Show I THE HIGIIT WOW AT LIST To the Ldltor I In oUr > inri It was my pleasure to nddicBS many nn audience In Sol Lake City and oih r towns In Utah At the time of th breaking up of the old lolltlcal conditions In the Territory I hOled believe 1 and said the Mormon people would show the country u model of quiet and orderly political action This belief was based upon tho convlc lion that the Mormons were n llcore Ij I icllclous People anti I that they would carry tl elr morals Into political conduct con-duct Hut when the division came I was disappointed Over nnd over I had 1 advisetl them never to say I belong to tho Dcmoctnllc party or eI belong I be-long to the Republican part but to I I Insist I always Unit tile paitlea belonn to the people and should be upheld only so long ns they Secured the highest good and the greatest happiness I happi-ness of the people possible under exist I II I ing conditions I I The new nlgnmcnt care I attend I I ed political conventions heard them oK < ned with player heard the Holy I hphlt Importuned to give all who wero I to participate wisdom and before the I appeal passed the roof I have seen I men calling themselves Saints bee i be-e howling maniacs apparently In their fully zeal and I bondage Mj hope mus broken mv clot chattered as I saw among the Mormons n worse political po-litical frenzy than 1 had ever eel In I the older Daot From that lme 1 hv taken no Inleot In I Utah Politics Poli-tics Whn thin nonpartl movement I was started I thought potslblv I sincere sin-cere work was to begin hoselesult would be thu elevation of the people out of the cutter of political rant and I fustian Into sober earnest thoughtful I work for the good of the whole leoplc Hut Ul to the pt i sent time n word I I I < spoken that was miiluitkullj von lmed me that I was not merely I nnrther party working for Bclllah ends I I Ml I position will be better understood I under-stood when I nlllrm that no man Is n mual 01 If you please a religious mnn who Keels I his religion and mor ali I ty onlv for chuieli ellce who uses bern I only on fast days and In I plover tit Cetlngs A mails religion and morality are a bham If he does not earn tluri Into 1 the Affairs of life I I arid In none of there affairs II Ile nth I I a strong moral force more than In tile conduIT of that general Political business i busi-ness tint constitutes the government of our Miles and towns and stales r religion nnd morality me good for I aV thing anywhere surely they bhuuld I Ie nee forgotten helO 0 few have nt their mercy the Veilbring of tile mnse TdiTnot like to step In the dalk not knowing here m > foot shelf fall I do not like to espouse a cause until I know what It In I I have walfnl for tilt onpnrUoon moo to show Its hand In an Intent to Infuse n higher tone Into politics I cannot tie to a mnn who uses language that Is I like wnlered silk never constant In shade and m lining I want to hear word lhll can nlnn onlyone thIng In I any effort tit reform VA llford Wn druff Is I tile Man NhO lie n t 1 to tho 110eali nf tile oeenelon and delivered himself In tile subje t Ill no uncertain sound lie him Ilt to Imc he wild unholy cone duct of the con-e as politicians and Mali Corclhly minded them that to obtain the hlebilg of their Invisible head thev must entry their religion and morality with them at all tickles Into their lousiness Into Ihelr pollllcs Inlo their municipal nnd stale ant na tnnnl goveloment The t I a 1 need to apologize for tin utterances of this venerable man There ts I no weakness of old ago In them The are the biaiest and tst words that have been utterel here In a long time and It would be well If every moral mor-al and spiritual guide were to take as bold a stand before his people I Is I carping and < ant to Insist that the Ioldonl words are e command 10 the I people as to how they shall vole I It Is I n crime or a misdemeanor to utter ut-ter such alteech to a church then Is I mornlltv banished from business and Ilnnt nnt city state and nation must go on and icown 1 Iud I 1 na l ld doctrUclion dance in I am ghttl Pros l4ent I Wodruf tins poken He ties made lie wav clear for me and believing be-lieving that his language wlll do good 1 om again hopeful for Utnh Polities I Ihnnk Wllord Woodruff for his bro melds and I pledge tri III such woik as I can < 0 In hoI the Pro tilt efort In Political reform 10 sIn a grand success CHAHIii ELLIS |