| Show NUGGETS OF TRUTH But it of the Republican i Republi-can Variety 4 TRUTH AriD JUSTICE I I Demand That False Assertions i Be Befitted THIS JS POSITiy Lir DONE Voters and Oihers Asked to Calmly Consider the facts ns They arc Given Below Falsehoods Sailed Over and Over Again I A pamphlet has been issued by the Republican Re-publican territorial committee containing likenesses of the various presidents of the I Mormon church and Frank J Cannon In tending to citner convey tne idea that the presidents were Republicans or that Frank was worthy of being associated with them This latter being absurd we will undertake under-take to disprove the former by quoting from the rocords MOTTO OF THE CHURCH OF JSSTJS CimiST OF LATTEKBAT SAINTS In 1S3S a document was issued at Far West and transmitted by the Prophet Joseph Smith to the Kir and church for its guidance Aristocracy and toryism were denounced and the following motto was emphasized em-phasized Exalt the standard of Democracy Democ-racy Down with that of priestcraft and lot tho people say amen I It is signed by Joseph Smith jr Thomss B March Brigham Young David W Patton Pat-ton Samuel H Smith George W Hinckle John Carrill and George W Robinson That motto has never been revoked KILLED FOR BEING A DEMOCRAT I The Millennial Star Vol 16 No 33 page 524 relates that Joseph Smith declared his politics openly and fearlessly to a Whig who sought his life In his own words tho prophet relates Having an opportunity or speaking to General Wilson I inquired of him tho cause why I was thus > treated I told him I was not sensible of having done anything worthy of such treatment treat-ment tout I had aiways been a supporter of the constitution and of Democracy His answer was I know it and that is the reason I want to kill you BEOINXIXQ OF THE PERSECUTIONS Cyrus Walker a Whig candidate for Congress offered in 1S43 to defend Joseph Jos-eph Smith in a law suit provided the latter would pledge him his vote The wily politician poli-tician believed that as Joseph voted so would tho entire Mormon people vote But on the day before the election Hyrum Smitb the prophets brother declared that it was to tho best interests of the people that they should vote the Democratic ticket Joseph announced that fact in a public meeting and said I am not come to tell you to vote this way that way or the other in relation to national mutters I want it to go abroad to the whole world that erery man bhould stand on his own merits The Lord has not given me a revelation i revela-tion concerning politics I have not asked him lor one rama third party anil stand independent inde-pendent and alone 1 never knew Hyrum to bay he ever had a revelation and it failei Let God speak and all men hold their peace Joseph kept his promise and voted for Walker but in Nauvoo the Democratic ticket was overwhelmingly victorious The Contributor Vol 8 pagf 327 Then the antiMormon tentitnetu began to take organic and consequently formidable formid-able shape On Saturday August 19 just following the state election in which tho Democratic party had won the day by aid of the Mormon vote tee first of a series of antiMormon meetings was held at Carthage Carth-age Tullldafs Life of Joseph Smith p 423 Surely unyone must know that Democracy Demo-cracy was friendly to the Mormons and only I tho Whigs wore opposed to them i WHO VTEIIE PERSECUTORS OF TEE PEOPLE l After this election just mentioned the disappointment of the Whigs was great and their antrer knew no bounds They derided the Democratic party for contain ing such an clement arm they denounced the Mormons as criminals and traitors Finally they Resolved That when the government coases to afford protection the citizens of course must fall back upon their original inherent rght of selfdefense Tne first antiMormon meeting was held at Carthage but the persecution of tho Mormon people in Missouri was commenced com-menced at Gallaun Davis county Missouri Mis-souri by the Whigs in 1S3T The Mormons Mor-mons were voting for Judge Moren Democratic Dem-ocratic candidate for the legislature William Pensingstou the Whitr candidate delivered in front of the oostofllce an in flatnatory speech against the Mormons which led to attacks on them and several on both sides were wounded The persecution perse-cution then and there commenced resulted re-sulted in driving the Mormons from Missouri Mis-souri and no one pursued them with more vigor than the I Whig Governor Boggs See church histories t WHO WIRe THEIR FRIENDS 1 r Democrats of Illinois proved to be the only Gentile friends the people had in IUUBU viLu a jutii puny us an organization organiza-tion held three different meetings in 1839 to aid the Mormon people See Millennial Star Vol 10 pages 713 and 759 On Wednesday Feb 27 1839 the Democratic Demo-cratic association of Quincy Ills passed Ij resolutions of respect and sympathy for it the Morxnrn people in their persecutions i and raised money to aid them Besides i they uittetlv condemned the codduct of the ii people of Missouri who persecuted them t See Millennial Star Dec 9 1354 f On the 27tb day of February 1S39 at 0 i oclock pm the Demcratic convention adopted among other resolutions in favor of the Mormon people the following Resoled That we recommend to all citizens of Quincy that In ail their intercourse with the I strangers Latterday Saints they use and observe a becoming decorum and delicacy and be particularly careful not to indulge in any conversation or expressions calculated to s 5 wound their feelings See Millennial Star VoL 10 j No 49 page 775 1c JOSEPH BMITH A JEFrEKSOSIAN SEMOCKAT When Joseph Smith ran for president ho Y announced himself as a true Democrat the Jeffersonian type The convention which nominated him assembled May 17 1844 and the platform adopted contained the following plank which was drawn by John Taylor William Smith and L R Foster and endorsed by acclamation Resolved That the better to carry out the principles ol liberty and equal rights Jefferson ian Democracy free trade and sailors rights and the protection ol person and property we will support General Joseph Smith of Illinois for the presidency of the United States at the ensuing election Bishop dward Hunter was a member of that convention See jVanrou 3eJahbor of I May 22 1844 edited by John Taylor + A photograph copy of the ticket Issued y for the state of Michigan Is eiven herewith 1 OTHER DISTINGUISHED LEADERS i During the campaign of 1844 this notice was published showing that the gentlemen I who signed it were evidently on tho stump for frea trade and Jeffersonian Democracy ft I T May 301S44 0 a We have appoint a political meeting l u o M J I = In Newark this evening and one at Joliet tomorrow evening when we expect to present to the citizens General Smiths views of the powers and policyof tho government gov-ernment and discuss the subject politics W WOODRUFF G A SMITH See Millennial Star Vol 23 page G2G Does this not show that Wilford Woodruff Wood-ruff was a Democrat then 1 It is well known that ho is a Democrat nowscores of men have heard him say as much within the past year But he has kept aloof from i politics until dragged in by the Republican central committee in its Nuggets HEPOBT OF THE JIEETIXG The Times and Seasons also published the following account of tho meeting held in Newark May 21 1S44 at which Hon George A Smith father of John Henry who claims to be of Whig descent made a speech in the interest of Joseph Smith and I Jeffersonian Democracy Noticfl had been given for a political ad dress nt the court house in the evening by one reiiJtl n1n of the twelve Several hundred citizens as seaililed and were addressed by Elder G A Smith The speaker considered General Smith imu propneij me smartest man in me United Stales and best calculated to ill the presidential presiden-tial chair which was applauded by the assembly as-sembly His political views as presented on that occasion seemed to please the people Sco Miltfnnijt Star yet 13 page C25 JOSEPH SMITHS FRIENDS WERE DENOORATS The most intimate friend the prophet ever bad outside the church was Hon Stephen A Douglas tho Democratic statesman who remained a firm friend of the people while Joseph IhodSee Tul lidges Life of the Prophet pago 302 Joseph wrote an open letter in which he i said speaking for the people We claim i the privilege of freemen and shall act accordingly ac-cordingly Douglas is a master spirit and his friends are our friends We are willing will-ing to cast our banners in the air and light by his side in the cause of humanity and cqu rights the cause of liberty and tho I law See Times and Seasons December 20 1841 i Joseph Smith said of a Democratic presi j dent General Jacksons administration may be denominated the acme of American Ameri-can glory liberty and prosperity See Josephs Powera and Policy of Government Govern-ment THE PROPHETS BROTHERS WERE DEMOCRATS ALSO Joseph Smiths brother William was elected as a Democrat to the Illinois legislature legis-lature and on retiring in 1844 the latter recommended his brother Hyrum father of Joseph F who also claims to be of Whig descent as his successor using the following follow-ing argument in behalf of Hyrum Sustain yo Democracy throughout the land And ever go forth at Jehovahs command And while the old farmer yet bwingoth the flail Or folio ws the plow Treaa coca Democrats tread on mo tail Of that old coon now Jlmes and Seasons Vol 5 page 53i AND THE PEOPLE WERE TOO It appears in tho MUltnial Star Vol 1C page 45 that Joseph classed his people in i the Democratic party I A Democratic newspaper was started by I the Saints In 1835 and Frederick G Williams Will-iams was appointed by Joseph Smith to edit the same Millennial Star No 18 Vol 15 page 23 They never published or patronized a Whig paper THE PROPHET JOSEPH SMITH WAS A FREE lIUDIn The Prophet Joseph declared himself in favor of a ThooDomocracy ana of Free Trade and Sailors rights See Times and Seasons Vol V No8 page 510 The political motto suggested Dy Joseph in a letter to his Uncle John Smith dated Nauvoo June 17 1844 was Free trado and sailors rights Tullidgea life of Joseph Smith p 479 As the above wss written but ten days before his death it goes without saying that the prophet died as he bad liveda Jeffersonian Democrat A NUQGET OF PURE BRASS The pamphlet entitled Nuggets of Truth issued by the Republican Central committee of Utah contains the following misquotation underneath the engraving of Joseph Smith All our wrongs have arisen under tho Democratic Demo-cratic power and authority and I have sworn that this arm shall fall from my shoulder and this tongue cleavo the roof of my mouth before be-fore I will vote for them Prophet Joseph Smith The prophet continued unless they i make mo satisfaction But the Republican Republi-can committee misquoted Joseph oy cutting cut-ting tho sentence in two However as that was said in August 1S43 it is evident that the SATISFACTION DEMANDED WAS GRANTED I It was AFTER THIS that Joseph ran for president as a Democrat it was AFTER Tats that he voted for Hyrum Smith for candidat3 on the Democratic ticket for representative It was AFTER THIS that on 27 1844 Joseph Smith instructed Dr Richards Rich-ards to write letter to Orson Hyde in which he said The election on the principle of Jeffersonian Democracy free trade and protection of person and property pro-perty is gaining ground in overy quarter See Tims and Seasons CENTRALIZATION OF POWER In his last political utterance the prophet said Tho world is governed too much See Times and Seasons VoL V page 510 Ho also said that he tauglt his people correct principles and they governed themselves See GeoQ Cannons hoof ho-of the prophet page 496 At another time Joseph Smith said In the Unitea States the people are the government and their united voice is the only sovereign that should rule the only power that should be obeyed How very different is that from this sentiment of a leading Republican newspaper news-paper of Utah The masses are of feeble intelligence and cannot be trusted with government THE WHIG LEVDER NOT LIKED HenryClay was the Whig leader John Taylor editor and proprietor of the Times and Seasons said of Clay in the issue of February 15 1844 In speaking of Mr Clay bis policies are diametrically opposed to ours he inclines strongly to the old school of Federalists and as a matter of course would not favor our cause neither could we conscientiously vote f oj himu The opposition to Van Buren was for personal reasons and not because of his politics PRESIDENT TOUNQ OS CLASS LEGISLATION I am opposed to taking away property from one man and giving it to another who knows not how to take care of it I do not believo in allowing my charities togo to-go through the hands of a set of robbers who pocket ninetenths themselves and give onetenth to the poorH See J of D Vol 18 p 857 HOBMOXS SEND A GENTILE TO CONGRESS IN 1S62 Thirtyyears ago when Gentiles in Utah were as scarce as chicken te tb this people elected a Gentile delegate without opposition opposi-tion and he faithfully represented them in the Thirtyeighth Congress Sea Tulips Tul-ips Life of Young p 3S7 The name of that nonMormon congressman congress-man was John F Kinney a Democratic lawyer at one time chief justice of Utah A I OTAH AND STATES EIGHTS The doctrine of states rights and local j 11 J selfgovernment has long been taught In Titan In Tullldges Lfe of Brigham Young ho says that the Utah war must be viewed as a grand assertion of states rights and the principles local selfgovernment Concerning centralization the historian histor-ian says that the attitude of the north and south in the civil war was similar to that of Utah and the government He says further fur-ther that the north waged war against states rights and in favor of a centralization centrali-zation of power which must be repugnant repug-nant to the people See Life of Brigham Young page 348 PLANKS FROM REPUBLICAN PLATFORMS To Republican party came into existence hostile to Utah and the south See Tul lidgos Life of Brigham Young pago 347 And at its very that national convention held in Philadelphia Juno 17 1S50 it declared de-clared in section 3 of its national platform plat-form that It is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in tho territories those twin relics of barDarlsm polygamy and slavery In the national Republican convention held at Cincinnati on tbo 14th day of June 187C the following resolution was adopted It Is the right and duty of Congress to prohibit pro-hibit and extirpate In the territories that relic of barbarismpolygamy and we demand such legislation as shall becuje this end The following plank was put in the national na-tional Republican platform adopted in Chicago Chi-cago June 2 1SSO Slavery having perished in the states its twin barbarity polygamy must die m tho territories ter-ritories In tho national Republican platferm adopted at Chicago June 5 1384 occurs the following I Resolved That It is he duly of Congress toe to-e such laws as shall promptly and effectually effect-ually suppress tho system of polygamy within our territories and divorce thhJc political from I I the ecclesiastical power of the socalled Mormon Mor-mon church and that tho laws so enacted I should be rigidly enforced 1 > y tile civil authorities author-ities if possible aud by tho military if need be I I Blaine ran for president on that platform The platform upon which President Harrison Har-rison was elected in Ibb8 contained tho following fol-lowing The political power of the Mormon church in the territories as exercised lu the past is u menace to institutions a danger no longer to be suffered Therefore wo pledge the Republican Re-publican partv to appropriate legislation assorting as-sorting the sovereignty of the nation to all territories ter-ritories where the some is questioned and m the furtherance of that end to place upon the statute books legislation strjpgent enough to divorce the political from the ecclesiastical power and thus stamp out the attendant wick ness of polygamy Yearafter year such planks have been indorsed by the national Republican conventions con-ventions but no such sentiments can hn found in any Democratic national platform I REPORT OF THE 8ECRETART OF THE INTERIOR Shortly after the division on national party lines in Utah an official report of tho secretary of the interior was made for 1S01 On page 106 it treats of statehood for Arizona saying The question of admission to statehood continues to agitate the public mind and I under an act of the legislature a convention was recently held for tho purpose of form lug a state constitution The principle contention con-tention was the question of the adoption of tho Idaho test oath applicable to Mormons Mor-mons The Democrats oppose the test oath the Renubilcans favor it There is but ono state in which Mormons are not allowed to voteIdahou Repub lican state whoso Republican supreme court has decided the Utest oath constitutional constitu-tional reversing a decision of a Democratic judge which would have granted the people their franchise SOME PROMINENT REPUBLICANS Abraham Lincoln before he became president assisted in driving tho Mormons out of Nauvoo In fact bo boasted of it according to General W T Sherman who writes of him in the Centm He never professed any knowledge of the science of war yet in his joyous moments mo-ments he would relate his large experience as a soldier in the Black Hawk war of 1S33 andas an officer in the Mormon war at Nauvoo in 1S46 See Centum February I 18SSPresident President Grant another great Republican Republi-can undertook to overthrow Mormon rule in Utah and he appointed J M Shaffer as governor Shaffer insulted Gen Wells by ordering him to disband bio militia and cease training Seo Tullegos History page 365 Suhuyler Colfax Grants vicepresident visited Utah in 1SG9 determined to sup press polygamy if it took war to do it1 Tullege page 35tf I Chester A Arthur another Republican president in a message to congress advised ad-vised a crusade against the Mormons See CongesBional Record Benjamin Harrison said but a few months ago that he couldnt afford to experiment ex-periment with the Mormon r people and therefore would keep them in vassalage lee his last message CONDUCT OF THE TWO PARTIES SINCE THE DIVISION Democracy accepts the declarations of thoMromon people ns sincere Republicanism views that people with distrust Democraoy refused to admit Liberals in national convention Republicanism admitted the Liberals and gave them votes Democracy asked for home rule for Utah Republicans and Liberals opposed it See Dcscret KCUS Democracy demands statehood for Utah See platform Republicans say we aro not ready for it Seo Times Democracy says the people of Utah aro honest Republicanism says hey arc dishonest See Con jteaaionat Record Democracy says the Mormons have aban doned polygamy See Home Rule report Republicans say that they onlypretend to abandon it See Minority Report on Homo Rule Democracy says that the people of Utah aro qualified to govern themselves See Conarcsstonal Record March 29 lSJ2 Rapt oilcans say that Utah is n stum bling JIOCK in tho way of western progress pro-gress Soo Republican Report March 80 1892Which Which party do you like CANNON AWAY FROM HOME k In the great national Republican con vention held in Minneapolis last June Frank J Cannon spoke thus of the Mormon Mor-mon people and their lamented leader c when the Ropublicanopartydoclared in its platform that it would exterminate the twin relics of barbarism it fought ono with the sword and It fought one with Intelligence In-telligence Thank God it conquered I < They do not know that Brigham Young Is dead Laughter He died when I was in Knickerbockers and J decline to be responsible for old sermons which he uttered ut-tered in the early days of Utah On the strength of that ireverencehe received HALF A VOTE in the convention the Tri 1il71tJ editor receiving the other half See Desetet News of June 10 1892 REASONS FOR THE FOREGOING This compilation of historical facts is presented to the public not for the purpose pur-pose 01 influencing votes but in order to set men aright who have been maliciously misrepresented as to their political views What these men may havo been politically politi-cally is of no importance whatever in this campaign And while Joseph Smitb Brigham Young and John Taylor were and Wilford Woodruff Is uaouestlonablv Democrats we do not ask any one to vote the Democratic ticket because of that fact We feel that the gross misrepresentations misrepresenta-tions of tbcse men by such politicians as Joseph Smith and Ben Rich should be met We feel that deal J men should bo allowed al-lowed to spealr for themselves when men who claim to represent them attempt to put words in their mouths Therefore wo present this array of facts gleaned irom history trusting that it will forever nettle this controversy which has no place in the politics of today |
