Show uh Y FACTS 08 in their 0 to o counteract the excellent work dore done by nuggets of truth democrats have bate hunted bunted up an old presidential ticket put pat up by borne one in the state of michigan it is headed I jeffersonian dem 0 cracy and names for president JOSEPH SMITH and for vice president SIDNEY oo on may 17 1844 ft a convention was held in nauvoo ill III and tho prophet JOSEPH became a candidate for the presidency not as a democrat nor cor as a whig but on a platform of his own he issued what was wag JOSEPH JOSEp ii SMITHS views on the government an cy of the united states and on the principles therein enunciate di he asked forthe for the suf suu frages raees of the people though claiming to be on an independent ticket many regarded the prophet as aa a whig and the press presa ot of that time quite generally accused him of being a whig his principles had a leaning to the whig side and were far from beino being democratic he believed in protection and advocated that doctrine very strongly in tl cat vat ional banking system and in the abolition of slavery in the latter instance i ead ce however he advocated that the government should purchase tho the negroes and give them freedom JOSEPH su SMITH took no stock either eithe r in in i the tha democratic cry of states righta he said give every man ins his constitutional freedom and the president lull full pow power er to send an army to suppress mobs moba and aad the states authority to repent repeal and ana im im guzu that relic of folly which makes it necessary for the governor go ot of a state to maue the demand of the president in troops in cases of invasion or rebel I 1 blob no cense he be regarded as ii a democrat though wedo we do nt not claim that he ha was a whig whoa when running for president he said himself in the views above mentioned yve we have bad presidents M whig big presidents a pseudo whig president Pre silent and now it is ia time to have a P president resa of the united states it mast be remembered that the ticket the salt lake herald mentioned is not the regular ono gotten up no by the cormons mormons rf jt guinou jt it is 1 8 a Mie michigan bigan ticket t a aad i nd of that section endorsed the mormon candidates ayea admitting that all bets of lof that am time A whereof ap appeared aa aba of for president were headed domo dew I 1 clacy can D democrats claim that honor today y WES as ardent a protectionist as JOSEPH SMITH who wrote when the people are secure and their rights properly respected then tho four ir main iain pillars of cf pro prosperity purity viz agriculture in navigation and commerce need the fostering care a r I 1 of in so BO goodly ac a conn n try as ours oars where the soil tha climate the rivers the lat lak esard tresea the sea coa coast t the productions the timber the minerals and the inhabitants are eo BO diversified that a pleasing variety accommodates all tastes trades ana calculations it certainly is the hiR higgett licht point of subversion to protect the whole northern and southern eastern and western enter center and circumference of the real c by a judicious tariff |