Show MB GOODWINS PLATFORM The following is a fair sample not an extreme one of the sco p of similar utterances ut-terances of the Liberal Jidate Now we say that it crime on the part or the government of the United States to permit enemies of the government as pronounced as these the Mormons to obtain patents public pub-lic lands Tribune July 10 1899 This denial of the right to enter land was to be made against the Mormons because a few of them had practiced polygamy and had been punished for that offense He explained on another occasion that The Gentiles have never made any trouble here unless to insist that necessary laws be obeyed is calculated make trouble Tribune Ja1l28 1859 The Liberal candidate frequently reiterated re-iterated that the only fight he had with the Mormons was their defiance of law The enemies of Mormonism How would it sound to hear some one talking about the enemies of housebreakers or houseburners The differences which the great masses of the people of the United States have with Mormonism Mormon-ism are confined strictly to Mormon defiancet of laws which have been held as essential to civilization for hundreds of years Tribune May 25 1883 But what dOes Mr GoOns demand today to-day He says Long ago the government said You must stop polygamy You must give up your allegiance al-legiance priestcratt in temporal things The government did demand that the Mormons Mor-mons stop polygamy and they have stopped stop-ped it But the government never did say to the Mormons You must give up your allegiance to priestcraft in temporal things Mr GOODWIX is the party that said that and he mistakes himself for the government Yet he cannot tell what he means by it He has often tried to explain ex-plain what he means by priestly dictatIon dicta-tion Here is one of his explanations The creed of the Saints is that while they have a celestial kingdom which pertains to the life to come they likewise have a kingdom of GOD on earth which is a purely temporal affair af-fair the doctrine that still controls from the telling of a pig to voting for a candidate as they are instructed to vote Tribune June 9 1SS3If If any citizen of Utah is daft enough to believe that miserable allegation let him vote for the man that made itC C GOOD WIN The very platform upon which Mr GOODWIN is supposed to stand though he does not thus gives him thA lie when he says as he did on Sunday that a vote for JoaN T CAIXE means simply Vote to legalize vice Vote to make the establishment es-tablishment of harems in Utah a sacrament of GOD Tribune Oct 26 isoo In opposition to this mad raving about harems the last Liberal platform says Above all we may felicitate ourselves because be-cause we have at last forced our opponents to accept our position on polygamy We congratulate the Peoples party on their advance ad-vance Mr GOODWIN on the other hand curses the Peoples party because of the act for for which his party congratulates them He says Thejantipolygamy proclamation was not intended to be worth a straw to the Mormon people the pun answer to which is that Mr GOODWINS malicious words are false and he knows it He wishes they were true He advocates this infamous doctrine The best way is to compel the system to conform to the totes of the United States Tho first thing to do is to take all political power from i S the thing to do is to make it impossible for Mormons to obtain title to lands in the United States Tribune April 21 1889But But now that his opponents conform to the laws ten times better than his own constituents do what does he say We are willing to take the declaration of the president of the church that there will bo nc more polygamous marriages VVo are willing to assume that it is true while wo do not believe be-lieve it That is the great vice of Mormonism p but its theocracy is its greatest crime i Tribune Oct 27 ISM What this new crime of theocracy is Ii Mr GOODWIN falls to explain Yet while p advocating disfranchisement and robbery rob-bery of the entire Mormon people for a crime he calls theocracy Mr GOODWIJ has the face to say he never attacked them except wherein they have set the laws at defiance He is a very dishonest fanatic this GOODWIN Hear him advocate the political assassination assassin-ation of the young men of Utah who are innocent of wrongdoing The rigid prevention of the acquirement or the rights and privileges of citizenship by Mormons Mor-mons while adhering to their alien and hostile system would be another most desirable step Tribune Jlarcfi 5 1889 They need to place in that Instrument the t Idaho constitution that no alien can under any possible disguise use the ballot or hold offlco in the state and include in the same clause that all members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints are by tho very ob ligationswhich they have bound themselves by of necessity aliens Tribune April so 1SS9 4 Young men of Utah will you vote for such a fanatic |