The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03
THE SALT LAKE SIXTEEN PAGES
nominees for the late CITY and present

nominees for the late city and present
county election.
Irial by jury, in its true sense, is not
now known in Utah to members Of the
Mormon church. Not in polygamy cases
only, out in any case Whatever, if Nor
mon IS on trial, he must be tried by jury
specially selected for prejudice and hatred
against the Mormons. The Liberal party,
through its paid emissaries in Washington,
accomplished the denial of the greatest
right known to the Anglo-Saxon race
trial by jury.
3-Did the Liberal party rob the women
OF Utah OF the elective franchise.
1t certainly was not the Peoples party
That induced Congress to DO this Nam
moth petitions were circulated by the Peo-
PIES party protesting against the disfran-
chisement of the women; and mammoth
petitions were circulated by the Liberals
demanding it. 1t was curious, by the way,
that the Liberals should have first demand
ed woman suffrage that the sdowntrodden
women Of Utah" might free themselves.
Fifteen years trial having failed to indnce
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Liberals had them DISTINGUISHED.
Have the Liberals worked for legis-
latlve commission to supplant the legisla
turel
They have done more than that Becom
ing tired, perhaps, of asking Congress for
a legislative commission, especially after
the tyrant EDMUNDs had declared that a
commission would be revolutionary, they
merely asked for a. king for Utah. There
is no hyperbole in this statement Backed
up by his party the governor recon-
mended:
Some federal agency should be authorized to
appoint the following county officers: Select
men, clerks, recorders. superintendents of dis
trict schools and assessors.
OF course the governor meant himself by
''some federal agency" The power he
asked for in that recommendation, added to
that which he already possesses, would, if
granted, make the governor of Utah des-
pot more absolute in power over this terri
tory than some of the crowned heads Of
Europe.
Only by virtue of the failure of this
scheme will there be an election tomorrow
for filling these offices. Think of it! A
party in such self -abasement as to ask for
the Acknowledgement of its own members
in order to increase the power of petty
despot!
5-Does the Liberal party object to the
admission of Utah as state!
1t certainly does. Every attempt to have
Utah admitted has been violently resisted
by that party and its organs. Petitions
have been circulated, meetings held, and
men sent to Washington to oppose the state
hood movement.
6-Does the Liberal party favor the Idaho
test oatha
Here is what the party organ says upon
that subject:
The Liberal party could render the country
no better service than by this very restriction of
the ballot that exists in Idaho. $3.50 We
congratulate the Idaho convention on the per-
feet justice it has wrought
The Liberal party as whole endorsed
the Idaho test oath, and prominent Liberals
went to Idaho and iubilated with the plot
tiers there over the accomplishment of this
robbery.
docs the Liberal party avow its inten-
ton of depriving Mormons of acquiring
title to the public lands
The recognized Liberal organ said on
this subject in a leading editorial recently
We 1.-THE Liberals] would disfranchise those
that are aliens and hostile in spirit and act to
this nation; we would prevent such having the
benefit of the land laws
The Tribune explains that it means by
''aliens,' all people that are suspected of
believing in polygamy: that is, all members
of the Mormon church
There is only one party known to the
history Of American politics that has ever
conceived such infamy as the prevention of
opponents from acquiring title to the public
land; and that is the Liberal party. The
editorial utterance of its organ has never
been disavowed.
Laws to withhold citizenship papers and to
prevent Mormons from hereafter obtaining title
to public lands ought to be passed as soon as
Congress meets. Surely no Latter-day Saint
could complain il the power of the saints to abb
sorb further of the public domain should be
taken away.