The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1894-09-26
DEMOCRACY VS.. UTAH.

Brother Saxey, in day before
yesterdays Enquirer, takes ex,
ceptions to our article under the
caption OF "Republicanism VS.. Utah"
of the other day. Our article
may be called the modern his
tory Of the relationship between the
national parties and Utah, while Bro.
Saxey's may be called tie ancient
history of the relationship of Illinois
and Missouri with the Mormons, with
which the present generation of people
in Utah has and can have little or notl =
ing to do, and which cannot with any
propriety at all: enter into this cam
paigr. If intended as an answer or a
refutation to the article he was con-
sldering, then, indeed, it was waste
effort, because it did not touch single
argument made by THE DISPATCH. He
just went back to Genesis and gave
old Adam and Paradise the devil and
then considered that he had upset the
entire bible and the glorious religion
set up by it. Mr.. Saxey is not buff
foon. but he is an sstute lawyer, keen,
sharp and inClsive, and none too re-
gsrdful of the facts of history or the
case in hand. Like good many of
his tribe be is for wining his case only.
This is not buffoonery, but it is very
funny all the same. We have just as
keen a horror of the events in Illinois
and Missouri in the early history of
the MOrmons as has Mr.. Saxey, but it
is with tie modern phases of the Nor
mon persecution that We have to deal.
The democracy and the republicans are
contending which shsll send the dele
gate to congress for the good year '94
and We were presenting the claims of
the two parties, and the candidates of
both for the position. That is all, and
that is all there is to it.
We showed that though the repub-
lican party had held supreme power in
the nation for thirty-seven years, yet it
had not one friendly act on record to
warrant it in asking the Mormon peo-
pie to vote either for it, as party, or
for its nominee today. At the same
time in that thirty-seven years We have
shown that the democratic party has
done many things for the upbuilding of
Utah, and within the last eighteen
months, under the lead cf its
candidate for congress, it has
conferred statehood, opened the
Indian reservations, kept the southern
Utes out of Utah, won back the es-
cheated church property and money,
and in great many ways exhibited its
friendship for and interest in Utah,
This is the truth of the modern his
tory of the case at issue between Mr.
A. Saxey and The DISPATCH. All no
1t isn't modern history at all that Mr.
A. Ssxey desires, it is the ancient. No
so, say the people. We build monu-
ments and shed tears for the mighty
dead, but it is the good advantage O.
the living men and women of Utah We
seek today; hence we vote for the party
and the men who not only can serve
her today, but who have done it to a
degree no other party and no other
men have ever done.
Brother Saxey's appeal to ancient
history is in all respects unfortunate
because ancient history also records
that MIR. Saxey himself left his home
in Utah and fed to the protection of
that same Johnston's army of which be
w-ote in his screed to escape the imagin.
ary prosecutions of the Mormons. At
that day MIR. Buchanan and his army
were all good men in his eyes, demo-
Gratis and all as they were.
A Ssxey recognizes that something
ought to be done to meet the splendid
record made by modern democracy, SO
far as Utah is concerned, but his effort
will hardly turn back the ground
swell in favor of democracy. If only
Mr.. S. could point to one unfriendly or
hostile act since the war committed
by the democrats, or TO enc friendly or
favorable act by the republicans, he
would have a chance to make an i'm
preston. But he hasn't. He can only
point backward to the days when all
the people of the United States, lemo-
ocrats, wings, know nothings and free
soilers were alike bitter opponents TO
the then new and strange religion
taught by the early leaders of the Nor
mon church.
Against the hostility of the tbree
democratic governors of distant states
at that distant day, we place the ef-
forts of the eastern republicans, male