The St. Johns herald., 1890-10-30
MOrmOns and Politics.
FrOm the eraham county BulIetin,

EDITOR BULLETIN see by the Daily Citizen that the editor of that paper has no good word for a Nor mon. Perhaps 1 am the only Nor mon in Arizona that would eyer try to dodge his off-handed firing, or peppering at the Mormons with his eyes closed his eyes must be closed or else he IS politically blind 10 the fact that the MormOns as a peo- pie, not as individuals, in Arizona, are doing much for the improve ment of this once desert country, md generally we try to attend to our own affairs and let other peo- ple's business alone, that is. we wish to do unto others as we would have them do unto us, for Vt expect the measure we mete out to be measured back to us. Again, the editor of the Citizen has some excuse on the grounds of popularity, for tits GUS tomary generally to have what might be called dog days just be- fore a campaign or election comes off, when political parties are blind to everything but their own plat
 
 form but MT. Editor. l will here state that the Mormons had politi- cal dust thrown in their eyes at our last election, and they became SO, blind that they divided up at the polls against their own interests. A house divided against itself cannot stand, so we are told in the good old book, the bible, consequently the Mormons in this country are pollt- ically dead, and I presume they never would have been reSurrected, reorganized or united again if the Daily Citizen had left them to rest and sleep in peace. But it states in the Republican platform that as 6 people they are un-Amcrican and disloyal. and for less reason than these the Chinesehave been refused citizenship and are excluded from our country. Also, we the Repub- Iicans of Arizona, do hereby demand of Congress that before it adjourns it shall pass the bill now pending before it, known as an act for the purifcation of elections in Arizona. Now, MT. Editor, allow me to say that I have never seen a more un- christian, un-American platform than the one gotten up by tine Re
 publican party and published in the Daily Citizen. IL is certain to wake up the Mormons and wash the political dust out of their eyes that they my see not to put a club in the party's hands to knock their brains out with. The party that the Mormons vote for solid is sure to win. We have got the political dust out of our eyes now, and We can see that the Republican party of Arizona intends to give slight of-hand performance, and if poSsi- ble. get the U. $. Government to act as 8 confederate for them. The Daily Citizen would rob the Mor- mons, refuse them citizenship and exclude from the country It isl true live in Pima. which has asy bad name as the city of Nazareth had in the days of Christ, and 1t is now political dog days, everything and every body looks alike among the Mormons, and are branded the same by the Republican party. InI this respect the Republicans are blind leaders of the blind, if they say no good thing can come out of Pima. No doubt but the Citizen will now say that the U. s. govern ment was robbed of thousands of dollars not many miles from Pima, and that the robbers were tracked to this place. I will here state what I said, as well as others living in Pima. When we first heard of the