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Show AS THEY ARE COUNSELED. This is the last issue of this journal prior to election. All men in the Republic should vote. In Utah at this time we confess that it is difficult for men who lovo their country to decide how they should vote. Two years ago a Senatorship was bought for money. There Is a Senator to be elected elect-ed when the Legislature convenes. When it comes to the legislative ticket, how are men to decide what to do? If the conventions of Republicans this year meant anything, they showed an offensive and defensive de-fensive allianco between some Machine politicians and those of the dominant church of Utah who obtain ob-tain their inspiration at the corner of State and South Temple streets. The State convention showed less of this than the county conventions, but the State convention revealed that the church was in I t'l HB politics up to its eyes. The county conventions i t,i ffjM more particularly revealed the close accord be- 1 $ wBA tween the church and the machine, the main driv7 k ' fflH ing wheel of which is Senator Kearns. In the II ylB county convention hero the presence of a slate f MB was plainly evident. No man, no matter what 1 hi'J fffl may have been his merits, who was not of that m ( j H machine, stood the slightest show for a nomina- h 'I j BH tion. Men high in the church were active in urg- ' c 3H ing for nomination to high office men whom, were j j j $' SB they to see their daughters in the company of on j M, 39 the street, would raise an insurrection over the J fl; gfl spectacle. It all revealed that a bargain had been sj IjBH struck, and that all the successful candidates were fHH known in advance. If this were the case in all fji JH the States, it would surely mean national decay. Is fl Since then we have seen one after the other Of 1 itiiftBfl those who had been prominent Mormon Demo- I iJf'lfll crats changing their politics. This, as a rule, can I f j 9 bo construed only one way. If demoralized Gen- m $ 3fl tiles remain away from the polls, still the inten- 3 tj-i I M tion is to have the election go all right. !l 1 & H The purpose at this writing is clear enough. It j B8j H is to elect an apostle of the Mormon church to the II' g 1h Senatorship. I j fj jfBfl In days gone by there has seemed to be a"de"- I r'ttH termination on the part of the Mormon church to I '$fl do tilings their own way, regardless of public '. y 'Bh opinion, regardless of the best thoughts of their J 4 'MB own people. They have dared to do this because HlDM the chiefest tenet of their faith is obedience, the h fBB acceptance by the masses of the infallibility of the. j ji' jjfi President and chief priests of the church. This 'jjfij has brought measureless sorrow more than once ' m fH upon the Mormon people. The reason has always) ; I'llB been that the thing insisted upon has been di- a I fiB rectly against the spirit of the free institutions of 0 I IBB this country. J JIB If Apostle Reed Smoot is permitted to persist g 'llBB in his candidacy there will be another clashing. I 1 HUB If elected the chances are that he will not be given ) ffflH his seat. Were he to be elected on a ticket the HHH opposite of that approved of by a majority of the j 8 BlB Senate, the chances would be 99 in 100 that he 1 H ijgH would be denied the place. Why, then, is the ef- I SH fort to crowd an apostle into the Senate of the t M Hfl United States persisted in? There can be but one ! mL1B reason, which is that the whole spirit of the Mor- f fi8H mon organization Is to reserve the honors, offices I IIiH and emoluments to a favored few, and to keep the 1 1 m , ljjfl masses mere hewers of wood and drawers of wa- jj itjiflB ter. This fact is plain upon its face, for every fJiJJH Mormon knows that no lay member has the slight- f jsjiffB est chance to win an office if his opponent is an IP'hI apostle. 1 j!ljH This is not only directly against the spirit otf l1 11 ill our institutions, but it is a gross injustice to the 1 fOIrM Mormon people themselves. But we doubt wheth- i llrXI er they will have the strength to resist the pre- I'flHJ meditate injustice on election day, though they ! MBH will degrade themselves and their children if they ii liH vote as they are directed to vote. They will h liana! dishonor the flag which they pretend to reverence B m jBH by having their votes coerced; it will make them I !lHfl endless heart-burnings in the future, and it ought B l JIH to, but we fear they will not have the strength to 8 IBB be Americans. JIIhBB |