Show THE EEEE LANCE O doubt Dr fluff will be surprised lo learn that the Rev SaUl Small r if Rer he still be quotes him in the b Philadelphia Ledger Led-ger of the Path as endorsing his hon 7 estyand character He also brings Bishop Ninde and Bishop Andrews to TuT support with what justification wo do not know But as to Dr fluff if he does not care to be misrep represented in the east and be made to pose as the defender of the irrepressiblo Sam we advise him to send a copy of his speech delivered before the Methodist conference In Ogdbn on the subject of the university to tho Ledger which in itself will refute Smalls claim that he has the doctors confidenceand support tit Some vandals invade Mount Olivet cemetery cem-etery every now and then to rob the graves of their floral decorations Indeed it has come to such a pass that many persons have abandoned this love token to their dear departed Is Mr Wright quite vigilant vigi-lant enough tt THE HERALD acknowledges tho receipt of a letter from Hong Kong China by that eminent cosmopolitan citizen and crank George Francis Train decked with red and blue pencil hyroglyphics We presume pre-sume the letter is all right although life is too short to decipher it but the postage upon it is all wrong being just 20 cents short of what it should be In his hurry to get around the world in fiftyfive days Citizen Train should not forget when the writing mood strikes him again that the invariable rule in this office is that all communications com-munications addressed to THE HEKALD must be prepaid ttt The Harvard graduates and friends in Salt Lake city among the latter Prof Holden whose son has carried oil some of the highest athletic honors in the varsity ball crew were jubilant yesterday over the splendid victory the boys achieved over Yale in the boat race on Friday The Yale men are correspondingly depressed and R G Jessup threatens to let his hair and whiskers grow long again In consequence conse-quence til When one scans that formidable list of Gentile Democrats and Republicans published pub-lished in Fridays HERALD ho is struck forcibly with the reflection what an enormous enor-mous corruption fund tho Mormon church must have in reserve somewhere Of course all these traitors were bribed over to tho enemy of course there could bo no such thing as charity patriotism or party loyalty in the motives that lead them away from the Liberal party It is money and money only that actuates men in politics poli-tics so at least reasons one who got a larger bonus for his patriotism than any other patriot who ever fought bled and died for his country Wo advise Receiver Lawrence to look to his head Evidently there is a great bank balance somewhere that ho has not yet got onto and if he cares anything for the honors or percentages percent-ages of his position as receiver of the late church he had better bestir himself ttt Regarding all the tomfoolery about Mormons Mor-mons having been regularly ordained and set apart so many to take on tho guise of Republicanism so many to act under the Joak of Democracy did any one of the hilarious writers and speakers who so glibly make this charge and the thoughtless thought-less ones who have swallowed it as gospel ever pause a moment to analyze it I What must it have entailed Roughly estimating esti-mating there are 200000 Mormons in this territory How was the setting apart consummated con-summated In the school house or meeting house or gathering places of the people If so is it not probable that some faint inkling of it would have oozed out through some one of those 200009 pores Has any intimation of such meeting ever been received or given out by any one Has any one of the set apart ever Ieakcdor named the priest apostle bishop teacher or deacon who told him he was called on a mission for a certain cer-tain length of time to be a Democrat or a Republican And if this people are acting under instructions from their priests what a magnificent spectacle of histrionistn is presented A whole population of actors Think of it Tho great built of the territory coming under the banner of Democracy just as it has always been expected they would do when the dividing time camea few I going to the Republicans another largo class going to neither but waiting to bo converted Clubs forming everywhere people studying young men thinking pondering weighing calling for light and then making up their minds Is all this the result of coaching of instruction instruc-tion of dictation Bahl Not one in ten of the antiMormon bowlers believes it himself Not five per cent of the Unwilling Hundred sot apart by High Priest Powers believes it Ask John M Young what he thinks of such a charge I or McCormck or Gus Holmes or M H Beardsloy or indeed anyone of a regiment that we might parade Wo want to ask the business m en the cool level heads among those One Hun dred not the howlinff red flag blistering wildeyed unreasoning Mormonhaters the Moats and Fischers and Linggs of their party to take the case of a dozen young Mormon men we will name Heber M Wells John D Spencer George D Pyper Rulon S Wells James H Moyle Barlow Ferguson Richard W Young Ellas A Smith H G Whitney Thomas Hull Oscar Hardy Will Tuddenham We take these at random from a list before us of those concerned in the present political split but they represent probably sev eral thousand in identical circumstances These dozenyouHgmen representing many thousands respected in the comaaun ity many of them are intimately concerned in business with their Gentile neighbors in education means and natural gifts they will bold their own with the general Salt Lake run Now we want to ask the Committee Com-mittee on Pablic Safety what particular L bishop or high priest they Imagine performed per-formed the setting apart act on this coterie co-terie of young men Do they imagine that the dozen we have named acquiesced in cold blood to act the detestable part of publicly pub-licly abandoning the Peoples party and being tabbed Democrat or Republican like so many dummies in a pantomlne Bosh 1 The whole charge is an insult that would bring the crimson to any cheek in the crowdif it came from any other source Wo know personally that the sympathies and sentiments of these young men have been divided on national lines for yearsthey have simply been held in abeyance while the local struggle went on For years it has been known in the community that Squire Wells boys would mostly be Republican and it has been equally as well known that there would at least be one exception among them that of Mr R S Wells John Spencer Spen-cer has been noted among his associates asa as-a Blaine worshiper for five years Moyle and Smith have been knccking at the door of Democracy for about as long Ferguson is a Republican at no mans bidding it is his sheeps bleat that takes him into the G O P The others have likewise chosen their paths as the result of study of Democratic Demo-cratic or Republican principles and for no other reasons No gentlemen If any bishop had been so indiscreet as to dictate to these young men what political party they were to embrace we believe they would respectfully but firmly have replied Bishop I respect your office and I respect you in your proper place but your dictation dicta-tion as to what party I shall vote with is apiece a-piece of impertinence that nothing in your office justifies or excuses |