Show A FIGHT FOR PRINCIPLE The campaign now on is not a petty scramble for fora forn a n few cit city offices on the part of the American party Every member of it would be he glad if there was no necessity for his party if all could align themselves on national party part lines and make a contest suc such as asis asis asis is carried on in American states But in Utah ever since the election of Mr Roberts Roberts Rob Rob- erts crts t the Republican and Democratic p parties have been for the Mormon ormon church b by which we mean of course the first presidency and the apostles apos apos- apostles tIes the they both have bc been n pla played ed b by that organization tion and the object behind it all has not been to adv advance ad ad- v vance ranee ce Utah among the states of rather I it has been to strengthen and perpetuate the political I po power of the Mormon church There is not a Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- J mon n of ordinary intelligence in Utah who does not know that this is true This became especially offensive when Apostle Smoot named who should be state officers three years Jears forced th their ir elec elec- ago and b by his ecclesiastical power tiPon tion It was not only ony an act of tyranny y that would have shamed Boss Tweed in his most arrogant days but it was such an act of perfidy and broken faith as would have shamed the thc meanest boss who ever eyer broke broken n promise to compass a political victory 4 There are 51 a few Democrats among among the Gentiles of this cit city who believe that there is something so inherently in in- divine in their party that it will eventually win on principle They are in the fix of the devout I and faithful wife who has faith that through patience patience pa pa- I tience and prayer she can eventually redeem a besotted besotted besotted be be- and anet utterly depraved husband I If there are any Republicans of character who believe the thc same thing of the Republican party in in Utah Ut-ah their voices have haye not been heard in the present campaign The talkers among the Gentiles have thus far been federal office holders or men who hope sometime to obtain petty offices Hence the present campaign on the part o of the American party i is a most necessary one and their hope does not rest in obtaining some petty offices offices- the very er highest does not pay a man for the time he lie has s to spent spend upon ion it but it is to wage b a cont continuous contiguous war ar for the right until the Mormon chiefs decide it is due their own people for them to keep their priestly priestl hands out of politics It is upon that principle that the they are arc fighting and their fight is quite as much for the welfare of Mormon Mormon Mor- Mor mon men women and children as it is for themselves The News says sas the object of the American party is to arraign the whole Gentile population ag against the entire Mormon population Of course that is not true but the object is to align every free man and woman oman in Utah against every everyone one who has to await orders from the first presidency how to vote for men who do that commit a crime every time they so cast casta a ballot If that was the rule generally in the United States the existence of this republic would cease in a day It would become a kingdom and its king would hold his first court on the corner of Brigham and State streets and the go government of the republic would be bethe bethe bethe the same as the first government that was organized in Utah There is not a Gentile Republican nor a Gentile Democrat who does not know that fact there is n not t a Mormon who does not realize it and hence there is not a man or woman who ho this year in this city votes either the Republican or Democratic ticket who does not so far as his or her influence goes vote for that very thing Hence the fight of the American merican party is a vital one for principle for the principle on which our nation nation nation na na- na- na tion was founded and involved in which lies the best hope of mankind maDkin |