Show THE T E COMMONSENSE COMMONS NSE VIEW In the tle intense excitement attending a IL remarkable campaign a u good many men who ordinarily are l e sensible have Me their heads beads The Tha most conspicuous local examples are those thos churchmen churchman who converted religious meetings into Republican political gatherings and re reported ported 10 Cd to the most violent and assertions in appeal for tor votes To T tl these we e commend the words of or President Joseph P Smith delivered in r VA thITh rt ward meeting house bouse on Sunday evening According to the 4 report President Smith taid zaid lal I want to say sa just Juat a few words In regard to politics You need nee ne not be afraid at ld whether you are Republican RepublIca Dem or anything else for tor I will not say ay that will trouble you iou Politics What Is It What hat is it It Is 1 only another name for the wisest poll 1 rles Ies of government whether hether municipal Bounty aunt state or national Politics Is the wisest policy and the wIsest policy Is the best politics If Ie you ou can find the wisest policy polley that will pro pre S1 I serve your our rights liberties and your our home homo U from Crom being eaten up tip by taxation and away that best policy Is the best est politics alt all the time But it is deplorable to see flee any an man It rrt rt r t politics on the brain It Is a terrible e i pi P I disease Seme men even seem to put f E if i politic above aboc their religion and they wey I t I l would rather see the tho church damned b W be I t toro lore they would deny their party pro ro They are like an enraged bull bun before whom a red flag fing is flaunted and they tear around talking about something they know nothing about and spreading dissension and trouble t do not propose to let politics strike In on me rue It is a good thing to keep politics on the surface so you ou can decide what is 13 best b zt to do and to do what is right You can be anything you want Republican Republican lican Democrat or Ot anything else I never tried to turn anyone anone but I do de deplore deplore seeing any man get politics on the brain and have it strike in He is to be pitied That Is good advice for anyone and it applies with peculiar force torce to the themen themen themen men who have been circulating cam campaign campaIgn campaign tales and spreading dissension and trouble for political purposes all through this campaign One of at the striking examples Is afforded by the speech of ot R H E at the Granite stake meeting Our enemies he said are assailing us they would burn bum our homes and drive us from the theland theland land Jand they the would take our children and our childrens children from us There are some Democrats who will not vote the Republican ticket They are dry as sticks Is that Mormonism S S We should have Just one party for tor the brethren The enemy an announced announced flounced Its plans too late for tor us to have only one party this year rear But we will ivill have only one ticket next year ear And more to the same effect That Thit Is to say a sober sane man of oC prominence In his church asks his hear hearers hearers ers era to believe that In a state controlled con rolled by b Mormons with a i Mormon Monnon governor a n large larre proportion of ot Mormons ln in the th legislature most of ot the county officials t tIn In all the counties most mot of ot the courts and court officials the homes of oC the people are to be le burned and their chil children children children dren taken from them If It the Republican can ticket is defeated On the strength of this preposterous pr assertion Tie ne asks the people to turn back the wheels of ot progress twenty years and ape renew the nie fight on religious nes which h was buried then Docs Doom Mr fr or n anybody else for that matter honestly believe that the election of Jesse W Knight would pave the way for tor arson and the plunder of at Mr r Knights church people Does he expect any intelligent man to believe that the election of ot any party or any citizens of ot Utah could lead to touch such uch a result Are the courts of at the state stats and its executive forces so weak so subject s to anarchy that the defeat of the Republicans ns would be followed toll owed by the disasters he pretends to fear tear Happily for tor Utah and all Its Ha people Mr Is an extreme case His own churchmen know the situation better than he does They know that the logic of ot his position would be the Immediate formation of or parties on straight religious lines the most seri serious serious son ous disaster that could overtake the state Happily too the voters to whom he appeals will either ignore his appeal or resent rEsent It at the polls Let it tt be repeated and emphasized that the dissension and trouble in this state can be settled by the success of ot the Democratic ticket the election of ot Jesse W Knight as governor and the installation n of oC men in office who are pledged to peace and it can be settled In no other oth r way this year The contin continuation In power of oC the men who have bave brought ht the trouble upon the state means only the prolongation of oC an in intolerable Intolerable Intolerable tolerable situation The issue Is so plain the tho th solution of oC the problem so simple that there ought to be no doubt as as to the outcome of ot the election A vote for Bryan and Knight means a vote for tor peace at home and abroad It means the dissolution of ot the ma machines machInes machines chines Republican and American the reformation of ot political parties on legitimate lines and the restoration resto of ot the harmony bannon that should and can be established If It the disturbing factions are eliminated |