The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-22
BUT ONE REAL PARTY.

| IN Utah, and that is the American par.
ty, 1T represents the only vital issue
IN this State or community. It's banner
Is flung wide for liberty, for good faith,
for the supremacy Of the law, and for
the independence of political and civil
affairs from church interference, con-
| troll, or domination.
| The opposition to this is divided into
two main divisions, one the church po-
lltical activity falsely sailing under the
name of the Republican party, and the
other the church political activity
falsely sailing under the name of
| Democracy.
To the first, from all the signs at
present, the election in this State is
to be gwen this year, and to 1t the
church controlled vote will go in this
county. Apostle Reed Smoot, with a
| lot of midgety interiors, has con-
structed a powerful machine, or rather
| has put to use for his political ma.
| chinery, working equally well for both
so-called parties, the Mormon church
| organiza ton, with its apostles, seven.
ties, stake presidencies, ward bishops,
| and their counselors and book teach
ers. With this machinery he can al
most instantly communicate to all the
subservIent people his wishes He has
an organ, too. an official mouthpiece,
whose course is so false, so crooked,
and so narrow that even the State
committee of its own so-called party
was obliged to condemn it as merely a
personal mouthpiece, and not a party
organ treating all members of its party
fairly. The tips for the action of this
party always come from Smoot, and
though the figure heads of the COM
mlttees and National campaign man.
ayers are always supplied the real
work of the campaign, the practical
control of the voters, goes on under
ground, and the ornamental head
pieces know little or nothing about what
is coming until after election they see
the returns,
Likewise the same dominance (Presi-
dent Smith says there is no such thing
as Smootism, and that whoever attacks
Smootism attacks the Mormon church)
controls the Democratic church activity
This was by the church given the VIC
tory in our municipal election of 1903,
and but for the American party it
would have been given the victory
again in 1905, although, judging from
the tremendous Republican, vote of
Salt Lake In 1904, a Democratic VIC
tory here in 1905 was political impos-
sibility But both OF the church activi-
ties underrated the American party
strength here, and they both lost in
1905. This Democratic church activity
also has an organ, but this dare not, for
fear of offending It's church political
masters, support the Democratic ticket
in Idaho, ticket nominated with per
feet regularity and on q clear and
strong Democratic platform.
There is, of course, underlying the
church political activities, the up-
avowed and unexpressed ecclesiastical
political position, Both of the falsely
named parties are made the tools
and catspaws for the church political
activities, and both in fact represent
the hidden views and inexcusable pur.
poses of the hierarchs. Their views
represent past, present and future re-
pudiation of obligations, broken
pledges, bad faith, defiance of law, and
the determination to rule this State, in !
all its functions and divisions, by the
priesthood; TO control enough votes of
the faithful to sway every election, and
to maintain the prieStcraft grip upon
the whole people in their political, civil,
and business affairs, as the leaders
openly and assuredly have control of
the temporal affairs of their own sub
Jects in the church.
That is the underlying, persistent, !
powerful opposition to Americanism |
and the American party ideas in Utah. |
1t is depravity and villainy that must |
of course be kept hidden, as every In
dependent man would strike at it |
wherever it showed its undisguised |
front The cover must be kept on this
loathsome. seething corruption By
the church leaders, or else every
Gentle and multitudes of we'll
meaning Mormons would be as
founded Al the revolving deprav-
ity and base purposes revealed, and
would revolt from the church rule 80 I
the fiction of political parties must be
kept mp by the church in order to hide
its deprayity and reasonable purposes
and to cloak its lsw.defying purposes
And these are the reasons why there
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the American party.