Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-15

/, on the theory that there was a HER
arch abroad in the land, destroying the
crops, robbing the widows. and making
the cattle sick. The purpose of the
party was to hunt out this lrainousa
hierarch and end its career on earth.
The party was organized four years
ago. and has a claimed voting strength
of IL, 600. There are in the state 10000
gentle voters, so there are o,00O gem
tiles just as anxious for the welfare OF
this state, just as honest in their con-.
victionS as any man, and vet these do
not affiliate with the party in its hunt
for the hierarch, and if any man Is not
affiliating with the calamity howlers
and Mormon-eaters, he Is called a
Jack Mormon by the party which.
claims that II, and it alone, stands be-.
tween the dreaded hie1arch and the
subjugation by it of the entire United
States According to their own defini-
ton, up to last year. last month. or
perhaps last week or yesterday, the
Americans themselves We're Jack
Mormons, for many had not united
themselves with the guerrilla bands all
at once.
NERVOUS HAMERICANS.'
There are 10000, 600 non Mormons in
the United States.
That makes one-third of a Mormon
to every 100 non Morrnons in the Unit
ed States.
and yet there are a lot Of nervous
Americans In Salt Lake living in
fear that this one-third of a Latter
day Saint is going to rush out onto
the range some morning before any
/ one of them is aware of it, and lasso,
tie and brand these 100 gentiles with
the brand of the hierarch.
Il refuse to be stampeded. / believe
there are no problems in Utah politics
that cannot be successfully worked out
in the party. believe in our party.
There are but a few non Mormons
in Utah who do not take this view.
Yet leaders of a small minority, trying
to utilize the entire gentle vote for
themselves, bully ana bulldoze the
gentiles not with them as Jack Nor
mons.
What is a Jack-Mormon? According
to the definition of the American par
" they themselves We're Jack-M Nor
rilla party. l think they should be
reconvened and rechristened "The So
ciety of Reformed and Reorganized
Jacks
PI4EAsANTER SUBJECT.
Now a word or two on a pleasanter
subject-the Republican party, the
greatest political organization the world
has ever seen. The Republican party
was organized 81 years ago, and in its
.hrst successful campaign named as its
standard bearer John c. Fremont 1t
took up the cause of the free man, and
In its next campaign in 1860 named as
Its candidate that great force in Amer
lean history. who said to the darkness
of slavery in the south: Let there be
light, and there was light-the great
emancipator, Abraham Lincoln Cap
plauseO The Republican party has al
ways stood for right and justice: one
of the greatest wars of modern times
was waged by it in defense of the prin-
Aciple that this union is indestructible,
and Won Its great contention. The Re-
publican party is the party Of today,
Its hands are busy with the present.
and Its eyes are constantly peering in
to the future. The party wants the
executive ability of Roosevelt and of
a living Taft instead of memories of
tre achleVements of dead Jefferson.
a dead Jackson, or a twice discredited
Bryan.