Show XOT DISRESPECTFUL EH We have not said one disrespectful word of Closes Thatcher Mr Thatchers candidacy looks like a decoy We believe he is willing to lend the influence of his clerical office to get votes for his own party We believe the whole performance was to catch votes and on no other grounds except 1lr Thatchers place in the Church ot Jesus Christ of Lat terday Saints The foregoing are from editorials in the Salt Lake Tribune Decent people will feel that disgust which such tactics naturally evoke Reading minds will reach the conclusion that the writer of those contradictions measures meas-ures Moses Thatcher his own standard stand-ard of morals He sees no discrepancy in his clashing sentences A performance perform-ance to catch votes even if the chief actor is clothed with ecclesiastical ecclesiasti-cal habiliments the better to play the game of deception is quite compatible with right conduct In his vocabulary the word disrespectful does not cover cov-er an accusation involving deceit trickery and humbug There are many people who believe that this is the height oC his standard of political propriety The language he uses confirms con-firms that belief The voters of Utah will not be misled mis-led by such paltry and contemptible efforts to besmirch Moses Thatcher whose reputation Is commensurate With his character His honor is esteemed es-teemed as on a par with his ability and no candid Republican or Democrat Demo-crat will say or think that he would stoop to the meanness and fraud attributed at-tributed to him by a paper that is utterly ut-terly without principle and with which no words however calumnious used against an adversary is counted as disrespectful t |