Show T TWO wa TIIE ME time has come bome around nor for another of those antl anti thormon epidemics which periodically afflict the press of the united states just now the papers are considerably y agitated on the Mormon question and as usual in attacking it they shoot very wide of the mark two mistakes are this seasons assault which we will wi 1 I briefly point out for the benfit benefit of our contemporaries not because we anticipate any serious sequences consequences Lon it is supposed that thit th A the mormon IN Tormo n delegate as they call mr cannon has been judicially declared an alien and therefore that he cannot take tahe his beat seat in congress this is Is one of the great mistakes it is not remarkable that so many journals journal have fallen into it when their general habit of repeating rumors about the cormons mormons Mor mons without inquiry is considered the bouncing noun cing the termination of the campbell cannon suit in the third district court of this territory Terri terni tOrYs was worded word so as to lead them to this conclusion they did not stop to think of the many falsehoods con coming utah which have been sent over the wires to deceive the public but proceeded at once to comment on it as a fact fach we wish to inform them that no ni judicial inquiry into mr cannons citizenship has been had A suit was entered ente reds asking the court among other things to declare void ilis isis certificate of naturalization obtained december ath 1851 but the case has hns not been tried on its merits simply because tile the court had no jurisdiction of it in the shape in which it was presented no answer was filed to the complaint beca because use the defendants defendant counsel interposed a demurrer pleading the courts lack of jurisdiction and the demurrer was sustained the suit was therefore dismissed this was defeat to the campbell side but is represented as a triumph against mr cannon anyone acquainted with the simplest pIss of law or the common proceedings in a civil suit must know that when a case is dismissed on a demurrer it is not a decision on the merits of the because cause why then so much bring firing of guns and ringing of bells belis as although though a victory had been against the mormons cormons Mor mons the answer 13 to c creato create libat an ifyu enco ence against their delegate le legate iii in the contest cortest for the seat in congress this s wag was the ol 01 object eject of the falsehood sent seni over mhd wi risby resby tisby the author of the press dispatch from salt lake it ig is one little part of the whole iniquitous conspiracy to rob the territory of the its lawful representation in the na t dional iona lona legislature foiled eolie d at dit every step in the shame shabe shameful fui ful bu bubines business sines the scoundrels who laid the plot are r reduced to narro vV ja thalis straits and are making a last big effort but this apu impudent d lent atte attempt inin to cloth thein their signa signal det del defeat eat in the trappings ot 0 vio vic ic tory tork 1 will omy ohly ala aia in their anai overthrow the tho position posit ion ioa of bur our delegate delegato is legally impregnable and if only common justice regulates the contest his unscrupulous enemies will not bado have tho the of chance a of 1 1 l 0 1 success whoever says that mr cannon is nota not a citizen of the united states makes a grand ini int mistake or utters a falsehood whoever ghys ays that he has in person or in fact or in law admitted that he was waa not properly naturalized elther either agnor i antly blunders or wilfully lies alf the die facts and proceedings i such an assumption and thase pa pers circulation of the utti untruth are ar u only injuring their reputation for f 0 r reliability J the other mista ise ire is that the utah election ejection lakas lawa permit women who are minors to vote this thid false hood haa has been told so frequently that it is believed by many persons and fa I 1 alluded to as though it if were well established by many newspapers 1 I ilia lie lle springfield republican speaks of it as pone yone one 1 I 1 of the iniquities of the momon 1 system which the whole johntry country coh is interested in wiping out I 1 truth is that no woman can vote at an election la iii utah who does not mako mabo oath that shw is twenty ene one years of age acre 0 abd possesses other a A any ny one can i satisfy himself on this point by reference to the registration law enforce in this territory the I 1 statement made that young girls or women under twenty one years of fige age cany can by marriage become voters whether made up by unscrupulous iol attorney attorneys I 1 f i n is jia apted 3 a bated bya by a silly i liy ex executive a joining jn in thae piot plot or quoted by newspapers without reference to the thu law is so utterly untrue that it ja is astounding in face of the statutes providing to the contrary why is it that reputable journals will aid in the promulgation of such groundless fabrications all the excitement which 1 is 9 raised in he fhe country at intervals over mon question proceeds from mis apprehensions similar to those these a we ve have kels hero here pointed but 1 likey i kely to profit by sueh such extreme measures as are called for on the untenable grounds here exposed 2 no one but a handful of intriguers intrigue rs lusting for a cl cliance lance lanco to grasp this territory and manipulate its quer we ask our contemporaries throughout ho land to view tin tiu IS s present issue cansis ten ty thebo called ormon problem ilas liaa haa nothing tp to dp do with wital the yie matter of our be decided ig i shail stall the voice oice of the people uttered at the ballot box b be 0 silenced by the ibe clamors of a few conspirators shall the votes of over 1000 catiz citizens ens be throw thrown n aside in lik favor of 1300 simply because the m majority afo RIO rity have an unpopular reli rell religion glon gion i shall I 1 a largo large number of men who have in common with our delegate exercised the privileges of citizenship by virtue of creden credentials bials received in due form from a proper court be deprived ed of their rights beci because tuso tuse the court couri that naturalized them kept its records in n a manner which a few beb seb schemers emers technically object to shall i r lican ilean government governa bs s trampled in the mire in a mad attempt to cej correct something objectionable which has no part in the controversy we remind those who are aro interested in these affairs that the faith falth of the thi e latter day dry saints the truth or falsity of their views the polygamy question or any other peculiar feature of mormon doctrine or polity cuts no coligure figure ligure whatever in this issue before the country the attempts attempt to force them into it proceed from a consciousness that the main cause is nothing but a bag of wind can do nothing fa for r the smallest point of sound reason will puncture it and shrivel it up therefore side issues which have caught paugh haugh baugh t the he popular mind have i been seized uron urAn joined to 1 f and made ent J that the iniquity of the main thing maybe may be kept out of ot sight bight whatever e r V views lews tip press pres s P of f th the 0 united of the system called they certainly should not confound them ith a simple question of the political rightson right an undoubted majority of american amerlean citizens |