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Show ! jll THE BEST MEN. B ' j ; H The News advises all voters to vote for only BAwJ ! J ! -J W. the best men. We join with the News in the B .Wfc appeal. Later, but in good time, the News will B jB . make it clear that when it says "the best men" it BYB ' IWM v means only Mormons, that when two men are can- B I !m didates for the same office and one is a Mormon tt . , jl an one a Gentile, it means the Mormon every H, t IB time. When we say the best men, we mean the ' , I IB best men for Salt Lake City, for Utah, for all the i J ; Br people within the territorial lines of this state, Bj , ; I B and that this year means only non-Mormons, only B ' i imA tiien who arc not in good standing in the Mormon BAB lj Church, for no man who is a Mormon in good BAB IjSf standing can, while Joseph F. Smith and the BAB ' Apostles assume to control their people political- BWf m'i ly, take any office and be bound by his of- Wt ml ficial oath as against the command or request of B ; i I those high ecclesiastics. Does any one believe B j j m that Governor Cutler would dare to oppose the B : n wishes of the first presidency or of Apostle B! 1 ! j 1 Smoot? Docs any one imagine that Mayor Mor- Bj 1 (B would? Or that Councilman Furnstrom Bj j Jjg would? Every one knows that when these men fl if ! B subscribe to an official oath it means with them Wt : j ! ! IB a reservation subject to the higher allegience B 1 j Jf which they cannot help but give to their eccles- B I j B jastical superiors. Neither these officers nor the B ! 31 Mormon people are strong enough to assert them- LWt f selves against this authority that binds their lives. Wm Jgl Hence the government which has been upon this Mi city for the past two years, for most of the time LmL ,m , for fifty-eight years, is a daily direct violation of 1 ' 91 the constitution of the United States, a reproach BAB : 1 (B to free government, a return to an Asiatic depot- Hjr- i j j' mm ism, and hence we declare that this year to vote Vfl '! ' '(! ! mm or c est men' or e est nterests Mor- BAV ! ' mm mons and Gentiles alike, is to vote for no men in , jB good standing in the Mormon church. Mayor VM- lwm Morris relies upon this church influence to re- HV 1 ! fl Cect "m Without ne would be practically 'j ! j I' S out race toav Mr. Lynch's only hope for mmW 1 ' '' H election is that he will not be antagonized by the J ' Hj . church chiefs, that they will permit their people i fi to vote or "m tnev want to. The fate of both B ! j mi Morris and Lynch depends upon what the teach- BAt H era will be instructed to whisper to the faithful AVft . ! V .the evening prior to election day. VB ' I H e te Ezra Thompson's candidacy de- mmt r mSi -pends upon whether a majority of the voters of B' ' i j Rn the . city are tired of church rule and the inertia B IM which attaches to it, or not. His candidacy is but ummW 1 ' ! ' 1 mm a Protest aSamst tne wrongs which the chief Bw i 1 H priests have perpetrated here in the past and the Bw'i pIB ' wron28 which they are determined to perpetrate BwiM ' 'illfl in ihe uture the cniefiest of which is tha,t they BBr': ' ! jjlm will rule here through their obsequious agents. mmm 1 ii '1 canacv 's a Petition for the men and wo- N- ' ' b:lBI P1 wno are voters here to be real men and H&j ! 'if'B .women; to use their own judgments, to exercise fil'i - IkB their own ber,t thoughts and to give them expres- Ib! JaH .sion through unstained and untainted ballots on R ! i'H And ther.e is no malice in this, no desire for nN" ! j; IBM either personal promotion or for vengeance, but Bh Jflf , , it is in the interest of free government, in accord BB i fflmfo ' SPVCmment of our great country, and BjB : .or the advancement of Salt Lake City and Utah, Ij. I mSm . f?V justice to the voters into vhpse hands the BB- ' ffl fathers placed the ballot with the belief that it Kb. , fjmt would be a sufficient defense for a free people. |