The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-07
PROVO CITY.
UTAH'S REDEMPTION.

So says our republican neigh0or' ana
SO says TIE DIsTATCH.
The Enquirer gives its reasons tor Its
belief that Utah has been redeemed IN
the following language
The constitution is adopted, and the
new state is republican, The people
of Utah have resented the vile cam
paign against the church. "aged Dy
Mr.. Powers.
The Enquirer keeps up its baby talk
about the vile campaign against the
church, waged by Mr.. Powers" Time
and again has THE DISPATCH rehears-
ed the outrageous and infamous inter
ference of prominent churchmen In the
politics of the Mormon people. we
have pointed out in detail the incidents
that have proved beyond the POSSIBLE
itv of a doubt that Utah was made re-
publican by the ulterior influences oil
certain eminent members Of the Nor
mon priesthood. We have pointed out
that those same men have used their
influence for the republican party right
in the face of repeated promises thai
they would not use church influence
For the breaking of those sacred prom
ises and saying Zion needs your
votes" those same men stand before
the people whom they have wronged
with the brand of dishonor on their
brows, and in the presence of a mighty
rebuke administered by their co-relig-
ionists. Like canting hypocrite,that
it is, the Enquirer charges the arraing-
ment of those high ecclesiastlasts on
Chairman Powers. More than $4,000
Latter-day Saints have registered
protest against any such charges
against Mr.. Powers, and by SO voting,
5000 Mormons say to the Enquirer,
and to it's less culpable partner IN
crime. the Salt Lake Tribune, that
BOTH OF YOU ARE LIARS.
1t is the mighty voice of 1900 Nor
mons that thus brands you with the
mark of Annanias and with being
pair of the most abiect towards and
unregenerste hypocrites to be found on
the earth. 1t is not THE DISPATCH
that thus brands you, although we will
say right here that we heartily endorse
the verdict,
Will the intellectual dwarf that pre-
sides over the wretched nOndescript
across the block, not tell US whether or
Lot $4,000 Mormons know more of
what has been transpiring among them
in the way of ecclesiastical political
pressure than either it or the Tribune
or both combined? Does the Tribune
echo across the block know more of
the situation than do those 49, 900 Nor
mons, any one of whom would feel dis
honored by the society of thing that,
by implication, calls them knaves and
fools? Eighteen thousand Mormons
have vindicsted Judge Powers from all
charges of dishonorable motives in re-
convening the Ogden convention.
They have stood by Judge Powers
nobly and solidly and he needs no
further defense at our hands, The
Enquirer then tells how Utah has been
redeemed
They 1.-THE republicans have said to
the nation, by their ballots. that the
fc nt1f n q CfInQI n
ference In politics by the dominant
church of Utah, were false.
The hypocrisy of the above could
have found expression in no paper
other than the Enquirer, save one, in
Utah. Neither Judge Powers nor the
the democratic par ty have charged the
Mormon church with the use of any &C.
interference In politics.
Several thousand more than one-halt
of the Mormon people have said that
certain high members Of that church
haye exerted their ecclesiastical influ-
ence to the benefit of the republican
party.
The Enquirer says:
a victory for the party thatset those
rumors in circulation, would have been
d further confirmation of Mr.. towers |
against the church, al |
ready so wei ratified by the demo.
cratic party.
In America, thank heaven, the ma
iority vote is decisive, and as the ma
oritY of the Mormons have decided
hat those high churchmen are guilty as
charged by that re-convened convention
10 further confirmation" is neces-
ary. In the Enquirer's ungusrded
tatement that ''Mr. Powers accuss-
ions" have been $50 well ratified by
he democr attic party is there not
ound complete vindication of the
democratic chairman's campaign?
BY implication our disreputable
leighbor claims that the republican
party has redeemed Utah, by proving
10 the nation that the statement of
more than $4,000 Mormon democrats
hat some of their chiefs have been
guiIty of a breach of good faith, is un-
rue. Let US examine the status of
he republican party for the evil
Iences of their right to thus
sy that those accusations are
and the consistency of
heir 30 doing, weiwill give that party
5000 of the Mormon votes, and which
S more than they really possess, The
'alance of the party is made up OF {
on-Mormons or the old liberal |
lement. About 1900 of them are the
Id apostate Mormons who, three years c
60, loved the church and its leaders /
hnryf oc uall nc tbo fro n tim oil ;Jaa &c | r