Show N I 1 L NELSONS LETTER TO THATCHER IN THE tait semiweekly semi weekly enquirer of friday march ath 1897 appeared an open letter by prof 14 L nelson of provo prove addressed to moses thatcher in the first step mr nelson insults mr thatcher and a very large portion of the democrat Demo democracy crac y of this state when he save says that your popularity was a case of noise not numbers 11 this letter will aim to voice the sentiments of that silent majority of the democratic party who rho have watched your movements first with anxiety then wit amazement and at last with disgust it is not true that mr thatchers popularity was a case of noise not numbers and mr nelson knows that he has either wilfully or agnor misstated the case by what test shall we measure the popularity of mr thatcher shall we accept mr nelsons belsons Nel sons opinion of mind as the correct measure 0 no the calibre is entirely too small what then is the true criterion the legislature which is almost wholly democratic furnishes us the closest test of mr thatchers status in the democracy mr nelson who of all the senatorial candidates was the leader until the very last mo nent of the fight was it not closes thatcher was it noise that thai gave him this popularity if it was waa then mr nelson pays the democracy of this state a very doubtful compliment according to mr nelson a short time ago mr fr thatcher was by all odds the most popular man in the democratic party nine out of ten would have so voted but now he by infallible judgment would have us as believe that nine out of ten of the Deum racy would declare mr thatcher ma aa autocrat what a malicious and ignorant assertions what has made such a radical change in the political status of mr thatcher will you mr nelson or any other man point to a single principle of democracy which mr thatcher has deserted if the manifesto had never nelver been put forth would not mr thatcher have been elected to the senate most assuredly he would nir mr nihon nelson acknowledges this when he says saya twice now you hare ham had the decision of god against in the only way in which such a can reach a man this last quotation needs no explanation except that god through his agents defeated moses thatcher if god did so then it was not mr That thatch ebers ers un unpopularity popularity among the der democrats which worked ids his da defeat the democratic party has baa not mr nelson its oracle to voke its sentiments as aa every wy y will wid readily see am he instead of communicating what he calls the sentiments of that silent majority of the democratic Democrat jc party through the medium of a democratic paper used a rank R n sheet owned oy thatcher church opponents to fire another volley of haired alchas anchas gail as have come aror n arse arsenals nale ay of AL a source there bere iere are thousands U and thousands of people in utah alio trw are just as vod mormons cormons and just as ALs good democrats ff as and ho ba do to td that client bority 0 me wefa party that mi tenar cr eleven hesss signed tu it manifee and ah ali T tt ts etcher v ua tty t hf e i ff sassy Arlu that i r A large number of those who signed the document helped to construct it and their signatures to it were only y a formal ratification mr thatcher followed the dictates of his conscience and refused to sign it those who signed did no more mr nelsons belsons Nel sons closing is indeed pathetic where be says alas alakl I 1 could sob for anguish when I 1 think of your course if the lord promised us that the earth should no more be baptized with water we should at once prepare ourselves for the flood out i of the abundance of the heart the mouth speak eth 11 test the love and charity of mr nelsons belsons Nel sons heart by what abat he be wrote |