The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-10
A LITTLE COMPARISON,

Two years ago when the church au
thoritles here were out, open, blatant,
and importunate for the church -Repub-
llcan party ticket: when they were de-
nouncin" Democratic men and women
voters as traitors TO their church il
they did not abandon their party aud
vote the local Republican ticket, there
were still in this city upwards Of four
thousand Democrats who voted their
own straight ticket, n. j. Hayward,
for short term missioner. received
1856 votes; .. j, Miller, for long term
commissioner, received fll6 votes. an
average of 1896 votes, which was about
the Democratic average in this city that
year.
This year, when there was no open
fight made to transfer the Democratic
Mormon vote to tho Republican col.
nmn. when everything was as quiet as
Il mouse, and the Democratic leaders
were prancing about and boasting of
what they would do, The quiet church
whisper cut them down, The result
was that Joseph H. Brinton, for short
term commissioner, this year received
3lo6 votes in this city, and Willard b.
Ennis, for long term, received 3096
votes, an average of 510l, which was
about the figure pollcd by each caudi-
date on the Democratic ticket. That
is, the quiet whisper WAS "A thousand
votes more effective as against the
Democratic party than the open clamor
md din of public warfare made to cap.
tnro that vote.
All of which illustrates anew the
Scr'ptural account Of the Lord s way
with Elijah when the prophet took ref
ugc in n cave in Horeb First the
Lord commanded the prophet to ego
forth and stand upon the mount before
the Lord, aud when he did so, the
Lord passed by and great and stroug
wind rent the mountain and brake in
pieces the rocks before the Lord, but
the Lord was not in the wind And
after the wind an earthquake, but the
Lord was not in the earthquake, and
after the earthquake "a fire, but the
Lord was not in the fire. And after
the 6rc still, small voice, and tina
still. small voice was the voice of the
Lord. AS il was in the ancient days,
so Vt IS now in these days Of later
times, The strong wind. the earth
quake and the fire of two years ago
were indeed cffcelual, but it was such
u scandaIous picrc of political troach
cry that it was impossible to consider
the Lord as having been in either the
wind, the earthquake or the FIRE. For
that matter, there are millions of de- |
Vout persons who would undoubtedly |
scOH at the idea of the Lord being in
the still, small voice which detached |
the Democrats. by the thousands from
their own party and set them up in the |
Republican line. But those voters who
wcrc so manipulated believed that the |
still, small voice was the voice of |
the Lord. and so it effected its pur.
pose Just the Same as If it had actually |
been so.
Scandalous it was both this year and |
two years ago, and marvellous it is that |
people in this day and age will con,
sider such skullduggcry 10 be the voice |
OF The Lord; but ii is SO that they do |
accept and believe it. and as long as
they do, it is political condition that
will have TO be rcckoned with and |
eventually overcome; for it is wholly |
absolutely thcocratic,
and miScrably trcacherous and uuprin
clpled. 1t Is the mission of the Amer
lean party TO do away with that sort
Of raScally politics, and the day of |
the triumph of Amcricanism in this
country is helped along by every such
exhibition Of arbitrary thcocratic pow
CT, to The scandal of the public, the
wreck Of party fcalty, aud the oblitcra-
ton of the alleged "division on party
lines