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Show THE CITIZEN refuse to be comforted when told that they will be ble to continue on the official payroll if they contribute. Naturally the officials who failed of renomination and are angry nd sore because of the chastisement administered to them are white 0t with rage at the demand on them for five per cent of their Nevertheless some of them have paid the tax in the hope Hilaries. future favors from the party. Even with the money obtained by political blackmail combined ;ith the money wrested from the underworld the Democrat's lack lufficient funds to carry on their campaign as they planned. This as resulted in constant bickerings and quarrels among the candi-ate- s, among the organization, chiefs and between the candidates The underworld fund for Corless, collected nd the organization. and his aides, is a special fund separate and apart iy Jake Raleigh om the regular organization funds. Last week a joint meeting of the county committee and county fficials and employes to discuss funds was held at the county build-nInasmuch as the county convention, emulating the state condition, had failed to renominate Democratic officials these officials nd their employes displayed an apathy about contributing that goad-- d Chairman C. C. Richards to fury. The result was that the chair-na- n Mormonism ositions and g. handed in his. resignation. As no announcement of the resigna-io- n has appeared presumably he has reconsidered and consented to his name stand as chairman. et WHEN COX ATTACKED MORMONS lourf )eoplt request of many new .readers of The Citizen the editorial Entitled Mormonism and Treason, which appeared in the Dayton )aily News of February 4, 1905, is herewith reprinted. Mr. Cox, he Democratic nominee for president, was a private citizen in that fear and his business was the publishing of the Dayton Daily News, t is said that he wrote or ordered written as many as eighty ms oiljtditorials and articles against the Mormons. terizcli The Citizens editorial on the subject appeared in the issue of ial in lSeptember 25 of this year and evoked much interest. It was called by the remarks of Governor Cox in his tabernacle speech in 3vine By presi-ljort- h Mo:- stock-- 1 10P s Lake City. Following his custom of saying just what his audiences delight hear, he indulged in a glowing panegyric of the pioneers. Among Salt : C-I- things he said : My heart has been touched by the hospitality of Utah;- my prises have been thrilled by the wonders of Utah, and my face has een tanned by the welcome rays of the sun of Utah. I have felt at I was quite prepared for a scene such as this. This magnificent ructure lives in the traditions of the world. It gives me great happiness to stand in this presence and realize file breadth of view and patriotic fervor which prompted-th- e organization which controls it to make of it a sacred shrine of America thcljother 5 if, indeed, the faith does not embrace TREA- SON among its tenets. It is the testimony of Witness Wallis, who has, he says, been twenty times through the endowment house ; that those who go through this most secret of all Mormon ceremonies take an oath to avenge the blood of the prophet upon the nations of the earth and teach this to the remotest gen- eration. Palpably, this prophet to whom the oath refers is Joseph Smith. And palpably, the nation upon which vengeance is to be visited is the United States. Such an oath enjoins- upon Mormons who have taken it vengeance for the manner of Smiths death. It is in nature and essence a direct renuncia- tion of allegiance to the government of the United States, in favor of the Mormon church. And if that does not spell TREASON then very wide latitude must be given to the interpretation of that crime. It matters little that Witness Wallis declared he looked upon the endowment house proceeding as a joke and subscribed to the oath with the understanding of what was imposed on him. Were the leaders of Mormonism like Wallis the church 'would be harmless. But there are men in the councils of Mormonism whose sagacity and statecraft cannot be despised or underestimated. And every man of them who took the oath to avenge the death of Prophet Smith knew precisely what was imposed upon him as a Mormon. It is not Reed Smoot but the Mormon church, which is under investigation at Washington. Smoot himself is of little consequence. But it is of the utmost concern that any organization having its seat of government in this nation shall not impose upon those who look to it for spiritual guidance THE DOCTRINE OF VENGEANCE AND TREASON. Remember, that this editorial was printed half a dozen years after the Spanish-America- n war in which Charles R. Mabey, the Republican candidate for governor of Utah, rendered such distinguished service. Utahs soldiers covered themselves with glory in that war. There was no more excuse, therefore, to hurl the charge of treason then than there, is today. There never was any excuse for such a charge and in making it Governor Cox displayed the narrowness of his mind, the suspicious bigotry of his nature, and his hostility to the Mormon people. - , . i - the war. This is the most wonderful assemblage of people that I have ever seen. Frankly, I stand here in awe, in the presence of so many representatives of your great citizenship. The manner of speaking appealed to the younger people in the during audience and to sonic of the older people, but among the latter were many who remembered what an uncompromising foe of the Mormon Ppplc Mr. Cox had been in other years. Until the night of his tjbernacle speech he had never publicly expressed any other opinion tjmn that expressed in the editorial which we quoted and which e now reprint. Apparently he found no inducement to change I i opinion until he became a candidate for president and greatly desired the of Utah. electoral fbc editorial in which lie denounced the Mormons as traitors 4 f . V the as follows : MORMONISM AND TREASON. Some things were said by witnesses in the Smoot inquiry at Washington which will strengthen the popular impression that the Mormon church stands first of all for THE WRATH OF WILSON Extraordinary bitterness, prompted by the language and manner of President Wilson, marks the campaign of Democratic zealots for the League of Nations. In their advertisements they called their opponents liars and challenge them to stand up for the truth. One blatant and bumptious advertiser intimates that Major Mabey is a moral coward because he will not agree with the Wilsonian view of the covenant. The president himself is not averse to rancorous epithets. He denounces the gross ignorance and impudent audacity, which, he says, has led them (opponents of the covenant) to invent an Americanism of their own, which has no foundation whatever in any of the authentic traditions of the government. There is a tradition and a record of one George Washington who, in his farewell message, warned his countrymen against entering into entangling alliances with foreign nations. At most, he declared, alliances should be temporary and for special purposes. There is a tradition and a record of one James Madison, president of the United States, who promulgated a Monroe doctrine. It forbade foreign nations to colonize the American continent and it pledged the United States not to interfere in the affairs of Europe. There is an authentic tradition and a record of Abraham Lincoln, a president of the United States, who was elected .to preserve the union of states against an attempt to divide the sovereignty of the national government. But in our day a president seeks to divide in Europe. the sovereignty of the United States with a super-stat- e The presidents defense of Article X is as weak as his entire x |