The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-17

unanimous vote Of the Liberal party, but
according to his own statement, fell 4,00o
votes short of it, thus being repudiated by
about two fifths of his own party.
Sheer modesty, of course, prevented Mr.
GOODWIN from naming his own blushlng
self as the candidate who would be thus
"honored.' We recall, too, that when Mr..
GOODWIN was finally nominated, there was
much talk Of sending him to Congress
whether he was elected or not. He hasn't
yetgone to Washington, however, and we
wonder if he wouldn't like to go. Notice
the next:
This may be little tough on Mr.. GAME, con-
sidering his faithful services, but our holy
Church cannot spend it's time in rewardlng
friends where there is an enemy that can De
bought, either by money or glory. The time
has come when the church reeds some one to
represent it in Congress, who can assert on his
honor that he has never been Mormon, that he
does not sympathize with anything that IS
illegal in Mormonism, that he is in Congress,
not because of the church, but because OF the
mighty uprising OF the American spirit among
the rank and file of the church. which, without
solicitation on his part, centered upon him as
their standard bearer in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
When Mr.. GOODWIN wrote that he was
clearly ready to compromise and willing to
make bargain with the Mormons, ''be
cause of the mighty uprising of the Ameri-
can spirit among the rank and file OF the
church" Why, a. that time polygamy had
not been publicly forbidden by the church,
yet he was willing to be elected by churc b
members since he sympathized not with
what little illegality there was among
them, but with their uprising Americanism.
But a great change has come over Mr..
GOODWIN since he wrote in the above fe-
licitous strain. Now that the only thing
that was illegal among them as body, has
been done away with by the Mormon PEG
pie, he RACES for their total disfranchise-
ment, so that if he should ever again be
nominated for Office there would be some
chance of his success.
His concluding words, however, have
still little bitterness in them:
We think from the signs in the case that the
bargain has already been struck, that the
terms have been agreed upon, and the mas
Querade of THE HERALD to lead the people w
to the point where they will support such can
didnte (ss though it made bit Of difference tc
them whom they supported after they received
their instructions), is little by-play, which is
as interesting as it is comical.
II the Struble and Cullom bills fail to reach
vote in the present Congress- it will be safe Il
predict that the very last Peoples ticket ha
| already been voted for.
On the whole, this article so recently
from the pen of Mr.. GOODWIN, is valuabl,
in other ways than that of simply illustrat
ing certain phases of that gentleman's
character.
Yesterday the same paper had the follow
ing:
And they have not given up polygamy ant
have no intention of doing so. Men and womer
are entering into that relation every day.
We ask all classes of people here wha
they think of the characterless liar tina
makes such an assertion as that. The mar
who wrote it knows that he lies, just as al
sane people hereabouts at all acquainted
with the situation know that he lies Blu
the above quotation is intended for foreign
consumption, and for that reason we an
swer it.
But the following is intended for HON
consumption, and so makes no mention Of
Mormon practices; because since Mormon;
no longer appear in court half so much a
non Mormons do. it would not do to alleg
Mormon law breaking as justification To-
Acknowledgement.
The Tribune believes and asserts the belle
that good and true Mormons cannot be goo
and true Americans in the higher sense Of tn a
word; that is, they are so involved that thei
real allegiance is to some other government be
sides the government of the United States Thi
does not go to their business relations; this
nothing to do with their daily acts or their dali
, legations they have taken to some other powe
To this charge of disloyalty the Nor
l mons return an emphatic denial, and d.
2 clare they have taken no obligations t
: obey some other power" They only as
to be allowed to prove by their daily live
t that they are worthy of all the privilege
? and rights that others enjoy. This is wht
2 the Tribune ring objects to, and in concel
2 with the Judge who seems to suppose til
= Mormons have taken oaths as binding 6
7 he himself has taken in certain secrs
t order, they are now working as never be
8 fore to disfranchise their law-abiding ST
s periors.
t ''The signs of the times" are that the
g will fail.