| Show HAD THEY BEEN COIIMEtfDED I Republican papers and speakers have very much CT say about the Dem i I ratic convention and the cause of it declarin there was no ciusr for it I I That there was no cause for a Renub Hean 7011 nion we admit but not as to a DdmiTatic one These papers and speakers icll the people that the remarks of President Smith were in no way illatlviseJ or improper im-proper and that they had no foronce to politics that it was a question of what duty an honest man owes to those with whom he has made lawful engagements Such being the case those with whom the engagement was made have a right to insist that it shall be kept and that if there is any intention to depart from it they should have a right to be consiilted A plain case and no sophistry apparently and I nothing of which anyone oau comrlain I Let us suppose anothcr case What would these same Republican papers I and speakers say if President Smith had in that meeting said to the assembled assem-bled presidents of stakes and bishops that Moses Thatcher and B H Roberts had been nominated to high political II offices but that before consenting to accept such nominations they had consulted con-sulted the First Presidency as to the wisdom of such a course and their i wishes in the matter and the First Presidency had said that it would be I wise to accept them and that they gave I their approval and blessing Would or would not these Republican papers and speakers have said that it was purely a matter of church regulation and it had no possible reference to politics pol-itics They would have been so mad and so infused with their higher law I that instead of wanting to make the desert to bloom as a rose they would have wanted to have turned it into a I howling wilderness |
