The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-22
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- the Kingdom of fallen greatness. vox reprobi. vix diabolici"
 Calhoun got off with reprimand, the burden of which was that he ought to read section 8. article 1. of the Con- stitution. after which perusal, God who cooled the heat of Nebuchadnez- ser's furnace or shut the mouth of the lion for the honor of a Daniel, will raise your mind above that narrow mo- ton that the general government has no power, to the sublime idea that congress. with the President as execu- tor. is as almighty in It's sphere as Je- hovah Is tn his."
 This injunction to one familiar with Mormon phraseology is evidently a paraphrase from the Fourth of July speech of Sydney Rigdon. delivered at Far West, Mo, in 1888.
 At public meeting in Nauvoo on February :. 1S44. W. w. Phelps, one of the lay Mormons. road a long address, setting forth Smiths political views, and week later. February IS, The Times and Seasons announced, For President, Gen. Joseph Smith, of Nau- voo." The Neighbor. another Mormon paper, completed the ticket by nam- ing James A. Bonnet of New York City for the Vice-Presidency. On March 27 however, Bennett's name was dropped and the second place on the ticket was given to Sydney Rigdon.
 Mormon Platform.
 The Mormon platform. written by Rigdon and the two Pratts, is certain ly curiosity to the readers of this day. or course, its first provision was the punishment of the Missourians, They were to feel the sword of the civil law, if possible. but in default of that they were to be turned over to the buffetings of satan for 1000 years The following remedies were recommended for Americas political ills:-
 1. The membership of Congress was to be reduced 50 per cent. and the pay Of the members fixed at $2,oo per day.
 2. Every convict. State and Federal. was to be pardoned. and the future punishment for felons was to be work ed on public concerns. chiefly the
 3. The slaves were to be gradually emancipated by 1850, their owners to be reimbursed out of the surplus from the sale of public lands and funds sav- ed by the reduction of the pay of rep resentatives.
 {. A national bank was to be estab- lished, the officers of which were to receive $2.o0 per day. The currency of the bank was to be limited to the amount of capital stock and interest in her vaults"
 5. The President of the United States press mobs by the use of the govern ment troops. .f
 6. Every lawyer as soon as he could repent of his past iniquities and obey the ordinances of heaven, was to be sent to preach the Gospel to the desti. tute without purse or scrip"
 !. The Federal Constitution was to spread from ocean to ocean, and the United States was to give a welcom- ing hand to Texas, Mexico and Cana da.
 Campaign Methods.
 The conduct of the campaign was characteristic of Mormon methods The ablest members of the church i'm. mediately took the field for the ticket o. P. Rockwell. who had been acquit- ted of the attempted assassination oi Gov. Boggs, of Missouri, and who was destined for an infamously cruel ca. reer in Utah, was sent to Kentucky John D. Lee, who was legally shot on March 23, 1877, for the Mountain Mead ows massacre, was assigned to Ten nessee and given as a colleague Will liam II. Dame. afterwards famous as the leader of the Destroying Angels John D. Lee began his stump speaking In St. Louis. The brothers, Lorenzo and Warren Snow who were to earn a unique infamy in Utah, were sent to New York and the Central Lake re- zion.
 And 1t is of interest to know that the most famous man ever connected with Mormonism was not forgotten, for Brigham Young was hard at work In New Hampshire, predicting the election of the Prophet and annihila- tion of the Missourians. Had he been in Illinois during that turbulent week in June. Smiths life might have been saved, for Young was the executive genius of Mormonism. just as Rigdon and the Pratts were its publicists and intellectual leaders.
 So far as contemporary newspapers are to be relied upon. outside of Ilu- nois there were only two meetings held to further Smiths candidacy, one fin Memphis. Tenn. and the other in the Melodeon Hall at Boston on July 1. is44. after the prophets death, but be- fore the news of that tragedy had reached the East. The latter meeting gained wide notoriety on account of an attempt of a gang of rowdies to mob its chief speakers.