The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-28
PEOPLES TICKET
MIR. GoODWIN'S PLATFORM.

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extreme one, of the score of similar ut
terances of the Liberai .didate:
Now we say that it :. crime on the part of
the government of the United States to permit
enemies OF the government as pronounced as
these 1.-THE Mormonsl to obtain patents to pub
lie lands.-T5i6ure, July, TO- 1889.
This denial of the right to enter land was
to be made against the Mormons, because
g few of them had practiced polygamy
and had been punished for that offense.
He explained, on another occasion, that
The Gentiles have never made any trouble
here, unless to insist that necessary laws be
obeyed is calculated to make Tribune,
May 2s, 1889.
The Liberal candidate frequently re-
iterated that the only fight he had with
the Mormons was their defiance of law:
1.-THE enemies of Mormonism.' How would
it sound to hear some one talking about ''the
enemies of housebreakers. or house burners /"
The differences which the great masses of the
people of the United States have with Mormon
ism are confined strictly to Mormon defiance
of laws which have been held as essential to
civilization for hundreds of years-7fi6une,
May 25, 1882
But what does Mr.. GocwIN demand to-
day! He says:
Long ago the government said: You must
stop polygamy. You must give up your al
legiance to priestcratt in temporal things
Thegovernmentd did demand that the Nor
mons stop polygamy, and they have stop
ped it. But the government never did say
to the Mormons ''You must give up your
allegiance to priestcraft in temporal
things" Mr.. GOODWIN is the party that
said that, and he mistakes himself for the
government Yet he cannot tell what he
means by it. He has often tried to ex-
plain what he means by ''priestly dicta-
ton" Here is one of his explanations:
The creed of the Saints is that while they
have celestial kingdom, which pertains to the
life to come, they likewise have kingdom OF
GOD on earth, which is Q purely temporal af-
fair the doctrine that still controls from,
the selling of pig to Dottng for a candidate as
they are instructed to vote.-7fabuue June o
1889.
If any citizen of Utah is daft enough to
believe that miserable allegation, let him
vote for the man that made it, c. G. Coop
WIN. The very platform upon which Mr..
GOODWIN is supposed to stand, though he
does not, thus gives him the lie when he
says, as he did on Sunday, that vote for
JOHN 7. GAME means simply:
Vote to legalize vice. Vote to make the es.
tablishment Of harems in Utah sacrament of
GoD.-TTi6ule, Get. 20 1890
In opposition to this mad raving abou,
"harems" the last Liberal platform saws:
Above ALL we may felicitate ourselves be-
cause we have at last forced our opponents tn
accept our position on polygamy. We
congratulate the Peoples party on their ad.
vance.
Mr.. GOODWIN, on the other hand. curses
the Peoples party because of the act for
for which his party congratulates them. He
says, 'The.anti-polygamy proclamation was
not intended to be worth a straw to the
Mormon people" the plt in answer to which
is that Mr.. GooDwIN's malicious words are
false and he knows it. He wishes they
were true.
He advocates this Infamous doctrine:
The best way is to compel the system to
CONFORM to the lars of the United States
The first thing to do is to take all political
power fromit. the thing to do is IL
make it impossible for Mormons to obtain title
TO lands in the United Sales.--future, Apra "a.
1889.
But now that his opponents conform to
the laws'' ten times better than his own
constituents do, what does he say?
We are willing to take the declaration of the
president of the church that there will be nc
more polygamous marriages. We are willing
to assume that it is true, while we do not be-
lieve it. That is the great vice of Mormonism
but its theocracy is its greatest crime
Tribune, Oct, %, 1890.
What this new "crime'' of theocracy is,
Mr.. GOODWIN fails to explain. Yet while
advocating the Acknowledgement and rob-
berry of the entire Mormon people for a
"crime'' he calls theocracy, Mr.. GooDwIN
has the face to say he never attacked
them except wherein they have set the
laws at defiance He is a very dishonest
fanatic, this GOODWIN.
Hear him advocate the political assassin
alton of the young men of Utah who are
innocent of wrong-doing:
The rigid prevention of the requirement of
the rights and privileges of citizenship by Nor
mons, while adhering to their alien and hostile
system would be another most desirable STEP
Tribune March s. 1889
They need to place in that instrument THE
Idaho constitutional that no alien can, under
any possible disguise, use the ballot or hold
office in the state, and include in the same
clause that all members of the Church of Jesus
Christ OF Latter-day Saints are, by the very OBJ
legations, which they have bound themselves by,
Of necessity aliers-7r Tribune, April 90 1889,
Young men of Utah, will you vote for
such fanatics
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