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Show H THE "LIHEIUL" CANDIDATES. m j CIIEAr EVASION. H B f TiiEtnlitorof the ".Liberal" organ H an 1 cand'Jate tar the office of Dele- !ipito iu Congress, affects to believe i tint every "Moraon" lias yielded fH tip bis conscience to the dictation of H "priestly leaders," auJ that lift B '-'Mormon" votes except as directed H J by lliose leaders. IIo demands that H tills "dictation" shall be given up B atl'' that tiic ''Mormons" shall cease B this submission. Hj We have ihovrn many times that H the "chiefs of the Church," who, he H "eays, claim this power to direct H j-eople how they shall vote, as "a B divine right,'- make no euch claim, K 1'retend to no such right, and cxer- H the no such authority. Al-o, that H it is impossible for them to give up B soaicthlng tbry do not hold, nud HBBj absurd to require peoilc to recede B from a position they do not occupy. BBj As hi per.-si-tej in his assertions BHH that all the "Mormons" are serfs, BHHj who have placed themselves under BH obligations to vote as they are told, H and In his argument that ttrcre- H fore they ought to be deprived alto- BB gelher of tho voting power, we BJBb asked him touaniKnm"tartuan" BSH t who had taUen stich an obligation. BBB - To dodze tills i?uc he mentions the BBB editor of tho Deseuet News as BH one whom lie Hunts he can name. BBb lie gays he "idtevct tho editor of BBB i the Nnvvs has taken tho most BBl eoUrnn obligations to obey tiie H . lrieUiooJ In all things." And lie H proceeds to tell a number of thing B V which he bslieeee about the same BB I '"person. H AH of this goes to suot that the BBB1 . candidate for the delcgateship BBBl knows as little or the personal char- BBBj scter and history of the editor of the Bj "Xuws, as he appears to know of tiie BBB creed, and spirit, and purposcsof the BBBr --"Mormon" Church, its leaders and BBH Its people. BBBJ Hut this evaion of his will not BBB answer. Why docs he not meet H tho Issue like a man? Bring forth BBBJI his proofs of what he asserts, orad- BBBJ mit that he is mistaken, or that all BBBJ heh-is asserted is simply what lie BBBf "thinks" and what be "believes?" B Tiie fact is, that is all there is of BBB Ills "argument." lie believes the BBB "Monuous"arenlI undcrobligations BBBJ - to vote as they are told, lie think- B that is wb they vote with to much BBBj unanimity. Because he Ulitcct BBB thU, therefore, he argues, the whole BBBJ body of the ".Mormon" pejple BBB Fhould be deprived cf the right of H tulTragc. lie has no other ground H ' for this but what he "thinks.'' BBB Oa tiie same reasoning all the BBBJj members of the "Liberal" tarty BBBl jtlioukl be disfranchised. They vote BBBJ as a unit. Democrats and Itepubli- BBBJI cans join issues ami go "eolld" for BBJI 1Ile "Liberal" caudidaies. Tliere- BBBJI fore they are dictated by somebody. BBBfl Many '-Mormons" believe that BBBE numbers of these "Llb.-raU" are BBBl under obligations to Micret societies, BBBJ an J all to their politlzal bosi; and BBBJ tint (liey are veritable slaves to the BBBE clique that rules them iu politic, BBBl extorts money from them for politl- BBHj cal purposes, and abuses them BBBB thrcuzh the "Libera!" organ if BBBJj they do not jump Into line when the BBBJ party whip is cracked. Krgo, they BBBE arc not fit to vote at ail. BBBl If the fact that a "Mormon" has BBBtj always voted Ills party ticket proves BBBJj (hat he is under obligations to vote BBBl as he is told, tucn the fact that a BBBJj "Liberal" has always voted for his BBBl party ticket proves that he has voted BBBE ss he was told. And by this style BBBJj of "logic," for which the "Liberal" BBBM orgm has becom: tuted, the editor BBBIJ of that taper proves, on his own BBBl reasoning, that he I, a. veritable BBBl "erf," a "Lib-Tal" tjave, and is BBBJJ not fit to be entrusted with the BBBIJ lutllot, to say nothing of his cinlid- BBBB a '." re for the ofil-e and cnialu BBBIJ ments of D.degato In Congress. BBB But, seriou-I v, will he oblige the BBBIJ public by proving that the "chief- BBBIJ of lbs Mormon Church" claim the BBBH right to tell the jieople whom to vote BBBj for, and that no "Mormon votes ex BBBIB ceptas he is thus dictated."' As ti. BBBIJ the editor of the Xews, he lias taken BBBB no Rich obligation as alleged, am. BBBIJ has never been "calle-l upon t- BBBIJ vote" for anylwdy, but has cast his BBBIJ hallotas he chose, and ntither tht bhhh "iiiocrai ' candidate nor any one BBBIJ else has the right to say how he Bk has or lias not voted. BN3 We again repeat emphatically, the BBBIJ "chiefs" make no such claim, the BBBIJ leople yield no such homage. If tin BBBIJ "Liberal" candidate believes tin BBBIJ .stutrhepublishes, be must beafllict- BBBIJ ed with softening of the brain; iflu- BKBt does not well he may apply to him BJBe Felf Mime of his choicest epithets. BBBJJ FUch as he deals out to thoe who BBBJJ oppose his views eitheron the silver BBBJJ question or the "Mormon" question; B he is fully entitled to thesi all. This Is a terrible state of affairs in a great American city, and is liable to cause the lower classes of i'w Orleans to arise In wrath and exterminate ex-terminate the Italian contingent of the population. |