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Show Hj UTAH'S REDEMPTION. B "Utah is redeemed," B So tsays our republican neighbor, and H bo says The DibtAtch. BB The Enquirer gives its reasons lor its HfP belief that Utah has been redeemed in Hj the following language. Hii The constitution is adoptea, and the H new-BtateiB republican, The people i of Utah have resented the vile cam- Hn paien 'against the church, waged by H llr- Powers. HI The Enquirer kep8 up its baby talk Bqi about ' the vile campaign against the Kf church, waged by Mr. Powers," Time Hj and again has The DiarA-rcs rehearB- IHn ed the outrageouB and infamous inter- Hi ference of prominent churchmen m the Hff politics of the Mormon people. We H have pointed out In detail the incidents Bl that have proved beyond the possibil- Hfli ity of a doubt that Utah waB made re- Bg publican by the ulterior influences of k certain eminent membarB of the Mor- 9BS mon priesthood. We have pointed out HS that those Bame men have uBed their 1 influence for the republican party right Hf in the face of repeated promises that Hifl they would not use church influence. Hi Por the breaking of those sacred proni- Hp iaes and saying "Zion needB your 1 votes," those same men Btand before e the people whom they have wronged Hft -with the brand of dishonor on their P brows, and in the presence of a mighty B rebuke administered by their co-relig- B1 ionists. Like a canting hypocrite, that flKf it is, the Enquirer charges the arraing- HJ mentof those high ecclesiaEtiasts on Kf Chairman Powers. More than 18,000 HBH Latter-day Saints have registered a H protest against any such charges H against Mr. Powers, and by so yoting, H 18.000 Mormons say to the Enquirer, Hj and to its less culpable partner in Bj crime, the Salt Late Tribune, that Bbl BOTH 07 YOU ARE LIAR3. BH It is the mighty voice of 18,C30 Mor- H mons that thus brands you with the 31 mark of Annanias and with being a H pair of the most abject cowards and B unregenerate hypocrites to be found on H the earth. It is not The Dispatch B that thus brands you, although we will B say right here that we heartily endorse H the verdict, Hj Will the intellectual dwarf that pre- B Bi(es over tae wretched nondescript Hj across the block, not tell us whether or Bi I-ot 18,000 Mormons know more of HH what has been transpiring among them B n tne wav ecclesiastical political B pressure than either it or the Tribune Hj or both combined? Does the Tribune B ecao across the block know more of H the situation than do those 18,000 Mor- B mons, any one of whom would feel dis- Hl honored by the society of a thing that, B by implication, calls them knaves and B fools? Eighteen thousand Mormons B have vindicated Judge Powers from all B charges of dishonorable motives in re- B convening the Ogden convention. B They have stood by Judge Powers B nobly and solidly and he needs no B further defense at our hands. The Hj Enquirer then tells how Utah has been B redeemed: B They (the republicans) have said to Hj the nation, by their ballots, that the H reports sent out ot ecclesiastical mter- B ference in politics by the dominant B church of Utah, were false. H! The hypocrisy of the above could B have found expression in no paper HB other than the Enquirer, save one, in Hj Utah. Neither Judge Powers nor the BB - the democratic party have charged the B Mormon church with the use of any ec- jBI clesiastical interference m politics. Bj Several thousand more than one-halt Bi e Mormon people have said that B certain high members of that church Bi haye exerted their ecclesiastical influ- 1 ence to the benefit of the republican Bi party, f The Enquirer says: B A. victory for the party that set those Bl rumors in circulation, would have been Bi a further confirmation of Mr. I'ovrer'a Bl accusations against the church, al- j ready so well ratified by the deino- Bl cratic party. Bl a America, thank heaven, the ma- B I jority vote is decisive, and as the ma- B jority of the Mormons have decided B that those high churchmen are guilty as BJ charged by that re-convened convention B ao "further confirmation" is neces- Bl Bary. In the Enquirer's unguarded Bl statement that "Mr. Powers1 accusa- B! tions" have been "so well ratified by Bf tDe democratic party," is there not BBf found a complete vindication of the H democratic chairman's campaign? K' By implication our disreputable Hj neighbor claims that the republican Hj party has redeemed Utah, by proving H ' to the nation that the statement of H more than 18,000 Mormon democrats Hj that some of their chiefs have been Bj guilty of a -breach of gooqfaith, is un- H true. Let us examine the status of Bj the republican party for the evl- H dences of their right to thus K say that those accusations are Bj untrue, and the consistency of Bf their bo doing, wejwill give that party B 13,000 of the Mormon votes, and which Rj is more than they really posesa. The B bilance of the party is made up of HHj non-Mormons or the old liberal B element. About 2,000 of them are the H apostate Mormons who, three years B ag loved the church and its leaders B about as well as the traditional idea of B ' the deyil'e love tor holy water. Those I MMiiMSaaMnMliiadsi3tmnniiMMoaBHnnBa 13,000 Mormons, according to the En quirer, have yoted with 6,000 or 7,000 non-Mormons against the truth of the indictment ot those high churchmen by 18,000 MDr mons who know what they are talking abont. In the yota of those ex-liberals we find lood for hilarity hilar-ity and a feeling of supreme contempt tor them and their verdict. In the first place they now find themselves in the position of men that are today endorsing en-dorsing a condition of things that is Infinitely In-finitely worse than conditions against which they screamed, yelled and fought less than three years ago. That claBS once strained at a gnat and today are receiving the plaudits of the thing across the block for having swallowed an aligator. And that is the class to whom the Enquirer gives the credit of having redeemed Utah! In all can -dor are democrats being tried by a jury of their peers? Now, we will say to our hair-brained neighbor, that 13,000 ot those 13,000 Mormons who just voted the "rebuke" to 18,000 of,their brethren, know tliat the charge aaainst thoEe high eccles-iastB eccles-iastB for meddling in politics and of winning votes from the democratic party because "Zion" the pure In heart needed them, is true in every particular. And further, they also know that one of them has conceded that he tried to get votes for "Zion" the pure in heart alias the republican party. Those 13,000 Mormons also know that one of those high churchmen has confessed to using while in a state of singular and explicable somnambulismhis somnam-bulismhis great influence to furrher the interests of "Zion's" party te republicans. Ana we say right here that we know that the 7,000 ex liberals know that unholy influences have been been used by high churchmen against the democratic party. And we further know that a host of them voted for the Enquirer's alleged c'iebuke," for the express purpose of proving the sincerity sincer-ity of the Mormon democrats. And we will say here and now, that it is a God-Eend to the Mormon church as a whole, that Mormon democrats have been true to each other true to their church, true to their truth and honor and true to the God of Israel. And in their hsroic devotion to truth and honor, and in their fealty to the Almighty, the democratic party has redeemed re-deemed this fair state from the last stain of dishonor brought upon it by men who should have held their promises prom-ises sacred, and from the hypocrisy ol the Salt Lake Tribune and the leaders lead-ers of the republican party that have affected to disbelieve that the staiu existed. Now, if the Enquirer has got even one grain of decency left, we ask it to exercise it, and shut up its hippopotamus-like mouth on the subject sub-ject of who "redeemed Utah." But few, indeed, know that Utah slumbered on a volcano that, but foi the united voice of the Mormon democracy, de-mocracy, would have belched forth the old liberal fires of animosity, and Utah would have bten once more aflame on the old issues. The democracy democ-racy of Utah extends the hand of congratulation con-gratulation to those old ex-liberals, and with hearts swelling with gratitude, grati-tude, thankB them for voting the way they have. Democracy is grateful for the privilege of performing, unaided, the redeeming act. And while the Utah democracy cannot hand over the young state to her sisters as a democratic demo-cratic commonwealth, there is not a thought of bitterness or malice in their inability to do so. With gratitude grati-tude to God for this mercy to Utah in her great peril, the democracy reverently rever-ently uncoveres its head, and in a spirit of humility and resignation will look calmly on while an unholy compact is being consummated and the goods are being delivered. In so doing they feel that posterity will yet rise up and call those "troops of Jmen and women" blessed. |