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Show "MORMOK DEMOCRATS BEWARE " Under the above caption, our friend across the block feebly attempts to frignten the Mormon people by its parrot-like following of the Salt Lake Tribune in charcing that Cnairman Powers haB a deep-laid scheme to defeat de-feat statehood by charging interference interfer-ence in politics to the Mormon priesthood. priest-hood. The" Enquirer "opens ts fire from under cover, by quoting from an uninformed Denver paDer to the effect that Judge Powers is playing into the hands of eastern people who are opposed op-posed to statehood for Utah on the ground that its admission means two more silver men in the U. S. senate. The Enquirer after assuming that certain cer-tain of its assertions are true, sets up itB straw scare crow in the following almost unintelligible language: The qustion is now resolving iteelf into this: Will the old residents of Utah, those whom Mr. Powers have fought so long, bow to his ruinous policy now? Tho state committee fell into his little scheme without a protest. They went wild oyer a fancied wrong, made wild-fire speeches, and then summed it all up in a call as a republican distortion dis-tortion of words uttered at a priesthood meeting. The utterances themselves, democrats found they could not attack, They were not political, but relatetl solely to church discipline; two members mem-bers baling violate a rule ot the church. We will paraphrase the Qrst paragraph para-graph of the above as folows: The question is now resolving iteelf into this: Will the old residents of Utah, those whom C. E. Allen has fouEhtso long, give him their franchise? fran-chise? How would that look in the Enquirer's columns? The entire quotation quo-tation from the Enquirer is the veriest kind of rot and containB nothing but what The Dispatch anticipated and fully answered in Wednesday's impression, impres-sion, and its wild whisperings are now quoted for no other purpose than to apprise democrats of the insatiable love of lying and deception that our friends, the enemy, are manifesting, and which will have to be met in the next few days. The Enquirer's entire article is a direct di-rect insult to the intelligence and manhood man-hood of eyery Mormon democrat aB weJl as a base libel on the intelligence of all its readers. After dodging the causes of democratic demo-cratic grievances, our neighbor proceeds pro-ceeds to reason about as follows: It ie said thor in- a. 4nan in -i.h mnnn Therefore, there is a man in the moon. The man in the moon must wear whiskers because all men that do not Bhave or pull them out,wear whiskers. The man in the moon doeBn't shaye, because the presence of a razor has never been detected by the most powerlul telescopes. The man in the moon doesn't pull his whiasers out because no tweezers have over been dis covered. Therefore the man in the moon does wear whiBkers, and therefore the democrats are opposed to Btatehood. The foregoing iB about the way the Enquirer is reasoning on the proposition proposi-tion it Is so childishly trying to handle. Mormon democrats and republicans beware of the foolishness of the Enquirer. |