The Teton Peak
OFFICIAL PAPER OF FREMONT COUNTY.
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For President,
Theodore Rdosevelt.
For Vice President.
Charles W. Fairbanks.
Republican State Ticket:
Congressman
BURTON L. FRENCH.
Supreme Judge
1. N. SULLIVAN.
Governor
FRANK R. GOODING.
Lieut. Governor
B. L. STEEVES.
Secretary of State
WILL H. GIBSON.
Attorney General
ROBERT BRAGSAW.
Treasurer
HAL. N. COFFIN.
Supt. of Pub. Instruction
MAY SCOTT.
Inspector of Mines
ROBERT BELL.
Presidential Electors:
H. W. KEEFER, F. J. HAGEN
BRATH, E. W. OLIVER.
DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTE.
In North Idaho, where no Mor
mons live, the name "Mormon" is
being used as a sort of bugaboo
with which to frighten voters. In
what seems to be intended as a
"key note" editorial, the Coeur d'
Alene Press in its issue of August
sets forth the position of the Dem
ocracy in that section of the state
in a column leader that must be
read in full to be appreciated. It
says :
"The Democratic state conven
tion acted wisely and well * * *
in the drafting of its platform, tak
ing high moral grounds on the
Mormon question. * * The
ticket is headed by that popular
man, Hon. Henry Heitfeldt, who
stands for a principle rather than
success This well known trait of
character was demonstrated when
the fight for the anti-Mormon reso
lution seemed to have met with
defeat and the Mormon supporters
were in the majority in the conven
tion. It was then that the Mor
mon contingent attempted to clinch
their temporary victory by going
to honest Henry Heitfeldt and
offering him their united support
for the gubernatorial nomination.
He refused it at their hands and
the writer heard him tell one of
them that he could not accept the
nomination without the anti-Mor
mon plank ; that he believed the
evils of polygamy and church dom
ination in the politics of Idaho to
be dangerous to our political liber
ty and that be always stood for the
right principle."
Without indulging in any com
ment on the Press' lavish and ful
some praise of Henry Heitfeldt, it
is sufficient to say that his election
to the United States senate in 189(i
was a political accident that gave
even the Democrats and Populists
the chills and to call atteniton to
the fact that he ended his career in
that honorable body as he began it
a total cipher.
Regarding his insistance on the
anti-Mormon plank in the plat
form, it is well known to every
man in the state who keeps watch
of political movements, thar if Mr.
Heitfeldt refuses to accept the nom
ination without the
plank, he did so only on the
que- 1 of Senator Dubois, who was
reduced to sore straits in order to
carry his point. To the men of
Idaho who interest themselves in
politics it is as clear as is the sun
that shines over their heads that
Henry Heitfeldt has no God in
politics except Fred T. Dubois;
that he has no idea, no principle,
no doctrine, no wish in politics
which is not prepared for him and
taught him by Fred T. Dubois.
Here in Southern Idaho we have
known Fred T. Dubois for many
years and we have taken as much
interest in Mr. Heitfeldt'spolitical
anti-Mormon
career ns it
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,1c to take !
jin any vacant spot on the political .
horizon and we can not blame bred '
for the political things he makes I
Mr. Hcitfeldt do. We do object, j
however, to Mr. Dubois and Mr
Hcitfeldt, as representatives of the
Democratic party or any other par
ty. posing as the leaders who ex
pect to enlighten the corrupted and
benighted people of Idaho as to the
conditions they have fallen into
and to place them once again upon
a high moral plane.
W'c have recently made a trip
through the northern part of the
state and we don't believe that you
can find in this or any other conn- I
trv a more intelligent, independent, !
moral, loyal and hospitable people
than inhabit North Idaho. Tney
were not made so by Mr. Dubois
nor by Mr. Hcitfeldt and it doesn't
seem to us to be necessary for them
to get into the Dubois Hcitfeldt
band wagon in order for them to
get upon that high moral plane so j
temptingly held out by the Press. :
When we remember that this
Mormon question was up once and
settled and that the sears have
about healed : when we remember
that during all the years of that
fight, the Democratic party of Ida- J
ho fought the Republican party i
bitterly upon that issue : when we |
remember the vindictive
vitupera
tion heaped upon Dubois by the
Democracy for bis leadership in
that campaign, it seems like a call
from the grave to now listen to the
cry of the Democracy for the revi
val of issues so long dead that they
are mouldering.
The Republican party years ago
settled the Mormon question in
Idaho; settled it finally and irre
vocably and settled it in spite
of the united opposition of the
Democratic party ; settled it just
as it settled the tariff question, the
money question and all other ques
tions upon which it once declares
itself and the Democratic party is
now just as far behind on this
question as it has always been on
all other questions it has ever had
the courage to take a stand on. It
is again attempting to* revive a
dead issue.
But let us be charitable. Per
haps it is not the DeTnocratic party
this time. Perhaps it is, after all,
the work of Fred T. Dubois from,
beginning to end. Henry Heit
feldt's political principles,
or thoughts are onlv dittoes.
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What we have said about the j
people of North Idaho applies
qually to the people of South Ida
ho or to those of any other part of
the State. We have no Mormon
question in Southeastern Idaho and
as there are no Mormons in North
Idaho, tiiere certainly can be no
Mormon question here. It was,
however, Fred T. Dubois' last
chance -a very slender thread up
on which he might land himself
once more in the II. S. Senate.
But it will not serve this time.
In regard to the domination of the
Mormons in politics, it is neces
sary only tc call attention to the
fact that two years ago Mr. Dubois
sent his représenta itves (after a
thorough coaching) to Salt Lake
city to inform the heads of the
Mormon church that they must de
liver the Mormon votes in Idaho
to the Democratic party or he dis
franchised. To their everlasting
credit, be it said, these gentlemen
showed the fellow the door. Oh,
no! Dubois is not a politician and
he would not think of having the
Mormons vote on his side.
It is because the heads of the
Mormon church absolutely refused
to interfere with the politics of the
members of the church on the de
mand of Mr. Dubois, that this
question is raised at this time by
Mr. Dubois and every man in this
part of the state knows it ; It was
common street talk here two years
ago.
Only a party lacking in princi
ples and weak in leadership would
allow this question to be engrafted
upon it by a man who has no more
interest in the principles and doc
trines of the Democratic party than
the writer has, but who has an
honored office in his grasp and
hopes, by hook or crook, to once
more secure it for himself, even if
he has to kill off the Democratic
party to do it.
The Press further asserts that
the Republicans were afraid to
take a stand on the question and
dodged it. The Republican party
lives today and in tilt future. It
; is proud of its past, hut it deals
with questions of the hour, settles
them intelligently as they come.
It refuses to rob the political
graveyard of things dead, blessed
and buried years ago refuses to
do so even to please Fred T. Du
bois.
The. Press also accounts as merit
n> the Democratic party a wonder
ful plank of the party platform
which declares for a separate elec
tion for the judiciary and superin
tendent of public instruction in
order that these branches of the
state government may Ire removed
from politics and in this plank j
finds the Democracy towering
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high above the low plane of party
politics,
1 he inferei
.■nee seem
be that
politics are too corrupt to mix
those offices with and, of course,
o tar as otir friends the Demo
crats are concerned we know that
the great majority of the people
will agree with the Press, but Re
publicans have no apologies to
offer for anv of the judicial or
school officials they have mixed
with their politics and never ex
pect to. The Republican» select
onlv good men and women.
It is noticeable that the Democ
racy has discovered thesi great
boons to the people when they are
out of power. 1 hey controlled
this st tie for some years not long
since, during " hicli time they were
so busy showing the people how
incompetent they could be, that
they even overlooked some choice
morsels. There are, however, a
good many people in Idaho who
are familiar with how the Demo
cratic party, in places where it
controls, separate the judiciary
from politics. Certainly where
Democrats control, there is a call
for the separation of the judiciary
from politics, bn. it is strange that
it should be necessary to come to
Idaho to make this discovery,
-Pocatello Tribune,
The Parma Herald, a Democatic
paper, admits that the Democratic
party will be defeated in Novem
ber, and says:
"With unfaltering courage and
abiding faith in the ultimate
triumph of Jefferson and Jackson,
they will again this year of grace,
1904, march to defeat under the
dictation of a man, foisted upon
them by the will of a mistaken
majority, who doesn't know the
meaning of the word "Democra
cy;" who boasts that he was reared
in the shadow of the home of a pat
ron saint of Republicans, and im
bided with every drop of his moth
er's milk the principals of that par
ty; who, to gain personal political
preferment, wrecked the party
under whose banner lie had fought
the battles of his youth and man
hood, and professed allegiance to
the principles of Jefferson and Jack
son ; and who now, in violation of
every tenet of Democracy, proposes
to plunge the party into a factional
religious-political strife, that in the
end can only mean destruction."
The Butte Inter-Mountain savsof
die Dubois anti-polygamy plank in
U^e Democratic platform: "It is
all for buncombe. Polygamy
no longer a live issue, even be
tween Mormons in Utah. * * * {
But meanwhile Senator Dubois in j
Idaho appeals to the almost univer-1
sal prejudice against polygamy,
just as the political opponents of J
Smoot in Utah have done and are
doing. It would he quite as reas- j
onable and nearly as timely for a '
political convention in New Eng
land to adopt a resolution denounc- !
ing the popish plots in old England
as a menace to government."
team,
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN?
Just now the entire Democratic
press of the United States is
earnestly engaged in the effort to
prove :
That Republican Tariffs have
not been attended with general
prosperity.
That Democratic Tariffs have not
been productive of general ad
versity.
That the McKinley Tariff of 1890
was injurious to the country.
That the Democratic Tariff of
1894 had nothing whatever to do
with the period of want and ruin
from 1898 to 1897.
That the Dinglv Tariff of 1897
had nothing whatever to do with
the period of unexampled prosperity
from 1897 to 1904.
1 hat a Protective Tariff does not
benefit wage earners.
1 hat a Protective Tariff does not
benefit the country as a whole.
That a Protective Tariff restricts
foreign trade and stifles domestic
enterprise.
That a Protective Tariff has
always been, is now, and always
will be a detriment and a curse.
That a Protective Tariff is a
robbery.
In view of these Democratic con
tentions, taken singly or in mass,
what do you suppose would happen
to the system and policy of Protec
tion if the Democratic partv should
obtain control of national affairs?
\\ hat did happen the last time
the Democratic party had control
of national affairs?
John C. Cutler defeated Heber
M. \\ ells laSt Thursday for the
nomination of governor in the
Republican state convention of
l tali. \\ ells has been governor of
Utah for two terms, and naught can
he said against him, hm it was
revealed or something elÿe that
Cutler was the man --for the
times," hence Wells must get down
and out.
PÛR SALE.—A good work
SKA LET & SHELL.
Notice ot Hearing Petition.
Notice is hereby given that Ben.
F. Gillett and others have filed a
petition with the Board of County
Commissioners of Fremont county
praying for the organization of I
certain territory into an Irrigation ;
District and said 1 1 has fixed
the hearing of said petition for
September 12, 1904, at one o'clock,
n. m., at the county commissioners
ioom at St. Anthony.
The boundaries of said proposed
district are particularly described
as follows: Conn, -o.-ing at the
intersection of the South hank of
.he Teton river and .1-.. east line of
section 28, in towns) Ip I north of
range I!, east, Boise Meridian,
and running thence south on section
line 21 chains to station 1 : thence
south Iti degrees, 15 minutes west,
15 chains to station 2: thence south
(.10 degrees west 24 chains to station
8; thence south 89 degrees west 4
cliains.to station 4 ; thence south 48
degrees 80 minutes west 21 chains
to station 5 ; thence south 80 de
grees west 18 chains to station 6;
thence south 84 degrees west 14,
chains to station 7 : thence south
18 degrees 80 minutes west 9 chains
to station 8 thence soulity 1 degrees
east 11 chains to station 9; thence
south 54 degrees west 14 chains to
station 10: thence south 18 degrees
west 8 chains to station 11 : thence
south 41 degrees west 22 chains to
station 12: thence south 8 degrees
west 9 chains to station 18: thence
south 52 degrees west 14 chains to
station 14 1 thence south 15 degrees
west 3 chains to station 15; thence
south 72 degrees 30 minutes west 4
chains to station l(i ; thence south 17
degrees east 2 chains to station 17 ;
thence south 40 degrees west 20
chains to station 18; thence south
11 degrees 30 minutes west 16
chains to station 19; thence south
2 degrees west 32 chains to station
20; thence soutli 15 degrees east 9
chains to station 21 ; thence south
58 degrees 30 minutes east 12 chains
to station 22 ; thence south 26 de
grees 30 minutes west 17 chains to
station 23 : thence south 24 degrees
80 minutes west 6 chains to station
24; thence north 86 degrees west 6
chains to station 25 ; thence south
58 degrees west 18 chains to station
26 ; thence south 18 degrees east 7
chains to station : 2 thence south 7
80 degrees 30 minutes west 82
chains to station 28; 'hence north
86 degrees west 6 chains to station
29; thence south 41 degrees west
19 chains to station 30; thence
south 5 degrees 30 minutes west 9 j
chains to station 81 ; thence south
70 degrees east 19 chains to station
32; thence south 5 degrees east 51 !
chains to station 38; thence south
88 degrees east 6 chains to station
84; thence south 21 degrees west j
15 chains to station 85; thence
south 24 degrees east 7 chains to j
station 36; thence south 85 degrees'
80 minutes west 12 chains to station
87; thence south 25 degrees 801
minutes west 10 chains to station
38 ; thence north 52 degrees west 9
chains to station 39 ; thence south ]
45 degrees 80 minutes west 9 chains |
to station 40 : thence north 87 de- ;
grees west 18 chains to station 41 ; '
thence south 17 degrees 80 minutes I
west 6 chains to station 42; thence ;
north 87 degrees west 7 chains to
station 48 ; thence south 2li degrees !
west 6 chains to station 44 ; thence ,
north 26 degrees west 10 chains to ]
station 45; thence north 84 degrees
30 minutes west 7 chains to station
46 ; thence south 60 degrees 30
minutes west 9 chains to station
47 ; thence south 86 degrees west
52 chains to station 48; thence!
north 78 degrees 80 minutes west
58 chains to station 49; thence!
south 74 degrees 30 minutes west 12
chains to station 50; thence south
10 degrees east 13 chains to station
51 ; thence south 72 degrees east 6
chains to station 52; thence soutli
87 degrees west 15 chains tostatioiy
58; thence south 5 chains to the
North bank of Moody creek, as
appears by the surveyor's line of
the "Enterprise Canal" on the
accompanying map, striking said
Moody creek on the east and west
quarter lineof section 7, township 6
north, of range 41, Imst, Boise
Meridian; thence following the
said north bank of Moody creek
westerly to the easterly bank of
the east Teton canal, said canal
being a well-known land mark;
thence following along said easterly
hank of said Teton canal in a
general northeasterly course to the
south bank O' the Teton river afore
said thence following along the said
river northerly and easterly to the
place of beginning. Said map
being hereby referred to.
Dated July 15, 1904.
Victor Hegsted,
County Clerk.
Do You Want to File
On Government lands? Home
stead, desert or timber lands. 2000
acres of fine timber lands; 5000
acres of desert lands; 10,000 acres
of homestead lands, j estimates on
standing timber.
GEO. C. PORTER.
I-or further information call on
or address. The Teton Peak St.
Anthony, Idaho.
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President.
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