| Show A AND DESPOTIC influences INFLUENCE THE tribune makes a lame attempt to limp bout ao at of the stupid position it has assume on the church and state ques kioa it cited one instance of what it assumed was a proof of a rule that in the legislature members take leir their places not according to fitness but according to rank in the church I 1 we showed that that instance was not as stated and pointed out several other instances which proved the tribune wrong now it tells ug that our several cases were the Ol exception and its one exploded and disproved case was the rolel just its style it never acknowledges an error but after lying without compunction A it will wiggle and squirm and turn itself itself in side out to 10 try and justify justlin its mendacity we will notice it on this question once more by giving two quotations with a few remarks the tribune says 66 we object to the rule which makes t the he mormon people accept nomination for political offices from the first presidency and which makes them vote the ticket they are instructed to vote for an influence which men comm command and by their personal magnetism and ability ty is one thing thin an influence which men dare not resist or even debate is another thing the tribunes objection to a rule of its own imagining is the essence of richness there is no rule with which we are acquainted which makes the mormons cormons Mor mons accept anything but the continual misrepresentations and of 01 their enemies the nomina eions for political offices are made in regular caucus and conventions as much as with any political body in the country and the ballot is free and secret and no one cabbe can be made to vote anyway that does not suit him all the rest is assumed by the tribune and is so much balderdash the only hi influence fluence that we know of that men dare not resist or even debate is that which prevents members of congress and other public men in many places from resisting or even debating iniquitous tyrannical unconstitutional and undemocratic measures against the mormons cormons Mor mons it is the influence of popular dipre prejudice judice provoked by liars like the Tri buse ana and kept alive by by plotting schemers like its friends and fellow conspirators against right and ustice justice it closes the lips of men who know that such measures are wrong and who admit it in private priva t e while dare not resist the or debate it in public when one who has some courage ventures to assert his bis manhood and express his views he is hounded bounded and pelted belted and besmeared be smeared with fetid abuse oy such rampant maid ld throwers th rowers as the tribune let a maa open his lips in defense of the people marked out tor lor a prey and he is li belled into silence or called e every ery name that a whisky soaked b blackguard of the press can spit at h him in let et a Jury juryman mail vote according to h his s if they disagree with W ith the will of the clique that wants to dictate everything in this territory and ike he is treated to the same process let a bentile in utah give a vote for a mormon ar w even speak a la wordin word in favor of a mormon ticket and he would be so belabored and maligned and c cur mr yelped by the same set of tyrants w who ho talk about church a and nd state that he would have to hide himself or live in perpetual hot water we know of no ao peoples political matter or ticket in utah but has been both re resisted slated and debated we do not know of any aay mormon 11 influence or rule that prevents either we do know of tribune and kindred proceedings that tend to stifle both the union at which mormons cormons Mor mons arrive comes after resistance and debate the low few joining the many when that resistance si and debate have ended v that tha t union is what the tribune an d I 1 the other schemers hate but they cannot break or control it so they seek to ruin its promoters all the tribunes non nonsense seas about the union of church and state Slate resolves itself into IOK fog arad waw vapor when the light of facts is thrown upon it the influence which good men mea exercise in utah in all ua material affairs comes by i kin kindness kindless duess persuasion intelligence ex perie uee and the regard which the masses have for the opinions of the tried and true and there is no coercion of vote or voice in any shape or form except such as is exercised by the little knot of conspirators of which the tribune is the express expression lon and the dog whip over citizens who dorm in many instances cower before that influence because they desire peace and shrink from public castigation etisa it is a sinister and despotic influence anait and it has no place or power within the pale of the mormon church |
