The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-29
HENDRICKS ON MORMONISM.

aGN01SAOA0 ON ENA0M
Governor Hendricks has been
stumping Iowa in the interest of
JUICE Kline and the rest of the
Democratic ticket ofthat state. Quite
recently u Republican journal OF Iowa
complained that M .rmonism still
/ thriv- g and increases in Utah, under
the very eyes of our lawmakers,
aud f1aunts its polygam0us fag of
black in the faces Of the upright, vir-
tuous people OF this country. And as
usual with organs If the party the
paper winds up its artlc e by irti.
mating that Democrats in aud out
Of Congress are tsp ,nsibIe for the
existing state OF thing in U ah. OF
course every n who is at all CONVEX
SAINT with the history of polygalny
in Utah knows that the Democratic
party has not been placed in a posi-
ton during the past twenty year, IT,
check the growing evil. Not so,
however with the Republican party.
What that party has promised and
what it has not done IS SO iOrcitly
stated by Governor Hendricks that.
we give his remarks entire:
"1n the Republican platform of
this State of Iowa of June Last. it is !
insi ted that the territories shall be
made absolutely free from the de
basing presence and pernicious in
fluence of polygamy.' This has be.
come the sounding Of brass and the
tlnkling of symbols. Why did you
not free Utah of the debaslng practice
long ago? A quarter of 4 century
since you declared it a relic of bar
barism to he pursued '.y the wrath
and Jury and might of your party.
The Mormon church was then out u
Hagar in the wilderness; polygamy
WAS u wandering outlaw from the
presence of Christianity and
civilization. During all this period
you have elected the preside nts, con-
trolled tie congress, and appointed
the judges. AT every election you
have resolved and threatened. But
all the while the offensive pra:tice
has gone on, and the devotees bave
never ceased to plod tneir weary way
on foot, aud in carts to their desert
home: and now the settlements ex-
tend 400 miles north and 300 miles
south of the great railway. Cities,
villages, farm houses, plOw lands,
meadows and orchards have taken
he place of the desert. Organized
with wealth aud trade and
have succeeded poverty
md want. What reform have you
o show save only the sham and pre-
known as the Edmunds bill ?
Under it five commissioners hole o.
ice, with power to regulate elections.
Twice they declared the manner of
aud who might vote and
Who should not vote; and twice the
was with the Mormon and
be defeat with the Gentle. By this
aud the proceedings un-
Ter it, additional str .ngth aud power ,
ave been given to Mormon rule in .
jtah. The increased strength and
wealth of the church, AID Of the set
in Utah render the conflict
etween public authority aud polyg- j
my more difficult; not more doubt r
III, however; for polygamy is G
indeed a blot upon our civili- q
alton, a scandal to our institutions +
nat must not be." a
The facts thus polntedly stated L
'rce the conviction upon fair mind :.
d men that the Republican PARTY :;
is responsible for the prese mt I
,rength of the Mormon church. For Z
Yer twenty years with the exception a
one or two sessions in the House,
party has had possession of the s
zecutive, judicial and legislative de- =
of the Government. 1t "
rs bad men, mean and the courts c.
sustain any action it may have Il
ken to uproot the the twin relict,"
ut with all these resource at hand to
leck the evil, Mormonism HIS n
own and flourished under the very ri
ose OF successive Republican adj >,
Illustrations. The Republican par it
has proved itself unable to cope d
If nj