The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-12
w2RaoH MONEY.

It was q very silly story Ih2C wa;
teIegraphed from Washington and
New York, the other morning, that
the Mormons were using money &c
defeat congressman who had op-
posed them, MIR. Cassidy, OF
Nevada, being mentioned as an
object Of their special hate. We
imagine Cassidy IS the author Of the
dispatch. He is desperate. The
tide is running swift against him,
and the chances are more than even
that he viii be swamped. In his
despair he grasps at straws, and
being man without principle OF
honor he hasn't the bravery or man.
hood to die game, but viii turn
everything to his advantage, drown
ing others in order that he may
swim. 1t is doubtless true
that the Mormons in Nevada
are working against Cassidy,
and will vote against him. 1t is
very natural that they should.
They would be strange people if
they did not. MI. Cassidy abused
and bIackguarded them as only one
possessing a long and dirty tongue
can abuse and BLACKBOARD. Two
years ago he pretended to be their
friend. He protested belief in dem
ocratic principles, and wanted dem
ocratic votes. He was a fawning
friend until he reached Washing
ton. The anti-Mormon howl was
raised, and a congressional as well
as a popular crusade was inaugur-
ated, when all at once Mr.. Cassidy
discovered that his love for the
Mormons whose votes he had
begged for, and to whom he owed
his election. was going to leave
him in the minority. Like the
true demagogue that he is, he
suddenly wheeled into line with the
majority, and became foremost in
his assaults upon a people and an
institution in neither of which he
had before seen any wrong. In his
eagerness to gain applause by as
saulting the Mormons he denied his
political principles and assaiIed his
own party. The man lacked the
wisdom to see that he was cutting
his own throat. He was unable to
understand that in his zeal to exalt
himself before the country he was
digging his political grave. In point
of fact the Mormons and their reli-
zion are no more offensive to Mr..
Cassidy than they are to the Grand
Turk or the man in the moon. He
has at last come to his senses, and
discovered that what he played for
the winning card was not even a
trump, but he proposes to bully it
through, and if possible turn his
error to advantage. We are con-
fdent the Washington telegram was
cooked up by him or his friends, for
it is false in every particular, and
nobody but Mr.. Cassidy could have
any interest in circulating such a
story, Anybody at all familiar
with the Mormons and their way of
doing things, knows well that they
do not spend money for any such
purpose as that indicated in Mr..
Cassidy's telegram. Were they dis
posed to punish Eenemies by that
nobody is yerdant enough
to believe they have sufficient
money to be Influential" in a
such as is being conducted
in Nevada. The story is so ridicu-t
lous as to excite only contempt for
its authors. The idea of the Nor.
mons employing their spare cash to
defeat some California nominee for
Congress is preposterous, and viii |
hardly be accepted by the gullible
people OF the east, who are too
to believe the Mormons are
Ill they are charged with being.
Perhaps Speaker Keifer will next
put forth letter charging the Nor
aOns with turning his district