| Show I 18 IT TRUE It J s a fearful arraignment of the Liberal Lib-eral party that is embodied in the Peoples platform recently adopted I true it 1 should consign that party to perdition and tho only question that any patriotic citizen would ask concerning this indictment is Are the charges true Here aro the charges Opposed to the Peoples party is the self styled Liberal party which professes to venerate L ven-erate the constitution while violating its fundamental funda-mental truths It arrogates to its members tho honored name of Americans while seeking t deprive 1 large class of American citizens of oS the substantial rights of freemen Through its persistent misrepresentation the right of trial by jury has been abridged and almost destroyed in this territory By procuring unrepublican test oaths and other prescriptive legislation it has disfranchised many citizens because they would not support its men and measures meas-ures For this cause only i has succeeded in robbing the omen of Utah of the elective franchise after they had exercised it for Jifteen years I has endeavored to supplant a legislature legisla-ture elected by the with tur people a commission appointed by the federal government I has z sought erect nn insuperable barer of prejudice preju-dice against tho admission of Utah as a state I seeks to extend to this territory the infamous enactments by which In Idaho thousands of lawabiding citizens are stripped of every political poli-tical right solely because of their membership In an unpopular religious organization It avows through its organs its intention to procure cure such Congressional legislation as Trill debar all persons who belong t that religious body from acquiring title to any part of the public domain It Is therefore destructive of popular liberty and unworthy of tho support of any just liberal and patriotic citizen I 1 Does the Liberal party seek t deprive American citizens of the substantial rights of freemen t The infamy of attempting to deprive Americans of the ballot the most effective of the safeguards of any citizen has led the Liberal party or some of its members it times to deny the charge The party issued which said a campaign circular last winter L I is sufficient answer to make to the attack r made upon tie Liberal party to say that no man has been nor will be disfranchised in America who does not violate the laws of his conntry Whatever Congress may do we arc making no attack upon any religious organization organiza-tion The disavowal of taking any part in the disfranchisenient scheme is paltry and apparent ap-parent Compare the above bit of hypocrisy hy-pocrisy with the following declaration made by tho same party a few months later At a meeting of the Territorial Liberal Committee on the 7th of June CQmmitt te ih 1590 some resolutions were adopted among which was the following as it appeared in the organ or-gan of the commute next day Resolved By the Territorial Liberal Committee Com-mittee of Utah composed of Democrats and Republicans that they heartily endorse the bill now pending before Congress introduced in the Senate by Senator Curt Innd i the House by Representative STRUBLE providing 1 test oath L for Utah and earnestly requested Its passage The secretary of that committee and meeting who is understood to have been the writer of tho resolution and was mado I registrar for the county is now tho Liberal I candidate for tho office of county clerk I Mn DICKSON said in court I say no I man who cicus in polygamy is entitled to I the franchise z I Mr BASKIX said hI say no Mormon is entitled to citizenship Quotations could be multiplied but space is worth something Many Liberals are opposed t disfranchisement but are too l r latich afraid of the party whip t say so 1 fSBlidy J 3Has the right of trial by jury been L abridged and almost destroyed in Utah by the Liberals 3t Trial by a jury of a mans peers is a I fundamental principle of our national c oflarfer The supreme court has said that I iit is ji right justly dear t the American peoples I has always been an object of interest and solicitude deep soJcitude and every encroachment i en-croachment ou it has been watched with I e great jealousy r tvTIie Liberal party first induced Congress I i tonactthoPoLAXD law in 1S74 which decreed 1 de-creed that onehalf the jurymen should be r selected by tho clerk of the district court l a Gentile and the other half by the probate f pro-bate judgo a Mormon as long a I the office was elective But the r Liberal party was by no means satisfied I I satis-fied ivith having onohalf the jurymen though they constituted at the time only L oneeighth of the population Tho party j I I finally induced the passage of the f TccKEiiEDitnxus law by which the office of probate judge was made 1 1 apppintive Thus all jurymen are f L cow chosen by members of the Liberal 1 party and they choose no member o1 the I Moron church for jury service In January F Janu-ary last 200 names tof jurors were drawn in t o n this city by H G MCMILLAN clerk of the I l Third district court and GCOKOE W i I BAKTCH probate judge of Salt Lake county L In rll this list not the name of a single 17 Mormon appeared The list contains however I r n how-ever the names of several of the Liberal j < I I I < b nominees for tho late city and present county election Trial by jury in its true sense is not nowJcnown 1n Utah to members oil the Mormon church Not in polygamy cases only but in any case wnatevor if a Mor mOt is on trials ho must be tried by i jury specially selected for prejudie and hatred against the Moron The Liberal party through its paid emissaries in Washington accomplished the denial of the greatest right known to the AngloSaxon rae trial by jury 3Did tho Liberal party rob the women of Utah of the elective franchise J It certainly was not tho Peoples party that induced Congress t do this Meatm jhis moth petitions were circulated by the Peoples Peo-ples party protesting against tho disfran chiBctnent of the women and mammoth petitions were circulated by the Liberals demanding it I was curious by tho way that the Liberals sbould have first demand d woman suffrageluat the downtrodden women of Utah might free themselves Fifteen years trial having failed t induce he women to vote the Liberal ticket the liberals hnd thenl disfranchised 4 Have tho Liberals wovked for a legis ativc commission to supplant tho legisla tUlOJ They have done more than that Becom 1ng tired perhaps of asking Congress for a legislative commission especially after the tyrant EDMUNDS had declared that a commission would bo revolutionary they merely asked for king for Utah There i Jtah 1s no hyperbole in this statement Backed up by his party the governor recommended recom-mended Some federal agency should bo authorized to app Int the following county offlccrs Selectmen Select-men clerks recorders superintendents of dls trict schools and nUl assessors Of course tho governor meant himself by some federal agency Tho power he I asked 101 in that recommendation added to I that which he already possesses would if ranted make tho governor of Utah a despot des-pot more absolute in power over this territory terri-tory than some of the crowned heads of r Europe Only by virtue of the failure of this scheme will there bo an election tomorrow for filling these offices Think of itl A Jr party in such selfabasement as to ask for the disfranchisement of It own members in i order t increase the power of a petty despot 1 5Does the Liberal party object to admission admission of Utah as a tat It certainly does Every attempt to havo Utah admitted has been violently resisted by that party and its organs Petitions have been circulated meetings held and men sent movement to Washington t oppose the statehood 6Does tho Liberal party favor the Idaho test oath Here is what the party organ says upon that subject The Liberal party could render the country no better service than by this very restriction of the ballot that exists in Idaho balot W < 0 congratulate the Idaho convention on the perfect per-fect justice i has wrought The Liberal party as a whole endorsed tho Idaho test oath and prominent Liberal went to Idaho and jubilated with the plotters plot-ters there over the accomplishment of this robbery robberDoes 7 Does the Liberal party avow its intention inten-tion of depriving Mormons of acquiring title to the public land 1 The recognized Liberal organ said on this subject in a leading editorial recent We the Liberals would disfranchise those that aro aliens and hostile in spirit and act to < this nation we would such naton wpuld prevent having benefit of the land laws The Tribune explains that it means by aliens all people that are suspected of believing in polygamy that is all members of the Mormon church There Is only one party Known to tho history of American politics that has ever conceived such infamy as the prevention of opponents from acquiring title to the public land and that is the Liberalparty The editorial utterance of its organ has never been disavowed Laws to withhold citizenship papers and t prevent Mormons from hereafter obtaining title to public lands ought to be passed as son as Congress meets Surely no Latterday Saint could complain i the power of the saints to absorb ab-sorb further of the public domain should betaken be-taken away |
