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Show i A WHEEZY WHINE.- I The "Republican" platform is wheezy in its whine that "there is no justification in conscience or justice for the dastardly attempt now .being made by a few individuals who, inspired by a malice bom of disappointed political ambition, seek to destro national party lines in Utah and thus wreak their reVcngc upon the Republican pnrty." It is natural for a self-conscious imbocilo to suppose that everything every-thing that is' done is done with reference refer-ence to himself. And that is precisely the position iu which the writer of that extract puts the "Republican" party of Utah. Tho American part' was born in this city in a protest against the indecent, lawless, treasonable, adulterous lifo disclosed dis-closed by Joseph F. Smith in his testimony tes-timony before the Senate Committee in Washington in the spring of 1901. Successive meetings were held in tho Bamberger hall to denounce that testimony, testi-mony, and a resolution was unanimously adoptod to follow the protest that was made at that time, by the organization of a party that would demand tho enforcement en-forcement of the law here and tho lifting lift-ing of the church hand from political and civil affairs. A fow months later that party was formally organized. It is impossible for any one who knows the purpose of tho organization of the American party to trace it to any "disappointed political ambition" or to any "malice." The American party was organized to protest against tho lawless conditions disclosed Jby tho Smith testimon-, and it has from that timo to this day earnestly avoided 'anything 'any-thing that had' oven the appearance of roligious warfare or antagonism to any religion whatever. 'There is no reason whatever for tho "Republican" party to claim that the American partj' was organized as an anti-" Republican " party any more than there is reason for the "Democratic" party to claim that it was organized as an anti-"Dcmo-cratic" party.' It was organized as a party to oppose lawlessness and the intrusion in-trusion of the church power in politics and in affairs of the State. Every one knows this. Every one knows that that is precisely what the object, aims, purpose and labors of, the American party have been. And every one knows, therefore, that this declaration in the "Republican" platform is absolutely false, without the least justification in reason, historic verity, or common sense. |