| Show TONIGHTS MEETINGS Tonight meetings wtHl be held In every precinct of the Territory by the Democratic party The address adopted adopt-ed at the reconvened State convention will be read and submitted to the people peo-ple An unterrified Democracy wdll declare de-clare for absolute separation of church and state After repeated asseverations from the First Presidency of the church that the church had > no desire to control the political action or judgment of its communicants men high and low in ecclesiastical authority have betrayed their superiors by resorting to schemes devices and arguments calculated to play upon the religious prejudices of an honest but confiding people These influences have been used so frequently frequent-ly and so continuously that the victimized vic-timized party that great organization in which Utah has found its chief friends and from which it has at last I secured the boon of statehood exercised exer-cised a privilege of which even a worm avails itself and turned in indignation against the men and the influences which had injured it In speaking out plainly on this subject sub-ject in taking steps to rid our local politics of a question certain to disrupt dis-rupt our pleasant social conditions bring disaster to our business prosperity prosper-ity and disunion and suspicion among the members of the dominant church the Democrats lare acting 1 the part of I true patriotism and however much t they may be criticised now by their political opponents and by the tImid their action will receive the approbation approba-tion of their own deliberate judgment and the approval of all fair minded men of this and succeeding days Let the good work go on let < all men who would violate both the spirit of American Amer-ican institutions and he canons of their church understand that a wide awake Democracy is on hand to pillory pil-lory them in the gaze of an outraged public |
