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Show B The Tribune is greatly incensed over the ox- B position in these columns of the fact that one of B the nominees on the American party ticket is a B polygamist, and, with all the evidences of cha- B , grin and discopifltturo, refers to the exposure B as a "bitter attack." B No attack was made, as the old jade knows. B The statement was merely made that there was B. a polygamist on the American ticket, the name B of whom it remained for tlio Tribune to reveal, B and it wa asked what the American party pro- E posed to do when informed of this flagrant ex- B ample of it3 frequently repeated inconsistency. M, The bolting organ apologizes for the polygam- Bi lt nominee, whom it designates as Mr. R. G. B Sleater. It also has the decency in this instance mmt to admit that Mr. Sleater married two women, B but claims in extenuation that he promised to be B' good in the future when he was arrested and ar- H raigned before Judge Zane. B This spirit Of unmixed charity is a little new B to the Tribune. It held a little different view of B, , the situation when D. O. Rideout, Jr., whose case mmWr is practically parallel with that of Mr. Sleater, was recently defeated for the Republican nomination nomina-tion for the State Senate. Mr. Rideout, like Mr. Sleater, was a polygamist about the time of the issuance of President Woodruff's manifesto, but many years ago he and his wife separated and the second wife has since married some one other than Mr.'Rideoufct But the Republican party deemed the-fact the-fact that Mr. Rideout had once been a polygamist sufficient reason for refraining from making him a nominee on its Legislative ticket. The ludicrous feature of the Tribune's present apology "for Mr. Sleater is that rat the time of 'Mr. Rideout's defeat in the convention, that guileless guile-less organ claimed credit for his downfall and editorially edi-torially announced that it was a "glorious sign of tpplltical awakening to have this American sentiment senti-ment smash the slate pf the Smootites and inject Tinto the veins of the Republicans some stalwart, loyal sentiment." i The cases of the two men- are absolutely parallel, paral-lel, 'with the exception that Mr. Sleater lived with his plural wife long after 'Air. Rideout entered into normal marital relations. Another difference is that Mr. Rideout is now living with his original wife, while the present helpmeet of Mr. Sleater is his plural wife, and that the dualr domestic relations rela-tions of Mr. Sleater only ceased with the death of-the woman whom he married first. Mr. Rideout, for whose defeat in the Republican Republi-can convention the Tribune takes credit, occupies the same marital status as Mr. Sleater both are ex-polygamists. And if in the defeat of Mr. Rideout Ride-out in a Republican convention, that organ sees "a glorious sign" of the puissance of the American party sentiment, what variety of sign was the nomination of Mr. Sleater on the American party ticket? As formerly stated, the only chance Gentiles in Salt Lake county have of voting for a polygamist polyg-amist is by casting their ballot for the American party ticket. Gentile women, among whom the American party workers are making the raoBt ardent campaign, cam-paign, will, of course, govern themselves accordingly. accord-ingly. In view of the fact that the Republican party refused to nominate Mr. Rideout because he had at one time been a polygamist, it- appears timely to again ask, "What does the American party propose pro-pose to do in the case of Mr. Sleater?" |