Show 11 ON ITS NAVELS I t It V > I c t The following paragraph is going the L rounds of the newspaperajas if it or A S Jwcre 5aIiicth go jmporwji > a1 fall theY the-Y S irL z i ir 4 r j people should be told of it It had its origin in the News of Portland Oregon a newspaper which comes about as near to being authority upon Democracy and i the Mormons as our morning co temporary or in other words no I authority at all Utah is almost I solid for Cleveland If elected he will undoubtedly keep the pledge of the Democratic party to the Mormons to admit it as a State and shoulder polygamy upon the nation Whoever heard of any pledge of the < < Democratic party to the Mormons to admit Utah as a State When was the pledge given and to whom and by whom What was the agreement by which polygamy was to be shouldered upon the nation How was the shouldering should-ering to be performed What does Governor Cleveland know about the bargain We might go on and ask questions of this character from now till doomsday and neither the Portland News nor any other paper could answer one of them for the simple reason that there is absolutely nothing in the story that any bargain has been entered into between the Democratic party and Mormons We doubt that any Mormon has bad any communication communica-tion with any member of the Democratic Demo-cratic National Committee or with Mr Cleveland since the Chicago Convention Conven-tion and are positive that if there has been any such communication it has in no way related to politics to policies or to Utah in connection with the matter of admission to the Union If Republican editors didnt have something to lie about they would be at a loss to fill their columns i if they couldnt attack the Democrats and the Mormons how dreary their papers would be |