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The Teton Peak
OFFICIAL PAPER OF Pi&tMONT COUNTY.
TÄL rsday.
SEPT. 29. 1904.
Entered at th«
Postoffice sit St. An
thony, for trantt.
lia&ion through «he
mails, ns sooond-c
lass matter.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One Year
$2 OO
Six Months
1 OO
Three Months
: 30
Advertising Rat
as 011 application.
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For President,
Theodore Roosevelt.
For Vice President.
Charles \Y. Fairbanks.
Republican State Ticket:
Congressman
BURTON L. FRENCH.
Supreme Judge
I. N. SULLIVAN.
Governor
FRANK R. GOODING.
Lieut. Governor
B. L. STEEVES.
Secretary of State
WILL H. GIBSON.
Attorney General
J. J. GUHEEN.
Auditor,
ROBERT BRAGSAW.
Treasurer
HAL. N. COFFIN.
Supt. of Pub. Instruction .
MAY SCOTT.
Inspector of Mines
ROBERT BELL.
Presidential Electors:
H. W. KIEFER, F. J. HAGEN
BARTH. E. W. OLIVER.
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THIS IS TOO BAD.
Ex-Senator Heitfeldt, now run
ning for governor on the Dubois
ticket,plaintively wails because his
meetings in the Southeast are a
frost and says the Mormons, not
content with staying away them
selves, bulldoze Gentiles into doing
the same thing. Just how these
Gentiles are being "bulldozed" to
stay away from these meetings the
genial gentleman from Lewiston
does not say. Whether it is by
moral suasion, a baseball bat or a
galling gun is not apparent, only
they are -'bulldozed" to refrain in
participating in the hilarity of one
of Mr. Heitfeldt's speeches.
Now laying aside all inopportune
levity, this is a serious thing.
Those Mormons have no right to
"bulldoze" Gentiles who want to
hear Mr. Heitfeldt ;.speak. And
those Gentiles should refuse to be
"bulldozed." The whole matter
is entirely un-American. The
Gentiles of that section, who are so
anxious to hear Mr. Heitfeldt,
should be firm and courageous in
this crisis. Where church inter
ference is offered they should form
a "flying wedge" as is done in
football, and force their way
through the opposition. Surely
some way can be devised which
will allow those so eager to listen
to Mr. Heitfeldt that precious pri
vilege. Those down-trodden Gen
tiles must be allowed to enjoy their
constitutional rights. Pocatello
Tribune.
Mr. Heitfeldt spoke here last Sat
urday evening, the attendance was
very, very small, but it hasn't got
ten out yet as to just what means
was resorted to to prevent the Gen
tiles from hearing this great man.
When the industries of the coun
try prosper coal is in demand and
miners get their full share of the
general prosperity. When the
™ 1 . u a _ nd : fact0 1 rles , cl ° se wr uork
on short time lor lack of orders,
railway traffic falls off and thé
mining industry suffers. Miners
are as much interested in maintain
of
iug the Republican policy
tection as any other class of work
ingmen.
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It is reported that the Democrats
of Oneida comity will not hold a
county convention at all. Yet Sen
ator Fred T. Dubois' anti-Mormon
question originated there as foster
ed by that uoted statesman. The
way of the transgressor is hard, but
the ways of the anti-Mormon Dem
orcat is a d— sight harder.
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The Nampa Herald says: Nota
single leading democratic paper of
Idaho remains with - the Dubois
Heitfeldt faction in the present one
issue campaign. Some of those
still professing a loyalty to the for
sakeu cause are not even respecta
hie, and their editors persist in vio
lating even - ethic of decent journal
ism. Should the attention of the
publications they would be exclud
ed from the- United States mails ns
obscene literature. This especially
applies to one lithe sheet published
very near Senator Dubois' own
home. It is truly a sorry spectacle
when journals of this character are
numbered among the most ardent
advocates of a ''reform - ' movement
in which "purity of the American
home" is laueled as the leading is
sue. It is a pitiable exhibition of
the desperate straits In which the
loaders of the new movement find
themselves when such disreputable
publications are allowed to repre
sent them for a moment. As a
matter of truth they arg unfit to go
into any American home—pure
otherwise.
The Democrats of Bingham
county held their convention Mon
day. The assemblage was any
thing hut harmonious. Two fac
tions—the Dubois and anti-Du
bois— having seats in the conven
| tion. The Dubois element liacj
control and worked everything ac
cording to the designs of "Fred
die. The meeting became so hot
that the anti-Dubois, or Mormon
Democrats, bolted the convention
and walked out, leaving the anti-land
Mormon contingent a monopoly, j
Copps
A straight Gentile ticket
Mormon : "was nominated
lows :
Senator -Geo. Chopin.
Representatives— L. M.
A. A. Dewey.
Treasurer- -Frank Hitt.
Assessor and Collector
Smith.
Sheriff—Geo. Rohoder.
Attorney D. Worth Clark.
Probate Judge Judge Chatman.
Commissioures—Frank Just; H.
C . Dippie.
Superintendent of Schools- .Miss
Gillespie.
Coroner— O. F. Smith.
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"State politics in Utah is rather
mixed up this year," said Mr. Fos
ter." The election of Senator
Smoot to the United States Senate
first made the people realize the
control that Mormon ism had over
politics in the State, and when this
was followed up this year by the
nomination of Cutler as Governor
by the Republicans, a serious split
in the Republican party was caus
ed. The Salt Lake Tribune im
mediately bolted the ticket, not
only refusing to indorse Cutler,
but repudiating the entire partv. It
regarded Cutler's nomination as a
move of the Mormon church, and
the fact that he is a prominent
member of the Mormon church
added fuel to the flames that were
already breaking out in the minds
of the Gentiles.
"The old Liberal party, which
had been formed years before to
fight the church and then had died
out, has been revived and called
the American party, and a ticket
will be placed in the -field which
will have for its avowed purpose
the keeping of the church out of
politics.
"The effect of the formation of
^ lis new P art >' is bard to conjec
u,re- although it is believed that
it will largely reduce the Republi
can majority, if it does not defeat
The new party will
Dhe ticket
liYKCl. x ilCA IJclIlY Wllj
probably have little effect on the
éounty elections outside of Salt
Lake county. The State generally
mous in Salt Lake City itself,
the Mormons have the balance
is strongly Mormon. There are
doubtless more Gentiles than Mor
but
of
1 «wer throughout the State, and
any candidate that they w ished
elected or defeated would go as
they dictated. Roosevelt will car
r >' tlle State, and the onlÿ fight that
is being made is on the question
of Cutler and his party."
i ue political pot has begun
boiling in Fremont county.
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MILLSAPS AND JACKSON DON'T AGREE.
ll«f'Kxcl)iiug(* of Lot tors—Stair IVnt ral Coiiimll Imnsui
lirfusrs to Advertise DuHois Campaign Speaker*
in Fremont County--Is Called a "Jack" Mormon.
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Following will be found the en
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anti-land ___ _____
j such expenses.
tire controversy which arose
tween Hon. J. I). Millsaps rtf St.
Anthony, Democratic State Central
Committeeman and State Chairman
Jackson, on the "billing" of Henry
Heitfeldt to speak in Fremont
county: On September 14, Mr.
Millsaps received a telegram from
Chairman Jackson as follows:
Boise, Idaho, Sept. 14, 1904:
Hon. J. D. Millsaps, St. An
thony, Ida.
Can you engage hall and make
all arrangements for Heitfeldt
speaking St. Anthony and Rex burg
next week? Answer at once.
Charles H. Jackson. Chairman.
Mr. Millsaps answered the tele
gram as follows:
St. Anthony, Ida., Sept. 15,1904.
C. H. Jackson, Boise, Idaho.
Don't bill Heitfeldt for Fremont
county. See letters.
J. D. Millsaps.
Immediately after sending the
foregoing telegram, Mr. Millsaps
wrote to Jackson as follows:
Hon. C. H. Jackson, Boise Citv,
Ida.
Dear Sir :
Your telegram asking me if I
could arrange for hall and make all
arrangements for Heitfeldt to speak
at St. Anthony and Rexburg next
week at hand and in reply will sav
that there is no money here with
which to pay such expenses and I
will not make such arrangements
guarantee* or stand good for
. If the State Com
mittee desirestheir State speakers to
I campaign in Fremont coluity this
! fall they will have to pay the ex
! penses of halls, advertising, etc.
j The only way that we have here
: of raising money for campaign pur
I poses is by asssessing our local can
didates and in view of the fact that
: no nominating convention has been
j fold jj ere there is no money w ith
j w hich to do anything and it does
! not look now as though there w ill
be any money at all in this county
for the campaign as it is now very
doubtful as to whether we will be
able to find candidates who are wil
ling to go upon the county ticket
and put up any money and there is
no dead sure tiling that there will
be any county ticket at all hi Fre
mont county as it seems useless for
us to spend our time and money in !
this campaign under present con- '
ditions. I am very sure that the '
County Central Committee will not
be willing to use their money, if
they ever have any, for the purpose ,
of paying the expenses of the state
speakers and for this reason I am
not going to contract any bills un
less I have the money with which
to pay them
We were told at Lewiston by
some of the advocates of the "anti
~ ~ w «'4 * V/V.UIV.O vu Lite dlJll**
Mormon" plank in the Democratici
platform that the party would -not
need any assistance from the Deni-,
ccrats in this part of the State this!
fall and that they could win out
without our votes so we do not now
think that we should be called upon
or expected to pay the expenses of
your campaign in this county. You
will understand that fully 90 per
cent, or more of the Democrats of
Fremont county are members of the
Mormon church and we cannot help
but feel that the resolution of the
State convention is a direct stab
them and I for one would not blame
them if they refused as a unit to
in'»» iv.lll.-jtu (13 a mill LU
support the ticket that has been
nominated by the Democratic party
for if I were in their place and the
party had made a direct stab at me
as the parfy in this state has made
at them, I would not only refuse to
vote for the nominees but would
do everything in my power to de
feat them and I would take pains
to see that not one cent of the
money that was raised to pay local
campaign expenses was used to as
sist in the election of men who
were running upon such a platform.
I know myself that the resolution
was aimed directly at the Mormon
people and that the same was wrong,
unjust, uncalled for and undemo
cratic and that such a resolution
does not represent the sentiment of
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the majority of the Democrats in
the State of Idaho but was carried |
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through the convention bv jobbery
and trickery and even said Senator
Heitfeldt whom you now ask us to'
advertise with our own money was |
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said that lie would not take the
nomination on the ticket at the
hands of the convention unless such ;
a plank \vas inserted in the plat
form. We do not consider that we
are indebted to or under any obli
gations to him and are not willing
to put up our money to arrange for
cr advertise his meetings and fur
thermore we do not intend to do so.
Yours verv truly,
J. D. Mi lisa ps
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The following letter, which is
self-explanatory, was sent Jackson
later the same day :
St. Anthony, Idaho. Sept. 15,
1904.
Mr. C. II. Jackson, Boise City,
[Idaho.
; Dear Sir :
Since writing you this fore
noon and.talking with \ou over
the 'phone, 1 have seen some of the
Democrats here in St. Anthony and
talked with them about Heitfeldt
coming here and making some
speeches in this county, and I have
not yet found one that is willing to
put up any money for the purpose
of pacing the expenses of such a
meeting, for the reason that we do
not feel that it would do our local
situation any good. We feel that
situation anv good. We feel that
it woiild only he adding fuel to the
flame to have him here. At Lew -
flame to have him here. At Lew
iston during the convention, you
people did not seem to have any
care, concern or consideration
whatever for the Democrats of F re
mont
NCI 1U1 me LA.111UC1 «in ui A 1C
______. countv or what the results
might be to them and it strikes me
now as it did then that you did not
care one iota if it did disorganize, |
breal
disrupt and entirely
Democratic party i
Idaho, so long as a few men
the
up the
southeastern '
could
ratify their own personal ambi-1
tions and desires, and we now feel
that you will confer a favor upon
us by keeping your campaign j
speakers out of here and letting us
work out our own destruction or I
salvation as the case may be and
more especially those who favor
and helped to place that iniquitous
"Anti-Mormon" plank in the Deni;
octatic platform and who would ad- ,
vocate the election of a ticket which
in sympathy with the same.
Yours very truly,
J. D. Millsaps.
On the 17th., the Salt Lake Trib
une came out with a "hot" special
from Boise, under the caption
"Jack Mormon is Hit Hard," and
"Red Hot Letter Sent Committee
man", etc. The special which
follows reached St. Anthony about
24 hours before Mr. Millsaps re
ceived Jackson's ''red hot letter:"
Boise, Ida., Sept. 17.-—Some in
' Cresting correspondence has passed
between Chairman Jackson of the
Democratic State committee and J.
, H - Millsaps, committeeman for Fre
mont county. Jackson wired Mill-i.
sa P s to make arrangements for:
meetings to be held by Senator
Heitfeldt at St. Anthony and Rex
burg next week
Millsaps replied by letter saving
the Democrats of that county would
halls
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n °t furnish money to pay for _______,
?etC- > a »d the State committee
would have to pay all expenses if
>t sent speakers in there. He says:
"You will understand that fully
P er cent or mort of the Denio
! cra ts of Fremont county are ment
- bers of the Mormon church, and we
j cannot but feel that the resolution
i of the State convention is a dircet
stab at them, and I for one would
|not blame them if they refused as a
I to support the ticket that has
I been nominated by the Democratic
at|P ar t>'-'' Further he says: "We!P
I now feel that you will conféra fa
i vo f upon us by keeping your cam
I • v.jiwh uo \ our caill-l
j paign speakers out of here. "
: I' 1 his reply Chairman Jackson
! quotes the plank from the Demo
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cratic platform as follows: '
"We demand the extermination
of polygann and unlawful cohabi
tation within the State of Idaho
and the complete separation of
church and state in political affairs.
We pledge the Democratic party to
enact such legislation as will effec
tually suppress such evils.' - '
Continuing, he gays: "You, I
beliete, claim to be an American
citizen and a Gentile. It is sur
prisingly strange to me that the
Mormons can find such men as you I
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to put forw ard to write such letters I
as the one I am now answering. "!
Mr. Jackson states that all good ■
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people, whether Mormons or Gen-i
| tilc s, can have no objections to the !
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'-'J*- Cl IVlll.l LU lliv. *
plank. "If it is a stab at the Mor- !
nl °» church," he says, "then the I
Mormon church ought to lie stabbed ■
| t0 death. " _ j
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practice polygamy and unlawful
cohabitation, and does not under
; tal ÿe to dictate in political affairs,
ibis piank is harmless. If it does
do these things, this plank is ne
cessary."
Continuing, he says the speakers
"ill go into southeastern Idaho,
nevertheless, and expresses the be
! lief th.
it the rank and file of Mor
i 111011 D
«■mocrats will not vote the
Repub
plank.
lican ticket because of this
The
next thing that came along
j was tl
e "red hot" letter, looked
for af
,-r the Salt Lake Tribune
had s
read the news around he
couutr
Bo
ise, Idaho, Sept. 17, 1904.
J- n
Millsaps,
St. Anthony, Ida.
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Sir :
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.ave vonrs of September 15th
1 and ha
ve read the same carefully,
; and in
ist confess that I am utterly
! amaze;
u itli the contents of your
coramt
nication.
The
jilank to which you icier in {
venr
etter, which you say will
i cost u
the votes, or ought to cost |
1 its the
votes of all Mormon Demo-1
!crats 1
i Idaho, is as follows:
I "Wi
demand the extermination
of poh
gamv and unlawful cohabi
tation
within the State of Idaho,
and t
îe complete separation of
and State in political
Cliurci
affairs
We pledge the Demo
cratic
iartv to enact such legisla
tion a
will effectually suppress
such e
ils."
You
I believe, claim to be an
Ameri.
an citizen and a Gentile. It
1S surprisingly arrange iu me mar
the Mormons can find such men as
you to put forward to write such
letters
ing.
The
the go
risinglv strange to me that
put
as the one I am now answer
Democratic party of Idaho,
ad people of Idaho, the good
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people of your section of the State,
whether they lie Mormons or Gen
tiles, dan have no objection to the
plank Sn the Democratic platform.
H it
11 it is a stab at the Mormon
church, then the Mormon church
ought to lie stabbed to death. If
the Mormon church does not prac
tice pc
dation
dictate
plank
these tilings, this plank it
ary
lygamy and unlawful coliab
aud does not undertake to
in political affairs, this
harmless. If they do
is necess
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candid
, feldt.
Our
e asten
stand
form.
Mr. Cl
Idaho
thing.
before
file of
speakers w ill go into south
Idaho just the same. Our
ate for Governor, Mr. Heit
vill tell your people that lie
on this plank of the plat
Our candidate for congress,
ay, will go into southeastern
and tell them the same
You and such as you may
vote the Republican ticket on ac
count of this platform, but I will
wait until the ballots are counted
I believe that the rank
the Mormon Democrats
,-vn
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S" lal
comes
and
will
vote the Republican ticket on ac
count if it. I assume that vou
want the Mormons to Know gener
ally that you have written such a
letter,and therefore I take the liber
publishing your letter and
ly. Yours truly,
ries H. Jackson, Chairman,
r being stirred up, first by
iccial to the Tribune," and
ard by the receipt of the ori
bot letter," Mr. Millsaps
back at the State Chairman,
lois suckling, with the fol
comniunieation :
or Du
lowin
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Anthony, Idaho, Sept.
Mr. C. H. Jackson,
Boise Citv, Idaho.
- Sir:
surs of the 17th iust. at hand
'Vas not amazed or surprised
least at the contents thereof;
not even amazed or surprised
fact that I received your re
early a day before the letter
through the Salt Lake Trili
he accredited organ of a boit
ement of the Republican par
in adjoining state and which
is now not only supporting
itional Republican ticket but
0-Sm g ai 'd fighting the Dem
: party of our sister state of
This I apprehend and take
modern "Jacksonian Denio
' of the purest type.
\ oji need not have quoted that
littk innocent looking plank in the
Jacksonian ''Democraticplatform
as I am perfectly well acquainted
with t ami there is nothing there
urts or applies to the Mor
mon people of Fremont county but
the psint and purpose of its adop
Vuü.T 1 ? the thi,l S -s that were said
them both at the Weiser and
ton conventions by the peo
bo were responsible for the
I the N
is opf
about
Lewi
a( °P^° n °? said plank and what
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the )
sanie
resent
tllem
letter
fiiwl
fll,d
P lauk
tlle -V
but
said was the purpose of the
is what the Mormon people
i"I their friends join with
, you will examine mv
a lut e more closely, you will
t lat I did not say that this
would cost us the votes of all
ornmn Democrats in Idaho
did say that I would not
blâmé them if it did cost ns their
I »Pt only claim to be an Ameri
can c
both
never
letter
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itizen and a Gentile t
1M1( 1 Xf CIlllie » ,)l lt I am
dlKl tile Morilioil nennle li«
mit tup. , l )CO P^ have
I or me torward to write such
as the one Written
hut flip co.« i ri ™kll tO voll
I iu tpe same was done of tm- num 1
free will and vnlitirx., - OU U
^ . "tion Without anv I p
consultation with anv nf »» -
mnn tmnl* 01 the Mor- I P
people or any request from anv 1
m Hum anj
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ing strange at a l! t i,.^ re >
such men as 1 am tl, ,
them when tliev au , ", !
tacked in the" maim, r "- 1]Us, l
some men at Weiser ' "!
did. 1 have lived aim!,
mon people for six;,' tile
have been inv frien-.
hors, my clients and
eu yea.
nts, the)
right, and
them uprigl
loyal, and
ave alw
I have
it, honen - ,
law-abid
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duays
"s -V
'"luliiot
fend them when tin.
igned and mistvpu , ,
and others? 1 shall !,!,,';
more that I have seen j,, ., 0
sixteen years before 1 l ' le
the Mormon people : : ,l it
quire more than the ■' "
others to
be 'voids nf
ion, Faim, n„
_ convince me y at
things that they said about I
Lewiston are true and until r
have seen more that l
have been convinced of u,'
fulness of the charges 0 r'
them that were made against
I will ever stand readvamUj
to defend the Mormon'people
I must thank von for ta y n
pains of making nn letter n
so that the Mormon people P
know that I had written <
letter, but you might have
yourself the trouble as I feel
dent that the Mormon people
me well enough and have
deuce enough iu me to know t
would not say anything t ) lat
not true and right, and had h
ed them to have known the
tents of that letter certainly w
have had it published in so
our local papers and would
like the Chairman of the De»
tic party (?) in the state ot'ld
have sent the same to the Salt
Tribune, an opposition pat»
our sistef State of Utah.
A ours very truly,
}• D. M ilhai
When we increase our u
tion we increase our national
en ties in proportion. I '«less
reduce the rate of taxation
would double our national revet
if we doubled our population.
President Roosevelt s.ii j n
message: "The western half
the United States would sustai
population greater than that of
whdîe country today, if the w:
that now run to waste were s
and used for irrigation.
The price of railway share
the New York stock exchang
steadily advancing, which is a
indication that railway truth
good. It also is a sign that 1
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w ill lit- no change in the nut:
policies which have made ;
times for the whole country.
ASHCRAFT, the jeweler.
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And in accordance with law s - >
Of each parcel of such htoek U.s may
^ury will be sold at Oscar Ander
Fremont County, Idaho (HI '
of ° ctobe r. IÖW. between the hour' •
p * 7Î: 10 delinquent assessmeiu
aether with the cost of advert.'
P c ' Qs « Of sale, etc
1 Oscar h.ai
Location of oillce at Salem, Ida 1 -