and some months ago the question of the validity of the test oath law was brought before chief justice haymof hays of idaho the legal merits of the question were argued pro and con by hon R 2 johnson of boise city and J S Raw rawlin linEl of salt lake for the mormons Mor mons and hon ron W I 1 smith of blackfoot idaho for the defense of the test bath oath and if we mistake not not I 1 the court took the matter under advisement over three months aab and its decision has not yet been rendered whether the chief justuce Jus tuse is in 9 grave rave doubt as to what bis lis decision should be andaas been all the time and ani i i s still consulting authorities on the question or whether he has 10 some e other motive in delaying bis his decision we can only conjecture but certain it is that the republican carpetbag carpet b ag politicians lians of idaho who hopeton get office through the sue operation of the test oath law regard the action of bis his hen honor or in in withholding his judgment in the premises as very favor favorable lible to their cause they claim that if the court bad sustained ned the validity of the test teat oath by its decision months ago age the mormons might havo ap appealed pealed and got vir a reversal of that judgment before the election of a new legis lature and delegate to congress this fall but now they bold hold that if it the court declares the test oath law constitutional and binding at this late day the mormons will have no opportunity to get that judgment reviewed by a superior tribunal before the coming election on the basis of the test oath act has bus taken laken place the idaho anti mormon friends of the test oath act profess to be very confident that chief justice hays will maintain the constitutionality tiona lity thereof and with the above theory in yiew the leading carpetbag carpet bag candidate for the republican nomination for delegate to congress who is uon other eother than the antU antiN Mormon lormon U 6 marshal fred T dubois expects that his election will be insured through the disfranchisement of the mor mons however apostle taylors advice to the saints of idaho to vote volta anyway evidently did not ale please as e dub dubois 03 and bis his friends and th the ea apostles e ar arrest reston on choch the charge arge of R rebellion ab e alio against the laws of the united states followed A STUDENT according to the journal du Harre who has reached the respectable age ae of one hundred andrix and six recent recently li presented himself before a learned body of chinese savans vans and asked permission to be examined he lie was accompanied by hisoire his wife and two sons aged ninety and eighty respectively the other candidates for degrees who happened to be present accosted the centenarian in a most respectful manner audressi ad addressing addre dressi tsing e ng him as maager he objected however and insisted that they should simply call him coca corn vade one is never too old to learn |