The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-02

way has led out into the darkness
where not one ray Of light could be
seen to guide those who struggled on.
But through the gloom there unexpect-
edly appeared the modern Star of
Bethlehem that like the beacon light
to those that traverse the pathless
highways OF the seas, has guided them
onward to the port of safety. Those
events are the testimonies that. in
connection with the impregnable
truths of the gospel, have convinced
many of us of the Divine nilsson of
s9-called Mormonism.
If the gospel be divine, it stands to
reason that He who guides the destiny
of this people, needs not the aid OF
duplicity and double-dealing on the
part of His servants to accomplish the
ultimate triumph of His work. We will
speak in plainness and at the same
time in a spirit of kindness on the
matters that now convulse this peopele,
To sthose who look with unbiasd
eyes at the political events since the
division movement, are thoroughly
convinced that high churchmen have
used their great influence both in pub
lie and private to change the political
complexion of Utah, The motive that
prompted the desire for IL at change is
found in the fact that Utah was over
whelmingly democratic. At the time
of the division movement, the nation
was republican. The leaders of the
church and the people desired
statehood, and President Joseph
f. Smith explained the situation
when he SAID if he We're the republican
party, and knowing that Utah was
hopelessly democratic and she applied
for admission into the union, he would
shut the door in her face. In order to
secure admission into the union it
became necessary to roll up a repub-
lican majority. An apostle took the
stump; Nuggets OF Truth were used; a
bishops recommend was made to DO
service; and the message went ous to
the doubtfuls that Zion needs your
votes" We do not desire our readers
to infer that those that carried those
messages really believed that Zion and
republicanism were synonymous and
interchangeable terms.)
No other verdict can be drawn from
those efforts of high ecclesiasts than
that compact was entered into by
certain ambitious men that Utah
should be made republican. That
those men were not inspired in their
political work, is proven by the fact
that the United States furnished a
democratic landslide. That should
have proven to those men that God
had rebuked them. But like the le-
gend of the man during the food, it
was belieYed the democratic landslide
'woldn't be much of shower" And
that hope found comfort in the culmin-
atop of republican policy In the panic
of 1898, and the results of the elections
that took place the ensuing fall. Ex-
ertions toward the fulfllment of that
unrighteous compact were continued
until the ''disciplining" incident of the
priesthood meeting, when the climax
was reached in the rebellion of at least
rs, 900 Mormons against continuation
of methods they k1lew had been in pro-
gress during three years.
1t was hoped and prayed that the
mighty protest of majority of the
people of the Mormon church would be
ample to convince those high church
men that interference in their pol
itics must cease. But "blindness in
part had come to Israel" Apostles
John Henry Smith and George Q. Can
non bitterly attacked the democratic
chairman, and insulted the democracy
of Utah by calling them troops of
men and women" who were following
their chosen political leader. Even
the weakling Seymour B. Young, had
to toady to his superiors by chipping
in" with dastardly slur.
President Cannon emphatically de-
nied having said that which was at
tributed to him. until confronted |
by uaImpeachable evidence that
ne had done SO. We do not now
refer to that incident to further
mortify MIR. Cannon, but because
in that mysterious lapse of memory
there is evidence of Power higher
than human thought. In that incident
there is found the unmistakeable eyi-
dence of inspiration, not in President
Cannon's denunciation of democrats.
but in that otherwise inexplicable
period during which President Cannon
was talking and did not know what he
vas saying. That incident absolutely
ind forever set at rest the great truth
or which democrats have contended
Ill along that those men hare used their
in politics, THE voice of the
,eople is the voice of God" The ma
ority of the Mormon people are demo.
rats and when with united voice they I
ose up and rebuked some of their .
eaders, it was the voice of Deity 5
peaking to His erring servants. That J
hey were Obdurate; that they were |
marting under that rebuke: that they 1
Eere unable to read the handwriting /
n the wall, is proved by the Brigham {
ity incident. 1t is finished. In the