Show i MR REPLIES I 1 I 1 to I 1 0 the letter of li democrat A BRAVE DEFENSE ho he gives strong reasons forBe for becoming comin a republican his cowardly assailant I 1 editor in the issue of the dispatch of wednesday sept 1892 a lurking individual calling himself a democrat at the end of his mud and person al abuse undertakes in characteristic style and in keeping if I 1 mistake not with his bis life long disposition to heap abuse on me tor the one great crime of changing my views on political matters ind and becoming a republican acir on culinary occasions it ill bs comes any citizen tu to reply to one who has not the manhood to 10 attach his name to tin an article of the kind now under consideration eide ration among raen men of intelligence intelli genco and thought and reflection the very absence of the true name is ia an indication ot personal hatred a warped mind and a soulless incapacity to meet the foe on an honorable grou ground s andon and on honorable terms the merciless indian hides behind rock and tree and from his hiding dl place ca hurls his posio ned arrow at his defence less victim be it man woman or child but bat then ke is ia a savage born with murderous murde rons instincts in his breast how much better is he who under a nom de d plume attacks the tha character of another and that too because of a difference of opinion in political matters only a person a right to change his views Is 19 it not the duty of all men to reject as aa true that which they believe to be false are the ideas of the cho world today the same eama as they were antho in the worldon world of yesterday ile he who cannot can not advance his thoughts behold their present limits is ia a furgus on the growth of society a antal incubus what of tha great and glorious names in american history who haye have changed their views on political matters are they bats bata what of the many honorable sagebrush democrats who struck off on a tangent from their party and we were re again re admitted into th the 0 peoples party part yAre are they bats bata what of the multitude of latter day dav saints who for years honestly worshiped god as aa methodists Metho diata baptists etc and after warda became converted to mormonism are they bats what ot till alia recent action of the peoples pat patty ty breaking loose from former action and ami taking a raJi radically cally new stand la is that great army bats bata Is democrat himself a tat bat among my political transgressions democrat charges me with democratic speeches echea 11 I 1 lerty tle charge I 1 did report one bilte bilt e h wade made by a certain gentleman from in it I 1 did not attempt to belittle lna bs speech but did in courteous language prove it to be contrary tol to facts of american history he devotes an entire sentence to you yon have also observed that the owner of those initials J A R presided at the republican rally here the other evening a 1 all ah sir that was an unbar donable sin fact is the papers of utah made a note of it and that of coarse made it much worse it was w 8 simply horrifying I 1 am accused of making 4 tat attacks tacks on men and measures of the Domo democratic cratic party false I 1 have quoted from fro in the pages of authenticated authenticate 4 history and from the mouths months oi of leading democrats to prove that secession senes aion was waa the outgrowth ot of democratic principles and that the bloodshed in that unholy war was of Damo democratic cratic origin and growth that the centralization of power was waa first f of all exemplified in a democratic president that the corroa and terrors of missouri and illinois upon the latter day saints saima were under democratic governments ard that a democratic governor ie issue suel an order exterminating thousands of religionists for no other crime than because they were mormons cormons and from their homes and lands for which they had paid io 10 a democratic aratie governs govern ment the full amount required by law I 1 will admit having copied the exact words u of the pophet joseph and through them exar expressed ased my diews as all fol follows lows if the general government has no power to reinstate rein stute expelled citizens to their rights there is a monster ous oua hypocrite fed and fostered from fram the lard hard earnings earning of the people A and n d a again i a i n in his answer to john 0 calhoun a Demo democrat erat of sontu contu carolina I 1 heartily endorsed and do now endorse your second paragraph leaves leares you naked before yourself liko a li likeness kenese in ia a mirror when you bay that according to your view the federal government is ia one of limiter limi eu and specific powers and has no jurisdictions in tl tie e cabe baze of the mor moua the Pro heta olieta views are my my sincere convictions and I 1 cannot now but ex exclaim explain clain with him on the and 2nd dav of january 1844 at nauvoo illinois where is a spars sparr from thy watch firt fira ot of 76 by which one ona caudle candle might be lit that would glimmer upon the confines of democracy ilear hear the wail missouri like a whirlwind in its ita fury and without a judge jude or jury drove the saints and spilled their blood nor did I 1 intend to attack men and aad measures of the I 1 emu cratic party when 1 wrote rote the views of leading american acono economists mists and among them the statesmanlike remarks of the prophet joseph on the duty of the general govero government ment in protecting the I 1 in LI of the country let the reader of this article bidge w folus ing language of joeeph smith be an attack a when the people are secure and their rights properly respected then the tha four main pillars of prosperity viz agriculture manufacture navigation and commerce coni morce need tho the fostering care of go internment ern ment mr editor with yo irmie irmis siou I 1 shall continue to pro but bat I 1 have written and t jeen dunn dunk in any spirit of mai ma i s ahat hat I 1 havi hava endeavored deavo red to be fair ward jward all uli aud d if my future dissect dissection iou of tue article written by democrat in that ugly of anger so manifest I 1 ask the lumir ous readers of your paper and the hundreds who have not yet johnd either party pany to be the judges wj as to bather I 1 deviate from an honorable control contro sg 7 Y 1 in all I 1 have to say eay in my Y next nest I 1 shall sh all make an absolute denial to c alaia made mad by by democrat and in the meantime asir asa him to meet inlet me ma under anjer bia own name in open honorable discussion I 1 3 fol E PH A R PEES m Es SPANISH fork sept SO 30 1892 |