The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-02-17

SO strongly TO help some unauthorized
bargainer to keep a void promise2
Did you authorize any man, or any
group of men, to fix your political obi
cations by which you are bound? Sir. in
this state We have too much usurpation
of party management. we have had too
much of the dallying with principle. We
have tolerated already too much informed
ding by federal officers and their APP
pointees. We have lacked the courage
to repudiate these Intermediates in the
policies that have plunged this county
into the bitterest strife. We have encour-
aged too frequent change of front to
meet what these men regarded the ext
gencies of the nour. We have employed
party methods that have obstructed the
progress of the party. The party is now
in danger of needing the voices of these
men against th1 wishes of the people.
Here we have frank admission that
the Republican campaign was financed
by the brewers and a promise of pro-
lection made by the Republican lead
ers. Shame on the men, from Reed
smoot down to the smallest office hold
er in the state. who would buy office at
such a price. Mr.. Ashton repudiates
the bargain made in the following Ian
guage:
given on any other theory than that the
general policies Of that party improve
conditions, business and otherwise, II is
tantamount to bribery. No contributor
has a right to look for special privileges
or special immunities. A crisis has come,
we are in the midst of it, between the
people who gave us their votes and the
liquor interests who. it is alleged, gave us
their money. In that crisis the public eye
is carefully marking where We stand and
what we say.
If any interests gave US money, with the
understood or implied understanding that
immunity should be granted, we ought
to here disappoint them. If any alleged
leader or manager received any sum on
that theory, he ought to here be repudi-
ated; and If there be any man in this
legislature whose moral sense is so dulled
to have knowingly accepted office with
that understanding, he is a moral cow
ard If he does not stand by il.
Mr.. Cannon also had something to
say about the deal put through by the
federal office holders, and incidentally
gave his opinion as to the manner in
which church influence was used. He
said:
The charge OF this deal is constantly
made. There must be something to it.
Those on the outside openly charge it,
should We know nothing of it? Why
don't those leaders come out in the open
and either refute this charge or tell us
that they made ii and expect us tc
stand behind them?
Charges of church influence and church
whisperings favoring prohibition have
been made. ] want to go on record as
saying that not one man high in the
Mormon church has asked me to vote for
prohibition. On the contrary, the meT
who have come whispering to me have
said that the president of the Mormon
church was not in harmony with the pro-
hibition movement; that the quorum OF
the twelve apostles and many of the au-
thorities of the Mutual Improvement as
sOciatiCn did not favor prohibition. Those
have been the church whisperings 1 have
heard.
So the deal is admitted and church
influence is admitted. All for the pur-
pose of re-electing Reed Smoot to the
United States senate. Is it not time for
the church itself to stamp out this sort
of thing? The veil has been lifted and
the truth stands out in all it's naked
hideousness.
The Herald has no tears to shed ovel
the vote on the prohibition bill. 1t does
not, and never did, believe in the prin-
ciple. But the manner of it's death is q
deep and lasting disgrace to those who
took the money of the liquor dealers
and sold the support of their party In
the shambles