The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-11

Hunclaue the objectionable practlce, even |
though they should never intend to engage |
in it.
On March 5, 1889, that paper said "the |
rigid prevention of the requirement of the
rights and privileges of citizenship by Nor
mons would be another most desirable |
step''
Speaking of the confiscation of the Nor |
mon church property, that paper said on
October %, 1883: "We never approved of
the wisdom of the proceeding, but the JUS
tice of it is beyond dispute
1t thus appears that the Liberal organ
not only points out but earnestly advocates
ACKNOWLEDGMENT and robbery.
Concerning the 6isgraceful facts revealed
by the recent court proceedings, the Liberal
apologist for fraud and crime says:
The Utah commission was appointed with the
express understanding that they should fill all
registration offices in Utah with Liberals. That
was the purpose of the law that was the inten-
ton 1t is perfectly proper that all registrars
should be Liberals
Here we are informed that the purpose
of the EDMUNDs law was not to punish or
to abate polygamy, but to put Liberals into
Office. A candidate for election on the
Liberal ticket, KEsLER by name. was also
the registrar in his precinct and had the
power to strike off or to place on the regis
try list as many names as he thought neces-
sary; but on top of all this he testified in
court that the office of registrar was part
of the regular organization of the
Liberal party, and his party or
gan frankly declares it can see nothing
amiss in this beautiful arrangement.
Words are wasted upon such criminal
billiards as the Liberal paper is; but if it
ever heard of man named GARFIELD we
venture to commend that it read, mark,
learn and inwardly digest the following
from the honest and able general.
''There was one charge" said he made
by the other side, and in so far as it is true,
L consider it a just objection to the law. 1t
was that the law had been used or was
capable of being used, to fill election pre-
cincts with men of one party, whose time
might be employed at the public expense
for party electioneering purposes"
That candidates for election shonld at the
same time be registration officers and thus
have their election in their own hands;
that the chairman of the Liberal party
should dictate to the Utah commission the
names of sail the judges of election"
that the registration and election
officers should constitute parts of
the Liberal committees; that the ex
pense of manning the polls and of
securing all the information Desired by the
Liberal committee should be borne by the
government; that the Utah commission
should have only one purpose in view-the
election of Liberalism all this infamy the
Liberal organ can see nothing wrong, and
its party leaders innocently blurt out in
court that they supposed the election offices
and the Liberal committee offices were
Identical! We say it is idle to argue with
men who know no more than that of the
proper checks and balances supposed to ex-
ist in American law and politics. The man
or the paper that defends such villainy
simply advertlses the ignorance and crimi-
nality inherent in either.
The Liberal paper goes on to say of the
Peoples party:
They nominate no one. The nomination is
made by the head OF the church. They Simply
perform a Punch and Judy act in raIifying the
nomination. They never ask a question as u
the worthiness of the candidate. They never
ask question as to the justice of the nomina
T. ton. They know nothing and care nothing
2 about the nominee; all they want to know il
r that he is the person selected by the head Q
a the church. And we say men thus involved an,
f enthralled are unfit to cast ballot in tn
, United States.
y And so say we all, if there are any sucl
/ men and they do not speedily learn better
But we say with words of soberness tina
every sentence up to the last in the fore
going quotation is as false as tn
q basest words of ANANIAs. 1t is no
> a mistake merely, but deliberate lie Sc
y down in cold blood with full knowledge o
: its falsity and with base and coward,
appreciation of its effect upon those VIII
9 might see it. The writer of it knows hoy
- deep his falsehood and how base his pur
h pose was in writing it. Six months ago h
declared the Peoples primaries and con
i, ventions were as free from ''dictatlon" q
II those of the Liberals were. He know
"a very well of the debates and struggles fc
~ choice of nominees, yet he declares th
nomination is made by "the head of til
church" In the nominating convention
"a he thus denominates as Punch and Jud
serfs, were many men of superior abilit
- morality and honesty to himself; men WI
:. think more of their country than he doe
10 and are ready to sacrifice more for it tina
he; men who owe no one dollar and wa
- erect in conscious integrity: yet he black
80 guards these superiors as if they wei
blind, deaf and dumb, and had no reaso
honor or ability.
!. We do not say that the opinion of IL
- bishop or the president of the stake or
: the church or of other men eminent in Il
49, church would not have weight with mo
:. Mormons if it could be known in nomi
ating convention, just as the opinion of Il
Rev. Mr. ILIFF had weight with his flo,
during recent elections; but for the pa
Ve six years friend Of the writer
ne this has been a member Of nom
mating conventions Of the People
party in this city, county and tie
ritory, and to this day does not kno
whether he pleased or displeased t
IS, church authorities or any of them in secu
T. ing the nomination of certain men or
ne failing to secure the nomination of certa
h others favored by him. The writer of til
lu is fully aware, too, by actual comparis
VS. of the proceedings and results in be
ne cases, that as much freedom is exercis
aud the will of the people is better c
'ai pressed in the Peoples than than in t
Ter T ;t,arol Conventions
nd
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