Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-29

and "hifalutin' paragraphs. they would
perceive easily how ridiculous is the
charge that Is so frequently reiterated
Every voter has the secret ballot No
one can tell in what way or for whom
he casts II at the polls No one Is
able TO produce either written or yer.
bal dictation or advice from the Presi-
dent of the Church to It's members con-
corning political parties or candidates.
Nor can any one find a Mormon who
has been ordered or required to vote in
certain way The unrenecting
crowds that shout themselves hoarse
about Church rule and hierarchy
and the rest Of It. exhibit the grossest
ignorance Of the facts IN the case. and
a blind willingness 10 ioiu In the dis
cordant noise started by individuals
who seek to bring them into a bondage
that win hold them In real political
letters.
This whole tempest that has been
raised by disappointed politicians who
having failed In their ambitions now
seek to recoup their faded influence
has for its elimination the control Of
city affairs II they could gain their
object by Church influence" they
would be the first to crawl on their
hands and knees to the authorities
whom they call "hierarchs, 10 beg
for those coveted favors. But they know
by repeated and bitter experience that
such attempts would be vain They
have tried II again and again TO their
own discontinue The people who are
following them with a view to obtain
ing Office would jump at the chance
Of obtaining Church influence" II they
were sure of gaining It. The crowd
that BE- Joining IN The howl about "hier-
archy' and giving aid TO the disrcput-
able yllliaers and ibeers Of men whom
they would how down to II such abase-
mut would Doe available, exercise
about as much reason as do the mobs
that are aroused to fury at a lynching.
We believe, however, there are some
among them who were carried away
by the furore Of the moment. who did
rot fully sense the import Of the So
called platform" and who when they
comprehend what II Implies, VIII re-
rudiate II and show their contempt
for 1t at tho polls. II is 80 utterly
false IN It's acuslngs and 50 compromis.
ing 10 its supporters that every sane
and woll-inforned citizen OF salt Lake
should see It's villainy and its absurd
ity.
The invitation extended to Nor
mons to unite with this vituperative,
fren2ied and false-nccusing combIna-
tion. is enough TO make a marble
statue smile Every Mormon" foolish
enough TO accept It admits that he has
been a slave, bowling down to prIestly
dictatlon I'm political matters, having
no mind or soul of his own, but moved
hither or thither according to the
whim Of a monster having the awful
name ~ 'tIierarch." He therefore
ccnfesFes to a fasehood and Joins with
the avowed foes Of hIs religion. who
are cndcayrng to arouse the country
for the destruction Of that to which he
has devoted his lie and interests. and
that relates to his eternal welfare. And
all non" Mormons' who support this
so'called platform and so-called party,
Identify themselves with the unwar-
ranted, untruthful, indecent and abom~
Unable language and methods that have
been employed In the attacks that have
pecn made upon gentlemen and
Church that hnye never injured them,
interfered with their business or in
truded upon their Affairs IN any man
her whatever.
The movement il an avowed on,
slaught upon the Mormon" church.
and particularly It's leaders and It Is
upon that account that we give to II
any attention. No gentleman what
ever may be his religion or his politics,
can conscientiously or decently be as
ISOLATED with or give countenance to a
faction with such a misnomer.