Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-14
JOHN It. GAME.
Will He BE Permitted to Pose as a
Democratic Candidate?
Communicated


ED. DEMOCRAT: Your leading article
in yesterdays paper hits the nail on the
head and will meet the approval of every
Democrat, deserving of the name, in the
Territory. That John T. Game should be
permitted to run as the Mormon candi
date for Congress and conduct his cam
paign under the ostensible auspices Of
the Democratic Congressional Commit,
tee, without protest from the party here
is an outrage upon the rank and file, and
fraud upon the people of the country,
who will thereby be deceived in regard
to the sentiment of the Democracy
of Utah upon the Mormon question.
1t is matter which calls for
speedy action, and if the Territorial
Committee cannot be awakened to a
sense of its duty, mass meeting of the
Democracy should be called. and such
action taken as will show that the Nor
mon candidate is repudiated by the party
of which he processes, for the interest of
the Mormon Church, which he alone
represents, to be member l will VEN
ture the assertion that not Democrat
can be found in the Territory who will
vote for Game, even though no candidate
is nominated against him. Is he then to
be permitted to pose at Washington as
Democrat, his membership in the
Democratic Congressional Committee
continued, and is he to 90 there
seemingly with the approval Of
the loyal Democracy of Utah, which
holds him and the element he represents
in such political detestation and horror?
What is the committee thinking about,
that it has taken no steps to publicly
repudiate this man, who has, under false
pretenses, wormed his way into national
council of the party, with which he has
not the slightest sympathy, and whose
cherished principles he is doing his best
to destroy? Are the members of our
local committee willing that the
Mormon Delegate to Congress should
continue to aid his infamous cause
by fraudulent pretensions of utilization
with the dominant party of the country,
when they know that his heart never
cherished sentiment which was not in
direct antagonism to it? Do they not
know that he is only the representative
OF the Mormon priesthood and that he
would pretend to be Republican, Dem
ocrat, Greenbacker, Prohibitionist, BIZ or
mono-metallist or anything else which
would best aid his efforts in behalf of his
ecclesiastical dictators? Are they willing
that Democratic prestige should be given |
to such man and such cause? If thew |
are not, let them do their duty, and if |
they fail to do it, let the Demo-
cratic masses take the matter in hand |
and show to the people OF other sections I
that the Democracy of Utah are not Nor |
mon sympathiZers, and that it will not |
tamely submit to such an insult and out
rage, as the foisting upon them OF an adj |
Vocate OF polygamy and treason as their |
representative on a National Committee. |
Not only the Democrats, but every good |
citizen of the-rTerritory is interested in
this matter, for it is to the interest of the
entire loyal element, that the Mormon
Delegate should be stripped OF the cos
tune IN which he is masquerading as a
member of a party, from which he evil
IDENTIFY hopes to derive, through his pre-
tended fellowship and by misrepresenta-
ton, some aid in his nefarious
designs. There are probably a few Re-
publcans-and believe their number is
small-Who would be pleased to have this
disgrace continue to attach to the Demo
cratic party; who would be willing to aid
Mormonism at the expense of their oppo-
nents in party politics but the truly loyal
OF both parties will endorse anv
measure which will detract one lot or
one little from the influence or power of
a representative of polygamy and treason.
Perchance, there are even a few Demo-
Gratis, who, by flattery and shallow sophis-
try, have been wheedled into unconscious
completely with the designs of a
little clique of their political enemies,
but for the credit of the party trust
that this is not the case. |
hope the DEMOCRAT will continue to
igitate this matter, until it is finally dis
posed of by such action as will place the
Democracy of Utah in its true light in
'ther places; purge it of even the
emblance of political utilization with the
Mormon priesthood or its slavish Repre-
entative in Congress, by the reputation :
II the latter as its mouth-piece in the !
Democratic Congressional Committee. /,
Yours Truly, UTAH DEMOCRAT. /;
SALT LAKE Cry, Oct. Is, 1884. :