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Show I IT AMERIGAN PARTY WAS ORGANIZED REASON NO. 14. So that every voter in Utah might obtain a square deal In politics. It is not fair that a man merely because he is the favorite of a few politicians poli-ticians of the "church set" should be given not only priority and a "cinch," but that every one else is obliged to stay out of the race, being deprived even of the possibility of an accident whereby he might win. It is not fair that the church should have civil nominations, civil honors, hon-ors, and civil offices to reward its servile followers with. Take the case of 1 Brigham H, Egberts: the church defeated him for Congress when he was in political contumacy; but when he gave in his submission, it forced his nomination nom-ination upon the Democratic party, and then his election. Take the case of John C Cutler: be was an utterly unknown quantity politically; he had not the least strength before the people, but the church took hi m up, forced his nomination and elected him, though the manipula- I tion was so raw, the guiding hand so open and so objectionable, that Cutler ran about seventeen thousand votes behind the head of his ticket lost year, his loss being mostly ncn-Mormon votes, or independent Mormon votes that rebelled at tho prominence of the church in politics. Two years ago. also, when there was so little reasonable hope of Democratic Demo-cratic victory in this city that that party was about to abandon tho contest and put up no ticket, the church entered the political arena, nominated the present Mayor, and triumphantly elected him, reversing a Republican majority ma-jority of 1200 and putting in its place a Democratic majority of 2200. The American party denounces this chicanery in politics. It opposes the church contiol of the two parties, and demands that tho church shall retire from political plotting and manipulation, and become as other churches aie, with its sphere confined to religion and religious work. And it will strive for this until it attains the some. , " lj |