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Show AN ISSUE TENDERED. The Ogden Standard has shown itfl hand and tenders an issne in the ful lowing language: "The Standard would be pleased to have the democrats demo-crats make the fight on the Mormon question during the coming campaign." cam-paign." Now we believe that it is true the Standard would like us to do it.but we eay to you Mr. Glassman that we do not accept any such au issue, for a : great many reasons. The Standard publishes a list of names of "members m good standing in the Mormon church" whom it says are republicans, Itr does not matter bo much as the ashes of a straw who are republicans, or who are democrats except bo far as their individual voteB are concerned, and we are not going to I be drawn into a discusEion, but we will eay that the words of Borne of the gentlemen gen-tlemen whose names he mentions, and whom this writer has known from twenty to fifty years to be both truthful truth-ful men and good democrats.will weigh far more with him and the Mormons generally than the writings of a man with Buch a reputation in his own party as the editor of the Standard has. We say to the Standard: Hands off the Mormon church.it is too pure to be handled by your dirty fingers. It is as disgraceful for you to write about tht politics of ministers of the gospel, aB it would be to question the chaBtity of pure women and to offer as a political isBue the question of whether their noble lives are patterns of virtue. The Mormon church is out of politics, poli-tics, and it will stay oat, and all the Bill Glasmanna in and out of Utah cannot successfully drag it in, but if they do not stop their efforts to do so, they will stamp the eeal of infamy upon their own political career. We are in cool earnest in this mat ter. The Mormons have been lied about in the public press for nearly half a century, but now the eyeB of the American people have been opened and their true character is beginning to be known 'The refuse of lies" has been swept Rway,and we haye the same right ae other American citizens now, and we do not propose to have our temples desecrated, our holy places defiled and our ministers' names beBmeared by the acts, tongueB, or pens of lying demagogues. dema-gogues. The Mormon people are in earnest. They have surrendered.as they believe, at the command of God, so much of their religion as was neceesary for their full reinfranchieement. They have bowed to the law even in its ruinutefet detaile, and the state hae nothing to do with their religion now, and their religion has nothing to do with the state. So, a thousand times no, Mr. Standard, Stand-ard, the democrats.will not accept your proffered issue; but we will iSpurn it, and denounce it as a most contemptible contempt-ible effort to drag the names of men who stand so high above you that you cannot even appreciate their greatness, down into the degraded depths in which you wallow. If the excuse the Standard offers for its vile production that "Eph Nye" whoever he may be is saying what the Standard reports, we have no excuse for him and shall not imitate him. If he pretends to be a democrat we pronounce him to be a disgrace to his party. If he pretends to be a Mormon we have no church fellowship for him; we BUBpect he is a "myth" but if he is . a republican, whether in disguise or otherwise, the republicans are welcome wel-come to him, for there is no room either in the democratic party or the Mormon church for any man or woman wo-man who seeks to gain votes through church influence. On the whole we think this is a part cf a sneaking plot concocted by some who are opposed to etatehocd, and who desire to review the bitter memories memor-ies of the past, but it won't work. We are going to have Btatehood, and we are not going to have any more "fight on the Mormon question" except it may be a short, sharp decisiye trampling out of sight forever, aDybody who will offer so disgraceful an iss ue. |