Show THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION the THE TUE municipal election will take place on monday next and legal legai voters should make calculations to exercise on that occasion the right of franchise we regard voting at elections in the light of a duty as well as a privilege eve every V citizen should 4 have ave at heart the welfare of the state of bf which he forms an integral part the power entrusted to him as a voter ought to be used it is not conferred as an honorary dignity or a political ornament it should be exercised freely and intelligently telli gently all who hold hoid the elective franchise should make themselves acquainted with the i issues involved in the elections in which they take part I 1 and act conscientiously having in 14 view the public welfare and they should do so in perfect liberty I 1 1 11 i 1 in this city and territory there is no need for any person to vote for any officer or mea ure under fear or restraint it is asser asserted frequently q that men and women in bently utah tah deposit their ballots by church dictation and under htide r terron terror i 1 l 3 of the tha priesthood A greater untruth could not be uttered both men and tind women who are members of or the church have voted against the majority and some of the former have run foi office on opposition tickets yet no pains penalties or punishments have been inflicted upon them in consequence of their antagonism to that which the bulk of the people and the leaders of the church considered for thebert the best interests of the community this fact is lelent sufficient proof that the charges of church coercion and terrorism are falsehoods the e ery cry il of union of church and is a manifest absurdity every department of the state municipal county and territorial is as entirely separate and distinct from the church as in other part of the world no man occupies a secular office by virtue of an ecclesiastical position don if a gentleman mccu occupying ying a church office also fills an ow official cial clai place in the state he is elected or appointed to the latter iatter by virtue of the tho popular vote or the appointment of secular authority the phrase bunion union of church and state came into use from the condition of things in european nat nations lotts iotis where t he the head of the state was by virtue of that position the head of the church or mcg vice versa in england a certain number oi of bish mish bishops ps ot of the state church sit in the house of lords as peers by virtue of their the queen Is the lead head of the church as by law established and lade defender ot of the faith such a state of affairs is impossible under the constitution of the states which was framed with a view to prevent any such sueh evils as the pilgrim fathers suffered under state ecclesiasticism and from which they fled across the beas peas but while willim it is not possible to establish the union union ot of church and state in ahia country there is nothing in the constitution in the principles of tine republicanism norin nor in good common sense against the election of any man to secular office simply because he believes in or preaches a cor certain form of faith or administers in religious ordinances A mormon elder or a presbyterian priest has the same civil rights lights as the or the infidel the state has no power to regulate the church nor to debar any of its members or off meers officers from voting holding secular office or wielding influence in politics so 80 long as that power is lawfully exercised it is amusing to hear sane men in this community argue against the influence of the priesthood in politics cW while they hold a ya llcy of that baine and cli cil claim the x ight right to move in these matters mattens a tt to the exclusion of bentli gentlemen men of larger experience also to see them objecting to a ticket on the grounds that priesthood is represented in it and anci has influenced its nomination and after all their protests merely substituting the names of other nian men holding equal priesthood and in which they themselves par pax participate the peoples peopled ticket for the municipal election has been nominated in due form by a maj majority orl ori ty of the peoples delegates and it will no doubt be elected the right to dissent from that ticket to vote against it and to support other candidates is not denied to anyone the talk about the boldness and bravery of those who raise an opposition is the sheerest she erest nonsense what is thereto there to fear NV who ho is going to hurt them or try to do so the public have the right to question their wisdom and to laugh laugn if they choose at what looks like their folly no principle is involved in the attempt to divide the people and the pretended fight is merely beating the air with no union of church and state for a catch cry which is ridiculed even by the anti antl cormona while the majority of the citizens of this territory are members of the church of jesus christ of lat ter day saints those who are not of their falth faith will bes bas be sure to raise the cry ery of church influence in elections as they would if the majority happened to be methodists who had bad colonized these western vales and they have some slight color of consistency sis sla tenoy tency in their pleas which vanishes however in the light of the truth but the raising of such a cry by members of the same church ridiculous and disingenuous it la is opposition for oppositions sake there is one th thing ng against which wo wish to warn the people that ia Is the disreputable practice of imitating the peoples ticket so closely that persons persona I 1 in n a hurry are deceived into voting fon foe the opposition through the tricks sos of those versea versed versed in political intrigue be au sure re that if you want to vote the peo Feo peoples I 1 piers ticket you do not unwittingly cast the wrong ballot examine your tickets before voting we hope every legal voter male and female will villi go to the polls on monday carelessness band and india ferance are wrong at any time but become inexcusable when hostile i influences are at work all hands bands to the ballot box let us all show our true sentiments and exercise the powers granted to us by law and do so freely conscientiously iop iou J and with a proper regard for t the e general good unity is strength division is foly as ts well weil as weakness w |