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Show HB TRAMPLING UPON THE FLAG. BB "The Tribune calls upon every Republican to HB vote for Republican principles as outlined In the IBM policy and platform of true Americanism." BS "It calls upon every Democrat to vote against Bfl the church ticket, which is masquerading under Hfi tQe guise of Republicanism." Kfi The above shows exactly what we have said BB from the first, the object of the movement on the BB Part of tne prime mover, Senator Kearnf, was to defeat the Republican ticket and turn the State over to the Democratic party. That this might defeat tho Republican National Na-tional ticket and give Utah's electoral vote to Parker and Davis did not worry the Senator in the least. Tho next two paragraphs from the same Tribune article show that fact. In the first, it mildly recommends Republicans to vote for Roosevelt, but in the second it declares that it has no quarrel with such as prefer Parker and Davis and "graciously concedes to them the right to vote as they please." It can insist upon Republicans voting against the only Republican ticket in the field, bnl it concedes con-cedes that Democrats should vote as they please to. It should have added these words: "Democrats "Demo-crats really ought to feel kindly towards us, 'because 'be-cause we started this excitement expressly to draw enough Republicans away from their ticket to elect the Democratic State ticket, and we did not care a penny if, in the avalanche, Roosevelt and Fairbanks went under also." And now we would like to ask how much more a church ticket the one now in the field is, than was the one that the Tribune helped to elect two years ago? Indeed, two years ago the Tribune sent its agents out to gather Mormon subscribers because it was working so hard to further Apostle Smoot's election to the Senate. Was the Apostle any less an Apostle two years ago than ho now is? Did not the chief director of the Tribune two years ago last summer see Apostles, Patriarchs, Seventies, Seven-ties, Presidents of Stakes, Bishops, Elders and Teachers throng primaries and conventions to make sure that only such of the faithful as would vote for the Apostle were named for the Legislature? Legisla-ture? Was he shocked at the church influence In politics then? Has he had any quickening of conscience since, or is it merely an inflammation of the spleen? Whatever may come of all this flurry one thing ought not to be forgotten, and that is the. one who as Senator was expected to hold up the flag of the Republican party In this most important campaign, to gratify his own spites and to wreak vengeance upon those he hated, deliberately trampled that flag under his feet. |
