The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-10-28
JUDGE KINGS CLARION NOTE.

1t is a Joy to see the urrestrained
( freedom with which some Of the Demo
cratic orators this year are dealing
With the local situation here. Here is
Judge William H. King, for instance,
who bas always been backward about
attacking tho church politicians, lest he
be put up in the Tabernacle aud be
required 10 take il back, who has been
disposed 10 lie down and let HE,
rarebic political tools walk over him
without protest, coming out this year
with yieor aud vim entirely uneS-
pected from him, and most gratifying
to see. In his speech at Bingham juno
tiou on Monday evening, Judge King
Is reported as deuounclng the Republi-
eau politicians who are always begging
for help from the Democrats, and Judge
King gave a long list of the times and
occasions IN which tho Republicans
have thus sought Democratic support
ranks TO their own advantage.
And row the Judge thinks il is time
{ for n change. He says; of these
people had been sincere; il they had
loved the Mormon people as they
have assumed to love them, there
would have been at some time aud
under some circumstances propo-
sitiop for Mormon Republicans 10
vote the Democratic ticket He then
continues: eve are now confronted
with the same Macedonian cry; the
same iosincere and hypocritica! pre-
tentions. And be says that il is
Nephi L. Morris, president of Salt
Lake stake; Matthias T. Cowley, c. c. 4.
Christensen, and other lesser ecclesiasts
who are urging the Democratic Nor
mons TO come TO the Republican help
this year As to Christensen, Judge
King refers 10 the time when be de-
Tended him on the charge Of uplsw-
ful cohabitation. The Judge does not
say that Christensen was convicted. but
it is a pretty safe thing to say that
Christensen was guilty. Because so far
as we know there was never al aceusa
ton brought against man for IN
lawful cohabitation where the case was
not proved. 1t was "dead, cold
einch every time. The evidence was
abundant and overlooking III every
case.
But. continues tie Judge, tas
Latter day Saint | deny the right OF
any Republican politician, whether be
be Nepbi l.. Morris or the lowest
whispering understrapper, TO prostitute
my religion into party politics and to
question my loyalty to my religion
when I resent such actions - And
Judge King concludes his speech with
the following sentence:
1t is my firm belief that when high &C.
clesiasts will prostitute that which should
be nearest and dearest 10 every mans
heart; his, religion. and will use their
church offices Tor personal gain and po-
ltlcai favor they are no better than
Judas iscarIo,.
That is certainly q pretty hot de.
punciation, But can there be any
real criticism Of it? Is it not justified
by the circumstances7 Are not these
eeclesiasts prostituting their religion
aud positions in the church through
this dirty political works And when
they get down into the political muck
hole can we not see, aud must we not
see, that they are besmirehed precisely
in the same way that any ward heeler
or political tough is besmirched when
he gets down into that samo poo! Of
muck2
1t is JOY TO sec the Democratic poll
ticians getting out this year and open
ly resisting and denouncing this church
aggression upon their party. 1t is the
first time they have done it, and it is
one Of the great aud satisfying events
of the year, one OF the most significant
signs OF political progress in Utah.