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Show i i o ) ( i ' ? i k. - -- ir 3 J ,ri1 , ' 'n ' i j f I fcmnrii -- - . j f i 1 r A' few -- frw v. W 1IEBER CITY, WASATCH COUNTY, UTAH. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER ran .ar a To the Unjustifiable Attacks of the Salt Lak? herald or. President Joseph F. Smith, Because he Is a Republican and Exercises Bis Right as an American Citizen to so Express Himself. . . JAMES MEIKLE, Cache Co. J. G. ROBINSON, S. L. R. C LYMAN, Iron WASATCH COUNTY CERS. OFFI- - , Jlih in the Church, May Urge lirmorfacy "With tpprov- al - lupuhlicans Cct'ucstion- - filltj Forced Statehood at the Fee nt Session. lion. Charles Crane, Chair For Sheriff, J. H. Fracghton, of Heber, For Assessor and Collector. IL M. Aikd, of For Cl rk, II? Giles, of Heber, For Recorder, T. S. Watson, of IIe!er. Fpr Treasurer, man of Republican Territorial My dear Sir: Ilc-ber- . -- . 4 L. TtnsNER, of Heber. For Surveyor, W. E.Btrvs, of Buysville, For Coroner, Wm. . r m.f Offmcs lias iVm Take,, at, His Offhand Femarks, hut Others j of Heber. Hitt. OPPONENTS UNFAIR TO Fur Selectmen:"- C. I. Bronson, of Midway. Geo. T. Baker, of Charlest'n J. A. Meacham, of WalEbrg. F or Attorney, A. C. Hatch, 1 iiigh-minde- , - no use of m v lamenting over ' its. lack of smoothness. And so I will leave tiie lamentation to my Democratic friends, thanking, them, of course, for the interest they manifest in me, and their deep concern for ecdt,s:nslica position my . . . . llliS case Lie latter is Lut the Gib.hud; of the cocoanut, while tliemeat or milk of the same lies in the fact that I am not a Democrat. If I had been, my church position and the imperfections of my dress might Rue been glossed .over with sweet charity and my humble efforts lauded. It is a mere question of whose ox is gored. In proof of this statement I attention to the fact that nut.onc ",ord o! 'criticism or condemnation has been uttered by Democratic press or speak-to- l ers Ha;ast the speeches of Democratic ecc!esia:tical Hilaries, on account of their tee My poor little maiden pohti- cal speech seems to have pro-- ; cluced serine wonderful effects among my Democratic friends, It has afforded an opportunity for some of them to air their eloquence, their. IranscenJant . to ex- loyslty and patriot. their own inimitable virtues, to express their . pain and and contempt for influence or auiliori- ine. and to exhibit generallyaBinding, ' As a frtl,e;r P.r,,f- n? their anxiety and deep cincenr)--. long ago a man of high posi- for their cause m Utah. lion the church lo hid, 1 They have also resorted to belong, publicly credited the bitter sarcasm antT" ridicule, I Ion. Jos. L. Rawlins' with are always the strong- - having restored tonhe Mor- mon people the property which est weapons of a weakcauir. a 'Republican Congress had If the can make any political taken Irom them, wuen every- capital by their vindictive per- - body kncus n0 one L..Ucr SOnal attack. upon me. I can than he (when he stopped to 'about it) the Mormon jt may gb thein mofe on)y Kootl than harm, for I have ?:,urc!' Irom it during the adqnmsrra- onl) tl.elstieehngsof fr.end- - tiono( snip for ail, and vindictiveness jarKj with a large majority of for none. Democrats in the House of I h.4d no idea that anything Representatives, and only two I could say would create such of a Republicanmajority i n a stir and commotion. 1 free- - the Senate. And yet not one what I said, was "or of contradiction or con- that y admit f surCwas ever heard against it n0t PrPared- - fnd Probab from the Democratic side.- He 'vas very crudely and poorly vvas chareti w ith attempt-passesahif which I very much re- - ing to use church influence ret There is; however, now In politics, although he was s. John Crook, of Heber. dig-humiliati- on - :VIRECINCT OFFICERS. HEEER. Justices of the Peace,. F. L. Clegg, . Constables: P. A. MfRDOCK, J. A. Smith.' - , A. Hatch will speak at the followfn Places on the following Irt,er' "f pdA-ntGrovirtieve- i .tt incomer ' - n ha lit ihv - a law JI am in favor of having man an giving eveiy t0 in- taXC! ri(-)- d . , I t o , l e d " 1 - W. G. Baird. ' people to vote for Mr. Rawlins out of gratitude fur has having restored to them the church 'pnupo'ty. have no charge to make against my friend for error. m Lis impromptu speech, nor fur Icing a Democrat, for' know-hwould not deliberately state a faishood. He is an honorable and a I . man him as friend dear a' regard and a conscientious gentleman, and neither lie nor ary other man should, be made an offender for a word. 11 is speech was, moreover, amended, is being and widely published, used for campaign thunder by the Democratic party; and, by the way, so is mine, but in a very different manner. It for Chairman"'"" was wrong Crane to even suggest an amendment to mine, but all right for the speech of my Democratic friend to be revised and amended. Great stress is laid upon my rem arks w!n real I endeavored to show that Democrats were not happy t the prospect of Utah becoming a Republican state, and wishing to defer statehood until, by some means Lest known to them, the signs of the times should become more propitious for their party. I need hot repeat what was re- ported of my speech, for it i already wddy circulated an largely commented upon. My ideas may have been unis apptly put forth, but 1 LICAN TERRITORIAL COMMITTEE. TERRITORIAL .OFFICERS. 'J For Delegate to Congress, FRANK J. CANNON. For Commissioners to Locate University Lands, iSgp an apostle and was appealing to the youth of the. Mormon LETrER TO CHARLES CRANK, CHAIRMAN REPUB 3UUBE0A1I HCZTT. 31. THE TRUTH that I R I' MAINS did not know, and slitl do not know, of a Democrat who, after the Republican victory in the tRction of members of the last Legidaturu, 'was not afraid that Utah noisd become a Republican State, t-- r who was really happy in the thought. And while I 1cm w there are De mocrats broad enough not to oppose such at. xn : m, 1 ut who would welcome statehl although it were Republican, y, t I firmly believe the Democratsy vigort-u-Isuek, jarty, oppose it. .Es;ecially would this be the case under the conditions named in my remark!? that is, if the people of . Utah were overwhelmingly and irrivoeabiy Republicans; and the same might be said of the Republican peat v if the Territory was on the oibr hand thus Dcmtcratic. And js it was, I K lie ve that the Ihral-craedespite the promises made its Raders, woubl gRuly hs e by sidetracked' the staRhiLJLid. y, -- |