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Show Iopolygamist 'jion 11 ticket Arch Organ Flaunts II False Charges. American Party Free From JgK This Foul Blot on Its Escutcheon. "'pg.satlve Candidate R. Q-. Sleater ft- Stands on. His Record a9 a J lKr Loyal Citizen. 1.! ullgOnB of Iho subsidized organs of the Sfluurch party went out of Its way to MffJato a bitter attack upon R. G. Sleo-flrMttr, Sleo-flrMttr, one of tho American party candl-I) candl-I) iBfetes for tho Legislature. The horrl-K horrl-K fcfe crlmo of polygamy, which Prcsl-Eent Prcsl-Eent Smith and Apostle Penrose con-ItB3- ig charged against Mr. Sleater, rarEod an effort Is put forth to have him ''Removed from tho American party i "Wicket on the ground that an open and tvfcvowed polygamlst was forced from the 'iBraooUer ticket on the samo charge. ttwrBut the cases are entirely different. Mllr. Sleater is not a polygamlst. Presl-mJmicni Presl-mJmicni Smith and Elder David H. Can-Twion, Can-Twion, who was removed from the church tliket, are polygamists, living in open '-l' defiance of the laws of both God and J man. Jir Sleater repented and re-''Pfornied. re-''Pfornied. They haven't. R Obeyed tho Law. Mr. Sleater was a polygamlst -when ' the law prohibiting this offem? went "i 'Into effect, and he was arrested with the other polygamists, taken before J J tinge Zanc and upon his promise to 3 "obey the law was released. Unlike 1 President Smith, Elder Penrose and El-. El-. ; der Cannon, he considered his 01th ? binding, and since his release has never 3 Jived Jn polygamy. His s?cord wife r 'died six years ago. fedl f Further, Sir. Sleater Is not a member i of the Mormon church and lias not Ibjeen for more than twenty years. He j jwas boycotted out of business and the f church because he refused to obey I counsel In the conduct of said busl-1 busl-1 ness. Mr. Sleater established the Salt I iM4e Times at Provo In 1872 now tho Provo Enquirer. Mr. Sleater chose to i defend the members of the band at j Provo who were arrested for celebrat-iing celebrat-iing on July 1, and aroused the anger j of. President Smoot of the Provo stake, i who was then the temporal ai:d rell-4 rell-4 tlous monarch of Provo as his son, J Reed Smoot, Is now. J, l ft Stood on His Rights. j, i llr Sleater was viciously attacked In 3 Ihe Provo tabernacle for exercising tho 1 liberty of the press guaranteed by the constitution. He offered the use of W newspaper columns to President j Smoot, but was unable to get the use "y tthe tabernacle pulpit to reply to tho Smoot attacks. " 'i SfBishon Tanner was sent to inform $ Nr. Stealer that he could run his pa- Ek per In Provo if he would run it In ac- f cord with the orders of President i fjmoot and the priesthood. Mr. Sleater "l declined, and then the ecclesiastical j boycott was put upon him. There was no church Interference or anvthlng llko that. He was at perfect liberty to do oust as he pleased, but all of his pat-W pat-W rpna were notified to stop taking his v I newspaper and to stop advertising In ; ; on penalty of being thrown out of sthe chucrh. They quit. $ IMr Sleater concluded to leave Provo i Wiforc he starved to death. He sold his 1 V,'sp:ipor for what hc could got for BiM oiJ' C Granam- From that day 1 mKF Sleater ceased to be a Mormon. f ' Protest ASinst Church Rule. -1 Krrv Sleater cmie to Utah In 1SC5. Ho 5j MtoiA been closed out of the commission METl y the church before he went Frovo' nnd he became as posltlvo 'ii fD' he Is now, that church doml-- doml-- raince desen-ed the protest of every true .American citizen. He Joined the old Liberal party and became prominent In the campaign whloh resulted in a victory vic-tory for that organisation In Salt Lake. Present Apostlo Penrose was sent to counsel him, but ho refused to be bluffed or counseled. "Now," said Mr. Sleater, "I don't know why this attack should be made upon me at this time. But as I have been picked out as a mark because the American party haB chosen to honor me with a nomination for tho Legislature, Legisla-ture, I wish to say that I um in the race to stay. I am not a polygamlst, and I am not a Mormon. I am an American citizen, as loyal as any man in Utah, and if every man's life was ns open as mine, there would be no reflections re-flections cast upon this State. Thero is nothing in my record that I ain ashamed of, although somo things that I regret. I stand on my record as a citizen and business man, and defy the church politicians who bring these charges against me." Friday night's rally at Sandy gaxe the American party committee's spirits another big lift. The meeting so distinctly dis-tinctly outclassed the Democratlo meeting the evening before that it was most noteworthy. "Word from Sandy is that the meeting made many American Ameri-can party votes. The people are with the new party when they get its purposes first-handed. If every man and woman in Utah could hear the issues discussed the State would be carried by the new party. But the old party speakers are more numerous than tho new and thoy have little regard for fairness in discussing the American nartv's nnr- poses. Hence the wrong Impression has been given thousands who would otherwise afllliate with the Americans this year. Even in the face; of a double fire and a malicious fire the new party gains recruits by the score every day. Twenty Twen-ty thousand votes in the State is no longer considered an improbability. And a victory in Salt Lake county la now almost won. Some very racy political news is promised for this week. The columns of The Tribune will bo unusually interesting. in-teresting. 1 ... Nothing in the campaign has caused more discussion, barring tho organization organiza-tion of the American party and the stand which Senator Cannon 1 took on his return from the East, than tho fight which Brlgham H. Roberts has begun against Congressman Howell for Judge O. TT. Powers. The Incident Inci-dent Is now regarded ns one of great Importance and it Is a part of every political conversation. ... According to tho Herald, Senator Smoot told Simon "Wolf, the prominent Republican who visited Salt Lake last week, that the Slate would give Roose-volt Roose-volt at least 5000 majority, but that there Is doubts about the Legislature. It is now believed that Senator Smoot has given away his hand. He prefers a Democratic Legislature, some contend, con-tend, to a Republican, that he may uso it as a means to Influence the Senate to retain him rather than have a Democrat Demo-crat succeed him. ... It is reported that Hon. Dave Evans had a novel experience at Sandy Thursday Thurs-day night. He was there to put a little water on the Democratic wheel and when tho meeting was over with he was convinced that considerable "church influence" is already developing develop-ing In this campaign. It was this way: Before the speaking had begun he asked a prominent Mormon ecclesiastic of that bishopric, and a reputed Democrat, Demo-crat, If the Mormon Democrats were Intending to stick to tho party this year or to be led astray by Spry and Smoot. The eccleslast declared with much posltlveness that Mormon Democrats In and around Sandy were true-blue that they were not to be delivered to the Republican Re-publican camp this year. The Hon. Dave Evans made a better speech on account of the earnest assurance assur-ance of the churchman before the meeting, meet-ing, and his surprise may be imagined when the room got warm nnd the churchman unbuttoned his Prince Albert Al-bert and displayed a Culler button. ... One of the eccentricities of the Utah campaign Is the condition at Richfield. Rich-field. A. B. Williams is the editor of the Richfield Reaper, an Independent newspaper. The columns of the Reaper Reap-er are open to all parties at space rates. The editor Is chairman of the Democratic Demo-cratic county committee, supports James Christiansen for State Treasurer, Treasur-er, and la said to be very much divided In his support of the Democratic county ticket There is an independent Democrat, ... When Senator Smoot delivers the balance of power In the Mormon church to a sufficient number of Democratic candidates for the Legislature to make the Legislature Democratic just to hold a club over the Republicans of the United States Senate, he will be In the hottest water, of his life. Some one will ask him to explain the quality of party allegiance he professes to possess that will direct him to deliver de-liver his party to the Democracy In Utah with which to threaten the party at Washington. And the question will be a stunner. 1 ... Dan S. Spencer, the genial assistant general passenger agent of the O. S. L.. and one of tho most effective political workers In Utah, Is home from a visit to the World's fair. ... One of tho subsidized weeklies has prepared Its readers for a great day of rejoicing very soon. It professes to believe The Tribune will be supporting support-ing the Smoot ticket in a few days. And- Chairman William Spry la "milking" the Smootler nominees to pay tho subsidized for such rubbish as this! The following from Saturday's Des-eret Des-eret News Is respectfully commended to Chairman William Spry, Secretary Allan T. Sanford and to the other Smootites who circulated and vouched for the truthfulness of the story charging charg-ing Democrats like Judge PowerB, Simon Bamberger, Frank J. Cannon and others with the American party movement. It is ulso respectfully referred re-ferred to the Hon. Joseph Howell and the polygamous editor of the Provo Enquirer: The disposition to swallow the most absurd allegations when thoy reflect on the opposition, and to reject without examination ex-amination anything by way of defonso because It comes from that quarter, la an astonishing feature of extremo partisanship par-tisanship and ought not to influence wlso and Just men. Tho distrust and coldness and anger that arise becauso of a dlfferenco In political affairs, aro unworthy of a people llko tho bona fldo residents of these vales, and they should bo cast out of every bosom as wrong and Injurious. . The "Apostolic llai-'" claims to have received an lmpres&lon that out of (300 votes at Sandy the American party will get but thirty. Just make a note of this, Mormony, and ee how near the real thing the "Apostolic liar" Is when he takes a revelation off the wires. The Sandy vote will show what kind of a fakir tho "Apostolic liar" Is. o . Judge O. W. Powers is making from two to three Bpeeches a day. The Judge should not overtax himself. He has Brlgham H. Roberts as bis untram-meled untram-meled champion now, and "B. H." is in position to deliver the goods, without which Judge Powers's eloquenco and effort ef-fort were as "sounding brass." ... Monday night the Americans will hold a rally at Bingham Junction. Senator Sen-ator Cannon and others will speak and there will be music by the now popular ladies' quartette and the American Party Fife and Drum corps. ... "Judge" Livingston's vaudeville, with Prof. John P. Meakln as the ventriloquist ventrilo-quist and "lightning change artist," Is still entertaining the Seventh Judicial district voters. They got out of Carbon Car-bon county without any casualties, notwithstanding not-withstanding tho fact that tho Judge once declared that most of tho Carbon conventions wero lawbreakers and outlaws. out-laws. ... Tho Smootlzed Republicans had a very successful rally at tho Grand theater the-ater last night The theater was filled, though not so thoroughly as It was on the night when the American party held the boards there. J. A. Largent and Judge Theodosius Botkln spoke and a colored glee club furnished some good muslo. Both of the speakers made some telling tell-ing points against the Democrats and tickled many of their auditors by their reference to the American party leaders. . o Col. George B. Snulres has been with John C, Cutler for more than a week. He has proved himself a better "stayer" than either of the other speakers who were sent Into the hustings with the gubernatorial candidate. The Colonel's friends here are thinking of chipping In to purchase an outfit to send him to the North Pole. A man who can remain so near the "Utah Icicle" for a whole week and bo able to warm up an audience audi-ence as the Colonel does would laugh at the Arctic weather. MM. At a meeting at the Grand theater last night Attorney J. A. Largent named three well-known gentlemen who are affiliating with the American party and referred to them as Its leaders. He then told a coarse story In which he likened one to a "mule," another to a "billy goat," and the third to a "skunk." Each of these men are reputable citizens cit-izens and have had a leading part In tho business and political affairs of Utah. Each earnestly advocated Statehood State-hood and helped fight for recognition due the State. Two were honored with a United States Senatorshlp. Better was expected of you, Mr. Largent than this appeal to a low type of prejudice. |