| Show THE proposition IS PLAIN the breeze which was waa created by the formal announcement a few days dave ago of an additional senatorial candi date standing on 00 a platform of him bie own make und and quite diverse from any structure ever end endorsed orFed by any political party to in this thin community since ince national politics divided Us its people to ie fast dying down to a dead calm notwithstanding the me efforts to in certain quarters to magnify it into a torm storm As the people of the state graep more clearly the precise nature of that platform they see eee more plainly the scope cope and character of the esaue which it raises the candidate himself announces in terms so 0 o explicit as to defy misconception that he be bases him bis expectations of support on the fact that chat he has baa sought and Is seeking to break down the doo doc alnea and discipline ot of a church and nd there are ar but tow few in the state who are willing to augment his boom by endorsing such a platform the fact act that the church which to Is thus sailed ae Is the one of which the candidate has been a member since his bis childhood to is no part of the main issue as political matters in the state neither is the further fact that differences exist be tween him rod and his bin clates neither to is the still further fact of bis bin suspension from official offic tal position in that church those these and all other facts and el ron instances extraneous be to the real issue should be diserio dise rim Idi tingly separated from it the candidate virtually says gaye 61 1 I am endeavoring to break down t the he doo doe brines arinea and ana discipline of a certain Chu to prevail upon as many of ita te members as ai possible to aid me in ao doing because such to IB my purpose idd od the object of my efforts I 1 ask the legislature to elva me the prestige and a nd power of a united states senator that I 1 may make them the more effectual fec and that it may bonome banome fully apparent that the political party now in control cottrol la in utah to IB resolved to toe the same earne results for which L am striving 02 Is IB there a person in the state so ao dull that he cannot see that the issue here bore raised la is purely religious and not at all political that au an attempt is ie here bore made to prevail upon the legislature it f the state and also its on controlling trolling political party to declare war upon a church that the candidacy ot of the aspirant in quest loo because of his hie platform not of his hie persons personality lity la 18 a menace to the future peace and welfare of the commonwealth Is the candidate put f jtb because he be to a Demo democrito critt no because he f favors vote no because be opposes bount bounties leb no because he be is ig able and experienced or qualified basically or mentally lur jor the tb place no so far as a these qualifications are concerned be may hive them all sod and yet everybody knows that he would oever have been named for the office because of them hla his candidacy tests reate wholly and solely upon his hia hostile at to a church to it la Is thought a rebuke would come from his hia Ruc success cess let lei a man rise rice up and say eay to the members of the utah legislature 1 I 1 am at war with the catholic church I 1 desire to prevail upon am many of its ite members as aa possible poe elble to support my effross to break down its doctrines sod discipline and I 1 ask aek you to clothe me with political power that my efforts may be more effective and I 1 also nek ask you and the political party which elected bouto follow my leadership in a war upon that church how many members of the legislature would have patience to elve alve such a man a hearing bearing even how many papers papera in th the state eState would give him accept to their columns and would the official newspaper organ of the catholic church it if it bad such an organ be expected to keep entirely till still and permit itself to be muzzled muscled by the stupid cry of church interference or a recurrence of old conditions were much an assault to be made upon the weakest and arst car at unpopular religious body in the state there here to 1 not a reau table voter or paper to in it that would not cry shame upon the assailants awai lanta nor is there a man of influence in any political party who would not as ee be danger of admitting such issues into politics it ie 18 incredible that any member of the legislature can be so go dull by nature or no BO blamed by influence an to te be unable to see ee that an attempt la in being made to prevail upon the state to war against a church and that the latter ta in acting solely on the defensive while the greatest dullard among all our local p cannot help but see ee what political folly it would be to force such an issue by pushing such bach a candidate again the NEWS appeals to the res rea son BOD and patriotism patrio tiem of the members of the legislature to be resolute reao lute to in re fusing to endorse the clashing of state against church of politics against religion of ambition la agai nat the reace peace of the people by emph emphasize emp baelz asiz log their refusal to support an aspirant whose cin candidacy didney means meana all these |
