The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-01-06
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT
HAYES.
On very blank verse, mOstly)
Letter XI-THat Protest.

| Letter XI-Ihdt Protest.
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 8. 1881.
To Has EreeUency, r. B. Hayes, PTesf-
| dent ofthe United States:
Ere this time you have heard undoubt-
eddy
of ono election FIR deleg to -
To CO. cress, and of tie contest therefor
| Rv A len Campbell, who autaclously
| .f.ims a cert fcate beca So he had
,Iu,t 1857 votes, or onP-ffteenth
Ofthe grand total, 1888.
While George Q. Cannon had most OF
the rest,
The fourteen ffteenths, 1868.
de was he peoples candidate, you know.
He was abundantly the peoples choice
And their de fGcto representative. :,
While Campbell has no leg TO stand
upon,
And can not be their representative
L. any sense or form, though favored by
Our handsome governor, who seems TO
have
No sense of justice, and but one desire,
And that 10 lhwsrt the peoples expressed
will.
A nice man, he, to be governor,
Or be called handsome, while the pro-
verb cd
Declares that handsome is as handsome
does.
Xii the handsome, yet common man.
y ever martyr to sound principle,
Not owe, burdened with good common
sense,
No genius for governing at all,
A nd a heO1utaixT 1acfifutp of tapt
What said the patriots Of '76,
In bold justification of bold deeds
In thrpVinE off he irksome British yokef
Tha all Just government must be derived
From consent of the governed. Not q
poor
And paltry one in fifteen. 1t must be
The indisputsble majority.
That at the very least, and better still
That the minority
Should overwhelming be,
As in this Utah Cannon-Csmpbell case.
FMS Campbell claims that all the votes
not polled
For him are blanks IS to legality.
Which cnlls to mind the old papistic
creed,
Thst heretics alive are dead and damned.
NJ the more modern political creed,
Thst Mormon men and women have no
rights
spect.
This Allen Campbell says, and puts
his claim,
That Cannon is an alien. point
OF old contest. and passed by as too weak
A peg to hang h t upon. But more
Does Campbell claim-that George Q.
Cannon never can
Be naturalized, because he is a Mormon
man.
Says cauny Campbell, Utah women
V..te.
Their vote is void. Csnnon's msjority
Came from these women's votes, and this
is clear,
Therefore am electe J, don't you hear?"
It surely was too bsd CT the fair sex,
To GO back on the gallant Campbell so,
md vote for George @. Cannon, one
aud all,
With hearty and unanimous accord.
" by, Mr.. President, If in such case,
Such pitiable case, / found myself,
That all the women had deserted me,
Y es, all and singular, you may depend
I'd never mention it to foe or friend.
But Campbell has another ples, and this
A clincher is, thst controversy ends: -.
He claims our handsome governor should
be
And act as Judge and jury and decide
Whose votes to count and whose votes to
reject,
What laws shall valid be or invalid.
That his powers, sir, are more than mini
sterial,
Bigger than yours, sir, grander, more
imperial.
As Campbell calculates, our guberna-
torial boss
Is much "s bigger man than old Grant"
ever was.
1t makes me laugh, cir,
To read such chat, sir.
The thinnest of thin technicalities.
Put forth as if Adjudged realities.
Do you know what man this Camp
bell Is?
Do you know, further, what this Camp
bell did?
He made his protest on Sunday, sir,
AS by the date appesrs beyond dispute.
The miserable protest and unjust.
Made it on Sunday, cir. the profane man.
Is he an honor to the Campbell clan?
The Saba b, sir, of all days in the week
He takes, pollutes, and prostitutes that
day,
That blessed d,y of God-sppointed rest
From every kind of work especially
The work of uLdiluted evil.
Why, Mr. President,
It's very evident,
He must be instigated By the devil.
Is such man a man of prinCiple2
A man who's not man o. principle
Must be indeed man unprincipled.
And can a man unprincipled expect
The people will regard him with respectf
Can they do less than such a man reject?
he may be q mere tool Of clique, clique
OF men of reckless character, who wish,
By means of petty technicality,
Official aud fficious connivance,
Or any way, in fact, by hook or crook,
him TO perpetrate outrageous
wrong.
We know not what some human men
will do,
So very human as some weak men are,
So very weak in standing up for right
And 10 maintaining real liberty,
Though constitutionslly guaranteed,
n OF to one only, but to every man.
A man who wants an outrage legallzed,
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