, 1890-09-30

many a man has pleaded not guilty in
court and still has been convicted on
purely clrcumsiautial evidence, it beng
so plain and conclusive that no jury could
come to any other conclusion. Now. put
this and this and this together. and let US
see. Judge Carey, when presenting the
constitution of Wyoming, refused to nave
anything like a test oath included. He
fought Mr.. Dubois on the same PROPOSE
ton, and did what be could TO defeat the
admission of Idaho. In the national con
%vention he did not want a word said about
Mormouism or polyRamy. Nov, every
Mormon in Wyoming has voted for n GER
tain legislative ticket. 1t is expected that
that legislature, when it c~onvenes, will
elect Judge Carey a senator of the United
States from the state Of Wyoming.
When all that is DONE, does not the
Sun expect that Judge Carey in z
will be the fast friend Of the saints; that
he will oppose all legislation hostile to
them, and support all legislation in their
favor And # It is all true up to date.
aud the arrangement is such that il will
have to continue in The same chanDels
with Judge Carey. was it too harsh for
the Tribune TO say that he would TO to
the senate of the United States with a
Mormon collar around bis neck? We
take il by the tone of the Sun that it it
self secs nothing very serious in the Nor
mon question, because it refers to all
these who have been fighting what is il
legal and uucivilized in the creed as out
and out fanatics. II tho Sun knew half
as much about Mormonism as some Of the
rest Of US, il would not take that view of
the case Ii Wyoming had a few rich
agricultural valleys that could be peopled
by saints, three elections would not pass
until it would be a very much more
irenzied fanatic than any who are in
Utah.
The Sun is good enough to say that
our mission should be confined to Utah.
We beg TO saY that the mission of a
newspaper is to tell the truth, aud to ex
pose the-wronR wherever it may be, and
it has no boundary of state or territorial
lines. IT the Sun states the fact that the
Mornons voted generally for the Demo
cratic state aud county officers, all except
the legislative. that is proof conclusive
that, except for an order from this city,
they would have voted the whole Demo
cratic ticket; because the Mormons vote
as they are told. They lave no interest
in the matter in the world, except to obey
Instructions; and if the Sun shines long
enough in Wyoming. 1t will sec the time
within the next few years when the peo-
pie Of Wyoming will not stand it, to have
one strong faction Of their people voting
as they are dictated to by a priestly power
beyond the boundaries of the state. The
Sun does not know with what kind of an
edged tool it is playing. 1t does not
comprehend at all the end and the aim
of Mormonism. Ii docs not realize how
hostile it is to free institutions, or how in
to'crable TO free men Mormonism be
comes in its manifestations of political
power When Judge Carey shall be
elected a senator OF the United States by
the men of Wyoming, the Sun will see
that on his reaching the senate of the
United States he will never fail to oppose
any measure intended to bring Mormon
ism within the laws; he never will fail to
favor any proposition to give Mormonism
more prwer.
We have denounced certain Democrats
in Idaho who have tried to make combin
atoms with the Mormon power of that
territory. Not to have done the same by
Wyoming would have established that
the Tribune is simply a partisan sheet,