Show A Dirty Electioneering Trick A campaign pamphlet has appeared ex ilbiting no little pains in the preparation the manifest design of which is to influence a small class of Mormons who may be misled mis-led by misquotations or garbled extracts from distinguished men of their church tis called Nuggets of Truth and Gems from the Speeches and Loiters of the Leading Lead-ing Minds of Utah Past and Present For I frontispiece it has 1 picture of JOSEPH JO-SEPH SMITH acd a pretended denunciation by him of the Democratic party Next come expressions of BRIGKAM YOUNG with a likeness and following these are cuts of WILEORD WOODRUFF and JOSEPH F SMITH and on tho back as large as life is o picture pic-ture of F J CANNON TUE HERALD makes no changes upon any party in regard to the authorship of this electioneering tract I is very plulu that it is not the work of a Democrat and whoever got It up ought to bo heartily ashamed of himself for his miserable sneaking dishonesty which is equivalent t to forgery as it wrenches words from their connection and makes them do duty in a cause foreign to the uttcrcrs The man who perpetrated it would probably not hesitate hes-itate to use the Sermon on tne Mount as a stump speech for the MCKINLEY bill or apply the First Epistle General of PETER to the canvass in Webor county On the first pajo of Nuggets of Truth underneath the engraving JOSEPH SMITH there is this quotation All our wrongs have arisen under the Democratic I Demo-cratic power and authority and I have sworn II that this arm shall tai from my shoulder and this tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth before be-fore I U vote for them Prophet Joseph Smith Tbis purports to be a quotation from the 2Iillcnial Star giving remarks of JOSEPH SMITH complaining of the citizens of Nauvoo and of the treatment he had received re-ceived at the bands of one BAOBT county collector and of abuses at an election where he was refused a vote In the Star were added the words suppress d by the Nugget man unless they make me satisfaction satis-faction That was in August 1S43 May 25 1844 JOSEPH SMITH instructed Dr RICHARDS to write 1 letter to ORSON HYDE in which ho said The election nn hc principle of JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY I FREE TRADE and protection of person and property i gemini o > ound in every quarter So JOSEPH SMITH remained a strong Jeffersonian free trade Democrat We now call upon Mr FRANK J CANNON and Mr C E ALLEN not only to repudiate for themselves any responsibility direct or remote for this scandalous publication but to denounce the use of such illegitimate and dastardly moans of deceiving and trifling with the people At every place where they appear each of these candidate should be closely questioned as to what he thinks of this method of winning votes Posh the dirty scheme clear home I |