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Show THE CHUKCHI AD POLITICS. Notwithstanding the persistent and . earnest efforts of the chairman of the republican executive comnittee o this county to teach the people by under un-der handed and uu frank methods that by yotirg the republican ticket they would very greatly oblige the first presidency and the leaders of. the church generally, it has now become clear that that body of eminent ,meu not only never gave such an intimation tut that thev were much chagrined and scandalized by having had the claim impudently made for them by any man. The manly and timely act of the Utah stake presidency in publishing pub-lishing their card, the other day, has gone far in doing away with the abuse in this county. Since that publication was made, if not abandoned altogether, it is only done in secret and upon personal per-sonal appeal. The impudent claim was only put up by impudent and dishonest dis-honest men, reckleBS and dangerous - men, on the assumption that the Mor mon people are ignorant and complete-( complete-( ly priest ridden, which all well in formed people in Utah know is false, utterly false. Those people cannot be I led or driven by anybody against their , Bonvictions of right. While they haye a high veneration for their church and its leaders, yet they know full well that they are only men after all, and they would not accept a dictum on a political question from them any sooner than from any other body of intelligent men. They would not question a declaration dec-laration of the first presidency on a moral or a religious subject, and it is an insult to both the people themselves - and the first presidency to claim tt at i thy would obey an intimination com ing 6econa nana tnac the first presidency presi-dency would be pleased with them if they would vote the republican ticket. We believe fully that John C.Graham totally and f ouly misrepresented the first presidency by the impudent and base claim he made for them at Santaquin, Santa-quin, It is true that the editor of The Dispatch is not a Mormon, but he is too sincere a friend to the Mormon people peo-ple and their church, not to resent bit teriy, as he does, any and all efforts to belittle or misrepresent them, coming from any nd all sources. It is quite true, however, that in this case we do it solely and only in the interests of the democracy who would be injured If the baeeleSB claims were to gain credence nong the people. But there is a perfect an I complete refutation in the published pub-lished declarations of the firet presidency presi-dency early in the campaign, and this supplemented by the aotioa of the stake presidency the other day, leaves ! nothing else to be done. We refer to it now and thus, only that this information infor-mation might not have reached all, or been overlooked by some. And, we con fees it frankly, that we want to see the impudence and wickedness of those using it rebuked, if not by the first presidency itself, by the people at the - pc-Ui next Tueeday. This very circum,. s I r stance, if it becomes broadly kn wu in this ccuntv, will be worth two hundred and fifty more votes to tbe democratic nominees. Such recklessness with 'the good name of the church needs and deserves a stinging rebuke Irom some competent source; if not from the firBt presidency itself, then from the people themselves, and in a formal and effective effect-ive way at the ballot box. Mormon people of either party are likely to resent any studied affront to or misrepresentation of their church or people, but mare especially of the venerable heads of tbe church. Tt is their duty to guard the honor and good name of these heads of their church trom all aspersiouB of every character. It is true that President Smith is in politics, this campaign, but in that position he spells no more than anyone any-one ebe, and his political is easily separated from his religious character, and it will be done by all honorable men, whether ot the Mormon church or not. |