| Show ABSURD HEROICS in its tissue of yesterday the NEWS pointed out certain grave objections to the selection of one aspirant for the rest float in the united states senate concerning which there to ie so much anxiety among utah politicians just juat now we tried to show that thai both good sense ens and good politics were opposed to the candidate and yet there was no polities politics to in the article itself neither was there any animosity towards anyone there was waa no expression or Im imp lioa tion of any threat attention was merely called to the fact that the election of the individual referred to would not be otherwise regarded than as an attack upon and an affront to the body of religious wor worshippers shippers most numerous in the state that in fact his bis recusant saut attitude was toe chief basis or excuse for his bis candidacy and that those who sought to promote proui his bis boom ought to know that they were deliberately attempting to undermine dermine a vital leaigre of the organic law of a church which the latter might naturally be expected to try to maintain mointa ln from the manner to in which a pair of morning contemporaries comment upon the NEWS observations one would imagine that sump ter had bad just been fired upon or some similar event of awful portent bad juat occurred or was waa imminently impending one of them bem talks incoherently herent ly of Ny tyranny ranny and 65 opening the abe old fight J and with mock heroism colem shouts hands hando ofle another prattles with its customary oua tomary simplicity when trying to say something without know ing what to talk about the grotesque absurdity of all this Is as difficult to account for reasonably as am it I 1 is to describe adequately here Is one paper which when a prominent ecclesiastic is first named aa 4 united states senator from utah opposes him with a vigor which ex ceede all discretion declares his candidacy means an opening of the old fight calls upon his superiors in the church to require him to withdraw insists that his candidacy means ft a clash between church and state and for weeks and months fills its columns with editorials in this strain when the announcement to is maje made that the church which has been thus long and frantically appealed to to call off this candidate is affirmative jy y opposed to hlis his election this same paper with a vigor which far exceeds its former excess of discretion calls wildly upon the church not to interfere with the candidacy of the individual in question on pain of opening the old light fight sto etc what senility what stultification and hyst hysteria erial what inconsistency and rubbish may we venture to ask our temporaries oo and all other critics to draw in the wanderings of their minds long enough enouf to cOnco concentrate them upon one plain proposition that proposition 1 is I thin able toe the candidacy of the person to whom all this shia has reference is ia antagonized by the NEWS because it is an assault upon the doctrines and organic existence ot the church of which this paper is the official organ his appearance pe arance in the political arena at this time is nothing more nor less than ables this and every candid voter in the commonwealth mon wealth will admit it he himself announces that he be stands upon a platform equivalent to this very proposition it Is not a political question for the candidates candidate politics cuts no figure in it it is in re pure and simple in that it involves nothing more nor low less wan than questions relative to the integrity of a religious organization the maintenance of its discipline and the perpetuity of its doctrines yet we note that bat young utah is appealed to to support this candidate canul date why anat they mey be prevail prevailed led upon to oppose their church discipline and doctrines in other words become anti mormon when a candidate therefore steps out upon a distinct and unequivocal anti antichurch platform plat lorm wilen it is expected by his friends tuat his bis vindication means toe mae lebike of the church can any jane ane man deny the right of the chirca churca to put forth efforge to preserve itself and to save we the of us its members from that condemnation which its theology teaches will be visited upon all woo having partaken partaker par taken of its blessings become its op oppose posers re the protest at hands offis off may properly come with force and justice irom from the church on this thin a but with neither from any political paper clique or party As an to the threats with which one of the local papers closes its diatribe they have become utterly tiresome and excite only derision it la Is no great crime we take it for ons one man high in church charon councils to go to wyoming or for another churchman church man to go to idaho they are re not the only men who travel nor are they going to be restrained in the exercise of that or any other action that freemen may properly take moreover neither the church leaders nor the church papers are going to be muzzled because ot of some silly billy peopled people is uis disappointed appointed hopes bopes or timorous imbecility beci lity if the politicians and the party press prees will leave the church alone they will have no occasion to quarrel with it but they ahby must stay within their own confines and mind their own business any trespass aaa such as aa some rome of them seem now fond fondly ly to approve will always find as this thia has hai found the church on the defensive and in all kindness we may aay again as an we said bald yesterday that both good sense ense and good politics politico would seem to forbid any reputable party pany from joining io in the assault and insult anat a weak sentimentality has in and an ignorance of the ibe real vote in the case has somewhat forwarded every truly patriotic citizen of whatever religious or political creed will insist idalba that this whole question be rigid jy excluded from the politics or of the bbate and that no aspirant for office who bases his bis claim for support on his bis opposition to any church receive the encouragement |
