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Show I; The Appeal of Smooths Hessian Break of the Inter-Mormon RepublicanThe Political Situation Amer-cans Amer-cans Will Win the County Notes. "Unless we can herd the Mormon vote we are defeated." Such in effect is the confession made by the organ of Reed Smoot in an editorial printed Wednesday Wed-nesday morning probably the most amazing editorial edi-torial ever contributed to the troubled situation In. Utah. From first to last it is an admission that unless the Mormons vote in a body and defeat de-feat the American ticket the law will be enforced la Utah. "Whenever Tom Kearns and his friends get control of the legal machinery of the state of Utah, it is time for the Mormons to move out," shrieks the Smoot editor. This is not true. "Tom Kearns" in this instance in-stance spells Gentile, and Gentile government means that only those who are notoriously violating violat-ing the law of "God and man" must move. The liberty of no man who is living in conformity with the law of his country or in conformity even with the Mormon-made law of Utah is threatened But it does mean that men who are breaking the law daily in their personal lives must pay the penalty for such law-breaking or that they must move out. , It does mean that every foresworn member of the hierarchy, who pledged his word to the government gov-ernment that, in return for his pardon for crimes against Its laws, he would render honest obedience obed-ience to those laws, must keep his solemn pledge, must move out or must go to jail. That is all that American party victory in the Mormon capital means. No Mormon who is a law-abiding, covenant-keeping covenant-keeping American citizen has anything to fear either from loss of liberty or loss of property. Men who exalt a seraglio above citizenship, who exalt lust above love of country and who exalt I libertinism above solemn pledges made on behalf of an oppressed people, have something to fear. They form, numerically speaking, an almost insignificant insig-nificant minority of the Mormon people. But it i& on their behalf that their lustful crimes may be continued and perpetuated that this frenzied appeal to the great body of the Mormon people to vote together is being made. The shriek of the Hessian editor proves another an-other thing, however. It proves that the leaders of the church, despite their frequent and vehement denial, expect their people to vote together, to exercise their franchise not in accordance with their own judgment and volition, but blindly and obediently as an arrogant, dictatorial ana ms loyal priesthood may direct. It proves the charge of church interference in politics. It proves the claim made by those who protested against need Smoot's election to the senate, viz: that he was the choice of a church instead of the choice of a free and untrammelled people. In no other" community in America would anybody any-body dare to make a religious appeal in politics. The appeal is made here now only becauso the dominant church in Utah claims, as it has always claimed, the right to dictate to its devotees in all things spiritual and temporal. It claims the right to control their franchise for the aggrandizement of its greedy and lustful leaders, and admits of no interference with its will by considerations of loyalty to government or to flag. If the case against the hierarchy needed further fur-ther testimony, the apostate Gentile editor of the Smoot organ has furnished it. Only a recent importation, im-portation, ho has nevertheless been here long enough to grasp the situation sufficiently to know that ecclesiastical domination can be maintained only by the "peculiar people" voting together as one man, blindily obeying the injunction of the priesthood. He has- grasped the situation sufficiently suffi-ciently to know that when the citizens of Utah vote their free and honest convictions, unrestrained unrestrain-ed by priestly control, the influences and interests which supply his bread and butter can no longer exist. The claim of the editor that the Mormon people, peo-ple, by voting solidly for the Republican ticket, can prevent the election of the American ticket in Salt Lake county, is, moreover, not true. The Gentile vote, combined with the vote of the Mormons Mor-mons who cannot be influenced by appeals to religious re-ligious prejudice, far outnumbers that of the controllable con-trollable Mormon vote. In Salt Lake City proper .the Gentiles are in an absolute majority. With the help of Mormons who see clearly that the only way to solve the Utah problem for all time is to place only American citizens on guard they will be numerically strong enough to carry the county by a plurality beyond the possibility of quibble, cavil or question. The Republican ticket was a poor third in the race last fall; unless tho men on Brigham street can drive their thousands of co-religionists like a band of sheep it will bo even a poorer third this fall. Smoot and his self-styled holy associations might be able to elect tho Democratic ticket in Salt Lake' county. They can never elect the Republican Re-publican ticket, and the editorial Wednesday morning was simply the last frenzied gasp of men who know that they are foredoomed to defeat. Orange J. Salisbury, who bolted a' regularly nominated Republican ticket in Salt Lake in 11)03, has been chosen to manage the Republican cam- t I'll llilRHl PaigU thls fall Mr S:illsbury cannot consistently ill limHHff preach the doctrine of party regularity-. He bolted mm 9M8 when ho thought he had a 'right, to bolt; he re-HI re-HI MbBEKHI fused to support his party ticket when he thought PBBmfiBf was wrongly constituted; and in selecting an r mHHnK ex-bolter to manage their campaign the Republish Republi-sh HBbB can or church managers have furnished evidence ' HBsHii tnat tliey do not consi(ler Party regularity a requi-' requi-' 0 IHRnfil sIto to part5r management. ' H IfiBnwff' Parley P. Ohristensen has taken his medicine. 4 'ililMffll To nas ueen SlvGn- the sop of a place on -'''i 1 URalf tuo camPalBn executive committee, and he has ' (I IHHkII taken it, hoping that, even if he has two years ' ' '1 ffiHral of starvatlon something lucrative may eventually iflHHw e handed out to him. Farley P. is not unac-1 unac-1 IHHot quainted with short rations, and .does not shrink ' '''i iflHSfll from tuem as mucu as another man would. He ' iKHfli believes apparently that the Smoot regime, de-''1 de-''1 IffiiBn spite the odium which is brought upon itself by f 1 I llBHfif x ltS 1)en contro1 of tno so-called Republican state M I IflBlffil convention last week, has an eternal cinch on I ' 1 1 HMPr Utah, and that the only road to political prefer-' prefer-' ' '( h SHHbI ment leads to its headquarters. fflllBHtf Arthur Brown stated in open court Wednes-'mjBBHM Wednes-'mjBBHM day 111 at lle was I)erfectly familiar with the stat-'''illfiH stat-'''illfiH uto UPU which an effort was being made to ar-' ar-' fllislHl rest President Joseph r. Smith. He ought to be. IjffilfflnHi He 11 as a lceen leSal mind, and that is a branch ' ' IffffjlSBi of llis Profession that he has had much practice in. ''MlBKl Brother Daniel Harrington, while still claim-', claim-', JhH1 inS to be a member of the dominant church in ' ili!81Hi soocl staudmS wil1 disfellowshipped. The hand V' ImBW of fellowship will be extended, not withdrawn, '.II lllMfli until after election, ho' ver, because to withdraw JMHHB it now would be to confess that a good saint can-I can-I luiflEill not oppose lle church's representatives politically 'lilfluf! StI11 ietain lliS memljerslliP therein. 1 fKHRSl Judge J. E. Frlck will be appointed to serve. I 'HSRlil out tlie unexPIreu term of Judge George W. Bartch 'IkSSb UPreme l)encl1, Judse Bartch's resigna-'liHH resigna-'liHH While reading the effusive editorials in The ''ifiiSMnfii Herald against the American party, it should not "'llfflifyirBffll bo foretten tuat Manager William Iglehart of (;!nKSSH that paper was an attendant and an enthusiastic iliHaBsSl attendant at the preliminary meetings which re M4ll9Hn suited in the organization of the party. That he ' -'kHhI 1s U0t worklnS enthusiastically in the ranks of 'Cffi! that party today is probably not his fault, but is u, j;jHH due to a power behind the paper which must |