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Show An Irrepressible Conflict. The Sinoot organ admits that the Republican and Democratic parties were both snowed under in the late city election, but says landslides are not uncommon In elections and cites many cases. It thinks the old parties have nothing to do but to rearrange their forces and move on their way. It ignores the fact that they havo "lost confidence in Salt Lake City. They ran two first-class men fcr mayor, they used every fair and unfair argument argu-ment to win votes; they did not stop with arguments, argu-ments, but invoked everything in truth and out of truth to incite prejudice and on the part of Mormons to kindle hate, and still the result showed that the American party cast practically half the votes and carried certainly half the brains Into the campaign. And both the old parties wore sere over the result because the Democrats ex pected that the Mormons would support their candidate can-didate because he was a Mormon; the Republicans expected such an interposition as was made last year, in favor of their candidate. Indeed, t' -' was practically promised. On no other hypothesis can the wagers of Col. Loose and others be accounted ac-counted for. That shows the exact position which the old parties are placed in. Neither has anj hope, save through church help. This has been a plain case now for quite six years. Is it not time for Republicans and Democrats alike to extricate ex-tricate themselves from such a position? Is it not time to frankly tell those chiefs and the rank and file of the church that what the first has been claiming for three score years and what the last has acquiesced in is treason to the Republic of the United States? This is true for the ultimate aim as proclaimed from the first is to overthrow this government of ours. Other creeds proclaim that their mission is to convert a wicked world to their faith; the Mormon creed assumes to be a kingdom, the only legitimate government on this earth and that its mission as to subdue all other governments, and one of its weapons in our country coun-try is tke ballot to be wielded by him win claims this divine right to rule. Already it holdf the balance of power in two adjacent states; al ready it has corrupted three senators in thos states. Of course it has always dominated Utah. It is here a perfectly organized govornmen B with Its courts and magistrates; It has the flag I which was created by the founder of the kingdom I hidden away ready for ultimate use. I Wliat sense, then, is there for any man in this I state to coll himself a Republican or Demoorat? I All that he can do, all that he can hope to accom- I plish is but in full subordination to this hostile I kingdom which has its central seat here. I Did not an apostle at the last conference prc- B claim that the church had not relinquished one B principle since its first foundation? What did he B mean by that? Why simply that polygamy ana B the absolute rule of the people by the priesthood B are as much tenets of the faith as ever. That B accounts for the fact that the manifesto of Presi- B dent Woodruff is suppressed in all the hooka B which state the Mormon faith, while the original B brutal command to accept polygamy is printed in B full, while the divine right to rule this people iu B all things was publicly set forth by Joseph F. B Smith only two years ago in the Out West Mag- B azine. B Is not the above a fair statement? Is there B any Mormon who can give a coherent denial to it? B Then what self-respecting Gentile, be he Demo- B crat or Republican, can longer affiliate with this B organization politically? B A month after Joseph F. Smith delivered his B testimony in Washington Mormon missionaries B were ordered out of Germany; six weeks ago a B sterner order followed. Why? Because the Gor- B man government saw through the treason of the B teachings and Germany expects every citizen to B give his first allegiance to Fatherland. B The landslide here on election day was not B like any that comes in eastern states and cities. B It was not a choice between men. Nothing cf H party antipathy was involved so far as the Am- H erican party was concerned it -was simply a flght H for native land and the advancement of Salt Lake. H And we do rot hesitate to say that if Joseph H F. Smith and Reed Smoot gave their first alle- H giance to the government of the United States; H the latter would get out either of politics or re- H sign his apostloship and the former would give H his people peace by getting out of politics. |