Show AS TO JACK MORMONS r I 1 I 1 the great and only original dubois 1 has been bawling jack mormon at k congressman springer it is scarcely I 1 I 1 to explain that the exhibition was given before an audience of I 1 I 1 congressmen Conge esmen in the house of se 1 and the was a debate on the admission of idaho 1 I 1 with 0 all dubois originality there ie is I 1 I 1 nothing original in his use of the term it ia is not even ori original ginat with ir the salt lake tribune Tri bure which has his h however neever made some soure claim to the exclusive use and application of it it ie is probably pro bibly from the tribune that tb at dubole I 1 has modeled bis his anti mormon i genius genin a and has learned the wold word but I 1 the tile ept ep thet liet is one that has 1 been bandel down the lice line of anti mormon demagogues from away back in the time ahen hen boege benton rord F ord and slid a number of other interesting I 1 eera operated the anti mor mon machine mr springer Bp riner will not feel specially aggrieved by this new misnomer jtb ven en by looking dp up its etymology he learns leatris that a number of quite respectable citizens lae lave been similarly titled for instance ioe tance general doniphan when hea ho he refused to join the mob in butchering mormon citizens at far west evolved immediately into a it jack mormon governor ford until be he consented to the murders and kindred crimes that were perpetrated rated upon mormons cormons in illinois was as a jack mormon senators L Q 0 lama ben hill leland stanford call teller and others of the upper house have aw I 1 all in their day been jack mor 11 imons 11 the lion ilon J randolph I 1 tucker author of the original ed munds tucker bill walla wak a jack mormon until the lash of a blackguard editor whipped him into the ranke ranks t I 1 al kl 11 1 ia 7 MM 1 V W 7 t 1 1 1 VW 4 t where this mr dabnis ie to juet just novt now mustering president cleveland was called a jack mormon formon fa president Preel dent grant escaped the appellation only by getting out of 0 politics anil and therefore out of 0 the anti mormon crusade for no man ever acquired so many of 0 the qualifications in so abort short a time as did be daring during the iet last year ear of his administration the tile lamented Oar garfield field too was during his leadership of the republicans in 10 the house known own as a jack mormon indeed we me go TO on adding to the hat list until ae me bad had included every staten tran of Lonest principle principles and moral courage that was eier ever mixed up in arli an i mormon proceedings in a general way the jack mormon may a he be defined as a person who advocates a universal application ol 01 the thelA laws Wg and A who ho therefore refuses to countenance special acis acts and special interpretations or the mutilation of acta acts and constitutions to render them especially applicable to meno mem bera bets of the mormon church aid and to nobody eleo else the title does not imply that ita its holder ta is in pathy with mormon teachings tea chinee methods or interests nor would it be competent evidence that in in ins his natural feelings he would w not be agrati ned tied to eee see them individually aud and collectively clayed and barbe barbecued ened but that he advocates atea the doing of it by regular and not by irregular methods this as the definition of jack mormon marmon aa as originally applied and thus it haa has been handed banded down to ns n nothing abated and nothing added lidded so go in the minds of some quite respectable spec table people mr nizer might bo be a genuine and avowed jack mon and yet escape a all the pains and penalties which mr dabol would have meted out to hie his blur mormon constituency |