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Show III SMSEO! SJM Kjj Federal Gang Would Com pel ; ; Veterans (o Swear (o Their ( Republicanism. k i; WOULD STOP OIJ) .SOLDIERS C FROM ATTENDING PRIMARIES Also Demand From 0 flier Real i Republicans Proof That They Arc Sincere in Faith. II i "Forty-seven years ago Abraham Lin- Fi coin, President of tho united Stales, i I ' issued a call for 75,000 mon. 'Phut, was i ' in JSGJ. An internal war liad broken U out. in the Stales, it whs brother apainfil brother, it was father against Jjrk son," said the Prominent Politician to iM ! Tho Stroller on Sunday. "Ton remeni- ber,'' ho continued, "how in tho year Jfl before that call was issued you and 1 Trould watch the Lincoln Wide Awakes 6ti as the' drilled durinjr the onninaiun. fr And what a splendid appenrance those jrJ men did make as thoy marched through H' the streets in our old .home in tho JilT Hoosior Stale. Their uniforms were an J'lj: oil cloth cape, a military cap and a t?my torch. Inspiring siirht it wns. You and t,'M ' I worn inspired, too. Those "Wide It Awakes believed in Lincoln. h , And you remember too, how later ,j oiitthoso men, our fathers, brothers, un- H if )) cles. responded to that first, call for 70,- H.l i 000 men. JJow later on, when another H it j call was made for 300,000 more, how H jl . ihe' re-enlisted in the rjreat army. And H ft "you remember tho night when that uncle H whom you idolized put his name down H! 3 on. tho roll, the first man to eniisr. under H t.he first call from our old home. Poor H''' hby. he gave, up his life in the bloody Htf battle of Shiloh. And, by the way. that. H( i v elderly man over there with that bronze Ht 1 button on the lapel of his coat was the i i man w?ib caught him in his arms as he I 'fell back dead, pierced with a grape Hp. ehot. That was n long while ago, my Hj hoy. Yc were young follows then. Bt i What tho Button Designates. H( -"And that button which tho man I i 7oiuted out wears, what does it desig- Hfe ' natb? Nothing, the world todaj' says. I HS , Bt:fcTit does. .It means a eomrnuosu'ip. Hj ' It tclJs a story of the greatest war m KJ I ' . history. It tells of privation and hard- HJ -j-bip'thnt the world today knows noth- B j. ing about. Tho wearer of that button B "'ae a patriot in 1861. lie is a patriot H, " today. lie fought, for what? .For the H v -tlresorvation of tlio American union; H sot a principle of right; for a principle H' H justicoj that no man. whiio or black, H;i I in tlw American union should be a cbal- K icl to' be sold at the nod of n slavc- H J- bolder. And "ho won! Many of his l i comrades sleep tho long sleep on South- Ht ? ern battlefields. A stone over their j n &Tavc hears the inscription unknown. HH f. Those unknov.'ii braves believed in Lin- H T coin and what ho believed in. That H J man there with that; bronr.c. button on t his coat did likewise. He voted at home H r for Lincoln in I860, llo voted for Lin- H I coin again in 1S64. on the battlefield. H I' He .was "Republican in practice as he H r Avas in principle. B Barrod by Pcderal Bunch IK I "And he is still a Bcpublican. lie H if "will vote for a Republican nominee for Hl 1 "president for the man whom his party , in convention in Chicago uamca as its v standard-bearer. "While he Tvill do this f he is hatred from participating in the i, , primary conventions to be held in Utah n to namo delegates to a State conven ' Sj tion, which will select delegates to Chi- IT cago who will choose a candidato for I- whom he will vote. .lie is barred from ', these convontions in his own home be- fr cause he must take an oath that he H l will support whomsoever such bravo i ( patriots as Peowee Thomas, Curley Cnl- Jister, Kinky Booth, lissy Jimmy nnd , r Apostlo Smoot name for local countv of- ficers. "Now imagine, my boy, a remnant j G of that great grand army of 1801 -On, 1 ; jr there are about 500 of them in Utah, i k jnarching up to the primaries through-out through-out the State on a date already an- ! nounced or to be announced iu a few ( days lo help select delegates to a con-vention con-vention which will nmne other delegates ,i v.'ho will select a candidate for Presi-dent Presi-dent of thcITnifed Statea. a union of states for which they fought and which s they ..preserved, and as they enter the 1 A door.-? of the. building where the pri- , inaries are held, -to be met by the tcd- t .oral bunch, by Jodie Tldredge. bv Ilarrv ' 'Joseph nnd have their Republicanism questioned. Bt .No Wonder About Insurgents Hl ; "Imagine the wearer of this lit tie H' ' "bronze button being held up bv repre-eoutativos repre-eoutativos of a band of twenty-six men iv Thot-itb the exception of the national 1 .candidates, will name the state, legis- : Jalivo, .iiidicial and county tickets and tr asked this question: ' "Will yoii promise 1 1 J i to support the- Republican, national, 1 Btato, legislative, judicial and county i ticket?' The Republicnnipm of rht-se ; men questioned by Iho federal bunch, by tho Smootites, by the represeiitativca i of the law-breakiiig, law-defying hier- H ni;ch. No wonder there are insurgents. ; ".Tho same question will be asked if many old-timo residents of Salt Lake ! City and of Utah, because they have j rebelled aguiust the domination' of th Hi'Ji band of tweut.v-six in affairs of state. .V 'JUieso old-time residents, old-time Re- m .publicans, will be barred from the con- j i ventions, as will be wearera of the lit- tie bronze button. Hf,! ' ."I again say that it is no wonder' Hj j J there are insurgents in the Republican j . partj- Utah. The wonder to me is H' 1 that any real Republican can remain ; .in tho ranks of this fo-called, in Utah, I . flCepublican party whtc'n is uominared H, I by this "gang of pap-suckers known as ! itne federal bunch, who, aided bv of-jilcials of-jilcials in tho state and countv offices. J ;carry out tho orders of the "band of Ht ; i twenty-six, whoso chief is a notorious Hj - llaw-breaker who defies tho laws pf God H inn.d man, who has testified under oath Hj ir.hat he has brought illegitimate cliil- H, - jdren into tho world, who is lecherous L i 1 '.and bestial, nnd with all this poses as ' .the mouthpiece of (he Supremo Being. H' I ;. v I say, therefore, that if before I can II !iarticipnto in a convention. I must take J a vow to support whom ho dictates 8 il!" Lli.it is Republicanismthen I wajit ito'bo left out. I , Is Not Republicanism I . 'But it is not Republicanism, for Re- , H 1 jpublicaiiism moans tho maintonanco of Hi i tie. principles promulgated in tho Dec- I I vf lnrntion of Independence and embodied in the federal constitution. The first, platform of tho Republican parly, mndo j ii nationnl convention, eontaine!d theso planks: That tho Constitution confers upon Con-j;rrss Con-j;rrss sovorelffu power over the Territories Terri-tories of the I'nltcd Stntes for their gov-prnment gov-prnment and that In tho exercise of this power It Is both the riphl and tho duty of Congress to prohlhlt In the Territories those twin rolfos of barbarism, polygamy polyg-amy and slavery. That we Invito the affiliation and cooperation co-operation of freomon of all parties, how-over how-over (lifforlng from uh in other respects, Jn support of tho principles herein declared. de-clared. Principle Never Changos "That principle, has never been changed by the Republican party, but the polygn mists in Utah who v'oo as leaders iu tin: Republican party bar 3'ou and I and other real Republicans from participating in Republican conventions because we disapprove of their lecherous lecher-ous nnd bestial manner of living and becaiisp we will not plodgo ourselves to support Candida tes whom they name. Again iu 1SS-J the Republican national platform contained this plank: That It is the duty of Congress to enact Mirh laws as ."shall promptly and effectually effectu-ally suppress the system of polygamy within our Territories, and divorce the political from the ecccloslnallcal power of the po-called Mormon ohurch. and that the lawn so enacted should be rigidly enforced by the civil authorities, if poa-alnlo. poa-alnlo. and by the military, if need be. 'This is still a tenet of the Republican Repub-lican parti-, and because you and I now protest against this domination of ecclesiastic eccle-siastic power ovor the affairs of tho state, because wo aro still Republicans, wo aro barred from a so-called Republican Repub-lican partv which is dominated by ecclc-stasts. ecclc-stasts. No wonder there are insurgents." Just Political Notos. Church Republicans of Garfield county coun-ty will instruct their delegates to tho senatorial convention for R. W. Sovy for Stnto Senator. Piute county, it is said, will also give him solid support. Judgp Clridcstor and District Attorney Attor-ney TCricRson of the Sixth Judicial district dis-trict will bo indorsed or re-election by the Church Republicans of Garfield county. Sanpete county church Republicans do not wanf'much. Swou O. Nielson would like to be named for governor; Herbert Smyth has an eye on the Stato Auditorslup; L, R. Anderson would like to be enstodian of the State monoys; A. A. Larson believes ho would make a good Superintendent of Public Instruction. In-struction. Modest are San peters. ('.. R, Dorius will be a candidate for re-election to the Houso from tho. Fourteenth Four-teenth legislative district. Sanpete, church Republicans will meet in convention at Ephraim April 30 to select delegates to tho Stato delegates convention. The call bars all who will not. agree to support all church Republican Repub-lican tickdtp. Martineau Hears the Bee. Jlon. L. R. Martineau, chairman of 1 the Democratic Stato committee, was in Logan the other day, says tho Logan Journal, looking after his interests here. It Is said that Mr Martinoau will bo-come bo-come a candidate for tho Democratic nomination for Governor. Cache county could have a much worse man in the executive's chair than Mr. Martineau, and in the evont of his running it is probablo that he will get some help from this end of tho line. Ono admirable admir-able thing' about Lymnn is that he always al-ways has a good word to say for Cache county. Tho Ogdeit Standard advocates the sending of the Jack-Mormon Senator to the - Chicago convention. As Editor Glnsmann has not been confirmed as postmaster at Ogdcn his advocacy of Sutherland is apparent. |