The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-10-05

gins in politics. The result of two
years of ecclesiastical stumping was
last fail found in majority of about
/ 800 for the republican party.
Now for the meat of the political
nut and which crops out in every line
of the Tribune's comments on that
southern Utah letter and which are as
follows:
It will be seen from the foregoing
that when the Tribune criticised the
naming of an apostle in the church TO
high Office, or as candidate TO be
elected TO that Office, that IL was right,
and that it unwitJingly gave the view
which most of the high officers of the
Church of jesus Christ OF Latter-day
Saints accept as right.
The Tribune fe)icitates itself because
it criticised the naming" of an apos-
tie (MuSes Thatcherl in the church to
thigh office" Mr.. Thatcher is a
democrat. Did the Tribune "criticise
th3 naming" of Apostle John Henry
Smith to "high Office" that of presi-
dent of the constitutional conven-
ton? Not much. Mr.. Smith is
a republican, and were the con-
ditions reversed and Mr.. Smith
candidate for the United STAGES SEN
ate, the Tribune'ss voice would
be as silent as the tomb regarding
the mingline of church and state.
The only motive the Tribune had
in publishing the letter from that
southern Utah correspondent was
to lead the people to believe that the
church officials are opposed to high
ecclesiastics becoming candidates, and
do not, therefore, approve of MIR.
Thatcher's candidacy. In fact, the
morning church organ is actually guilty
of trying to WELD church influence
against Apostle Thatcher. In pursu-
ing the course it does, the Tribune has
branded itself with the ineffaceable
mark OF trucking hypocrisy.
The Tribune prides itself on its grow
ing inspiration in that it began pratt
ing about the "mingling of church and
state" just few days before Apostle
Lyman announced that high ecclesias
tical stumping is thing Of the past,
The Tribune plumes its pinfeathers on
It's prescience inasmuch as it .'un-
Willingly gave the view which most OF
the high officers of the church accept
as right" accept" is a significant
word to use in the sentence as aboye
quoted. 1t leads fools (only) to be-
lieye that those "high officers in the
church" accepted the Tribune's views
of the inconsistency of apostolic stump
ing.
The DISPATCH is glad that the stump
ing of ''high officers of the church" has
been discontinued. 1t is glad for
several reasons; first, because it was
wrong, and second because it was
breeding discomfort in the church and
dislike for those who loaned the weight
OF their sacred calling to party suprem-
acy. But the righteous determination
has come too late TO be of any benefit
to the party that suffered loss in the
beginning.
In conclusion, We will say to the
voters that Moses Thatcher was
nominated several weeks nrior To the
date when the Tribune's advice WAS
accepted" Mr.. Thatcher yielded to
the earnest request OF his host OF
friends and admirers in good faith.
Let no sudden determinations as to
the attitude of "high officers" deter
you from voting the democratic ticket.
and especially where the inspiration"
comes from so gigantic straddle- bug
and shyster journal as the Salt Lake
Tribune,