The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-30

olse going on that is an infamous false
hood of the party organ and managers,
and it is this thing. .
Mr.. Roberts then held up in his hand
the leaflet, entitled .'Strife and Bit
/ terness in Utah. 1t contains the
same charge that a deal has been made
| between the Democratic party and the
! American party. Mr.. Roberts said that
in an effort to frighten the people of
the Mormon church by it.
After alluding briefly to the organl-
zation OF the American party, MI
Roberts said; ''The climax of Repub-
lican insolence came through the man
who is now candidate for governor on
that ticket, when he SAID that for every
Republican that was taken into the
American party he would bring two
| Mormon Democrats into the Republl-
can party In return. To the shame
of political methods in Utah.. he sue
ceeded; to the humiliation of Ameri-
can citizenship, he succeeded. They
| came to us then and said: Here is a
fight being made on the senior senator,
and You Mormons ought to resent that
fight and for this time forego your
principles and vote for us. and some
did, and the senator was elected,
! s'Thcn after the election, and the
contest throughout the nation went on
against the senior senator, we had Il
city election. We had had Demo
cratic administration that was the pride
of the people Of our city. By every
principle of business sense, to say noth-
| ing of gratitude that man ought to
policies that he had formulated. but
il went out that the city should not
90 Democratic, because it must be made
| apparent at Washington that the senior
senator dominates the politics of the
state of Utah; therefore, this tlno
vote for the Republican ticket. by
this time Democrats began TO be a lit
tlo rcsentful and they did not do it
so completely, with the result that the
American party won, and the Rcpubll-
acn party was in the soup.
"And then came the state election,
for congressman, and the battlo at
! Washington was still on, 1t Will never
do; it will be iihgratit9ndc of which this
people are not capable, to ture down
their friends at Washington aud not
TO stand soldly behind tho senior SEN
ator; therefore, this time vote the Re
publican ticket. A number Of us did;
No, not us. Enough did and carried
the election for the Republicans. Then
! came on our city election. The same
old cotcrie, in the same way, came
again TO say the keyword is not Lynch
| this time but Plummer, Now the city
must be won from the American party,
and in order to do it. you Democrats
vote this timc for Republicans.
Disreputable Methods,
ifWell, now we have come TO this
election, and the same old party bending
| low, using the same disreputable meth"
ods, the hand in the dark. no name
signed to the infamous falsehoods that
are stating the Democratic party is
seeking the exile or the Imprisonment
| Of tho leaders of the dominant church;
| they come this time TO say, You vote
the Republican ticket in all serious
ness, let me ask you the question;
! Ism Z it about time that we stood up ana
looked these supphcants for our votes
in the face and say, Look here! We
have grown tired of tins, and II you
want 10 defeat the American party,
since YOU have made such miserable
failures of 1T up to date, suppose, you
! givo the Democrats chance. (Great
applause.) If there is any coming over,
YOU be the ones TO come; we are tired.
And, moreover, we have u right TO sus~
! pect that there is no sincerity IN such
D proposition; that You don Z mean that
YOU want the Republican votes IN the
county for Republican officers, but you
want straight votes from Tart to CON
stable. Make your Salt Lake county
state and national issues, and IN when
we can participate IN Il victory.
HMoreovcr. the whole business is un-
worthy of a serious people. They come
TO men, telling them that the great
Mormon church is in danger. that Its
! leaders are likely TO suffer either I'M
prisonment or exile from the state.
parent TO fool anybody. F'rlghten the
! leaders OF the Mormon church, make us
believe that there Is any seriousness IN
the alarm that is pretended to De Gre
ated and referred to IN such tnlng as
that! (Holding up the circular or lear
| lct) Why, / think IT was only on thlS
platform last night that young enthu-
| siast-and you may forgive him-was
irving to persuade an intelligent audi
ence chat 10 vote the Republican ticket
| for county officers was necessary To
! save the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat
ter.day Saints. When mon get TO talk
ing TO me along lines like that | begin
tends a faith in the thing that we call
Mormonism, and will try to frighten
the people by any such methods as
these. The Mormon church afraid of
the utterances of Frank j. Cannon.
the Mormon leaders afraid OF TINS
thing! I would be ashamed of them II
they were We may be proud of that
church. There may have been some
things at some times that some are in
capable OF defending; things that may
have been done, but on the whole we
may well be. proud Of the history OF
that church.
Contempt for Republicans.
Mr.. Roberts said that he had no
words by which he could express ms
contempt for the methods pursued by
the Republicans In every campaign
since 1895 Republicans have resorted TO
methods to bring to bear upon Demo,
Gratis Influences extrnneous to political
things. The "gumshoer and whisperer -
have been in the land from that day
until now, and it is about time that it
was stopped in Utah ard everywhere
else. Gone president of a stake in this
city follows the gumshoe method, the
secret method, the appointment OF, men
to go into the homes of the people as
religious teachers and tell them how
they shall exercise their, civil rights,
their franchise. This is done; there is
no need OF Disgusting the fact from
ourselves. And the other plan Is-and
1 honor the president of this stake-tto
get away from these disreputable meth
nlS. but now I yynnt to saw tG Won that