The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-16
PEOPLES TICKET.
For Delegate to Congress,
JOHN 7. CAIN
MR.. GOODWIN'S PLATFORM.

Inasmuch as by federal law, no polygamist,
or one who teaches polygany, can vote or hold
Office in any territory of the republic, and mas
much as any member of the Mormon church Is
by the obligations he has entered into believer
intpolygamy as divine sacrament, he must In
the very nature Of things be its supporter.
With all the facts before it, why Con-
gress does not, by special law, make the pro-
visions of the Idaho constitution universal
throughout the union is a marvel.-1fl5une,
.9pal 5 1890.
We may add that Mr.. GOODWIN still
seeks to disfranchise the Mormons, be-
cause, as he alleges, their consciences are
not their own. He offers as proof of this
that not many of them vote the Liberal
ticket. He admits that more Mormons
have voted the Liberal ticket in the past
than there are Liberals who have voted the
Peoples ticket therefore, he says, the
Mormons should be DISTINGUISHED for all
voting the Peoples ticket.
We ask the young men Of Utah to notice
these words Of the man who asks for their
votes. Yesterday he again advocated their
disfranchisement on the ground that they
least their votes at the dictates of some
priestly schemern He asks them ''if it is
an unreasonable thing that they place
themselves squarely under the laws of a
country like this;' and says, THAT will
give them an idea Of the point we make
when we say that no man who is bound to
vote as he is ordered to vote by a church is
fit to be called a citizen of the United
States.''
We can tell this loud-mouthed patriot
that the young men of Utah are already
''squarely under the laws" and always
have been; that they observe the laws OF
their country better than he and his ring OF
plotters do; that they are not bound to
vote for any man, nor ordered to vote by
any church; that they are better citizens
on the whole, than the man who is bowling
for their disfrancnisement and politica
degradation-the Liberal candidate fol
Delegate to Congress. This man who is
forever proclaiming his patriotism and love
for his country, who sQuatted securely
among the Sierra Nevada mountains dur
ing the civil war (and had the impudenct
to rave at the starving Mormons who die
not leave the wilderness into which they
had been driven and cross the plains for
thousand miles to enter the army, has tht
guilt to ask that the young men Of Utah bt
disfrapchised for lack of patriotism, ant
has also the supreme modesty to say The
young men Of Utah protest too much'' O
their patriotism. He knows that they
have never mentioned their patriotism ex
cept IN answer TO his villainous attacks OF
them. He knows that five hundred Of
their fathers were enlisted and served il
the Mexican war, that some of Their
grardfathers fought in the Revolutionary
war, and that some of them have served
and are still serving in the army. H.
knows the men whom he seeks to injure
have violated no law in the past and do no
intend to violate any law in the future
Yet he demands their disfranchisement be
cause they don't vote to suit him; becaus
their conscience is not so pliable as his
because he has not yet "civllized'' then
with his fayorite manifestations, gamb
ling deps, and worse places; because, il
short, they are his moral superiors.
And so, young men of Utah, your dis
franchisement for an unheard-of offense-
clear conscience, and hence conscienc
different from that OF the Liberal candi
date-is the platform upon which MI
GOODWIN stands and asks for your votes