The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-01
MR.. DON C. ROBBINS AND HIS NEW
FRIENDS.

| What precious lot of hypocrlteS these
Liberal leaders arel Their latest exhibit
ton of stupid, thinly disguised and char
acteristic hypocrisy is in the applause they
lavish upon Mr.. DoN C. ROBBINS. of
Emery county.
Mr. ROBBINS has published a card an
nouncing himself as an independent candi-
date for the legislative council from the
Ninth district. Mr.. ROBBINS proclaims
himself a Mormon, but lone who does not
wear brass collar about his neck.'
Any man who has lived year in this
country and has become, in any degree, ac-
quainted with the habits Of the Liberals,
would have known at once upon reading
Mr.. ROBINS letter that the Tribune would
Immediately begin to slop all over him,
| pat him on the back as great
and good man with mind OF his own,
and commend his course to the Mormon
youth In yesterdays issue of that sheet
the local editor heads his notice of Mr..
ROBBINS candidacy with the flaming head
lines, ''His eyes being opened;'' whilh the
inside editor writes three-quarters of a
column editorial on the same subject, head
ing it "a proclamation of emancipation
We commend the following extract from
the editorial referred to as a most perfect
example of bathos and bosh. It's all about
thrills and pathos, and chains and wrists
and night and stars and the soul 1t will
be observed that it is in blank verse.
Elsewhere in this impression will be found a
new proclamation of emancipation from the pen
of Don G. ROBBINS, of Huntington, Utah. That
other proclamation of Mr.. LINCoLN'S, which
will "a ing otrpG u-nG co
grand, not so thrilling, not so pathetic, as this
Mr.. LINCOLN struck the chains from the wrists
of millions. Before they were forced to work
without pay, their bodies were the property of
their masters. But when the night came down
they through the narrow windows of their
cabins, could watch the stars, nurse their own
desires and hopes, and the minds of their mast
ers We're not as free as theirs, for they had no
cares. This proclamation of DON G. ROBBINS
is a notice served that the chains have been
broken from around soul; that manhood in
one lonely case has asserted itself so strongly
that all the iron links OF superstition, welded as
they have been through the fires and the blows
OF the years, were not strong enough TO resist it,
And then catch on to this:
1t is the warming and the flashing of light in
the east which indicates the approach OF the
dawn. To us it has something within it of the
soemnity and transport that come of visible
answer TO prayer
Judge POWERS carried the same letter
dLOuuu W hdIlOuS l1lDtLdl DlCCIlHSS anu
read it with the same commentator.
There is part of Mr.. Robbins letter
that must have escaped the attention of
the gang. Had they seen it consistency
would have forbidden their describing the |
writer in such glowing terms. Mr. RoB- !
BINS asserts, Il shall perform my duty to |
my God and TO my church, and l shall keep |
the faith" If these are his sentiments, if |
he intends to remain a Latter-day Saint |
then according to the Liberal standard of |
patriotism he Is totally unfit to ex-
ercise the franchise, is unworthy any
of the privileges of American citizenship. |
The Tribune and the Liberal party have
been the unwavering advocates of the
Idaho test oath; they favor in Idaho the
of every member of the
Mormon church; they will undoubtedly ex
tend the same infamous rule to this terri
tory, if ever they secure political control.
They would disfrancaise Mr.. ROBBINS be-
cause he could not take the test oath. Yet
they applaud his present effort to create
dissension in the ranks of the Peoples
p 4rty.
Mr.. ROBBINS is still hated Mormon; he
must in the future regulate his every
movement in accordance with Liberal
standards; he must sever his connection
with the church he processes 20 love, or
suffer the condemnation of the people who
now, for political ends, fawn upon him.
We know nothing of Mr.. ROBBINS, but
this we do know, that it is not time when
of the Peoples party can afford
to divide their forces among the advocates
of conflicting opinions. It is time to
move forward shoulder to shoulder, and
like true soldiers sacrificing individual
opinions to the good of the whole.
Mr. ROBBINS has made grave mistake:
be will, if reason becomes his guide, re
trace his steps yet; he must either cease to
ride this hobby horse as DoN c., or he will
yet be ridden by Liberal leaders as don
Key We do not know by what means Mr.
ROBBINS lost the Peoples party nomina-
ion; we know not even whether he had a ,
'emote chance of being nominated, but
his we do know, that the nomination of :
ABRAM HATCH was not secured by church :
influence or interference.
Mr. ROBBINS letter bears the impress :
# having been written in this city; it has D.,
ertain ear marks that indicate nom ,
dormop authorship. .