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Show "L. H." OBJECTS To the Ways of the Provo Valley Val-ley Kepub's. j ' In Advertising1 the Appearance of "Apos- tie John Henry Smith " at one of their Rallies. I I wish to add to your campaign literature liter-ature the following described dodger that was assiduously circulated throughout through-out Wasatcii County last week. It is commendable for its candor a good deal more than for its diplomacy: " Republimn rally 1 at the Heber Hall Saturday Satur-day eveniujj, June 27th, at 8. o'clock sharp. APOSTLE JOHN HENRY SMI1 H and others -will adJress us on Republican principles. Come out, everybody 1" If the foregoing is not "driving the devil around the stump" with a vengeance, ven-geance, I'd like to know what else it can be. I am positive in stating that, however earnestly and conscientiously the lion. John Henry Smith may and does disavow any intention of making a favorable impression for his political party by the prefixing of his ecclesiastical ecclesias-tical dignity, such prefixing had the effect of inducing at least a few of Midway's people (probably a wagon load of misguided, but by no weans incorrigible in-corrigible citizens) to go over to the town three miles east of Midway and listen to "Republican principles" expounded ex-pounded by "Apostle" John Henry Smith. I do not believe that the honorable hon-orable gentleman, who in his sphere enjoys universal respect second to that of no colleague in his ecclesiastical government, was a party to the phrasing phras-ing of that dodger; neither do I believe be-lieve that Hon. Abrah&m Hatch so far forgot his innate Yankee shrewdness to "give the snap away" so openly. It was easy enough to impress the im-passionable im-passionable people with the fact that "Apostle" Smith wa going to preach on politics; there was no need of "hanging the bell on the wether." Those- who are in the habit of following the guidance guid-ance would easily and readily have fallen into line. But as it is I am (though not altogether melancholy over the black eye which Heber City Republicanism Re-publicanism gavt to itself) still sorry of this mixing of oil and water, church position and state affairs, as it is the very thing the head men of the Mormons have so emphatically declared against, whereas the opponents of the "new era" (the adoption of one or the other of the national political dilemma) still keep proclaiming that "the Mormons are blending church and state." Still I hope the harm done to the general cause of American party politics will be far condoned by the aforesaid "black eye" self-inflicted upon the Republican Re-publican party of aristocrats, "upper-tens," "upper-tens," "tax-extortionists," etc. I think next time Hon. John Henry Smith comes to Heber on a public political po-litical errand he'll ask to read the proofs for dodgers announcing his business. busi-ness. I am sorry for him, in having so indiscreet friends and"advance agents" who "billed the town" tor him so awkwardly. awk-wardly. Leo. Haefeli, j Midway, Wasatch Co., June 28, '91. i |