The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21
TT OUGHT TO STOP.

II certainly ought not 10 De introduced
into political discussions as it has been
banded about recently The Deseret
News administers a scathing rebuke
on this evil which we consider strikes
with telling effect upon the course of
the Republican candidate for Delegate
to Congress and some of his support
ers.
At the opening of his campaign in
Sanpete he commenced to belittle the
work Of Mr.. Rawlins in Congress, and
asserted that statehood for Utah was
not the work of that gentleman or the
Democratic party but that it was the
Almighty who gave it to the people.
Divine Providence he maintained was
the author of this liberty This idea
was echoed by other Republican speak
ers, notably at the meeting in the
Seventeenth ward which has OCCASION
ed so much comment
Democratic speakers have alluded TO
this and turned the argument upon
their opponents, by admitting the
theory and showing that if it is in
any degree correct Divine Provi-
ments and in this case worked with
and through the Democratic Delegate,
the Democratic Congress and the
Democratic President. If, therefore,
there is any force in the original prop
osition it is in favor of the Democratic
party.
At the theatre on Friday night the
Tp1l lror xr-11r Arct i,,t,~
duced the Providence theory into the
political contention, attempted to throw
the burden of the wrong upon Demo-
cratic orator who simply applied the
Republicans logic to his discontinue.
He had not the honor and manliness
to state the case fairly. He read few
lines from his adversary's remarks
but suppressed the vital part of the
argument. And he volunteered the
information to the multitude that
revelations from the Almighty, did not
come by way of Beaver.
Did he mean to say they came by
way of Sanpete, where he first an
nounced that it was Deity who gave
Utah the statehood bill? Or did he
Beaver only from the sphere of Divine
manifestations? The starting of this
mingling Of Deity and politics was
with F. ]. Cannon and his friends, and
he and they seem to be mortified at the
manner in which it has been turned
upon them.
The News calls the introduction of
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discussions, sacrilege. A great many
very good people of various faiths will
endorse the saying. And even those
who are not devotional will join in the
condemnation of the wrong which,
commencing with a paltry desire to be-
little the faithful work of a public
servant and rob him of his just need
of credit, became impious in its lam
guage and intent
Connected with this matter is the i'm
proper use of the names of certain
church authorities to which The Herald
has previously made reference. The
pretence that word has been given
from those authorities that either
political party is to be supported on
religious grounds, Is also shocking and
shameful. On this the Deseret News
says:
The highest human authority to
which the Latter-day Saints are under
obligation, by virtue of their church
membership and religious professions,
to look for counsel, has suggested to
them, distinctly and repeatedly, to in
vestigate for themselves as individuals
the teachings of all political parties
extant in the country, and the merits
and capabilities of the candidates they
respectively put forth, and then vote
according to the conscientious convic-
tions which are produced by such in
vestigation. They have been advised
to be pure and to keep aloof from the
evils and abuses that usually charac-
terize electoral campaigns. Further
than this there has been no announce
ment of the wall of the Lord upon the
subject; and we trust our readers will
take early and constant opportunity to
rebuke with all severity every attempt
thus to use the sacred name, either by
comparison or intimation, in the realm
of the scramble.
This ought to be sufficient to close
the mouths Of those active and extreme
partisans who have been prostituting
the influence they WELD in the direc-
ton indicated. This political cam
paign ought to be purged from all such
improper methods. They have origi-
mated entirely on the Republican side,
and such illusions as have been made
to them by Democratic speakers, have
been evoked by the expressions which
the Republican candidate and his
champions and wire-workers have in
iected into this political contention. 1t
is time that fair argument and good
sense should take the place of low