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Show H I X FOOK U'OLOGETIC El'LlA- B A DAI ortwoElnceO.J.IIolluter I arose in the columns of the chief autI-"Mormou" organ to explain. Ills explanation was in the nature 7 of in apology for Mr. Goodwin, the B m "Liberal" candidate for Delegate to B s jj Congress, lis writer has an exceed- WM '9 Ingly loose uay of making his B 9 points, which are invisible to the HHHH jb naked eye after the manufacturing HHHfl jSf process la complete. Ilia mind ap- I S ears to be of that contracted cast n fi fit that prevents it from taking in all HHHflj a) tho liearings ot a sulject. lie is PHHBV . ' S; therefore always unequal to the HHHB ' a? task of preserving its consistency PHHH? 3 throughout. Consequently he is in S f the halilt of defeating bis own ob- IBBBBB m ject, which. In our view, is never j Bt honest. I If Theolject of theapologj was 10 H I jg show that Judge Goodwin was not S 'P the originator of tbe scheme for the H ' 61 disfranchisement of the "-Mor HHHBj j I jj mom," as he did not step upon the H I S stage of Utah potties till 1SS0. The HHHH i ' writer of this remarkable manifesto '4 then goes on to show that the "Lib- PHHHJ tral" Party hid clamored for the r disfranchl-ement of their political ,, opponents as far back as ten years HHHB before that year. pBVBj j Thus It will be seen that the man H i aihohasactedjutheroleofthomost J venomous viper in the whole of the HHHflj J reptilian period of Utah "Liberal" HHHH f Si polities w ishes to shift the responsi- I "t bihty of tht. disfranchisement in- HHHS f Caaij from the shoulders of the HHHSj present candidate of the party on to K the crooked back of the party itself. i. This is lovely logic, the difTerenre If being that whlcu exi-ts between HHHK ' ; tweedie de and tweedle dum. Yet, V I if there be vjj object in this ex- T ; planationatall. it must be, from a f political standpoint, that Mr. Good- HHSj K win should be an acceptable candi- HSBB date to those electors w ho view di- pBVHi franchiement for belief with re- jiugnance and a a traitorous Inva V non of American institutions. This ! is, in view of the fact that the "Liberal" candidate has been, dur- E ing his entire carer in Utah, one HHHH of the mot pronounced and un- PHHH J scrupulous advocates of the dis- HHHh franchisement of those who arcop- E posaJ to him in politics.exceedingiy attinuated and ridiculous. HHC , It can be sliown, however, within HHHJI ' the limits of his own apology for K ,' . Mr. Goodwin, that O J. Hollister has, in tins explanation, been guilty PHHBJ j of a conspicuous inexactitude. The PHHBJ ' reaJer can Interpret the last two 9HHI words of the previous sentence for H him-eir lie cites the Cullom bill of twenty years ago Like all other HHS imlar measures, it was the product , of the "Libe'al" party, having been ' drafted in this city, in the ofllce of a HHHC I lawyernamed Itobertton, long since J dead The olject of Ilolllster's HSJHSj reference to this measure was to HHHC show that it provided for difran- PBhB chisemtnt. The fact is even as HHHS shown ly his own quotations from H the bill that it provided on! for HHt the dUfnnchisement of those liv- PHHBJ lug in the practize of io'ygamy. V The Culljm bill iailfd to iass Uie IB benate, but the eiject of it was BE a'tained in US2, Ij the iassicg PBBK of the Ldmunds ait. That fog Jj nitntary disfranchisement scheme PBBE with which Goodwin had noth- PBBH ing to do in originating is an ac- PBBB complished facL The process has BBR been in operation ocr tight year". PHHb The di-lrauchiement conspiracy BBH now complained of, and of which PBBV the candidate of the "Liberal"arty PHHE has been the foremost chimpion, PHBH f would apply to all "Mormons," BBBJj " without rcsoect to their commission HBE of an j act. It would strike the bil- BBBf l lot from their hands on the ground BE of their reftjwu belief only. More BBBR j thaj that, it would deprive them of BBBb the rights and privileges of citizen- BBBJ ship becausesomebody else believes BBJ that they believe something that is BBBJ oljectionable to the believing party BBS of the lir-t part. BBJ The chronic Federal office holder BBJ who, iu his manifesto of the other EflBl day, miJs such a flabby preenta- K9BT. tion, comes down toalnutlbsO, at KSB v which time he as erts that the BBJ k "Liberal ' candidate was installed PBBV t as editor of the Tribune the foule-t BBL ind most liberty -curtailing paperon E " tht. American contin.nt. At that BBC " time he explains, in lib apolcg, BBhh that the Gentiles meaning him BBBji self, Goouwiu and a few BBBj others asked for a legislative BBS commission, providing for the BBBt disfrauchi-emeut of all citizens jj alike. lie seems to gloat over this BBVi patriotic appeal for self-degradation, ' . t, of which all honorable men would BBBh be ashamed Hut the richest phase BBm of his apologetic dissertation is his BBV claim that this clamor for scrf-dom BBV was a manifestation of Gentile in BBBj centy. We are quite willing toad- BBS mit that it was the kin J of sincerity BBBj common among such ofllce hold- BBBt ing, office-hunting self seekers as BBBj Hollister himself. His claim is BBBJ exhibited in the following quota j BBJ "The fact that the Liberals for years devoted all their energies to securing BVE this measure, which disfranchised BBVJ them as n ell as the Mormons, proved IBK beyond dispute that their motives BBJ were disinterested, and also proves BBBJ bcjoDd dtsputo the emptiness of ths BBJ Hon John T. Caine's charge that the BBJ only object and aim or the Liberal BBBJ party I" Utah has been to secure the J rale of the minority." BBBJ History and the existing ofllcial BBJ status proves, in our opinion, BBJ HoIIister's hypocrisy and demon BBJ stratts the justice of Mr. Caine's de- H claration The active politicians BBJ j who clamored for a legislative com BBJ ' mission expected, in the event of BBJ their scheme being consummated, BBJ to manipulate that body. They I would have filled every office in this Territory, great and small. . Tiirojgh working on the commis. B slon they expected to procure, K through that agency, laws that BBJ would re-tnfranchlse them and re- BBBJ 4 tain thsir political opponents (the BBJ JM 1 Mormons) In political serf-dom. BBBJ JP i That is the species of honesty of UfT' which Hollister is a fitting ex- ! ample and appropriate exponent. A clam of sincerity from such a source is highly amuing. One BBBJ might as well expect logic from a H lunatic, whose condition on the BBV aTti" BBBbbBMI "Mormon" question Hollister, in our view, closely approaches. To reason with him on anything associated as-sociated with that subject would be as barren of result as would be the administration of medicine to a corpse. He Is not only a chronic oO co-seeker of over twenty years standing, but also a religious fanatic He is a sort of local pop ot the Congregational denomination, putting on dictatorial airs, and scheming to depose pastors who are not after his own heart assuming, as-suming, of cjurse, that he is the possessor of that organ of human anatomy when named as a figure of speech. The fact is that the sincerity or such a man as this malignant mls-representer mls-representer extends, in our view, to the use of energy and plotting to rob the majority or tho people of Utah not only of their political rights, bjt of their real and personal property. The facts of history demonstrate this to be a legitimate belief. The evidence supporting it is overwhelming. C. C. Goodwin was in great want ofan apologist when he chose if he had aught to do with tho selection-such selection-such a poor hand at the business as Hollister, whose mental stamina, judging from his latest exhudation, must be undergoing a process of evaporation. |
