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Show 1 . CAINE'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE. Delegate John T. Caine, renominated by the Mormon church to- represent its interests in congress, has written a letter let-ter of acceptance, which is notable mainly for its length and its abuse of the Liberal party. Indeed, were the letter not signed as it is we should take it to be an editorial lifted from the official church organ for campaign distribution. dis-tribution. It contains "the old stock phrases and the old lies in about the same old mixture. "What is now agitating agi-tating our fair territory in a political way is the same question that was introduced in-troduced by our opponents when the 'so-called Liberal party was born the craving of the minority to rule over the majority," cries Mr. Caine. It is shocking shock-ing to contemplate this insatiate craving. crav-ing. We don't know just how the nomination of a Liberal candidate can establish the rule of a minority over the majority, but there is certainly no mistake mis-take regarding the craving part. Mr. Caine running as he does for tho fifth term in congress ought to know something some-thing about the craving for office, which is irrcprcssiblo in him. It is astonishing what a consummation consumma-tion of total depravity tho Liberal party is, according to Caine. Ha calls it reckless, reck-less, revolutionary, and un-American, in half a sentence. That is a crushing argument, especially the last epithet. We wish he had inserted right there a diagram of himself so as to give an anxious world a specimen of the typical American. But Mr. Caine calls the Liberals other euphonious names, ' such as traitors-traitors traitors-traitors dark and nefarious whose record rec-ord is "honeycombed with fraud, dishonesty dis-honesty .ov extravagance amounting almost to orime, in some instances all three of these." It is heinous, this reoord is, and yould be even worse than that had the, scolding delegate vouchsafed us a bill of particulars to support his charges., Of course the church clique stands in sublime contrast to the wicked Liberal party, being the embodiment of "loyalty "loy-alty for the principles of our government govern-ment and love for all mankind." Pathetic, Pa-thetic, isn't it? How the candidate must have laughed in his sleeve when he penned that sentiment! So that is the issue, Mr. Cainef Loyalty Loy-alty against Troason; eh? But isn't your position a little mixed? Wo fear it is. All the same we admire the supreme su-preme audacity, vulgarly called cheek, you possess. Oue word more, Mr. Caine. You say to be selected for the fifth consecutive consecu-tive time is au honor, etc So it is, But why don't you breathe just a syllable sylla-ble to inform a waiting constituency what you have done during all those terms to deserve the honor? |