The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-07
AND HE MORMoNs

1t behooVes the Republicans TO sing
low about the Democracy favoring the
Mormons and President Cleveland's
friendship and consideration for polyga.
mists. The Republican record in regard
to the twin relic" is go ugly that the
party cannot afford to find fault with
others in enforcing the law. AS was
pointed out in The HERALD a few days
ago, one of the clumsiest political move
ments ever perpetrRted was that of
Delegate Dubois, of Idaho, when he
called tor inform alton as to the number
of polygamists who had been pardoned
by President Cleveland. Dubois didn't
know that Ihis resolution was loaded.
He afterwards learned that it was, how
ever. The game that it brought dowp
is the reverse of palatable to Dubois
and the q. o. P. The reply to
form of statement of the
number of convictions under the anti
polygamy laws which have been dead
letters in the statute books for twenty
three years, or until the Republicans
were ousted and Democratic admins
tration was inaugurated. Itwas shown
that while the Republicans had done
good deal of "resoluting," they had
stopped there, and the Democrats had
done the work. The facts were gotten
before the public as they could have
been in no other way, and the news
papers have been commenting on them
in manner to discourage the Repub-
licans and cause the latter to know what
frauds and humbugs their leaders have
been all these years. Below we repro
duce leading editorial from the In
dianapolis Sentinel, which is a sample
article of the many that are being
printed since Delegate Dubois overshot
the mark and obtained SO much more
| than he asked for:
| One of the greatest achievem ents of the
! Democratic party SIM iG regained control
| of the government has been its successful
1
,twenty-four years the Republicans strug-
gled with it. but they made little progress
| toward its solution. Once every four years
they met in convention and denounced The
twin relic" But when they finally went
out of power, the twin relic wss S i'll on
| hand; and very robust relic i. was, TOO
But there isn't much LETT of il now, Simply
4 because President Cleveland has compete d
the enforcement of the laws in Utah, VIII ch
his Republican predecessors either con- d
| not or would not do.
Prior to the present adnin'str ton, the
whole number of Convictions for polygamy
in Utah were two, under the laws of 1S6.
and 1882.
I Under Mr.. Cleveland's administration
there have been fourteen conviction fol
| pOlygamy and $50 convictions for unlawful
Cohabitation under the laws of Congress
fhese facts appear from an official repor
of the United states district attorney O.
Utah. furnished to the Department O.
justice in pursuance of resolution of the
House OF Representatives.
: Not over dozen or so of Mormons hav,
been pardoned by the President, and thest
were mostly very old or infirm men IL
many, II not all, the cases of pardon. ex
ecut1ve clemency was Detitioned ior By
leading citizens and officials of Utah, in
, Guiding, in several of the cases, the Repub
> lican ex-judge and ex-district attorney.
These facts speak for themselves. The
! Institution of polygamy is giving its las
gasps In Utah. There are no more plura
marriages in salt Lake City and very lew i.
the erritory Five years more of suct
{ progress as hes been m de during the las
three years and there will be scarcely YES
} tlge 1.-THE twin relic" iu all Utah.
3 And yet the Repub lean organs are tryin,
to make the people believe that the Nor
m ons. have been favored by Preside n
Cleveland. and that they are Contributing
, money TO the Democratic campaign fund.
: GENERAL ALGER, who lost the Presi
Dental nomination at Chicago becaus
: majority of the delegates to the con
vention were not purchasable at hi