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Show FOR SAKE OF PRINCIPLE;. All the premonitions point to the purpose of the managers of the so-called Republican party here to try to make a personal campaign this year; to try to show that all the reason' there is an American party here is because some one Is dissatisfied. If that is. extended and it is made clear that all self-respecting self-respecting Republicans are dissatisfied that will about cover the-case. . .' At first when the Mormon chiefs used Republican Republi-can paws to rake their chestnuts from the fire, a good many of them stood it, but after a while their paws became sore and they will not have it any more. : '.' . ' . " "' ' ' : " The Mormon people are good people, with thousands thou-sands of them it is a pleasure to associate. On al questions but one they are honest, capable and High-minded. High-minded. But the moment a decree comes down to them from the head of the church or any apostle who speaks with the consent of the first presidency, they fall down, from highest to lowest, they surrender sur-render because their highest allegiance is to that power.: So when some of them join with Democrats and others with Republicans and enter a so-called political campaign, they all hold themselves in readiness read-iness to change their politics as they would their shirts, at the nod of the king. Hence, when any Gentile affiliates with them, he loses his own personality; his influence is precisely the influence which the jumping jack in a Punch and Judy show exerts; he jumps here and there as the string is pulled, and nothing more. But there is more to it To gain Statehood the chiefs of . the church, notably Joseph F. , Smith, pledged their honor that henceforth the Mormon people should be absolved from all church influence and dictation. All those leaders except the late President Woodruff and the !ate President George Q. Cannon have broken that pledge of -honor, betrayed be-trayed the Government and the Gentiles in Utah. Hence, when any Gentile joins with the Saints in a political campaign, knowing hoW the masses of the Mormon people are held by their chiefs, by the act, shows his willingness to compromise with wrong if he does not in fact assist in, compounding a felony. This is so palpable that we expect'there will this year in Utah be a great falling off among Gentiles from both the so-called Republican and Democratic parties. |