Show CAPTAIN CODMAN ON disfranchise MENT KENT a in Bel Be beores fordi lor for july captain john codman cadman makes sow some pertinent observations ions on the tile infamous effort that is being made to disfranchise all members member of the mormon church captain codman has lived in idaho and in utah and besides making a somewhat critical study of the political crusade that has been at work here and there be has on many occasions and usually in tin th 3 beat oft ea son ventilated his big odillon odi anions a through the eastern press As on all previous occasions he talks directly y to the tile paint and incisively speaking of the operation of the edmunds law against old oden of fences ces he says the separation loa of these aired aged con conslo plea the ol 01 tile old men to prison tor for DO no other cause than an occasional visit in open daylight and for sometimes taking a meal in lathe the house ol 01 their wives form ormi a painful scene ene uch such as I 1 have b atewll wit neIs more than once in the court 0 of the tile present justice ot of utah its it occurrence bag has lately aroused the lion flon of their co that such innocent acts sets should be construed to be cohabitation within the meaning ine and inton intention tion ot of congress whether it ig Is so or not the gen iren eral government which ha made m d e thee e special 1 laws law tor for uth has never ne aver been be e n emilty y of the lolly folly of 0 declaring religious belief or the membership of any particular particular church chu whatever halover the doctrines octa ea ol 01 ill that t ch church ch h nw may y bo be a crime which deprives a man ol 01 his cavio rights right then coming to the workings of the idaho disfranchisement oath be he says about one fourth of the population of that territory gay say 2500 bra are mormons cormons Mor mons of these in round number numbers claim the rig 11 which 10 I 1 them to vote probably not more than have havo ever ever been lets and at th the present time the t e practice ba has so fallen into innocuous desuetude thai that there are no new offenders render ot and it requires the utmost ingenuity to coni con any of contIn continuing aing in a state of I 1 plural ura matrimony four thousand eight hundred of the lire live thousand could swear wear that whatever might be their belief in the ings of the bible and of joseph smith favoring polygamy foly f amy they do not and will dot not I 1 e L anticipating the probable charge that be he has talked of the best side of mormonism in he pointedly reminds bis his readers that up to the present time the world had been occupying itself exclusively with the worst features of Mormon irim the could discover andee and he asks il if it is not time that something should be said from the other standpoint admitting that the cormons mormons have their faults he Is fair in acknowledging them the faults of humanity which are in no sense peculiar in the course of his numerous contributions on the utah question captain codman cadman baa has said things that we should not care to indorse alto altogether but they were not dangerous at all he ile is one of the thoo few literary characters associated with utah history who under all circumstances could be safely trusted among strang ers |