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Show !i . A FEW MORE CLIPPINGS. Undor tho caption: "Why 'Amcri- ) can' party was formulated tho 'Amcr- lean' campaign of stealth. Gentile wo-men wo-men deceived." Goodwin's Weekly, , ono of tho organs which wo llnd supporting the "campaign of stealth" f this year, had tho following to say anont that samo party last fall: "Within two weeks after tho meeting meet-ing of tho stato convention, Mr. Llpp-man, Llpp-man, with tho sanction and probably at tho Instanco of Mr. Kcarns, had gathered together a lot of old anti-Mormon anti-Mormon firebrands, defeated candidates, candi-dates, and malcontents, as well as a meager smattering of peoplo who honestly believed that tho movement was a slnccro and righteous ono, and in malice and medaclty and bafiled de-siro de-siro this party found its Inception. "What do Intelligent and conscrva- tlvo Gentiles think of a society or- i ganlzcd through such baso intrigue? flj What do men of manly Instincts think J A of giving their aid to a society organ- ir ized by unmanly men for malicious ends? H "Intelligent Republicans should ro- IU- member when they go Into tho voting Pj - booth next Tuesday that If thoy sup port this upstart society, thoy aro merely adding and abetting tho most unworthy and contomptablo conspiracy conspir-acy that over blemished tho politics of a sovereign stato. "Tho 'American' party is no haven for upright and conservative Gentiles. Gen-tiles. It is merely a mongrel outgrowth out-growth of splto and bitterness, projected pro-jected in times of peaco becauso an ignorant and unworthy senator was unable to negotiate a deal for a second sec-ond term in tho United States senate. ,1 "Every Republican should carefully i. deliberate on th'jso considerations M next Tuesday. If this bo done, it is V difficult to see how his vote can over Iti bo cast for tho nominees of tho 'Am- 1 orlcan party, a hydra-headed, malfor- mation which represents solely a do- slro for rovengo incited by tho defeat of a revolting political Intrigue. "Tho chief slogan of the 'American' 'Ameri-can' party Is directed against what it refers to as 'Mormon control of tho schools. Gentllo Republicans are Invited In-vited to voto for tho nominees of tho Kearns' party as a protest against this terrlblo spectre of Mormon encroachment. en-croachment. Many people have been led Into an alliance with tho Revenge society on that Issue alone. On the faco of It, this pretext for a bolt sounds moro or less plausablo. Its chief defect, however, Is that there Is absolutely no ovldenco that tho Mormons Mor-mons aro attempting to control the schools of this county, and tho effort to creato an alarm on that subject Is the lllmslcst kind of political demogo-guory. demogo-guory. Tho Trlbuno has attempted no refutation of tho fact that, while tho enrollment shows that' thero aro many moro Mormon than Gentllo pupils pu-pils In tho public school, fully 80 per cent of tho teachers are Gentiles. "Tho bolting organ, in a senile explanation ex-planation of this, nnnounced that tho Mormon church wa3 attempting to secure such control by stealth. They have had nlno years In which to operate oper-ate this campaign of stealth, and tho fact that they have not proceeded any further than that is a sad comment on Mormon diplomacy and shows that ns far as tho schools aro concerned, thero Is nothing to bo alarmed at." Tho "organ" from which tho above extracts aro taken kept repeating In nearly every issue last year, that the followers of the now party move had been bought body and soul. How about the followors of this year? |