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Show LIBERAL (?) CONNENTION. <br><br> The so called Liberals of Beaver County met in convention at Frisco on the 10th inst., to nominate candidates for the several offices to be filled at the coming general election. A committee on resolutions was appointed, with Frederic Lockley - formerly editor of the Salt Lake Tribune, and later of the Southern Utah Times, as chairman, To what extent the committee and the convention are imbued with the true spirit of liberality is shown in the following series of resolutions: <br><br> Whereas this county has developed a mineral wealth already amounting to millions of dollars, and which is believed capable of indefinite expansion; and Whereas the party which have held power in this Territory since its first settlement have denied all exercise of political rights to American citizens who do not worship God according to their peculiar forms and mode of religious faith, and pass laws to discourage mining enterprise as menacing to their usurped power and<br><br> Whereas experience has shown that those who own allegiance to the leaders of the Mormon Church and have a standing among the brethren are not to be trusted with the attributes of public office therefore<br><br> Be it resolved that this convention of the Liberals of Beaver County believe that the cause of progress and enlightenement will best be subserved and the moral and material interests of the community best promoted by our candidates for county and precinct office being exclusively chosen from that class of the community who have no connection with the dominant Church. <br><br> Resolved that we are animated by no feeling of exclusiveness, national or sectarian, but regard every man entitled to all the rights and privileges of a citizen who is untainted with crime and yields willing obedience to the Constitution and laws of the United States. <br><br> Resolved that we wage war upon no class of the community, and disavow that we have any wrongs to avenge; but insist upon the right of the majority to choose and elect men to office whom they regard most fit for public position; and believing the Liberal voters of Beaver county to be in the majority, we hold it our right to use all proper and honorable means to emancipate ourselves from the domination of a usurping and intolerant hierarchy, and elect men from the Liberal ranks to county and precinct office. <br><br> In addition to the feeling of intolerance which is breathed in every line of the foregoing report, there is another and more objectionable feature - the [unreadable lines] <br><br> The Governor of Massachusetts has political rogues [unreadable line]who do not worship God according to their peculiar forms and mode of religious faith," and that "experience has shown that those who own allegiance to the leaders of the ‘Mormon' Church and have a standing among the brethren are not to be trusted with the attributes of office." It is a fact well known to all, and one which will be conceded by every fair minded person, that the members of the party which has held power in this Territory since its first settlement, have been most free to grant to all, those great privileges for which they have vainly begged during nearly a half century past. They have been oppressed, persecuted, robbed of their religious and political rights; and yet to-day in Utah when they number ten where the "Liberals" cannot muster two, the latter have never been deprived of anything which was legally or morally their own. And that the officials elected by this same party have been and are, as a rule, above reproach with regard to the administration of public affairs, is a truth which cannot be honestly disputed. True it is in this Territory, as elsewhere in this country and throughout the world, that some trusts have been betrayed; but when Utah is brought into comparison with other territories or states - the pages of her record will be found covered with clean, fair characters, while the books which contain the histories of her defamers will be unreadable for foul blots.<br><br> This convention, like all others bearing such a name, should select some other designation; as the English language ought not to be perverted in a manner so gross. Many of the people who adopt the "Liberal" views, and indeed the leaders of the party, are here to "christianize" and "civilize" the "Mormons." They have been indefatigable in their endeavors to vilify the people who are now in the majority in this Territory; but they should remember that Jerusalem was only kept clean because every man swept before his own door. |