The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-27

And the business men orally ulScidlineu
any such desire.
do the farmers want hin?'
They said emphaticaily that they did
not
Nobody roared out the audience IN
You're right continued Judge King,
1.-The federal bunch wants him and you
have described that bunch by your re-
ply.
Pithy Description of Smoot Organ
/ Il wish that l could come before you to
discuss with you the national issues, 70
preach TO you the great truths OF Demoe<
racy TO talk to you of our platform, OF
our policies and our candidates, pul am
prevented from doing so by the hepuD7
licans. They dared not meet us on these
grounds. In their desperation they sougnt
some other mode of attack Ihloush
| their despicable. damnable, lying EMS
saries. they come among the Mormoii
people, they try to appeal to your preJu-
dices and your religious conVletlohs 20
make you traitors to your party Inroush
the Inter-Mountain Republican, they seek
/ to blacken the characters OF MoriIoi
Democratic leaders. charging that uIey
have sold out their people ana their party;
And these are the things we are lorceu
to meet
For nearly a decade. as the elections
have approached in. Utah.. politicians IN
the Republican party. some or Wnom WERE
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secret efforts. to drive Democratic MOT
mons from the support OF their own party
and to the support of Republican canoi-
dates The reasons urged have been be-
cause of some supposed interest OF the
Mormon church or people being involved
or the interest of some high Repuoncan
politician. There has been no frankness
or candor upon the part of these per-
sons; no effort to have the Mormon peo-
pie, whose interests were supposed TO be
involved, calmly and dispassionately dis,
cuss the question, but these ecciesiastical
politicians. who have always been RepuD-
leans, have assumed that there was some
crisis or danger menacing the Mormon
people, or some offieeholder or politician
in the Republican party, and they have
assumed to speak with authority and TO
command the Mormon Democrats to speak
with authority and to command the Nor
mon Democrats to leave their party and
support the Republican party.
Republicans Always Begging Help.
( A few years ago these same individuals
urged that it was the duty Of the Nor
mon Democrats to vote the Republican
ticket TO elect Mr. Srnoot' senator be-
cause the interests Of the Mormon church
would best be subserve0 When his seat
was contested the same jealous politi-
clans were busy in trying to induce Nor
mon Democrats to support the Republican
ticket. assigning as a reason that the
I Mormon, church was being assailed and
that II. was necessary, that Mr. SmOOt
should retain his seat and this seonld only
be done by the MOrmonS voting the Re
publican ticket Later, and before the
contest was ended, politicians of the same
| character obtruded themselves again into
the political arena and by their fancied
devotion to the Mormon people, and in
| the interests of the Mormon church.
| pleaded and commanded, and invoked the
church influence which they possessed, TO
induce the Mormon Democrats to vote
the Republican ticket; and when subse-
quent elections came around. the plea was
| made by these same politicians and &C.
clesiasts that it was necessary to vote
the Republican ticket in order to defeat
| the American party, and as this cleo
ton approaches, these same pernicious
| inter-meddling influences, and these same
perfidious, sinister and hypocritical i'm
/ portunities are made to seduce Mormon
Democrats from the support of their tick
ct
at is urged by these people that the
American party can only be defeated by
Mormon Democrats voting the Republi-
| can ticket and appeals are made that the
church by the Mormon Democrats prov
ing reasonable to their organiza-
ton and disloyal and traitorous
TO their. political faith and conscience 1t
! is singular that at no time has there been
any proposition looking to Republicans
voting the Democratic ticket The scheme
always has been that the desired result
could only be accomplished by Mormon
Democrats voting the Republican ticket
| So persistent has the effort been made to
secure votes for the Republican party that
| II becomes manifest that this pretended
devotion TO the church and to Mr. Smoot
and TO the interests of the Mormon peoDle
I has been trick to advance the interests
| OF the Republican party and the ambi-
TONS OF Mr. Smoot- If these people had
been sincere; if they had loved the Nor
/ mon people as they have assumed to love
| them. there would have been at some time
and under some circumstances a PROPOSE
/ ton for Mormon Republicans to vote the
1 Democrats ticket