The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-05
VILENESS CoNINIENDS PURITY

Governor Cutler delivered a sort OF
semi-poitIcal address in tho Third
ward meetIne-house in this city on
Sunday evening last. In the course
OF IL he spoke the following words,
which may be taken as a keynote To
the political part of his discourse;
You are the coming citizens OF
Utah. Do your duty, II is a proud
heritage YOU arc receiving. Show
yourselves fully worthy of it Work I'm
political matters, but be fair and open.
Be clean I'm your work and politics
Will therefore be clean"
1t would have been better that some
other speaker than Governor Cutler
had given utterance to these senti-
ments; for he himself is a conspicu-
ous example in his official capacity
Of the triumph OF the very reverse
sort OF principle TO that which he
comm ended. OF the most evil and de-
graded political manipulation ever
seen In this State, and seldom sur
passed anywhere.
Governor Cutler was nominated to
ton notoriously swayed by evil ma
nipuletlon, and the votes which NOM
mated him were obtained through the
failure OF delegates TO follow the trust
that their constituents had placed In
them. The vast majority Of delegates
elected to that convention had never
supported Governor Cutler or his can
didacy, and on fair, straight
forward submission Of his claims. his
nomination would have been out OF
the question. A number OF those who
finally voted for him supposed that
they were voting for his brother. Mr..
7. r. Cutler. who has for years been
prominent in the beet sugar Industry
in this State.
On the arrival OF the delegates from
the different counties of the State 10
attend the convention at which
Governor Cutler was nominated. they
were herded into Smoots headauar-
ters, and there every allegiance TO the
candidates which their constituents
preferred was assailed, and i'm too
many cases broken II was broken
by the express application OF the thus
saith the Lord" proposition Apostle
Smoot, in his capacity as a member Of
the Twelve. is prophet. seer, and reve-
lator. Those delegates who were
brought before him were impressed
with the application of their church
fcalty to the case i'm hand. II they
believed that Apostle Smoot was a
prophet, seer, and revelator, tand
those herded IN did so belieye,) they
necessarily believed that he knew bet
ter than they did what they ought TO
do. In his capacity as such il was his
privilege to absolYe them from any
previous allegiance that they had
given to any other candidate and to
square them with their constituents
for any betrayal OF trust which they
were committing In voting for some
other candidate than the one to whom
they were pledged at the time Of their
election. The sway OF Apostle Smoot
as prophet, seer, and revelator over
the delegates elected by that conven-
ton was the power which nominated
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as vicious, as damnable an In
stance of slum politics and indecent
political intrigue as was ever seen in
any State OF the Union. Tammany of
New York, noted for its corruption
and its selfish political methods, never
surpassed in indecent invasion OF the
rights and dignity of delegates and
the political rights of other candidates
and of the people OF this State, the
actions of Apostle Smoot in his giving
the nomination for Governor TO Mr..
| Cutler.
Governor Cutler knows all this He
knows the dirty pool through which
he was dragged TO his present official
| position; and yet he has the gall to
! get up and affect purity motive and
| a high phase OF political morality
which was entirely wanting In his own
! case 1t is as shameful an exhibition of
! gall and of the eternal unfitness of
| things for Governor Cutler TO put
| forth such sentiments as are above
| quoted, as was ever seen in this world.
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