The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-04
THE ISSUE.

The last utterance of the Liberal candi-
date for Congress distinctly reaf.sms all
his previous ones concerning his attitude
toward the Mormon people.
At this time when nine-tenths of the
Liberals of this territory are disposed to be
moderate, are disposed especially to re.
pudiate any form of intolerance toward the
Mormons, Mr.. GOODWIN alone stards out
against the better sentiment and Judgment
of his party, and declares in words of the
deepest hatred that the coming demonstra-
ton of the Peoples party in celebrating the
election of JOHN T. GAME, twill be the
last time they will ever have one"
What does the fanatic mean by these
words! Notice the words of the remark
able mopomaniac:
The Peoples party should have magnificent
demonstration, for it will be the last time they
will have one, so long as the seasons keep on
their professions in Utah, so long as GODS
sunlight turns to glory the hills and valleys of
this favored territory.
We admit that we can only surmise the
meaning of this burst of fearful rhetoric
That Mr.. GOODWIN desires that no member
of the Peoples party shall ever cast an
other ballot is well known, but that this
enslavement of a vast community of free
men will follow, simply because Mr. Coop
WIN advocates it, is another matter.
We can assure the Liberal candidate that
the proposition { to disfranehise a whole
community for what sBRIGHAM You've is
reported to have said in 1857, does not meet
with favor among the7mea of the Liberal
party. esew > ~ ViienT9" NJ
We can tell him from personal knowl-
edge that the best men.of his own party are
ashamed that their candidate advocates
the punishment of his fellow citizens for
what he says is their belief.
We know that there are hundreds Of men
in his party who will blush to see that the
day before election, he compares each of
his political opponents to trained pig''
or trained monkey"
We are confident that the feeling of dis
gust toward his extreme ard fanatical atti-
tude will manifest itself to day at the
polls in manner that will astonish him.
We argue that it is the duty of every
citizen to vote to-day. If he holds, with G..
G. GOODWIN, that any and every Mormon is
necessarily ian Alien" is worse than a
Chinaman, and ought not to be permitted
to vote, sit on inries, hold Office, or enter
land in the United States, he should vote
for the Liberal candidate.
If he holds with JOHN T. GAME that a
mans real or supposed belief is not a suf-
ficient ground for punishment, and that
each citizen who obeys and upholds the law
should be equal before the law, then he
should vote for the Peoples candidate
Mr. GOODWIN tries to make it appear
that vote for him is a vote against polyg
amy; but we state as something tina,
ought to be self evident, that vote for the
Liberal candidate will have no more rea
connection with polygamy than it will have
with the rings of Saturn.
The issue is disfranchisement. Shall the
law-abiding majority of the citizens of Utah
be DISTINGUISHED in the interest of minor.
ity party less law-abiding, on the whole
than the majoritys
Shall the law abiding majority be dis
franchised because few Of their friends
who are already disfranchised, once vic
lated certain law and paid the penalty fol-
doing so!
| Shall the law abiding majority be dis