The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-11-27
NO HALFWAY WARFARE.

II was the pronouncement of GER
tain male and female favorites of the
chief hierarch-which fayorltes were
sitting in the recent State convention
of the Republican party-that Hon.
Daniel Harrington. also delegate, had
apostatized from the Mormon church
when he offered n resolution condemn
ing union of church and State. And
yet Mr.. Harrington remains on earth,
and presumably calls himself both a
Republican and Mormon.
Anathema may be delivered by lips
that burn-thcmselves without scorch-
ing the object of the curse. And evi-
IDENTIFY other Republicans are not
appalled, by the threat of eternal dam
nation, which was covertly conveyed in
to the word "apostate, Z Some OF
them have organized TO secure as liv-
ing fact. the declaration of Inc Con-
stituton that "no church shall domi-
nate the State or interfere with its
functions. - GlaDcing over the list of
officers it is discoverable that nearly
all are Mormons or of Mormon antece-
dents; and il is to be expected that.
Smoot, as an apostle, will be empow
cred by the chief hierarch TO consecrate
them TO hell-fre and damnation.
Well, what of it? The tongues that
utter the scorching condemnation are
themselves scorched. The hicrarchs of
the Mormon church arc the real apos-
tates-apostate from country and apos-
tate from their own religion. Their
own confession, extorted from tbem to
protect themselves, is proof of this fact.
The so-called United Republicans, who
have assumed to exercise the preroga-
tives of individual citizenship, banding
themselves together to assert princi
pie of civic right, may afford to laugh
at the false prophets whose lash is SUI
perstitlon, whose argument is curse and
whose purpose is graft IN the name of
| God.
| But when one has said this much it is
only fair TO ask these United Republi
cans how they can expect TO make good
on their profession of principles in
this State9 Their assumption is that
within the Republican party the needed
reform may be wrought out But at
the threshold they are confronted by
the fact that there is no Republican
party in Utah. There is a machine, or
ganized and operated by ecclesiasts to
achieve the political and
| otherwise-of the Mormon church, The
ecclesiasts control and will continue to
control that machine, United Republi.
| cans remaining within the organization
which now is dominated by the hicr-
archs will themselves be subdued and
dominated when they appear in State
convention. The misnamed Republi-
can party in Utah has not been built
up and sustained by the hierarchs for
the purpose of having its power turned
against them. To suppose that United
Republicans can take this machine and
operate it against the interest of the
hierarchs is folly. Even should they be
able to swell their ranks to the point
where they would have ascendency in
State convention (and that is entirely
out of the question: the moment they
| placed their ticket in the field the
hierarchs would abandon this machine
and organize another-taking their
voters with them-to effect their pur-
poses.
The attitude of the United Republi.
cans is inconsistent; they apparently
start upon journey and stop at a half
way house with no possibility of reach
ing the ultimate while they remain in
| that indefinite place. 1t is as if one