| Show INSULTING UTAH JUDGES THE advocate of mormon disfranchisement for alleged belief keeps up his bis dally daily howl how althou although ih it can have no practical effect except to annoy some inexperienced young mormon 10 who may happen to hear bear it and to disgust the sensible gentiles who are nauseated with the noise dolse this morning be occupies neatly nearly a column and a half of editorial space in the tribune to show why no 11 mormon q alien should be naturalized and no do mormon citizen should vote there Is not a new DOW suggestion in the whole tirade nor a valid argument even if the alleged facts were true the continual reference to a judicial decision that was as plainly contrary to the evidence as any blunder or outrage ever committed on the bench has no weight with gentile i mormon or jew who knows any thing of the case or the trial and the tribune slobber lobl it rings digs a and nd soft soap boap adula adut the official who sneezes when the e tribune or certain attorneys take snuff is no credit to that person and adds no force to that paper another thing on its own reasoning it is continually insulting the federal judges in this territory who admit to citizenship mormon Mor moB aliens that conform to the laws and make satisfactory showing that they are well disposed to the constitution and government of the un ted states the tribune says hays they are not fit to have citizenship papers that it is an infamous thing to give men so enthralled as that citizenship papers that they are unfit to cast a ballot in the united states and to permit this outrage is an infamous shame if the writer of this stuff cannot see that he is ig far more insulting to three judges than he accuses a contemporary of being to one judge his brain such as it is buet be terribly befogged now what is the ground of the objection to the exe exercise reise of the ballot by law abiding mormon citizens here it is he says 94 they no nominator nominate io one the nomination ti 0 n is made from the bead of the church they know nothing and care nothing about the nominee all they want to know is that he be is the person selected by the head bead of the church what proof of this is offered ed none whatever he says so that is all the only answer that seems appropriate to this libel is his bis own elegant language applied to a morning contemporary every devery time it publishes it it knows known it lies t every time it publishes it it kno knows w 8 that nine tenths of its readers lenow that it lies but it continues its ita falsehoods because it knows that it cannot help IV it we omit the vulgarity that follows this refined ef effort rort the president of the Mort mormon now church nominates no do civil officer or candidate for office under the laws the people proceed as is customary with all political organizations izat ions in caucus and convention to discuss candidates and make up tickets except that they have much greater freedom than is exercised by ordinary bodies which are commonly controlled by party bosses and what to is known as the machine 12 ana if all that is said on this bead were true it would afford no reason or argument against naturalizing natural izing imor mormon 11 aliens who conform to all the requirements of the naturalization laws and the extra obligations imposed by the utah courtr court what object the fanatic who keeps up this senseless and baseless tirade can have except to void the venom with which he is surcharged is not apparent to the ordinary mind we do not believe his paper with all its virulence and success in intimidating liberal citizens can whip into line the three judges whom it insults with its vulgar and false insinuations and charges the indications are that the disfranchisement fanatic is becoming a hopeless monomaniac |
