The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-20
AS TO CHURCH REPUBLICAN" !"

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| We arc in receipt of the following
letter from well known citizen OF
| Utah county, one who is not now and
never has been in tho least inclined 20
hide his light under bushel:
Spanish Fork, Utah. Nov. II.
Editor Tribune;-Now that the cam
/ paisn is over L and others would Ike TO
justice, and for that purpose address your
paper. ! wish to enter my earnest pro-
test against being dubbed n Church, Re-
publican, Not that l expect that II VIII
! really hurt me, but when We are IN
suited by being called names for the
, purpose OF casting slur upon us. Tor
In Kansas. Lincoln had been nominated
for President. Although / was not old
enough to vote, Joined in the parade
iicans and other vile names But Lincoln
was elected, the South went Into re-
hellion and when Lincoln called for 3OO,uuo
raised IN Troy, Kan, and went TO the
front We were then called Lincoln
hlrelings." We stood it all. and when
for Lincoln Tor Presidenr- This was in
1864. At the next election / was for
Grant, and the Republican theory OF
Sa eR voed oS for
every Republican President. and for the
policy OF the party till l came TO Utah
nomiSsted nc nina found S' no Tr paTty sa Sere
went to work and organized what we
called the Harrison and Morton Repub--
It's president and the: late Benjamin
Bachman secretary and treasurer We
prepared a set OF Republican principles
and invited every one who would subscribe
that we could induce 70 join. In fact.
there were but two who did, One was
the present senator, Reed ,smoot 1t was
then. / believe, he made his maiden
Republican speech. All the liberal Re-
pu5lic2ns Joined, including the other sen,
with the Republican party OF Utah. up TO
the State convention held at Mount
Pleasant I was on the committee on
resolutions The present postmaster of
Salt Lake City was It's chairman. a set
Of resolutions favor-ne free silver was
prepared. / tried 10 amend II ny in6oTs-
81 Louis upon which Mckinley was NOM
mated. Ii was refused. Thomas reported
the silver platfornl l brought in minor
ity report, which was voted down 4
Vcntloo placed a candidate in the field
on silver platform. l did not consider
1t was Republican, and did not vote
Tor any congressman; The State went
Tor Bryan. / was thcn called a gold
bug Republican. And now when wish
10 vote for Taft and Republican principles
ciples in Congress land II there was any
other way than 10 vote the ticket Officially
recognized | do not know ip you try
10 cast a slur upon me by calling mc a
Now. I wish to say that Joseph 2
Smith, Reed Suoot nor The Salt Lake
Tribune cannot dictate 20 me In the least
as 70 the way I shall vote. ! would very
tell them or either OF them
10 mind their own business, and that 1
would attend 10 mino as | thought ft.
iNar ie riN - ,,,,..
can come between me and my country.
My patriotism is as strong today as 1t
ever was. love the flas. 1 have fol-
lowed it and know what It means |
teach my children the same. am a
loember of the G. a. r My sands OF
life viii soon be run and when am
carried TO my last resting place ] wish
the old flag 20 be placed upon my bier
and my old comrades 70 follow, and why9 |
Because that flag. ard the cause for
which my comrades fought. represents the |
srandest nation on the face OF the globe. |
! am proud OF my political history. !
proud that my first vote was cast for the |
greatest man OF this age, Abraham Lin |
coin. Proud that ! responded TO his call |
Tor troops. proud that ] have been true |
10 Republican principles without any !
varying, and as long as I survive this |
past In Utah perhaps I shall have 10 !
adopt the motto Of the State 1 served;
'Ad aStra per aspcra.'
We are not aware that we have spoken
Of Mr., Saxey in this connection or tried !
TO cast any sluTs upon him, either by |
calling him church Republican or
otherwise. But we see no impropriety,
on the contrary distinct fitness, in
calling the party that is controlled by !
The church, the church Republican |
narty; or the church Democratic party,
as the case may be, where that control
IS exercised. As an adhercnt and will |
.ng unit OF that party, Mr.. Saxey, of
course, is at liberty TO take to him.
self such olium as he thinks is con
lected with the name. In the /
in which he INDUCES from
being called ''black Republican" a
Lincoln hireling," etc, the writer of
his is on precisely the same footing as
Mr.. saSey- But at no time was he ever
shagrined or bothered in tic least by
such names as those. It made DO diff |.
ference to him how much people called /
aim black, as long as be Was not black,
md meant Dothing black. 1t made no
Inference 10 him how much people
,alled him a ''Lircolp hireling" when
&c went into the war without any re-
gard whatever to money, leaving a po-
,ition that paid four or Eve times what
lc got for his army service. The fact
hat Mr. Saxcy has lived through all
hat period of name.caIling and obloquy
shows that he has not been hurt in the
cast by II. Why! Because those names
we're merely intended for insults. and
lad no particular meaning as applied to
lim or 10 others in his class. SO that
& made no difference what the enemies
If the Union. or copperheads of the
North or tho plotters against the gov
,rnment from whatever section said,
,r the insults they delivered,
Why, then, is there objection tc the
lame "Church Republican, and, why
hou!d the name be usedl Simply
because that is the true description Of
he Republican party in this State. It
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