The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-20
WOULD NOT VOTE
FOR AN APOSTLE
Neither Would He Vote For a
Methodist Bishop.
PLAIN TALK BY UTAH PASTOR
PRECEDING REGULAR
EVENING SERMON ON HELL
Special to The Heraldl

/ n UREhA, Jan. 1S--ReV. D. NJ Hell
! + mick, pastor of the Methodist
church. in a brief discourse on
The Present Crisis in Utah." last
night took the ground that the fight
that is being made against Apostle
Shoots candidacy for the United
States senate cannot be successful, at
the same time aligning himself against
Shoots asDira tions because he is a
high churchman. Referring to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's interference in Utah
politics, he said he was never more
angry in his life at any person than
when a man assumed to dictate by ad-
vising how he should vote 7 won
dered if he thought I was an ignor-
anus and did not read the newspap ers
and keep posted with current events.
There are thousands of others just like
me who would resent such insinuauOnS.
As free American citizens we like to
use our elective franchise according to
our own judgment. am not an old
man, neither am I a spring chicken,
but have lived a sufficient number of
years to gain some knowledge by ex-
perlence and observation.
Too Much Zeal.
There is an old saying that Expert
ence is a dear school: fools learn at
no other That saying seems to be as
true today as when first uttered Some
persons by their zeal have defeated the
very cause which they desire to ad-
vance, and sometimes the reverse Of
this is the case. advancing the object
which they intended to defeat Had
been member of the Salt Lake Min
isteriaI association I should have voted
against the resolution adopted by that
body during the last campaign, ana
not that I was not in sympathy with /
all that the resolution contained, not /
because I am a coward, either. for
don't believe that I know what cow
ardice is; but l have learned by expert !
ence that eXpediency sometimes IS a |
wise measure 20 adopt, especially when \
assured that the object 10 /
be desired would be surely defeated by /
the action taken"
Object Lesson in Iowa.
The speaker then referred to a case I
in point in the state of Iowa, where he |
resided. It was during a campaign in Z
which the liquor question was the para /
mount issue. The four Methodist con-
ferences. the Baptist conventions and 4
two or three FTesbyteries in that state I
adopted very strong resolutions agaihst ]
a certain party and its can
1ldates for the position they were TAX 4
ing on the liquor question AS a result /
the very object they designed to &C
was overwhelmingly defeated
at the polls. At another election a
Methodist preacher with as pure a
character as is to be found anywh ere
was put at the head of one of the DO
itical parties III the state. and of The
200 votes in TIE four conferences, the
speaker questioned if the said candi-
'ate received fifty votes.
Jealous of Rights.
$50 jealous are the American people
If their liberties that they will not toll
rate the least infringement upon the
foundation principles OF our govern
nent. the separation of state and
'hurch
You ask me, had I the right to vote
or United States senator would I vote
or Apostle SmOOt for that office. Il
ay emphatically No and not that he
5 or is not pOlygamist or has or has
lot taken an oath which in my mind
night disqualify him for the position,
'ut because he is an ordained preacher
nd a high official representing = re
igiOuS organization.
You ask would I vote for Bishop
Warren of the Methodist Episcopal
hurch. than whom there is no Durar
nan any where, for the Office Of United
states senator. I say emphaHcalIy
No. And this is the feeling of the
majority of the voters of the United
tates."
Utah All Right.
He urged mis- congregation nOc TO lose
ny sleep over this country going 10
he bow-wOws. Not in our dav or the
ext generation will the people of the J
TEited States submit to the domination Y
T dictatiOn of the Mormon church or {
ny other ecclesiastical body IN the I
resent crisis Utah herself may suffer 7
5 a state from the unwise action. but 7
he viii OutgrOw II in time
These remarks preceded the regular !
vening sermon, the subject of which / [
as He'll r