Show Mm PLATFORM t Sample Planks Showing the Position Posi-tion of the Liberal Candidate I A REMARKABLE FANATIC Advocates the DisfranchIsement and Denial of the Eight to Enter Lands of all Those Mormon Voters Who have Never Broken the Law but Have Sworn to Uphold It DISFRANCHISEMENT Surely the Saints shonld speedily make up their minds to cither adjust their system to the reasonable demands of civilization or seek some land yfhsre they wil not subject their people to constant hostility and loss Tribune Jan = 19 iffiJ iffiJEither Either their psople will break awa y from the unAmerican environment or the government of the United States will take away from them every prlvilego of citizenship which vlll include in-clude not only the ballot but lb3 ability to locate lo-cate and own lands The justice of this wU not be questioned in any country Tribune March 4 lb9D To say that a man so enthralled a a Mormon Mor-mon has a right to become a citizen of the United States of a republic the only safety of which rests upsn tho ballot Is a direct impeachment impeach-ment of the intelligence of this n ton ° ° An yet our courts call these creatures up by droves wretches that have nj more cjnseptlon of our government than a Hottentot hus of an Incandescent light and in elect place the free American ballot in their scurvy hands and say bless you my children Triditii Tans 7 13S9 Mormons being subjects of an aica and hostile temporal government have no right to particiDUe in publla political aSair1 and no real claim to tho bnsat of the pbic Und laws Tribune Not i I WAS W-AS TO CONFISCATION THE HERALD says that we would take away the franchise from men who have coaiaiittad no crime and make al the ofliccs appointive by one man If we had had our way four or live years ago we would hive done batter than that We would have taken the elective franchise wayfrom i every mal in Utah Mormon and Gentile alike and woull have hal the government govern-ment of the United States assert its authority by appointing a commissoa t come here and draft a code and execute it Tribune Oct 24 1BSO I When THE HERAU says we would punish men who havo committed no crime and have done no wrong it talks like an idiot We would not punish them at all We would simply pnhiblt them from exercising the right which I they hive deliberately absolved themselves from I New we say that It is a crime on the part of tho government of the United States to permit enemies of the government as pronounced as these I the Mormons ootoin patents to public pub-lic lands Tribune July 101SSO The rigid prevention of the acquirement of the rights and privileges of citizenship by Mormons Mor-mons while adhering t their alien and hostile system would be another most desirablestcp Tribune farci518SO jibmc ct5 18S They need to place in that instrument the Idaho constitu ion that no alien can under any possible disguise use the ballot dr hold edict in the state and Include in the same clause that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints are by tho very ob ligationswhich 3 have bound themselves by of necessity aliens Tribune April 2J 1889 To give such people the Mormons the right to use the only defers on which a free peOple can depend the ballot to give such a people the right to participate in the election of political affairs and the making and unmaking of laws is something that no civilized people on the earth except our own would for one moment mo-ment consider We congratulate the Idaho convention on the perfect justice they havo wrought Tribiinc jHl ly2 IS89 HIS OPIMtiX OF THE MoRMoNs Statehood Is wanted by tho Mormons said Mr GOODWIN on one occasion Inorder I That we may have the further rule of robbing and cutting the throats ot all who dare to oppose op-pose any device or order the chiefs Tribune June 18S7 It i a wonder us that this question in Utah was not years ago appealed the sword for ad judisatlon 4 While the worship of GOD is free in America no crimes will be permitted under the name of religion Tribune Feb 2 1800 t The church rule here is little better than that kind of heresy for which men were broken on the whe l or burned at the stake Tribune March 27 19 The Chinaman looks upon our government asa as-a parvenu affair But if that China man becomes the father of a child in this country that boy will grow up to be an Amen ern But the lesson taught the Mormon child from its mothers kneo is that the LOUD made this world He owns it and all that therein is that He has a right t rule i and does rule i through his priesthood that there Is no other legal government except this and it is the childs duty to obey implicitly the chief priests who are GODS vicegerents on earth That makes the child an alien Jribune Marsh 23 1800One One method of reform which ho favors is thus stated by a correspondent of his paper and embodied approvingly in an editorial article by Mr GOODWIN I I rejoice when I see young Mormon hoodlums playing billiards getting druuir rnnnlntr with bad women anything to break the shackles they wore born in The reformer approved this method of reforming young Mormons and said of it Freedom is the first requisite of manhood and i it can be won without excesses so much the better I it cant never mind the excesses ex-cesses iln the freedom It i not you who are nwronslble whoa It comes to that it Is those that have enslavedyou Trimns March < S 1SS1 Many years ago the government of the United States made i Illegal for any church in any territory ter-ritory to accumulateexcept in places of worship wor-ship property in excess of 50000 This suit was ordered that a vast amount of property illegally obtained by the church might be taken and sold and the proceeds go to tho schoos of the territory We never approved of the wisdom wis-dom of the proceeding but the justice of it is beyond dispute Tribune Oct 27 7SWS The Saints must either comE within tho laws or must llnd some other spot in which to carryout carry-out their purposes Did they ever stop to thing that their persecutions have not yet really commenced Supposj the next stop shall be to deny the Saints the right to enter lands and to attack the titles already secured to land S the government through the machinery of the law may outlaw and disinherit them Tribune MarcU 26 1859 The best way is to compel the system to conform to the laws of the United States The first thing to do is to take all political power from it the thing to do Is to make i impossible for Mormons to obtain title to lands in i the United States Tribune April 1889 18S3Ona Ona of the strangest features of Mormonism and tho Mormons is their seeming utter lack of comprehension of the enormity of disobeying tho laws THE FIRST THING PROBABLY PROB-ABLY THAT WILL BE TAKEN FHOJI THE W4LL BE THE FRANCHISE which they havo so long prostituted Then they will find them elves at the mercy of such laws as may be proscribed pro-scribed for them l that will not do THE NEXT ATTACK WILL BE ON THEIR PROPERTY PROP-ERTY and no man who BELIEVES it right for him to obey the First Presidency rather than tho laws will bo permitted to acquire title to lands This will mean FINAL BANKRUPTCY BANK-RUPTCY not only for the masses but for the rich in the organization Tribune September 10 18SO ABOUT TiltING THE OATH When Congress passed the law disfranchising disfran-chising all actual polygamist and all those who would not take the oath that they had not violated the law in the past and would not in tho futureviolate the law nor counsel coun-sel aid encouragV pr abet others in doing r i a t is > JX < < c so a small ring of Liberal patriots got I together Mormons who had not violated the law and expected to abide by it began I taking the oath as a matter of course Led by Mr GOODWIN the ring framed another oath different from the one framed by the Utah commission and insisted on having the Mormons take this new oath That I will not hereafter at any time within any of territories of tho United States in obedience t any alleged revelation counsel advice or command from any source whatsoever I whatso-ever or under any circumstances enter into I polygamy or take more wives than one The Tribune advised the registrars taat they had a perfect right to Substitute the oath pro pared by tho committee for tho oath prepared by the commission Tribune Man 11 188 Speaking of the Edmunds oath Mr GOODWIX attempted to show that The oath stated In plain English requires them to say that they reject the Mormon dogma that they are in effect apostates Tribune February 23 1S7 The News mUit be prepared to see the Mormons Mor-mons excluded from thi poli either b7 their own action In refusing to take te oath or by action of tho registration officers in lefusinj to permit then to take It Tribune Mirch 2 1687The The point is can Mormons swear that they will not aid abet teach or counsel a violation of the law but i Is a test and a religious gious test and is both intended to have aid doe have this eft3ct candy to exclude Mormons Mor-mons from the suffrage and from holding office C v Mortnonism does not almit of its members mem-bers taking this oath TrJtttns Marct3 1837 Mr GOODWIN has twice failed to secure tho disfranchisement of his opponents The Heirs says tha the hated decision does not destroy the Mormon church which we concede con-cede Wo admit further that it has not in celo admit any perceptible durce diminished Its vileness rebelliousness and proncncs traIl forms of deceit de-ceit I In short the decision has not pricked the conscience of this people in anyway any-way to cause tjem to realize their baseness and need of a now birth and until they see the depths of infamy to which their system is leading lead-ing them their case i hopeless I seems a hard case to deal with a people so besotted in trickery and the cunning secretiveness and obstinacy ob-stinacy which is distinctive of the criminal classes the world over Tribune Ocl 29 1839 The creod of the Saints is that whilo they have a celestial kingdom which pertains to the life to come they likewise have a kingdom ot GOD on earth wheh Is a purely temporal affair af-fair S C lie doctrine that still conrols from the selliny of a pij to vatinj for a candidate as they are instructed to vote TribUM June 0 1SS3 WHAT HE ONCE DEMANDED The Hebrews made the most determined efforts They wore conquered thirteen times and yet so soon as they recuperated little they made a fresh struggle under the theory that they were divinely guarded that a few of them with GOD made a majority and that it was their mission to persevere until they established estab-lished the rule of tho earth with their capital In their holy city s But they have learned the lesson that while their faith is sacred to them that while tUey have no idea of relinquishing one tenet of i their plainduty Is to obey the laws of whatever country they maybe may-be In The Gentiles do not care what the Saints worship or what hopes they nurse for this world or the worll to come but there must be a bath from which all must work and that basis is the law Tribuns March 211SS3 Is it not time for the chiefs of tho organization organiza-tion to determine upon one of two courses either to leave the UnUcd States or to place themselves frank y ali fairly within the just laws of the republic Their property is in jeopardy their people by hundreds ate in prison or in hiding S S And what IS the result re-sult Hunted imprisoned impoverished their property in jeopardy and the lives of the people made miserable by unrest and despair 0 Is It not time to say to your people Polygamy has fulfilled Its mission It will no longer be an ordinance of our faith and the church has withdrawn with-drawn its former political rule over the people C S The Gentiles of Utah are anxious to I meet you half way anxious to join with your I people to help build up a glorified state Tribune Feb 8 iSdO The Gentiles have never made any trouble here unless to Insist that necessary laws be obeyed caculated to make trouble Tribune Jay 28 1859 Tho enemies of Mormonism How would i sound to Lear some one talking about the enemies of housebreakers or houseburners The differences which the great masses of the people of the United Statis have with Mormonism Mormon-ism aro confined strictly to Mormon defiance of laws which have been held as essential to civilization for hundreds or years Tribune noM 25 1869 WHAT HE NOW PRETENDS IS NECESSARY We aro willing to take the declaration of the pajsident of the church that there will be nc more polygamous marriages We are willing to assume that i is true while we do not believe be-lieve it That is the great vice of Mormonism but its theocracy is its greatest crime Tribune Oct 27 itao Before the Mormon politicians can establish that Mormonism is not an alsolute theocracy they must deny the faith q They must blot out tho written and published and acted record The tiles of all Mormon newspapers news-papers and periodicals must be called in They must then He out of existence the history and traditions of Utah and blot out the memories memo-ries of all living Mormons Tribune October W 1890What What will conferencel way was it necessary br1 fI1 rI Oecce bring 4 WlllTfor the Mormon l there be anything pro once to order that po p0et tat trill give a lyamy cease q silver lIning to the I strikes one 13 peon cloud that is upon this liar to say the least patent peoplo to day that an organization be C S H there was fore it wilt obey the law but one man in the must br ng the subject church bravo enough of that law up in a con and unsclrbn enough erence and take a vote and imbued with 101e of the people as to enough f01his people to whether or not they rite i the Tabernacle shall submit to the law and cal a halt to de rids only ploves in the clone tht no true reli Crst place that Vir glou impoec I tiny ob FORD toooRurF was ligation to iighttaojust not stating the facts laws of a republic as when he declared thaP itentle just and glen there were no more o OUtS a ourowntheTab lygamous marriages ernLOle would be being celebrated and thrilled as It has never toat the fact of the con been thrilled up to this ference presuming to timeriibuiie dpill 6 pest upon the laws of 1889 the United States as to It is passing strange whether they should that sonic youth within submit to tee ED the Lranizatlon some MUNDS law or not is Amarkan born and conclusive evidenco bred youth does not that the Mormon people sound a slogan to this consider the temporal people nod call them to and political govern give up their delucions mont of the Mormon and come within the church the superior of lawsTPibuIIe April 7 the government of tho 1859 United StatesTrib 14ie Octet 2OlS0O |