The Evening dispatch. [volume] (Provo, City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1895-11-07

Is. 900 Mormons, according to the En-
luirer, have voted with 5000 or 1000
nom Mormons against the truth of the
OF those high churchmen
by Is, 900 NJ ormons who know what
they are talking about. In the vote of
those eX-liberals we find food for hilar-
ity and feeling of supreme contempt
for them and their verdict. In the
first place they now find themselves in
the position of men that are today en-
dorsing condition of things that is in
fnitely worse than conditions against
which they screamed, yelled and
fought less than three years ago. That
class once strained at gnat and today
are receiving the plaudits of the thing
across the block for having swallowed
an alligator. And that is the class to
whom the Enquirer gives the credit
of having redeemed Utah! In all can
dor are democrats being tried by a
jury of their peers?
Now, we will say to our hair-brained
neighbor. that $4,000 of those $4,000
MormOns who just voted the ''rebuke"
t. $4,000 of their brethren, knOeO that
the charge against those high eccles-
lasts for meddling in politics and of
winning votes from the democratic
party because "Zion"-the pure in
heart--needed them, is true IN every
particular. And further, they also
kraow that one of them has conceded that
he tried to get votes for ''Zion"-Jhe
pure in heart-alias the republican,
party. Those $4,000 MormOns also
know that one of those high cburchmen
has confessed to uSing-while in state
Of singular and explicable somnam-
bulism-his great influence to further
the interests of "Zion's" party-the
republicans. Ana we say right here
that we kn on that the 1000 ex liberals
knOW that unholy influences have been
been used by high churchmen against
the democratic party. And we further
knOaU that a host of them voted for the
Enquirer's alleged "rebuke." for the
express purpose of proving the SINGER
ity of the Mormon democrats. And
We will say here and now, that it is a
God-send to the Mormon church as a
whole, that Mormon democrats have
been true to each other true to their
church, true to their truth and honor
and true to the God of Israel.
And in their heroic devotion to truth
and honor, and in their fealty to the
Almighty, the democratic party has re-
deemed this fair state from the last
stain of dishonor brought upon it by
men who should have held their prom
ises sacred, and from the hypocrisy Of
the Salt Lake Tribune and the lead
ers of the republican party that have
affected to disbelieve that the stain
existed.
Now, if the Enquirer has got even
one grain of deeency left, we
ask it to exercise it, and shut up its
hippopotamus-like mouth on the SUBJ
ject of who redeemed Utah."
But few, indeed, know that Utah
slunbered on volcano that, but fol
the united voice of the Mormon de-
mocracy, would have belched forth the
old liberal fires of animositY, and
Utah would have been once more
sfame on the old issues. The democ-
racy Of Utah extends the hand Of cen
graduation to those old ex-liberals,
and with hearts swelling with graft
tude, thanks them for voting the way
they have. Democracy is grateful for
the privilege of performing, unaided,
the redeemlng act. And while the
Utah democracy cannot hand over the
young state to her sisters as demo
cratic commonwealth, there is not q
thought of bitterness or malice in
their inability to do so. With graft
tude to God for this mercy to Utah in
her great peril, the democracy rever-
emily uncoveres its head, and in
spirit of humility and resignation
will look calmly on while an unholy
compact is being consummated and
the goods are being delivered. In SO
doing they feel that posterity will yet
rise up and call those troops of linen
and women" BLESSED.