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Show B '( p THE -LIBERAL" CAMUBATE B'.l Pi ' C0.MX.NSE5. HI ! K 1 ' Kf c ir ' Tiie "Liberal" candidate for the BSi " B office uf Delegate to Congress ac- BC S' I ' knowledge aeJltnr of the"L!b- HS' 51 M eral" orau, tbat-tho charges made HM' ! t J aipInM. Jifm too true. That In, he BXj' j ;3 L ,1 hasu-ed hb Ulvnti and energies, HH li I' ) ,' auJwouU ue them if elected, to BS' j ?5 f procure the disfranchisement o.' BSj ' .i- J? -'" y "Jlonaon" In Utah. He says, BSj 1 f- further, be would, If he couIJ, Bfl' J "preTlnt any Mormon voting Jo HS' f J-' 41 (he rnlteJ State?, ora Mormon bo HB I'- oomlng naturalized In the United BS fl State;." And he Intimate lib di- BB ,t 3 , fire to lh Ihlj assault on the BB "if "Mormons" to the verge cf civil BS' ' ;9; vrar sad "the dotrycUoa of the BB i 31 lives and property of thousand, of. H ,J people." BB ! It Is true that these Intimations of BH ' ; ! tbccandidatciu regard to "Os-doIe BH ' l violence aud bloodshed are pit In B . '; the way of warnings. Itut they In- Hfl '4 ' tllcato tlie wish that was father to BS , M 1 i the thought, and are only repitl- BB Ij I a lions of his previously uttered tan- BH jP guluary predictions and desire:. BK -' r As to his advocacy of the di;fran- BB ' i 1 1 chbement of every "Mormon," he BB ' niake no uncertain sound. He Kays, BB I I "That it Is a true count. That in BB fc ' ' S li uurjndgmcni, is the right thing to f f jjff o" HB ' ,'B TIicsupport of either ''Young HB . iSf .UtahlorOld Utah forsucli acandi- Bfi fan a'u 's I,ut Hkcljr 1 be c en formld- K tSJ able. A 'lrinou" vote for so BB j '. " &M Utter an enemy to frrcdom ould BB f' . fj' beoonJusivejroofofU.e luuacy of HB i ' m "u voter- BB I 5- '5 Now hat is the alleged reason BEi ' ff ftir !l1' Ti"Jictive JKireuIt of the BR v I "Mormon" people? Itisthemem H v j bers f the "Mormon" Chare! of BB : t '; Utah viio bail broken no law Au the Hpj ' ! I iait,trbo had taken an oath that they BB " ? rould not violate the law In the BBm ' , future, wr to aid, abetorajvi? BB ' ' anyone cKe to violate the law," BB - l whOKe lisfranchiement he openly BBj I", I ysheadvocatedandwIUadvocate. BBj I S So it is not on account of any overt BB i"; r act on their part that he wishes to BR -' I wret from them every political Bfl l', I obt. lt him sjieak for himself as BBf I ' I to his pretended reason for reducing Bfij 1 j law-abiding American citizen) to BB '. t I the condition of political eeri. He B . J I sajK Bflj I "The othr and prominent o1l m H I Ifcedalm of thew Mormon chiefi to B I fcoM Ra divine right to order the rank BB . l j and file to vote as tbey decreed. That BB ' ' '' toowUl havetobef;ivenup; that will BB !, bavetobe git en up peaoeably or it BH will baro to t done in the uuoLe and BaBf j fire and death of a real war." B "Iftheyeoatinaein the fotnre as in BB tbe P1 lr tbsX Rive their blind at- BE , I leprUat to the pricsthool of their BB Chareh; if they vote a they are dir- BBBJ riJ, It wii! eot them more sorrow H' than they have ever yet ealfsredbe. BBBj T-we Ub over." J j; This is the cry ou wlii-ii the J'i "IibralcwJklite has been riu;- Ing tne elianges mere verbal vatla. I tJotr, forwveralyetrs. It ijiiim. J -cult, in view of the facts, to believe B I A In his snity. or conceding that, to H ' ( , credit him with common honesty. m The chiefs of tbe Church do not B ,j make auy sucli claim, they BBV .. io not exercise any such B i coercion. "The divine right to H order "Jiiy mau to vote asthev H ( Oceree" is not claimed by the i'real- B i' ueater other leader of the Church, H I ; nor believeil in by the "rank and B 1 . lie'" or any one ele in the Church. BBB . w fi are hotti, If there B s SB"'1 a I'01 he does not uc- B J '; derstaud Hie genius ot his religion B j; w tbe aulhvrity of t!ie '-chiefs of ij, ' ll.o Church.' B Ij, j How can -Voung UUh" or Old B It. ; Dtah give.uisnmething they never H lf.il po-iewed orenterUlnsd? Xotcven H 1 1 ' aVO' ' Um "smi-e au,l Ire and B tl I'f dcaJh" with which the ' Liberal' B i' V caaJUate thrtens tbtm, can they BBa l ' Jx formally renounce Kimtthiug ther BBb J' never lielievnl ajid never claimoii PB ft " irt of their creed, or part of BB ' their authority, or part of their I"1 d ity. J,"'"' it will not do to dip gut isolated ' ' passages witliout tbe exp!aua!ory 1 context from the remarks of some HH I "Mormon" writer or Bjraker, r H 1' to hk own theory of divine Xgovcrnmint, and foist them, with unwarranted Inference", r pon the n hoJe "Jormon" Church Ritoe-tablfcthed doc-riae. That It I th-j-tyh-of iili pap2r and of some ! i of his bawr ajoclates, but the ' "Jjib-ral" etadltlate ought to be BBa I ' alvei-ue!i tricky and subterfuges. BBS There is uothlng In the ''Mjrruon" BIB T faith o-In tlie '-Mirmoa" practice B trhich justifies 3 lea ler in claiming B .' ; the right to or ler any one to vote as B vj In decrees, or jdaivs 1U devotees B ','j uuder obligation to "give blind H ' ( j allegiance Id the priesthood." or H u to "vote a Oiy are directed." BBVH 'j f It If, then, ou ins on surmlBsoi K a!legtiun that ".Mormons" vote ai H ! i "o; one directs, that the "liberal" B . 1 candidate bates his domiud and B I "tiers his blonithlrty threats and H ! 3 prognostications. Tocre arc no E i words in the Kngli'h language too B ! I ftronj ti exiiress our denial of IiN BBaj f charge, our contempt for his method BBH of wjrdy warfare an 1 our pcorn of B his bimbtitie m-nices. Bat xfe B '11 "'t g A t!wn ti the level ot hi- H I pipjr to uttr them au 1 usj invec- BBBB 1 tire for argument. BJBH Th re Is not a member cf the BBV Church who can truthfully say he H hat tieeu orJereJ to vote for any BBBJ candidate for office. There is not B ,' a delegate to any of the con. BBBJ ventious recently hell for muuicl JBB pal, county or territorial politics who H can truthfully say that he has been BBBB ordered to nominate or oppose any BJBB perm,ortoupport or reject any B ' ticket or policy. We repeat what BBBK " we in ve stated again aud again, BBBB th tt every member of the "Mor- B '? iiivn" Oliurch Is free, in theory and BBBJ in practice, to vote as be choooes I"-"" 1 without cjmpuUion of any kind or nature. His creed accords him this . I( liberty, his lea Jers do n.-it Interfere K " withiL BBBB On the other hand, the party to HB i i which the c Jilor of the "Idueral" H v organ lclongs does exercissas much B jg 4 coercion as it is possible to ue, in B dfP ' IT orJcr to secure the unanimity it de- H f r mands from lis m-mber. Itabjsas BBBB WtW" a" w'13 3ttunlixto L'rak from BBB vf its bonds sod krrorUni. (t avails BBS BBBBS lUefif of ersry means, Including the obligations of secret societies presred into its service, to exact submlssiso to its dictates. Audit employs tbe paper which the"I.iberal""candl-date the"I.iberal""candl-date edits, to whip into line every "Gentile" who Mas manhood enough to object to Its fraudulent methods or protest against Its infamous designs. de-signs. I f disfranchisement should follow! political unity, or should be the comequencecf bending lo the dictation dic-tation of political -chiefs, then tne-"LlbtraU" tne-"LlbtraU" of Ctah ought to be disfranchised dis-franchised to a man, and all the horrors thrtateced by their candidate candi-date for CougrcfAlniialhanoathaild be shakeu before their eyes, until they throw otfthelr thralldom and act like freemen and Americans. Aud we say to the cilixcns of Utah n ho are not bound by oath or Interest to the "MUeral" conspiracy, conspir-acy, whati ver may be your faith or political procltvltU, assert your Independence, In-dependence, yoor aversion to dishonesty, dis-honesty, oppression and political robbery, by turning your LccVs on a tarty that ft-orks by Ihese'means and ou a candidate who avows I1J3 desire to ttrike from the hands ot thousands of law-xecping citizen) the sserct right of franchise, betsiute they unite against his uurepuUicj scliemes airl will jt TOiAfer tntlt, mallgoaut and uuprlnciplni foes. |