| Show THE CHURCH PROPERTY One of the paragraphs of the democratic demo-cratic address reads as follows In the restoration to the church of Tafias Christ of Latterday Saints property prop-erty confiscated under the provisions of congressional law and we favor the immediate restoration also of the real property so escheated in view of the now indisputable fact that no pretext remains for charging that the majority of the people of Utah are in opposition to the national authority Thus do the democrats of Utah go on record in favor of righting the great wrong perpetrated on the Mormon church by a republican national administration ad-ministration and also to the effect that there should be no further withholding of the Hum restored by the action of the democratic administration on the score of remaining opposition to the national authority which has been so loudly charged and so often reiterated by the republican people of the north and east it remained for the democratic demo-cratic representative in congress to formulate this act of simple justice to the church and to the democratic congress con-gress to pass it as well as the effort to quicken action delayed by the moralist moral-ist shriekers of the republican We are among those who believe that there are hundreds nay thousands of good Mormon people in the territory of republican sympathies who will be influenced in-fluenced by the graceful concession of the present democratic congress as well as by the correct action of the democratic convention of Utah to vote with their true friends because alone of these two graceful acts The democracy of this nation true to its faith and policy of toleration and esp ° cially its religious toleration has ever been the friend of the Mormon people and their church especially since the church has gracefully con ceeded to the national demand for the abrogation of the tenet of faith tolerating tolerat-ing polygamy The party has ever advocated the admission of Utah as a state even before the action of the church on that subject It has ever headed every effort to eflect this great god for the territory while the only record republicanism has is of hostility hos-tility bitter and unrelenting It is also true that to the general republican feeling on this subject is due the fact that this other great measure of justice is delayed in the senate until after the passage ot the Wilson bill As an evidence of the correctness of this claim has anyone ever seen a democratic demo-cratic missionary man or woman at work in Utah And it is claimed in the east as a great republican virtue that all the returned missionaries in the east headed the obstructionists when the statehood bill had reached the senate While patient foibearing and placable yet the Mormon people have memories and will be likely to vote against the wrongs they have ex Derienced at the hands of the republican republi-can party in this way It would be perfectly right and proper if they did and unnatural and ungrateful if thev did not We naturally vote with those who reflect our views and against those who not only do not reflect them but who are bitterly opposed to them The fact is none have forgotten that the leading organ of the Utah republicans republi-cans was but a brief time since the most bitter blood thirsty and cruel leader of the enemies of the Mormon church and people Will they with the memory of this bitter hostility still green vote with the party whose champion and mouthpiece it is today They would be queer people indeed if they were to do so I This plank like all the remainder of those constituting the foundation faith of the Utah democrats is wise just and most timely In the bestowal of favors it is always well to remember remem-ber those distinguished for their friendship for us rather than those distinguished for their enmity to us their persecutions and never ending misrepresentations For these reasons it looks queer to see the high officers and leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints arrayed ar-rayed under the banners of the party which only two years since was its bitterest foe and which is even now opposing the admission ot the territory to statehood with its every power |
