The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-25
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TO present TO the people the reasons
why YOU should cast your votes for its
candidates. and as reasonable, prudent
men and women we should examine the
platforms, the record and past history
of each. so that we may the better
Judge which of them we shall sup
port.
"The Utah Republican party, and
1t, by tho way, has u special brand of
Republicanism unlike the Maine or
California types. urges you TO support
the G. o. p, with the proviso, how
ever. that your individuality must be
surrendered and you cannot express
your local preferences. 1t is, vote for
me and Taft or renounco your national
Republican principles and become a
hated American. A vote for me is
of greater importance TO the federal
bunch than the election of Mr.. Taft
And therein lies one difference between
the Utah brand Of Republican and his
political prototype in other states.
"Another reason is that il is the
party that will bring peace to Utah; the
party that will give Utah fame. Well,
If you take the records of Apostle
Senator Smoot. his ladylike colleague,
the junior senator: Elder Howell, Fussy
Jimmy, the federal bunch, and last, but
not least. the Inter Mormon Republi-
can, I think you must disagree with
the first proposition, that that party
Will bring peace TO Utah, unless 1t
means that the intelligent people of
this state disgusted and heartsick by
will. by their votes in November, for
ever embalm for .posterity the whole
sycophantic, worthless crowd, and thus
bring peace TO Utah.
~ venture the aessrtion that his
tory Will record the trials of Smoot and
Roberts as the most shameful, bare-
faced, disgusting performances in the
annals Of congressional experience, and
II is not to the credit of the dominant
national party that Smoot was victori-
Gus, and thus has Utah become not
famous, but Infamous.
The Democratic Party.
''I believe the Democratic party in
Utah, or what is left of it, after the
drafts on its cold storage
vote during the years since the organiza-
.ion OF the American party, is steadfast.
tried and true, and the piteous appeal
made by the hierarchy TO defeat the
American pRrty's sheriff, county and
district attorneys only emphasizes the
The honest, law.abidine citizen cares
not. upon purely personal grounds, who
S elected sheriff or county OF district
attorney. But Joseph F. and the polyg
lmic cult, and some others, fear that
he sheriff. the county and district at.
orneys will do their duty as they are
'equired to do under their oaths, and
or that reason they must be defeated. !
Utah wants representatives in CON
yTess. in the state. in the county and
n the city who will represent, not the
dominant church. but the whole people
II Utah, irrespective of creed, race or
,olor.
"Tho American party asks your
ranchise for its candidates, and should |
;ive, good reason for SO doing. Why |
hould there be an American partv1 ,
Why does IL exist? What are its prin- !
lples! What its purposes3
Perhaps brief history may serve |
o answer the questions asked.
a few men, actuated by patriotic /!
motives, and resenting the iniquitous |
'erfidy of the church in its political /
promises and performance in 1904. or |
.anized the American party, That party /
pposes the domination OF any church in /
he affairs of state. It opposes the en- /
lavement OF the elector by any prom .
Sc Of future reward. 1t opposes the in ,
erference of high ecclesiastics in poll 4
les. 1t is not opposed to any church, /
r any religion, but it resents the /
1ethods employed by some churches.
Opposed to Lawlessness.
"It is opposed to lawlessness of ev.
ry kind, even though claimed 10 be
under the sanction of divine
aw. 1t stands for the purity of the
american home. 1t stands for the high
ST type of American citizenship, and I
asks Of the dominant church OF Utah
rly that which Americanism demands
rom all other churches, absolute free.
ON in matters political, and only that
-hich true and loyal Americans are al
II times willing 20 give.
''IU asks for your votes because il
Clieves that under the honest Ameri-
an administration of affairs there will