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Show H i 5 a Ticnnous "vmt poivt. B I ! j There Is no use for lhe"LIberal" j J organ toiiulbbleabouttheattlijdoof H ' - the er-candidate for Delegate while Bl I i oatbatjunketlDgtourattbeexpcDSe Hi i' 0f a fen- now disgusted friends. 0 ' I That he did try to dodge the main Hf '! question in his case, namely his HBV V purpose to disfranchise the "Jlor- HB j. mons" who had broken no lair and aaal! !! : tvM- ,rIj0 tatl tatea au 0'lU, uot t lrca. SaaH , HfeVr tbe nrs la tlie future ls cyond I ( 3t successful dispute. That he also II fRr- dodged the question of his advocacy j gfc of the force bill Is, too, a settled an J 'i H Irrefutable fact This ought to be I c, now dismissed and will bo, if he I sf, and his apologists have sense I V enough to let it go. J The only important ma'ter con- nected with his attempt to jump Into , t ' Mr- Cainea official shoes is the I t falsehood, which he continues to 1 , repeat now that his scheme is de- Hj i feated, that citizens here dii uut HftV I i ' ve-'e for him, and did vote for his SB j I opponent, because they were so HI ' J "ordered by the priests." Ilere is HI ( his latest utterance on this matter, BkV f : given as w bat ho declares he set be- S fore the people on his peregrina tlone. The statement sras Uut up to this Utne the atormon people hare implicit obeyed IHHJ I V their priests, Uut their priests had a KflB ' s sained the right ta dic-ale tothempsllU aaaaaaal i f Ja eally hew they thoulrlvotJ. that the people j j bad accepted It, and that until the priest HB ( hood had relinriaUhed that rate, orUta BBBm 4 people wosld throw It off, the wefe of BBBjj right dls qualified from casting a ballot In BBBj UiU repsblic What-rer cite waa said in BBBj the various speeches made, that point was BBVJ I nes-er once lost sight of. beeanse that Is tbe BBBJ ' vital point now la dealing with the Mormon BBBJ K J , If Mr. Goodwin made this state- BH m ment, wherever he could get a IkJBC l' ' "Mormon" audience, which was Slfil J i ! not very oftn, he did so to people B-Wjfe; F who knew that every word of it was BCf I was false. Jsobody dictated to them Hb bow or for whom they should vote. R' 2Jo one holding tlie ' priettbood" BBH . made any claim of right to rule them JBaB ' - ia (jolltical aflairs.They were a great BB deal freer to exercise the voting H power than the man and Ills asso- dates who were Insulting them by 1 his ridiculous charges. And yet he BH wonders why some of them did not H vote fur him! We can understand K this on uo other hypothesis than BRHJ ' that the defamer of the ' Mormons" HVH is afflicted with softening of the BBSa brain. MH HestiU calls his persistent He the BBflH "vital point" in the "Mormon" BflBJ question. And jet he has never BH . proved his point. lie cannot do H I I bo, because it does not exist except BHHJ J in his unsupported sentences. W E I do not believe it exists even in hit- Hj disordered imagination. We think BH ' he knows Well enough that it I ( B without foundation in truth. Bui it suits his purpose and so he rc- , iterates it, as a settled fact, and BBpH makes no attempt to support it by BBHj anything that has substantial force S Hi3 "vital xInt'' is made up of J two fallacies. One that tbe ".Mbr- BBJBB men" "priests" assume tbe right to J dictate how the people shall vo'e. BBHH The other, that the people havoac- jHBB eep'cd the claim and implicitly BH ohe?- We I3ve challenged him to I""1 prove either parte of his "point" y He has not answered except to rave, and bluster, and call names, and talk round the question, as h.- BB aid around the force bill nutter Bjljlj -without touching it or even r.p- tproaching It The "Mormon" priesthood mean- ssbbbbbbbbB ; tue ' Mormon" people, that is the i adult mala members of the "Mo- mon" Church. When they unite as citizens on any question orcandi date they do so from choice. There are men among them whom they recognize as Charch leader. The HI liviog "Mormon" leaders make no S f such claim to rule as this maligner BBBH continually declares they assume BHyB j and exercise. If they do, let him BHQ quote their language. If such a BHI claim is part of their authority, let Jj ' Wm cite some recognized standard Bj j that gives them such authority. H The personal opinion of some man BBj on some extraordinary occasion will BfepH nt count Xiet him show foaie- BBB thing which the "Mormons" acxpt BBH as a rule or command that sets forth BBfBj his theory. Then let him product- BBS somebody who has been ordered BBP or commanded, or required to BBBJK vote in a certain way or BBSS for a certain candidate. And BBBV if he cannot do either, then let him BBBj hold his peace, or change hia BBKVi V. charges, or stand branded befo-e tbe Af public as a self-cou victej liar. L ' The young men and tbe old men Hi Y ot "iIormondom" who have heard Hf 1 his falsehoods or have heard oj H N" them, know that there is no batis f for them, and that they are perfect- i"'1 'y free to -vote as they choos. This for two reason". One becauoe no BBH "priest" or other Church dignitary BBJS attempts to coerce them. The H other. because they have a BBBB strictly secnt ballot which com- BBB pletcly protects tbem if they BBB choose to ve!e contrary to tbe choice BBBJ of their associate". BBHj The rtasoning which concludes BBSB that because C. C. Gsodwinsajs BBB the "Mormons" vote cs their BBK. "priests" dictate, therefore they are B) "of right disqualified from casting BBBj a, ballot in this Republic," may be BBB "reasoning like a philosopher" in BBBJ some men's minds, but to an ordin- BBBj ary person it is reasoning like a fooL BBBJ There is no reason in it Yet that BBBB is the whole of his "vital point." BBpBJ We maintain that the whole the- BBBk ory of "Mo-monism" as set forth In BpBB its standards will bear us out that BBBBl liberty In all things compatible with BBBBB the general welfare is essential to BBBBB the system we uphold. Also that no BBBC one in the "Mormon" Church is' BBBBI compelled or required to submit to BBBR "priestly dictation" in rolltical Kf atrirg,and tbejoungmen and the VfljB I old men who havo engaged inrr- IBBBBB cent politics willfully corroborate our statement Goodwin's "vital point" is an insubstantial fiction. |
