Arizona republican., 1890-11-21
MORMONs AND CITIZENSHIP.

Commenting upon the Mormon ques- tion the Los Angeles Euening Post (Democratic) says:
 That plague spot on the institutions of our land, Mormonism, threatens new danger, The election in Utah resulted in an oyerwhelm- ing victory for the Mormon candidate for Con gress. In review of this result and the Republican reverses throughout the country, the theory is now entertained in Utah that the Mormons actually eonteLl plate the offer to the Republican party of the three electoral votes of Utah and the senators and congressman in ex- change for Statehood.
 The Republican press of Salt Lake City says that they would undoubtedly carry out their agreement if the Republican government would make the bargain. In view of the men ace to Utah the Salt Lake papers usge that there must be no party politics in the Territory until the Mormons are routed and the people thoroughly Americanized.
 This new menace would seem to outside ob- servers entirely idle, but in Utah it is regarded as a real danger, and is met by the press in the highest public spirit, regardless of partisan consideration We give the Republican party credit for more real patriotism than to believe that it would seriously entertain such pro pOsal for an instant.
 It is by no means impossible that the recent sudden public abandonment of polygamy by the leaders of the Mormon Church may have been with some such idea as this in view. But probably not score of people throughout the states believed that, however remarkable and rapid their conversion, the older members at least of the church were at heart sincere.
 There is no party il the United States that would dare to encounter the public opprObrium of political afiliatloR with Mormonism.
 Like many other papers in the land that are not fully acquainted with the Mormon evil, the Post does not speak as intelligently upon the subject as it is wont to do on other subjects. In it's closing paragraph it says "No party would dare to encounter the public op- probium of political affiliation with Mormonism." And yet, in face of this fact, the Democratic party in the Posts neighboring Territory of Arizona, openly espouses the cause of Mormonism. It is true that there are many good Demo- crats who oppose such course, but the EBeeinfIS6diffaaGSSy Bei in Arizona, to man, uphold and sustain Mormonism, and Marcus A. Smith, the Delegate to Congress, en- dorsed an introduction to a political meeting in Graham County, in which he was held up as "The man who intro duced the Book of Mormons and Cove nants into Congress"
 THE REPUBLICAN has been held up by the Democratic press of Arizona as in tensely partisan because of it's bold stand against Mormonism. The ques- tion is not partisan one at all. It in- wolves questions of greater moment than mere partisanship; it involves questions affecting the very life blood of this Nation. It is only partisan in the same manner that the question of slaya cry was partisan. The editor of TIE REPUBLICAN was sent into Utah and Idaho several years ago to investigate and report upon the Mormon evil, and although impressed in favor of the Mor- mons at first, his investigations showed him later that the whole institution was rotten to the core. There is something higher than partisanship in his warfare. There is mighty principle involved, as great as that for which his ancestors fought more than a century ago, when the United States became Nation.
 Some of the Democratic press of Ari- zona have said, "Why don't THE REPUBLICAN oppose the right of fran chise to the Mormons of Wyoming" ignoring the fact that TIE REPUBLICAN has many times used language similar to that in it's issue of September 25, when in speaking of the Mormon vote in Wyoming, it said:
 Every intelligent man knows that no insiruc- tiOns would ever have been given tbe Mo,mons of Wyoming to vo;e the Republican ticket ex- cept on an understanding with some one. We believe that understanding was with MT. Carey, the present Delegate to Congress from Wyo- ming, and that when he becomes a Senator from the new State he will represent the Nor mon Church as ably as Mir. Caine, oi Utah, does THE REPUBLICAN holds 1t is an infamous shame to permit the franchise in the hands of men to be used in that wey, we care not what ticket they vote.
 This represents the position of TIE REPUBLICAN today just as it did then and always has since it's birth. It rep resents the position of all honest men upon this subject who have devoted any attention to it, it matter not what their politics may be.
 We can understand people voting solidly under great political or other ex citement like that which affected the North and South in 1860. But what was there in 1884, 1886 and 1888 before the Mormon question had been discussed in Arizona to cause that organization to vote as a solid body in this Territory Why, if not under the direction of the priesthood, should they vote the solid Democratic ticket in Arizona and Idaho and the solid Republican ticket in Colo rado and Wyoming? Why should their vote be for sale or trade at every election in Nevada? They do not care what party they vote with. In fact the rank and file of Mormonism know nothing of political parties in this country. They know nothing of the Government of the United States. The only authority they know ia the head of the Mormon Church