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Show UNMITIGATED LIES. If the people nf ot S ilt Lak could onlv have seen the toK-lilijjlit procession that welcomed Elder Ciine at the "City lU!l"ot Ephiaim the other nielli, there would have a large number of deaths Irom laughing to chronicle. Ephraim lias jj jo population, of whom 800 are mare children and 600 are grown up girls and women. '1 lie noble people of tins town, beloved t the Lord, had read ho the Qdiiiilcs had ruined out in torchlight pr.icessioin at Salt I-ake. S on the ground that whatever methods obtained most ant ing the Gentiles in tiolitics was to be patented alter, the phr.imite Israel greeted Brother Caine with a torchlight procession, Such a procession! Merciful Heaven spare the name! It was a parody 011 the Antiques and Horribles. A long irregular, strag-. strag-. lin:; line of mostly women and children in wash dresses and with fever striken Orches met the great Do Nothing Caii.e i and escorted him through the streets shoutiujf, "Hooray tor John T.- Camel "We'll hang Judge Good in on a sour apple tree!" By the time the gang reached the "City Hall" they had no voices left. Bellowing Bull Beal opened the hall racket with an alleged praver, and King Canute Feteisou introduced . Caine as one of the most spotless, pure and holy laborers in the Lord's vineyard . which is our Church, that ever received re-ceived the juice of the VVotd from the lips of the Melcliisedek priesthood. Tnen the gre-a-t John 1". Ca ne arose to speak, and such a speech; a speech made up of la-de-da and buncombe A traveling man who was there said that . if his fourteen yearold boy couldn't make a better sluwing than Came did, he'd spank the gluteold muscle of) him, so he would. The above article from the Tribune Trib-une of the 31st of October is a very -poor campaign article to make its way into this comrnuity as this did the day before election. The whole thing is sctir ious and in- 5 suiting to the whole people of Ephraim Eph-raim irrespective of party. There are but two statemeits in it however how-ever that amount to sufficient dig- nity to need special mention. One is that "Elder Caine" was welcomed at the "City Hall," attempting to do what they wish to heavens the Peoples Peo-ples Party would do, monoplizing City property. The meeting was not held at the "City Hall." The other was that King Canute Peterson in produced caine etc., when the Hon. gentleman was presented by Wm. T. Reul chairman at the Peoples "central committee and the proper - person to do it, thus trying to prove . a union of Church and State. There is nothing in the artiele but what is in direct keeping with the Trbune't other literature, but 'it displays very bad judgement of the- person who wrote it, to allow it Vi 'appear before election Although he seems ashamed to put his name to it, we feel no hesitation in calling the writer a name,a sneak a cur, a willful liar, and a scandalizer of the people, and the town where he has (wherever - he may be) received nothing but courtesy and kindness, and a disgrace to the better wing of the "Liberal" party. So far as Bellowing Bull Real and the statements about the parade go, they are regular Tyibunt lies. JKhile they are false, however, they do mislead so as to effect their votes, The" slatments are fully useless unmitigated falsehood and slanders, and could hardly have been writen by a friend of Ephram, either Mormon Mor-mon or Gentile; Peoples Party, Liberal or Loyal Leaguer, as the processions was a good advertisment , of the enterprise of the town, being very well gotten up and a good showing for a country town. |