Show toO RICAN ANT COW M RI advertising edited by the american party at the mass meeting held by the american party it was found t that hat more than two hundred and fifty men and of do bos elder county hat had signed tild the petition biti for a party F J of was elected chairman and 11 lt kaiser alser proprietor of the utahna utah na hold brigham city was elected secretary and treasurer an executive committee was named consisting of E C wheatley dr A 7 T rankin dr 1 F E roe roche ie R kaiser and james raleigh mrs james pitt was elected first mayor william house second lewis getz third A S yoder fourth and J johansen Johi insen fifth vice chairman B D II if jones was elected state committeeman the chairman and secretary were authorized to call a mass meeting at brigham city city oct 20 the place to be hereafter named to put a ticket in the field the only qualifications of a member ber of this party is that lie he believes in honoring obeying and sustaining the laws that he opposes a union of church anti and slate and that thai he believes in carrl carrying ng out all the covenants made beffie statehood to the people of tills this state stale and to the nation I 1 till THE PLEDGES at AL the time the covenants were entered into the temples and other pio perty perly had been taken naturalization lad had been denied to some the Ie people oile were scattered homes were deserted and most severe legislation had been introduced in congress tills this was the situation up tip to 1890 then president woodruff received permission to advise ills his flock that they should I 1 ob obey y the laws and that there should be no further interference in fit politics or business these matters idere were submitted to a general conference and were passed then the quorum of the twelve adopted the rule that members of that quorum presidents of seventies presidents of stakes and bishops of wards should stay out of politics this rule made before statehood gave the gentiles confidence and they worked for state continued on page two ia 1 M AMERICAN COLUMN continued from first page 4 hood it was admitted in the political manifesto that this rule was I 1 adopted we quote concerning officers of the church themselves the feel feeling ing was generally expressed in the beginning of the political division spoken of 0 that it would be prudent f tor 0 r leading men not to accept of office a at t the hands of the political party to which they might belong this counsel was given to men of both parties alike not because it was thought that there was aw any impropriety in religious men holding civil office nor to deprive theta then of any of the rights of citizenship but because of the recline feeling that it would be better under all the circumstances which had now artsen arisen to avoid any action which would be likely to create jealously and ill feeling an era of peace and good will ivill seemed to be dawning on the people and it was deemed good to shun everything that could have the I 1 W I 1 least tendency to prevent the con su matlon mation of this happy prospect three months and two days after statehood the rule that these high officials should stay out of politics politics was changed so that they could teter after taking counsel and obtaining authority these high officials are said to be sal salaried ailed officials no member has a right to find fault with them and surely they should resign their office in the church it if they want to serve t the he state stale what brought the era of peace and good will after ten years how is it the majority of the senate com cittee has found in so many words that there is a union of church and ami state mr air wier the american candidate for Con congress grAs is admitted by the deseret news to be a clean candidate for that office I 1 mr ir maloney ran before as judge on the democratic ticket on election lay day put your X by american blag and let it go at that in the machine organ of oct stills an attack upon two of our citizens here dr rankin and B H jones that shocks the sensibility of any decent man or woman bu t any gentleman gentl emaiL emam would prefer an assault from that gnet ra rather ih er than its Hs com commendation lod from that source blame is far ampre desirable than praise epithets are arc not arguments anger blows out the lamp amp of the mind A vulgar man who w 0 cannot answer an argument resorts to abuse buse what was said against dr rankin was too vile to be quoted all we sa sayin reply is that he has been here for eleven years his life has been an open book he has proved proved himself hi he was a soldier in the union arm army T and now wears the G A of the R badge B ir jones in a speech delivered by request on what will bring peace to utah said to obey the laws to cause interfering in politics and bust business and to keep high officials out of 4 politics would bring peace the parts of his speech objected to that in which he said legislation in utah was being con controlled troIed oled and that the mor mons had been asked to vote as a 2 unit and that the senate had found that there was a union of church and sate nir mr jones was called a liar for making these statements the statements were absolutely true that there was a steering committee in the legislature was es by the testimony of sworn witnesses iri iii the smoot case on sept octh the machine organ asked mormons cormons to vote as a unit the democratic party denounced this in fit its platform on the third proposition aliat that tile the senate found that there wasa was a union uniti of church and state we quote from the that thai there is a perfect union between the mormon church and the state of utah and that the church through its head dominates the affairs of the state in fit things both great and small this report was printed in the deseret news |