Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-11
DEFENSE OF THE REPUBLIC.

THE ex-s'Liberal' candidate con
tinues to repeat over and over hi
stale aspersions upon his successful
competitor in the late delegate cleo
ton. Here is one Of his oft-repeatet
stock expressions, dished up in yes
terday mornings issue Of his paper
1.-THE burden OF it all is that Mr.
Gaines record in Congress show
nothing bat devotion to the Church. {"
The fact is that Mr.. Gaines recorC
shows intense "devotion to the Re
public, /" whose interests he has beer
compelled to defend against tn,
assaults Of a gang Of traitor
Gus conspirators. The institu
tons of our country guarantees
equal rights and privileges to al
citizens before the law, and TO the
people everywhere a republican
form Of government. A clique o.
conspiring politicians have assault
ed American institutions by seeking
to impel Congress to deprive a elias.
of citizens who have broken no law
| of the franchise. This is an efori
to establish despotism. They have
sought to induce the national law.
making body to take away from the
whole people Of Utah the popular
right to elect officers to transact the
public business, to transfer the
prerogative 70 the hands OF one
man and thus create an absolutism
within the nation. The same
schemers have endeavored to pro-
cure legislation that would prevent
the people who redeemed this once
desert region and their children
from entering upon or procuring
title TO the public lands.
These attempts are all tie procure
innovations upon the glorious prin-
ciples upon which our splendid sys-
tenn of government is founded.
And the same plotters, among
whom the ex-candidate and his
henchman HOLSTER have been the
most active operators, have favored
the legal robbery Of the majority of
the people OF Utah Of their property.
A part of this latter villainy has
come near a consummation. Should
it be fully completed what a humil-
iating position the Gentiles Of this
Territory would be placed In! Many
of them, we are pleased to say, and
to their credit be it said, are opposed
to It. Such a completion OF the
plot to rob an honest people will viz
tually pauperize the non-"Mor-
mons'' who send their children TO
the public schools, whose pupils viii
be indebted to the Latter-day
to a large extent
for the payment Of the ex-
peuse Of their tuition. And the
fact will be indisputable that the
hard earnings Of the msjority had to
be legally stolen from them for the
Consequently, Whatever
Of advantage is gained by the non
''Mormon'' children in equipping
them in the public schools for the
battle of life, will be largely due to
the hard earnings Of the "Mormon"
people, wrested from them at the in
stance of nest Of unscrupulOus con-
spirators against free civil govern
ment. We hope there is no "Mor-
mOn'' parent or child that would so
iebase himself as to accept Of edu-
cation by such humiliating pro-
cess if the conditions were reversed.
The time will come, as sure as the
day follows the night, when all who
have been connected with the des-
picable infamies attempted and
against the rights,
he peace and prosperity of
he commonwealth of this Ter
-itory will be held in universal
by a rectified public
sentiment. They will be regarded
Is traitors to the Republic, founded |
IN equal rights and human free
ION.
1t ia a matter Of coHgratuiation |
hat the leayen OF truth and justice
s already operating even in this /;
Territory. Many honestly inclined
zentiles are having their eyes
'pened to the hollow pretensions
md vaporous patriotism Of the
,ang which has sown the seeds Of
liscord in the community and
whose Interior object behind the
loOd OF falsehood which has issued
rom them in a steady stream, has
cen robbery in some form.
This clique have kept Mr.. Game
usy defending not only his con-
ituents but the Republic
gainst the attempted innovations
traitors He has stood like a
igilant sentinel and sought to pre-
emit the conspiratOrs imposing upon
he national legislators, that the
might not be trans
rmed into an organization for ,
ealing sheep. Mr.. Game will con-
Due, supported by all lovers Of
ght, to prevent plotters from OBJ
lining their selfish ends by means {
Innovations that would prove de-
ructive not only to local rights, !
It to the nation at large. Disinteg- !
ting agencies have beginnings 4
mewhere, and from initial Joints
read throughout the arteries of !
q national