Show PERSONAL independence IN POLITICS it is charged that in iii utah CIC lions are arc farces faress s that the lite voters molds of the peoples party i M lio lie are batly vastly in ill ilia majority majoria y BO no persa personal uni independence in ili tile use of tile the fran frair calise that they are controlled naso abao lutolf by choir religious leaders eliat they do not awl anil diro dare not their own choice ili ai to ilia ch cail il to bo be elected all annl that practically ill the am carried by a small class of men chose ecclesiastical lical positions and anc them unbounded influence over ilia voters of that party while it 11 la Is true that a i acry rr largo large majority of the hie voters of tile peoples pirty party are members of the church of jesus christ of latter thy day saints sainta anil while it il is 13 also true that the member of that church are taught laught to lie bo guided in ili all the labors gabort and delica of lifo life bytho by the principles of religion it is not true that they are arc required by by the tenets of their faith tile iho discipline of their church nor the of their ecclesiastical officers to forego the 1 of a personal choice or the alie exer cle cgee of personal liberty and fide pend in ili the election of civil officers no twin is i jusli nod in yielding up tip liis his agency to another in letting another think act or canose for leini tin in ili foregoing the exercises of personal it indelli independence tu lenco nor in fit bailin failing or to act upon liis his own conscientious r sti lent ious ions convictions of duty and of rig right lt god has no respect for any isho voluntarily yields dp ill bus aall liberty and permits himself to become tile the q slave even of nil an angelo angel and till is no quality more admirable antho in iho eyes of god or good men than a loti ly conscientious and lilt invincible pur po io 0 to let upon oriole ones highest convictions vict ions of right and duty ditty real re I 1 al adless of fifty any anil and every fluence from iny any still and every solace so ilice that might inight impel in it a different direction tile tenets of ills his religion find and the doctrines of his politician cial faith tend to impress upon tile mind of the voter of tile the peoples party this principle of personal liberty I 1 and independence pen dence the necessity of thinking acting and choosing for himself is s kept conel antly before lim him still and is ii indeed a cardinal principle of his religious moral and political philos ophy and lie ike is taught to regard with contempt and co commiseration nil tile the who wears tile the form of his maker and yet is destitute of this attribute tile essence of truo true manhood any political convention or any body of nil men c hose hy by tile people to represent them in ili selecting oil biml nominating ivil iril officers who will ivill submit to the dictation ot of somo some political manager in agag ger so far as q s to tallow swallow si without it a word and tilt without question the stifle upon which lie lias his written the names of his bia favorites and friends on lie is desirous of having havian conferred the that are arc the gl gitti of the people Is worthy only of contempt and tile the members compo composing bing it should never again 0 bo be entrusted with such ft a duty until they have given evidence of an ability and disposition to perform it fit in a manner more in ili harmony with those principles that should govern c true and independent inc men placed in such a position but to reason that such an biec 0 of f personal independence on tile part of the voters of the peoples party would necessarily produce prodico disunion in ili their ranks is to come to tit an absurd conclusion equally ib all surd would it lie ile to assort that they hire no right to listen to the of in men c n chos whoso 0 intelligence experience 3 and it 11 knowledge of 0 candidates and of the needs meds of the people enable them to express sound opinions and impart I 1 good counsel did each of tile tho signers biancra of 0 the declaration of independence lift act upon hisoire iiii own profound convictions of 0 right and duty ditty and upon ills ilia own ono personal agency and independence in ili affixing his namo name to that nwe in am instrument or were tile great majority hep by a few dill did each cath mail j is a borno borne by tont that document possess a personal realization 01 of tho alio and gravity of 0 ins ills act in ill signing it and of tile the conditions A and ad I 1 stances that mado tho the let act necessary or did demagogues political managers or ce ecclesiastical clesia dignitaries once them to lo tako take it if each cach of them counselled counseller coun selled with tile liu idest of 0 hie h countrymen and jf cach acted upon lils ills OUR on n personal and deep scaled convictions convict ioui ious of right and duty dill did such nn an exercise of personal ill liberty slid la independence dependence tend to weaken the wonderful bond of unity eel con and ud loto IOTO that bo bound kind to galic founders of our nation no tho ile exercise of au an intelligent and unselfish personal pc ronal independence strengthened and intensified tho the spirit of 0 union that subsisted among the fathers of the american republic and it if the tha voters of the re peoples rany party in utah today to day would tile iho union of its ita mom members bera they fanst net act upon tho the same ame principle A look flock of ratty may follow to a ball it wether in a compact and unbroken mass but let it wolf appear before them ind and they scatter beatter to ta the iho winds windi so with the union of any ny people is bot based upon nit an under stuff alliff of me ind a itt to principle on oil tit lie part of each individual A union it based 61 apon non I 1 ignorance m k i r a 1 I strong ilynn I 1 one the ilia of it 1 people 11 nho all ly submit to dictation is iq weaker I 1 find 1 I I 1 incao contemptible ficili fitili the only and nilon that cliff cit among lily any londy of nion mail is if that thai bibich k based upon tile intelligence and ile personal independence ruid tie dc i lotion to lo principle of each of 0 the body this is the ianson eliy by the union of the various political parties in the is i not strong whelk a mail liko like jolin john iceley ot of now new york c can in to Sena senators tois governors rind incidents because lie controls con trola votes it may ha be huott ti that thoc are not strongly united anti and that aliat tile alio of it a wolf wol among the lack would scatter the alic sheep hopelessly irence anxiety to prevent the appearance of 0 A in life form of a political rival all ali that lina his becil said of the servility ef cf the voters of the alic peoples party of utah 1 towards the alio rellious religions leaders of th tho people there was never a timo thao in this territory tho actual masses of tile tho N voters oters hall so little real influence or exercised too do little personal in lepen benco in lie selection of officers to 10 be elected its as do tho the voters of new york city cily chicago aud other olber localities in ili tile united StItt lit and it is most sincerely and devotedly to be hoped thattie that the voters of tile peoples party parly in utah will so far yield up tip their agency or submit to tho the control of and unprincipled i political managers ni 85 t lo do the rotor of almost oil all sections of ilia unite L nilca states if tho the people of utah would fulfill their proscribed prescribed thol alio i must train themselves to become an all independent people in individually divi antl and collectively |