| Show THE IDAHO LESSON I 1 without having ha ving and designing not to express any especial preference for either of the political parties in idaho I 1 as they now stand we feel to eay say that the treat preat republican victory there is 11 one on which tho the republicans should I 1 not take overmuch over much pride idaho Idabo was a democrat Damo cratit territory until a lot of 4 weak kneed democrats permitted I 1 themselves to be made thimblerig thimble rig he I 1 gets for their more expert political opponents when it suddenly changed front and is now about as stal warfa republican state as vermont and it has no more reference to republicanism as that word is commonly employed than it has to the politics of japan it means simply a fanatical I 1 procedure by means of which a few ambitious and designing men may climb to prestige and power the well being of the new state is secondary their own advancement the primal consideration notwithstanding the specious pleas put forth by frel fred dubois and his henchmen during the campaign that they did not want and would not have mormon votes is it ait nt manifest mani feet that they were simply refusing what they knew pery very well they coald could not get and thus making or trying to make a show of candor and consistency I 1 such as neither of 0 the tricksters trick baa has or ever bad had the tact fact that the mor mons mono would not vote for them coupled with the coward cowardice leo of the democratic leaders who feared being called jack mormons cormons Mor mons more than thin they feared the devil himself was the cause of that peoples disfranchisement and while I 1 I 1 1 A R I 1 1 I lq 1 0 their names have not been st from the tax liets lists and they are acta actu ally doing more to support the gov eminent which denies tem a voice or vote than their oppressors are the character of the outrage becomes all the more apparent no one can now tell where the idaho infamy will end bo so far as the mormons cormons are concerned fro treason aron hath doni alts coret nor etcel foreign malico domestic levy nothing id la likely to touch them further bo so long as they do not vote nor try to vote bat but keep on acting as its peaceable citizens fiti niti zens ought to act meantime doing their full share and more too in the way of keeping the abortive statehood infant aliven they will probably not be further disturbed at least not in an organized way but how must those democrats who permitted themselves to be cowed into the lapport support of he the disfranchisement scheme feel about now with the state which they might have lave controlled and whose destinies they might have shaped taken eo so effectually from their grasp that it may require a decade to restore their lost prestige if indeed it be not irretrievably lost |
