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HAD THEY BEEN COMMENDED.

Republican papers and speakers have
very much u say about the Dem ],
ratio convention and the cause of it
declaring there was TO c1usc for it
That there was no cause for a Repub.
lican conyen ion we admit, but not as
to a Democratic one.
These papers and speakers tell the
people that the remarks of President
Smith were in no way ill-adyiseI or i'm
proper, and that they had no reference
to politics; that II was a question of
what duty an honest man owes 70
those with whom he has made lawful
engagements Sucn being the case
those with whom the engagement was
made have a right to insist that it
shall be kept, and that if there is any
intention to depart from it they should
have a right to be consulted. A plain
case and no sophistry, apparently, and
nothing of which anyone can complain.
Let us suppose another case. What
would these same Republican papers
and speakers say if President Smith
had in that meeting said to the assem-
bled presidents of stakes and bishops.
that Moses Thatcher and B. H. Roberts
had been nominated to high political
offices, put that before consenting to
accept such nominations they had con-
suited the First Presidency as to the
wisdom of such a course and their
wishes in the matter, and the First
Presidency had said that it would be
wise to accept them and that they gave
their approval and blessing? Would
or would not these Republican papers
and speakers have said that it was
purely matter of church regulation
and it had no possible reference to pol
tics? They would have been so mad
and so infused with their higher law"
that instead of wanting to make the
desert to bloom as rose they would
have wanted to have turned it into a
bowling wilderness.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

Macmillan & Co., have issued new
uniform edition of Mrs. Molesworth s
Stories for Children" with illustra-
tons by Crane & Brooke. Single vol
umes of the set may be obtained at
81. Mrs. Wordsworth is a great favor
lite with the children. Her works are
refined, heaDthful in tone, superior in
rhetoric and absorbing in narrative. We
are in receipt of The Carved Lions, -
one of the series. The same firm issue
at $1.25 each, a powerful novel by Rolf
BalderWood and "a clever work by
Mrs. Brightwen on the Inmates of My
House and Garden" a work that will
appeal to lovers of nature by reason OF
its accurate and entertaining descrip-
ton Of many familiar object, in The an
inlal and vegetable world
'SuccesSward," a young mans book
for young men, by Edward W. Box,
editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; 81.
Published by Fleming II. Reveu COM
pany, New York, Chicago, Toronto He
has produced what we have long need
ed-a common sense book for young
men, written by a young man. All the
important phases of young mans
life are covered. "a Correct Knowl-
edge of Ones Self" What Really Is
Success" Social Life and Amuse-
ments,'' Sowing His Wild Oats"
MATTERS of Dress His Religious
Life" His Attitude Towards Women"
and The Question of Marriage, are
the titles of chapters.
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SENATOR TELLER AND SILVER.

According to the press dispatches
Senator Teller joins Senator Stewart
in the declara ton, that Republican sill
YER men will vote for a silver candi-
date for the Presidency and for no
other kind. This looks as though Teller
had reached the solid ground on which
Senators Jones and Stewart stand on
the silver question They declare:
There is no hope for silver in the
Republican party"
Tellers Republican friends, however,
anxiously explain that it does not fol-
low from the gentleman's announce
ment that he intends to forsake the
Republican party. That is true as
matter of argument, and may be true
as a matter Of fact. The main point,
however, is that a number of leading
Republicans have made up their minds
to vote for a silver President, and if
the Democratic, party dominates such
a candidate he will receive their sup
port.
1t is. a foregone conclusion that the
Republican party will not put forward
Sucu d man. IL Will Try TO CeInpOTlZe
and claim that it's nominee is a BIZ
metallist, so that they will placate the
bulk of the party. which assumes to
support bimetallism but will not do
SO without an international agreement
as to ratio and the amount of silver
coinage.
That being the case, the silver ma
jority of the Democratic party may
look for the assistance of many silver
Republicans, if they succeed in nomi-
mating a silver candidate for the Pres
idency. To that end Democratic ener-
gies Should be directed. And mean
while, silver Democrats should be sent
to Congress, and silver sentiments
should be promulgated in every state.
And it should be made sufficiently
clear to the people, everywhere, that
there is no hope for silver except in the
Democratic party.
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THE TRIBUNE AND this PEOPLE,

The toadying of the Tribune TO the
powers that be, its fulsome f1ayttery of
this people" a phrase that ii daily
rolls around in its mouth like a tooth
some morsel, is becoming nauseating.
Yesterday it had a sychophantish arti
Gle in which appeared this:
The people of This territory will take
notice that all this shame. suspicion
and abuse has been brought upon them
through the action of less than a dozen
Democrats in this territory, but that
true to Democratic precedent, the great
body of Democrats have Endorsed the
fraud and indorsed the insults to this
people, and they will respond ac-
cordingly, if they are men, 10y the votes
which they cast on the 9TH of next
month. If they do not teach the Demo-
Gratis such a lesson as they have not
received for long time, then we shall
begin to doubt the manhood of the men
of Utah exceedingly.
Whence this sudden love and praise
of ,tlds people?" There has been no
change in editorship or management.
1t was not always thus. We have no
desire to raise old issues, to recall old
bitterness. to revive the hard old
names, but it is well to put in iuxta-
position the sentiments of the Tribune
in this campaign and its sentiments in
the campaign of 1892 On October 81.
of that year, speaking of statehood, it
said:
1t is very dangerous experiment for
the people to try, where interests so di-
rectly clash. because talk as we please
here in Utah there was established
forty-fve years ago a government ex-
actly the opposite of a republican form
of government pure theocracv.
wherein there was to be a king, and
where that king did not command the
people by virtue Of his political power
but by virtue of a claim which he pre-
ferred, of possessing the divine right
to rule the people. With state
hood, what guarantee has any man
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HUMOROUS COMPARISONS.

If readers of the Republican paper
in this city want some amusement
they viii find it by turning over the
editorial pages Of that paper of recent
date, and comparing its various and
shifting utterances on the question
which has agatated the public mind for
a few weeks.
AS to the nomination of Moses
Thatcher as the choice of the Demo-
cratic party for a United States Sem
ator it took the ground that no person
holding a high official position in the
Mormon church was eligible for such
an Office. This it endeayored TO es-
tablish by sounding sentences intended
to show its Familiarity with Mormon
church organfzat ton and discipline, but
really exhibiting its dense Ignorance
of the subject.
Now it takes the ground that its
hostility to the nomination of Mr..
Thatcher was for the reason that it
was not genuine. That the gentleman
was named and his apparent accept
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THE SALT LAKE HHRALD.1 MONDAY. OCTOBER 2s 1895.

that they will not assert their authority
as of old?
Now it cannot sound too high nor toe
often the praises of President Cannon
On October %. 1892. it spoke of him in
these terms:
Now, if conditions have chang
en-, no one believe that Mr..
I Cannon has changed. 1t is only
/ four weeks ago last Sunday
since he said before a large meeting
! that conditions had changed, that con
ditions will change more still and tina
the Mormon religion will be preached
and practiced in its entirety. Is there
any hurry to precipitate that .upor
Utah? Is it best, knowing this power
that has been here from the first, te
do something to undo the work 0.
twenty years, and give that power tht
opportunity at least to assert itself in
all its old beliefs and practices?
On October 20, 1892. speaking of the
fitness of the people of Utah. the
Mormon people, for statehood. it said
If any absolute proof were needed OF
the unfitness yet of the Mormon peo-
pie to vote intelligibly-we mean the
great masses in the country-if any
proof were neeCed to supply the abso-
lutte evidence that Utah is not yet pre-
pared for statehood. the issuing of thi:
pamphlet called Nuggets of Truth,
and the replies made to it supply all
that is necessary.
Is it any worse to appeal to the Nor
mon people with such arguments as
the Nuggets of Truth" the Repub
lican party put them FORTH in 1S9!
than for the Tribune to say, in 1895,
that the teachings of the Mormon au.
thorities on home Industry at the
October conference are the Republican
doctrine of protection? Does the one
appeal to the reason more than the
other?
If the Tribune would pile on its
praise of the Mormon church and peo-
pie less lavishly, it being but week
to election day, people would give it
credit for more sincerity and less sell
fishness than they do.
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ance was made simply to deceive the
party to which he belongs, and that he
had no intention of serving in that
capacity. And taking another turn, it
dilates on the gentleman's i'll health to
show that he is unfit to take the re-
sponsibility of such a place, and offers
that as a reason for it's editorial OPP
position.
The active participation in politics of
other gentlemen holding equally high
ecclesiastical positions does not seem to
disturb our contemporary in the least.
Is that simply because their energies
are devoted to the Republican cause?
There is a little bit of history in
reference to one special Tribune edi-
torial against the election Of Nor
mon high church dignitary to politi-
cal office. 1t has been partly disclosed
and it may be necessary before the
campaign is over to tell it ALL"
Ostensibly aimed against Moses
Thatcher, it was intended to strike at
another shining mark, equally, if not
more prominent in the church. Was
there not some personal ambition be-
hind the writing of that editorial, and
does not the premature announcement
by the barrel candidate for the Senator
ship, work gratingly on the nerves Of
the writer as well as the person who
prompted the editorial in question?
Lockers on will find a great deal of
fun before the end of the agitation is
reached and thew should save copies
of our contemporary bearing on the
present issues if they wish to indulge
a taste for the humorous.
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Ttnh's Prospects.

Under the foregoing heading the st.
! Paul Pioneer Press discusses the question
| of the effect of equal suffrage on the
politics of Utah, claiming that 1t VIII
! strengthen the Mormon power and that
! in ali proba bility the AIornTOns will con-
! troll the state government for an inden-
mite time. 1t thinks that on this account
/ the constitution of Utah should be de-
/ feated and that the admission of the
proposed state should be delayed.
Very possibly equal suffrage viii
strengthen the Mormon vote, for ma
I jority of the women in Utah are Nor
mons, and women are much influenced
by their religious prejudices. Neverthe-
less the admission of Utah should not
be delayed. The hope of that territory is
in immigration, and It will have but little
increase in population through immigra-
ton as long as it remains under terri
torial government. For this reason if for
no other it's admission should be
But regard should be had also to the
rights of the people now living there
whether they are Mormons or GentileS.
! There is too great a disposition on the
part of Inhabitants Of other states to try
to determine for the citizens of less pop
ulous communities what shall be done
in matters purely of domestic or local
concern. The fact that a person is a
Mormon is no reason why his rights as
citizen should be withheld, unless he
violates the law in some way. A Mormon
who lives in obedience to the law has
do III Cu IlSHI uuQ6I lIlS SObElIlLICuL VI
the United States as a Methodist, a
Roman Catholic or a Baptist. His relig-
ion should not be made a ground for de-
NAL of his citizen rights.
The people of Utah have right to de-
termine for themselves whether they will
elect Mormons or Gentiles to office, and
while they ought not to make religion
a test, no citizen of Minnesota has a right
to deny them statehood because a MAJOR
ity of the voting population may prefer
Mormons to Gentiles to I'LL political Off
ces. 1t is a question not for Minnesota
but for Utah to decide.
The natural resources of Utah are so
great that its future may be left in safety
to the people of the prospective state.
They are the most deeply interested, and
it may be depended upon that they will
exert themselves to encourage immigra-
ton and to develop the resources which
nature has placed at their disposal. After
the state government is established i'm
migration will begin to flow in if wise
laws are enacted and enforced. It will
be otherwise if the laws are not made
with a view TO protecting the rights OF
the people The Mormons can see this
as clearly as any one else, and there Is
no danger that they will pursue a course
which would cripple the state and injure
their own material interests.-Denver
Republican.
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another convention, which has just met
and adjourned after adopting ringing
set of resolutions. The fact that the
Mormon church has antagonized the
Democratic party viii. it is thought. in
sure the election of the Republican can
didates, but the Democrats could afford
to lose a dozen elections rather than
ABANDON the principles which are en-
graved alike into American institutions
and the principles of Democracy.
Following is a part of the address
adopted by the Democrats as their bill
of rights" in Utah:
We declare the truth to be: That man
may worship his maker as his conscience
dictates.
lege
That's mans first allegiance. political
~, is to his country.
That no church, ecclesiastical body, nor
spiritual adviser should encroach upon
the political rights of the Individual
That IN free country no man. nor
state, use the name or the power OF any
religious sect or society to influence or
control the elective franchise.
That trust is imposed upon each cit
lzen, IN free country, to act politically
upon his own judgment and absolutely
free from control or dictation, eccleslas-
teal or otherwise.
No party can be required to obtain the
consent of any church, or the leader
thereof. before selecting its candidates
for public office
That no citizen, by reason of his asso--
citation with any church, can be absolved
from his duty to the state, either IN
times of war or times of peace, without
the consent of the state.
That all men should be, and of right
are, free to think, free to act, free to
speak. and free to vote, without fear
molestation, intimidation or undue in
duence.
Thus believing, whenever designing
men have seized upon the cloak of re-
ligion to hide from view their nefarious
designs, and while appealing to mans
spiritual faith have sought to direct his
political action for selfish ends, the DEM
ocratic party since it's organization has
denounced such a course. 1t has declared
in the past, and it declares NOW, for ev-
cry mans political freedom, whatever
may be the governmental views of those
who guide his spiritual welfare.
We, therefore, in the most solemn man
ner, say that we will not be dictated to,
interfered with. or hindered in our pohtl-
to us the consolation of gospel.-Kansas
City Times.
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THE MEETINGS ON WEDNESDAY.

The Democrats of Utah should bear
in mind that Wednesday. October Both.
is the date set for the meeting, in
every settlement. at which the address
adopted by the Salt Lake state conven-
ton is to be publicly read. with such
ceremonies as may be decided upon in
each locality. This ought not to be
neglected.
1t is desired that the principles enun-
ciated in that address should be fully
understood by all members of the
Democratic party, and by such other
persons as take sufficient interest in
the declarations of liberty contained
therein to attend the meeting.
There need be no fear among the ma
jority of the people of Utah that any
attack will be made upon the domi-
nant church or its leaders. That is
not contemplated. Nor would it be
in harmony with the spirit and pur-
sentiment on the question of the entire
separation of church and state is nee
essary. and that can be attained and
expressed at the general meetings on
Wednesday.
The interference in political affairs
complained of is that which has be-
come a common scandal in many
parts of the territory, and has been the
result Of a perversion. by minor
church officials, of the intent and lam
guage of their superiors. That it has
had very powerful effect on cleo
tons in this territory in recent years,
is so firmly believed by host of peo-
pie as to be a positive conviction
which no amount of argument or ex-
PLANTATION will remove. That this
should be stopped and perfect frank
ness in dealing with the matter shall
henceforth be the rule, we believe to
be the determination of the majority
of the citizens of Utah.
The meetings on Wednesday are to
emphasize this determination and pro-
claim that political liberty which is the
right of every citizen of this great re-
public. Equal freedom must be main
tanned in religious and political af-
fairs. The state must not interfere
with the church, nor must the church
interfere with the state Full liberty
for each in its own sphere is the SEN
timent set forth in the address, and
that is theme which should fire the
heart of every patriot, and in which
all good people can join without doing
violence to any creed and without
trespassing upon the rights or injuring
the feelings Of any true American.
Let the meetings be fully attended
and let there be no mistake in the
endorsement that shall be given of the
entire separation of church and state
in Utah!
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Mormon Chicanerx.

When the Democratic and Republican
parties held their conventions and nomi-
mated their candidates in Utah a month
or two ago it was supposed that the rep
RESERVATIONS made by the Mormon
church that it was not interested in and
would not interfere with politics if Utah
should be admitted as state, were made
in good faith, and both parties acted up
on its assurance
After the nominations were made,
however, and the conventions had adj
journed the president of the Mormon
church called down. the Democratic
candidates for senator's and congress-
man on the ground that they had not
asked the permission of the Mormon
church to run, as was required by the
laws of the church
The Democrats at once repudiated the
authority Of the Mormon church or any
other to control their acts, and called
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IT WAS a Republican candidate for
the Supreme Court who wanted to
know of prominent Republican if he
were trying to defeat him through
saloon influences. He was informed
that he was not trying to defeat him
through saloon Influences put that ne
should do all in his power to compass
his defeat. Not much encouragement
in that kind of an answer.
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FOR CITY couNC1LMEN.

First Precicnt-E. p. Newell, e. NJ
Weller, orson H, Petit.
Second Observation-Disclosures Rhodes
George z. Bourne, John Allen.
Third Precinct-Richard p. Norris,
Joseph nj. Watson, II. j. Hayward.
Fourth Precinct-W. II. Dale, RObt.
Patrick, ST., walter p. Jennings.
Fifth Precinct-RObert Morris, NJ.
L. nIu1vey, George E. WOO1ley.
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THE CEDAR RAPIDS ia }, Gazette says
mat "Since Clarkson began to talk of
himself for Senator from Utah there is
a strong sentiment in the territory
against statehood
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THE ENGLISH press does not like the
tone of the American press on the
venezuelan affair. and attempts to
pooh pooh the Monroe doctrine. Hon.
est, John Bull, it means business.
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IF THE county and precinct COM
nittees will work with the same srdor
end intelligence that the State COM
nittee is working under Joudge Pow
ers' guidance. victory will be assured.
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CITY TICKET.

Mayor-Francis Armstrong.
observation-disclosures L. Sloan.
Treasurer-GeOrge d. Piper.
Justice of the Peace-W. w. Gee.
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EVERY DEMOCRAT in salt Lake City
and throughout the territory should
illuminate his home next Wednesday
evening in accordance with the request
of Judge Powers. Let your lights
shine, FOR this is Democratic year."
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THE SENTIMENT of Hon. William E.
Gladstone-"May God, in his mercy.
send a speedy end to the governing
Turk and all his doings''-is the senti-
ment of the civilized Christian world.
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WE FREELY admit that the Tribune
has been consistent all the time in one
rnatter-lts advocacy of C. Z. Allen for
Congress. 1t advocated him three
years ago with more ardor than it does
now.
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A DEMOCRATIC Legislature will vote
for Rawlins and Thatcher for United
States Senators. Can any one say for
whom a Republican Legislature will
vote for United States Senator's?
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Hon. JOSEPH CHAMBERLIN's lingo
talk about Venezuela suggests the idea
that he has screw loose some
where
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4 Hftch Not ImprobabIe.

Utah may not be let in the Union inn
mediately. Hitches in proceedings of this
For exampie. Missouri fhree-onsrt ,l.S't Of
a century ago, was left out a few
months longer than she expected owing
to an unpleasantness between her and
-Coneress.-St Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-28

THE END Of the Durrant trial is in
sight. And the end of rope is in
sight for Durrant.
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THE CRISIS IN UTAH

The following extracts from our ex-
changes are furnished to our readers
that they may fully understand the
impression that recent occurrences
have produced throughout the country.
We do not wish to be understood as
putting these views forth as our own
or of endorsing them so far as they
msrepresent the actual state of the
citI1a tion.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-28

THE NEW YORK HERALD says that
prize fighting is dead in this country
Unfortunately the prize fighters are
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NOT THE woman with the snub nose
but she with the long straight one does
the most snubbinG.