The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-30

similar party source the word has gone
to the eastern press. II such letters as
the Tribune man speaks Of have been
forwarded No Democrat has any rea-
son for publishing such comniuniea-
lions.
We find the same circumst arlce-fhe
voting Of the Republican ticket by the
leading Mormon dignitary published
IN a Chicago paper over the signature
Of L. w. B. and sent from this city,
He has cleaned his matter from the
columns of the Salt Lake tribune.
which originally published the state
ment.
Now what was the purpose Of tele-
graphing that occurrence to different
points in the territory on Che morning
of election day? Was it not intended
by the Republican committee to in
fuence voters who were Of the same
faith as the gentleman. who was mem
Toned BY name and church sitle. to go
and do likewise?
And what is the object Of repeating
the alleged fact and spreading IL, under
one excuse or another, throughout, the
country The Democrats can have no
wish to publish the matter. and the in
tent Of the Republicans in doing SO is
perfectly plain.
Now let 1t be distinctly understood
that The Herald does not assert that
the church leaders turned Democrats
from their party allegiance to vote the
Republican ticket. We have shown by
the figures Of the election that the
Democratic candidate gained more than
four thousand votes over his total for
1892 That is evidence to the contrary.
But we do say that the Republican
party Of Utah used every means in its
power to 'innpress upon the Mormon
mind the idea that the Mormon leaders
lwere Republican IN politics. and THAI
therefore the Mormon people ought to
vote the Republican ticket.
The Republican national platforms.
from 1856 down. made the Mormon
church influence in politics one of its
chief points Of assault. and one Of It's
principal reasons for denying to Utah a
place in the Union Of States. Poly.
gamy, we have been repeatedly told.
was only pretence of hostility, the
real cause was the control Of the church
/ in Utah politics
|: But today the same party is ready.
willing and eager TO avail itself of
that influence, and openly boasts Of it,
and urges it ON the people whom it
once savagely assaulted because of
their alleged submission to that in
fuence. The difference appears to be
that church influence in favor of
Democracy was, in. Republican eyes, so
un-American and hostile to the institu-
lions Of the country that it was to be
stamped out. in the language of the
Republican platforms, "by the civil
power if possible and by the military
if needs be- But Mormon church in
fluence in favor of the Republican
party is the one thing needful in Utah,
TO be nourished and cherished and
used as occasion requires, for the glory
and enrichment of the g. o. p.
The deep chicanery and rank hypoc-
risy of that party, in Utah as elsewhere,
seems to tinge all who become imbued
with its influence and enter into its
schemes. 1t is a party of expedients
rather than of principles. 1t will repu-
date today what it advocated yester-
day and encourage to morrow what it
seeks to suppress today. 1t is a thing
to be despised by sincere men and
women who should at any rate shun its
methods and avoid its receptions.