The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-03
NH. WILLIAMS POSITION.

Nh WILLIAMS POSITION.
1t takes over a column af words for our
morning contemporary to make show at
answering the keen truths stated by Hon.
p. L. WILLIAMS the other night, concern
ing the perhdy Of the Liberal party in re-
| fusing to accept the changed conditions here
as genuine.
The organ says Mr.. WILLIAMS attitude
sis direct way to put ten thousand other
wives of polyganists." The humor in this
remark is sufficiently apparent when we
recollect that the only symptom Of polyg-
amy in Utah is furnished by an occasional
case of Liberal bluffing. Thus. over six
months ago the organ declared that it knew
| of polygamous marriages, which were be
ing celebrated every day. We promptly
branded the paper a liar and challenged 1t
to the proof. But like a whipped cur it
kept very silent Now it says once more
that polygamy is not dead and pretends to
know Of cases IN point Once
more we say the Liberal organ
lies The talk that Mr. WILLIAMS is now
aiding and abetting polygamy, and that he
will presently join the church, is about the
most childish stuff the Liberal organ has
ever ground out which is saying good
| deal.
The following statements are also whole
cloth lies. We defy the Liberal organ to
prove one of them:
He knows that the people have done nothing
that they have not been instructed to do; he
knows that they have not abandoned ans prin-
ciple; he knows that they are working under
orders right this minute; ne knows further that
| there is a dead-straght contract between the
chiefs of the church and few Democrats TO re-
ward those Democrats in consideration Of Utah
becoming state.
We say that each of the foregoing state
| ments is direct and willful falsehood.
The burden of proof rests on the paper
that makes them, and no proof is or can be
offered in support of them.
The fact is, MIR. WILLIAMS position is
unasseilable. If the Mormons are not sin
cere he can recede from his present posi-
ton with dignity as soon as be shall learn
of IL All he proposes is to give them a
chance to demon strate their sincerity, and
that is what the Liberal leaders fear most.
They know that the Mormon people are
sincere both in the abandonment of poly
gsmy and in disbanding the Peoples party.
Unless, therefore, the Liberal leaders can
! get the Mormons disfranchised now, before
the latter have chance to prove they are
sincere, the disfranchisement plot will fail.
AS to the statehood bugaboo, there is
precisely the same danger OF the re-estab
lishment of polygamy in Utah as of the re-
establishment of slavery in Mississippi.
Why, If such a thing were to be attempted
the United States would as quickly over
/ turn our state government as it would that
OF Mississippi, should the latter secede or
| legalize slavery. And every man Of sense
knows this; so that if statehood were an
| immediate issue (Which it is mott, there
would be no such cause for alarm.
The depth of mendacity, however, is
reached by the organ when it pretends to
doubt the ballot-boX stuffing By the Liberal
Judge of Election ALLEN. 1t says:
How is it shown the tickets were changed: 1t
is shown by the testimony that the very court
that decided the case has declared over and
over again, year after year, is utterly, totally
unworthy OF belief, and the court never did ac-
ceept ii as reliable till it came in this case.
The above m0nstrous libel ought to make
many a self respecting Liberal stay from
the polls to-day. When a paper will pre-
tend to question a fact so generally known
as the recent ballot-box stuffiDg is, and
when in addition it declares that the courts
give no credence to Mormon testimony
that such testimony sis utterly, totally I'M
worthy of belief'-while il is well known
that every court in Utah freely accepts
and decides upon Mormon testimony,
and every business firm knows how
absolutely safe is q Mormon statement,
it would surely seem that an exhibition OF
partisan newspaper deprsvity SO shocking
as this, would have the effect Of iniuring
! the plot it is intended to aid. That plot is
tue Acknowledgement and outlawry Of the
whole Mormon population before they have
an opportunity to demonstrate to the world
their sincerity and their superiority over
the ring which is trying to blind its nom
Mormon supporters just long enough to &C
complish the political ruin of the whole
Mormon people.
The conclusisn of the organ that because
Mr. WILLIAMS is ready to work for Demo
cratic success in Utah, as against the
Liberal or any other party, therefore he
s.feels that he has disgraced himself" etc..
will cause every Democrat to smile.
The question for Democrats to answer at
the polls to-day is: Dare they work for
the triumph of Democratic principles and
for Democratic success in Utahl