Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-10-27

protest of any small section Of that
party that it does not agree with such
policy not only futile, but is mis-
leading. ts
Situation Here. ~
The republican party in Utah at it's
last state convention gave decided
rebuke to efforts to inject into the
state platform criticism of Mormons
exercising full pollucal privileges
while the democratic party in Utah at
| its last state convention committed it.
self to the virtual Acknowledgement of
a portion of the Mormon people by
declaring against Mormons who may
hold church position exercising their
constitutional right to the full privil-
eyes of citizenship. The democratic
state platform there adopted applies a
religious test to Mormons for office, in
violation of the national constitution,
and gives direct encouragement to the
! fight of the democracy in Idaho for
the Acknowledgement of the Mormons.
b" Republicans and Democrats.
| So far as it has been able, the re-
publican party nationally, by it's con-
troll of legislation in congress, by its
Chicago platform, and by the voice
and action of all its strong representa-
tives on the United States senate COM
mittee on privileges and elections, has
declared in favor of the Mormon peo-
/ pie retaining and exercising the full
rights of citizens, in common with
other people in this nation; the repub-
lican party in Idaho, being an integral
part of the national republican party
is in accord Herewith, and is now
leading the fight for preserving the
rights of the Mormon people; the re-
publican party of Utah, being a part
of the same national republican party,
is in harmony Herewith, and is out
spoken in upholding the rights of Nor
mons in common with those of all
other citizens. On the other hand, so
far as it has been able the democratic
party nationally, by it's st. Louis con-
vention platform, by the unanimous
vote of it's senators on the senate COM
mittee on privileges and elections, and
by the efforts of its leaders in con-
gress to diSfranchise the Mormons in
Arizona and New Mexico and to eX-
clude Mormons from entering the
United States as immigrants has de-
clared against the Mormon people; the
democracy of Idaho, being part of the
national democratic party, and in ac-
cord Herewith, is leading the fight
against the Mormon people; the dem
ocarcy in Utah an inseparable part of
the national democratic party, and in
harmony herewith so far as it has
ventured to express itself, has not
dared to utter word in protest
against the attack of the democratic
party elsewhere on the rights of the
Mormon people, but as far as it's ut,
terances have gone these are in the
line of encouraging and abetting that
attack on the Mormons.
Ultimate Truths.
Summoned up, the above facts show
conclusively that the republican party
J throughout the whole nation is united
in defending the rights of the Mormon
people as citizens. On the other hand,
they also show that the democratic
party throughout the whole nation,
: with, perhaps, the exceptions of the
democrats in Utah, is antagonstic to
: and arrayed against the Mormon peo-
pie. In fact there is no difference in
this respect between the so-called
: American" party and the democratic
party Even in Utah, while the DEM
: ocratic party has not declared for the
wholesale Acknowledgement of the
Mormon pnOn1p II hoe danlara6 pran-