The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-04
yo7ERS.

We hope every citizen who possesses the
legal right to vote viii go to the poll OF his
precinct to-day and deposit one ballot for
a man to represent this territory. in Con-
g:ess. But before the citizen votes, if be |
has not already done so, we hope he viii
coolly ard intelligently consider the princi |
pies which the two candidates represent.
JoHN Z. GAME is the nominee of the |
Peoples party, and as such he stands for
the great principles of republican govern |
ment. a government for the people by the |
people. He stands for the broadcast kind
OF Americanism. He and his party say
that citizens of Utah who uphold and obey |
the laws, who are guilty Of no wrong, who
are loyal to the republic, should enjoy all
the rights and privileges of citizenship.
Mr. GAME stands upon the proposition that
nowher Elm the United States has the state
the legal or moral right to inquire into a
mans religion. or make his religious belief
a matter for investigation; that only with
mems acts has the state to do his opinions,
his ideas regarding a future state, being
his own absolutely and that they must not
be interfered with by the civil power. Mr..
GAME stands upon the platform which
says that men should be applapded or pun
ished for what they do and not for what
they think. He stands for the
doctrine that the people should be permit
ted to vote, TO hold Office, to sit on iuries, to
make laws and administer them, to elect
their own officials, to assess aud collect
taxes and TO expend the money for the
benefit Of the public; he stands for the
democratic principle that the majority
should rule, but rule with fairness and
justice to the minority, all citizens being
equal before the law, having equal rights
and privileges and being subject to equal
obligations and burdens. Mr.. GAME
represents the principle of local self-gov-
ernment, of home-rule in its purest sense.
He is opposed to carpet baggism in all it's
forms. The suggestion of the thing is of
fensive to him as it is to his party In a
word, the Peoples nominee is an American
citizen in the best and purest sense, he
stards upon an American platform, and is
the candidate of an American party.
Mr.. G. G. GOODWIN is the nominee of the
so-called Liberal party, and as such he
stands for the proposition that every man
in this territory whose religious belief
does not conform to his standard should
be deprived of the right &c vote,
to hold Office, to sit on iuries, or
to do any of those things which make
American citizenship desirable. Day after
day, month after month, year after year.
he openly and impudently demands that
Congress will unceremoniously and without
sense or reason disfranchise three-fourths
OF the people of this territory. Largely
through his efforts the minority has been
given all but few of the offices, the abso-
Lutte control of the election machinery and
all the juries; and now he would deprive
the majority of the few rights of citizenship
which they possess and make them the
slaves to be driven, prosecuted and plum
dered by their avowed enemies He would
not confine this Acknowledgement to violat
ors OF the law, but extendit to all members
of certain church, though those members
have shown all their lives that they are
loyal to the republic, faithful to the laws.
and in every way good and true In say
ing this, awful as the charge seems to be.
we are not making a wild and reckless
allegation which cannot be demonstrated
Take any copy Of Mr.. GooDwIN's paper and
in it you will find convincing proof of the
truth OF what we say; or ask Mr. GOODWIN
himself and he will tell you that we state
his position correctly
The Liberal candidate for Congress goes
even further in the matter of dis
franchisement than we have here
suggested, for he is the champion
and the advocate of a bill which pro-
poses to practically abolish elections in
this territory, and confer upon the COVER
nor-who came here with federal commits
sion in his grip-sack and only because he
had such commissioning power to ap-
point even the county officers now elective
MIR. GOODWIN represents that which is
un-American, unrepublican, unjust and
unfair, and if he were elected, he would
labor industriously for the achievement of
these Infamous things which he has de.
vised, championed and advocated.
The HERALD asks the voters to take into
account not merely the two men and what
they have done and are doing for this coun-
try, but the principles which each repre.
sents in his candidacy, and what would
necessarily follow the election of Mr.
GAME and what would follow the election
of Mr.. GOODWIN. If the voters will do this
and will then be honest to themselves and
true to American principles, mighty few
ballots for Mr.. GOODWIN will be found in
the boxes this evening.