Show CANNON BOOMERANG The Question is Was Joseph Smith a Protectionist lit When He Was Nominated for President His Jfriends Passed a Resolution fur Free Trado and Sailors Rights No little stir has been created throughout through-out Utah by the circulation of a pamphlet called Nuggets of Truth in which an attempt for political purposes is made to distort expressions of prominent dead and living Latterday Saints into indorsements of the McKinley policy of high tariff to in iluenco the election for delegate to Congress Con-gress On the frontpage of this pamphlet is likeness of Joseph Smith with a garbled gar-bled and incomplete expression quoted from him and made to do duty as hostile to the Democratic patty with others intended in-tended to make it appear that he was a protectionist pro-tectionist in the same sense that the word is used now On May 17 1844 at a Democratic convention conven-tion held in Nauvoo Ills J seph Smith was nominated for the presidency of the United States The following is a fao simile of the presidential ticket issued for use in the state of Michigan and was photographed photo-graphed from the original ticket now in the scrap book ofMrs Bethsheba Smith of Salt Lake city widow of President George A Smith the father of Apostle John Henry Smith At the above convention a platform was adopted of which tho following the fifth plank was adopted by acclamation It I reads as follows Resolved That the better to carry out the i principles of liberty and equal rights Jefferson I al 1 t f f eaad Inn Democracy free trade and snilors rights and the protection ol person and property wo will support General Joseph Smith of Illinois I for the presidency of the United States at the I ensuing election I Toe minutes of the convention and the entire platform are to bo found in the I Aauroo Neighbor of May 22 1814 edited by I John Taylor I |