Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-13
NEITHER "ORDERED, NOR
.COUNSELED."

statement Of the "sLiberal''candidato
for the Office OF Delegate toCongress,
that 9the chiefs Of the Church hold
1t a divine right to order the rank
and file to vote rs they decreed, -
and that this is the reason why he
advocates the acknowledgements. Of
every member Of the "AIormon'
Church. In our reply was the FOL-
lowing paragraph:
There is not a member Of The
Church who can Faithfully say he
has been ordered 70 vote for any
candidate for office. There Is not
delegate 10 any OF the conventions
recently held for municipal, county
or territorial politics who can
truthfully say that he has been
ordered 70 nominate or opp0s, any
person, or 20 support or nsject any
ticket or policy. We repeat what
We have stated again and aa74iu,
that every member Of the Nor
mon" Church is free. IN theory and
in practice, to vote as he chooses
without c0mpulsiOn Of any kind or
nature. HIS creed acc0rds him this
liberty, his Leaders DO not Interfere
with it's
This paragraph Is quoted in the
"LIberal' organ, followed by 4
number Of epithets and pc. names
such - that paper usually utters
against an opponent in the place Of
argument; and the sweet,faced
cherub AMI noted logician vino
pennei them added these remarks:
"Of course It viii be noticed how
he plays on the word ordered sup
pose the word 'cUunseled' were 10 be
changed Tor ordered aud then sup
pose that We all know that the one
p means to a saint the same As the ntner.
although they are two different words;
and suppose we refiec: ON wha. the
rdle has beon from the first, which
has never been broken in forty years;
which has caused every Mormon in
good standing 10 vote whatever ticket
was dictated TO him by his chiefs;
which has caused more than one Of
them 20 give rs an excuse for voting
Tor unworthy men, chad to do il"
etc.
Well, the word ''ordered'' was
what We had to reply 10. II We
had substituted some other word.
that woUli have been after the
nsenIacious fashion Of the Tribune
writer, VINO, when c0rnerel in a
dispute, Invariably changes the Ian
gaage Of his adversary, aud pro-
ceeis TO comment upon it and pour |
out the stream OF biliingssate which |
he mistakes for reasoning.
A divine RICH, TO o0aey the rank
and file TO veto - they decreed."
That il what was charged that the
chiefs Of the hurch hold, aud which /
every mormon has to obey. This
we denied ~ tctg, and we deny it
row. Substitute the word ''coun-
seled, = then, for .orierei,, II you
please, aEi while We deny that the
words mean the same 70 the .AIor-
mona or 10 anybody else who uu-
derstanis English, we deny 4
thst every Mormon in
good standing has TO vote what
ever tieke. is dictated to him by MS /
chief" Ne say that the chiefs OF |
the Mormon Church do not /
formulate political tickets, or tell /
''the rank and file'' or anybody else |
that they must vote for them. Such |
tickets are framed in regular con-
veutions and n3b1iy : under obi |
CATION or c,npulsion to vote for /
them.
1t is not true that "Mormons'' |
have had 10 give as an excuse for |
voting for unwOr;hy men. 81 had TO /
do it." a short time age the same |
charge was maize 10y the aue 4
scrib-, amt We rsllul Tor names.
Ths reply came inst the father OF /
:. ". Sears said 30. in excuse for vot-
ins fOT certain caudi late in the
convention nj which he VS. nouf- I
mated. Mr.. Sears, the father Of ;. |
W. Scar, wheI, asked about this by |
the present writer, stated positively /
ne had never slii anything o. the
kind, he had never any occasion. {,
say it, aud he was not a member of
tine convention referred =.
The point Ia dispute is this: 4
demand j. Ie tia: the chief, OF
the Church shah give up a CHIN
that they DO no not make, aud that
the members Of the Church shall
eeG5. sI1n.t-iny to dictates THAI are
no. pgomulged. aud t. cosrcive
influence that l. not exercised. And
the Truth is, that those who make
the demand either 10 not know any
thing about ei.he. tae Theory or
Practice @. .'N3Em)nisu, - or they
are working IA the usu1I s.Liberal''
way - deceive the public, aud they
know al the time they make these
demands that they are uttering
the very baljest kind Of mendacious
nonsense.