Show LIBERAL prognostications MR MB W H DICKSON formerly district attorney for utah and noted chiefly for gross perversions of the law in order to punish mor mons mono in excess of statutory penalties has been talking with a representative senta tive of the san francisco examiner and that paper has published his remarks of course the alleged liberal victory in this city was alluded to and mr dickson explained who was the prime mover of the liberal campaign however he glossed over the gen clemans tl emans michigan history and salda few days before I 1 left salt lake he showed me his figures and estimated that the american ticket would carry the city by twenty five majority the total majority was forty nine ja aai i st s t J we make this quotation for the purpose of contrasting these words of mr dickson with these that he uttered later on the judges established the huni dred foot rule and the mormons cormons could vote as they pleased As a re sult suit several hundreds for the first time in their lives struck a blow at al I 1 the church 11 the old adage about certain people who ought to have good memories 1 is here appropriate if the liber a al majority by actual count was twenty five and the majority y on the face of the returns was thirty nine the actual number how many dundr hundreds Is of mormons Mor mons struck a blow at the church by voting the liberal ticket by his own showing there could have 1 been but fourteen individuals here is another wilful untruth for the first time in the history of utah there was an absolute denra a ballot mr dickson knows as well as any body in utah that since the passage of the election law of 1878 an all abow abac cutely secret ballot has been secured to the voters in utah and that no one can discover what ticket any individual suppo supports unless he chooses to disclose it 1 t the ballot must be handed to the of election on folded in such a way that its contents cannot be seen and placed in an envelope furnished at the polls the envelopes are of nui form size and color and must be without ma mark k or device of any des crip rip tion there was nothing at the recent election which made an absolutely cutely secret ballot any more secure than tham at former elections the clearing ot of the crowd a hundred feet from the polls did not shut out the chall challengers enge T 1 and others needed near the ba ballot box and the falsehood that the 1 ballot is not ordinarily secret in U utah tah is altogether too stale and fishy 4 for an ex district attorney to ta tell except in some place where people are unlikely to know the facts everybody here knows it Is an absolute falsehood next mr dickson appears in the role of a prophet thusly if the american ticket wins in february I 1 predict the downfall ot of the mormon church in the next 1 I 7 five years what he means by the ican ticket will be understood he haxe 0 as the profane and untruthful md and boastful framers and ma manipulator thereof modestly style then american gentlemen 3 but BU the prediction when this cator of events that he hopes for prophesied in san francisco before he gave only six months as the time of the approaching downfall that was about four years ago when he anticipated wonderful things to grow out of his own intended doings and the mormon church is no nearer downfall now than then and five years hence will not be any nearer downfall than it was fifty years ago will those hundreds of mor mons 11 whom mr dickson expects to vote the liberal ticket next february note what liberals expect to be the effect of such defection in one breath they assure young utah that they do not want to interfere with their religion but only to effect a material change for the general good in the next they chuckle with glee over the anticipated gain of votes from the mormon P 1 ranks because the result is to be the downfall of the mormon church the logic of it is cormons mormons Mor mons sly should join the liberals liberale f in politics because that would bring about the destruction of the mormon deyormon 1 1 church these anti mormon prophecies have been conanon common from the day of the organization ot of the church to the present but none of them have been verified the imor mormon church has demonstrated its vitality and force amid all the varied tribulations through which its people have pegged passed when they have been not only without votes but without homes without friends without money and without food the church has remained intact and tile the faith of its adherents has never faltered adversity has not weakened it in the smallest degree prosperity has seemed to be its greatest danger but in all conditions and prospects it has stood firm and compact in its integrity immovable except to steadily progress unchanged except to grow and increase in power and develop in beauty and in heavenly intelligence the prognostications of its un foes have always failed they will fall to the ground again and again the mormon A church will remain when the wolves tind that howl around it are in their graves and amid gone to their doom but nevertheless the purpose they have in view and the object they expect t achieve ought to be understood by those mormons cormons Mor mons whom they eek adek to ensnare when they come with pon political bleating and clad in p i clothing |