The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-03

clivities. They are like an enraged bull
before whom red flag is Haunted. and
they tear around talking about something
they know nothing about, and spreading
dissension and trouble.
= do not propose TO let politics strike
In on NE II is good thing to keep
politics on the surface so you can decide
what is best to do, and to do what is
right.
You can be anything you want, Repub-
lican. Democrat, or anything else
never tried 10 turn anyone, but do de-
plore seeing any man get politics on the
brain and have it strike in. He is TO be
pitied"
That is good advice for anyone. and
it applies with peculiar force to the
men who have been circulating cam
paign tales and spreading dissension
and trouble" for political purposes all
through this campaign. One of the
striking examples is afforded by the
speech OF r. E. Rasmussen at the
Granite stake meeting. Our enemies"
he said. ARE assailing us. they would
burn our homes and drive US from the
land. they would take our children and
our children's children from US.
There are some Democrats who win
not vote the Republican ticket. They
are dry as sticks. Is that Mormonism?
We should have just one party
for the brethren. The enemy an
nounced it's plans too late for us to have
only one party this year. But we will
have only one ticket next year" And
more to the same effect.
That is TO say. a sober, sane man of
prominence in his church asks his hear
ers to believe that in a state controlled
by Mormons, with a Mormon governor.
most OF the county officials
in all the counties, most of the courts
and court officials. the homes of the
people are to be burned and their chill
dren taken from them If the Republi-
can ticket is defeated. On the strength
of this preposterous assertion, he asks
the people to turn back the wheels of
progress twenty years and renew the
fight on religious lines which was
buried then.
Does Mr.. Rasmussen. or anybody
else for that matter, honestly believe
that the election OF Jesse W. Knight
would pave the way for arson and the
plumber Of Mr.. knights church people?
Does he expect any intelligent man to
believe that the election of any party |
Or any citizens of Utah could lead to
such result? Are the courts of the |
state and its executive forces so weak, |
so subject TO anarchy that the defeat |
Df the Republicans would be followed |
by the disasters he pretends to fear?
Happily for Utah and all its people, |
Mr.. Rasmussen's is an extreme case. |
His own churchmen know the situation I,
better than he does. They know that |
the logic of his position would be the |
formation of parties on |
straight religious lines. the most seri- |
rus disaster that could overtake the |
state. Happily. too. the voters TO whom !
he appeals will either ignore his appeal |
or resent it at the polls.
Let 1t be repeated and emphasized |
hat the dissension and trouble in this |
state can be settled by the success of |
the Democratic ticket, the election of /
Jesse W. knight as governor and the /
installation of men in Office who are
pledged to peace, and it can be settled /
n no other way this year The contin-
lation in power of the men who have
brought the trouble upon the state
means only the prolongation of an in
olerable situation. The issue is so
lain. the solution of the problem so
nipple that there ought to be no doubt
s to the outcome of the election.
vote for Bryan and Knight means
vote for peace at home and abroad.
{ means the dissolution of the ma
hines. Republican and American"
he reformation of political parties on
egitimate lines and the restoration of
he harmony that should and can be
established II the disturbing factions
re eliminated.