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Show H The Campaign And The Order. H The late campaign in this State was a hot one, H and grew bitter toward the close, but it was a H necessary one and its recollections will be good H for the young men of the State. It will be re- H called on the long winter nights and its issues rc- H viowod. Often and oftener it will be asked why Hi the American party, having no national issue to H contend for; was necessary, and more and more H firmly will the conviction be forced home to them H that there will be no peace in Utah until the high H priesthood of the dominant church got out of poll- H tics, or the Gentiles leave the State. H And we gravely suspect that tho last act of H Joseph F. Smith in tho campaign, tho instructing H of Democratic Mormons to vote the Republican H ticket, will prove to be a deciding tyranny on the H part of the church. It was direct proof of tho H truth of the most serious charge made by the H American party, namely, tnat the church, in the H person of its chief priests, was determined to rnle H Utah. It gave the direct lie to the oft-repeated H assertion of the News that there was nothing like H church rule here, and that every yoter was abso- H lately free to vote aB .he pleased. H Of course, to old and bigoted Mormons that H si'emod all right, but young and educated Mor- B luons, young men of character and self-respect, will wince under that shameful exposure of priest- l . ways until tlioy will determine that it shall n' ver again be repeated, fl It will load many pf thorn tp dispassionately in B stigate why the Saints have always been in fl 1 mble iji ovory State in which they have tried i live, and some of them, at least, will by and i realise what the rflfll cause has been, which B i simply Mprmon faithlessness in its dealings B h the man And Government of tho Republic. B Wo mean, of course, their political faithless- B ss, and their detorminatlon to obey no law that B i not happen to suit their whims. B . Our belief is that the sending out of that or-B or-B by Joseph F. Smith will do more to ovent- B 'y secure the pplitloal freedom, of the Mormon B 'Pie than anything tho American party was B to do in the late campaign, for it left Mor-s Mor-s dumb when called upon to explain it. It direct proof to them that they had been shamefully lied to, over and over, by thalr ohurch organ. We can imagine that it was the original and Immediate cause of sending Apostle Penrose away before it appeared, for while anything unscrupulous un-scrupulous does not affect his nerves greatly, wo can imagine that if it was submitted to him ho instantly saw that it would give tho He to his own declarations made over and over again. But it is clear that Joseph F. Smith was half beside himself with anger. The wording of the article shows that, for it makes clear that, all his baser instincts and passions were aroused when he wrote it. The campaign as waged in the name of the Republican party will supply the Democracy In the East with more arguments in 1908 than they have had in fifteen years, for as it culminated, it left the party, and with it the endorsement of the President, as the defender of Apostle Smoot; the quasi endorser of polygamy; the apologist for broken covenants, and in a position of willing acceptance ac-ceptance of church rule in its most offensive form. It supplies the final argument in tho Smoot case. It will be up to Mr. Smoot's attorneys to make a justification for the Republican party for standing the sponsor for Joseph F. Smith's illegitimate ille-gitimate children, and for the most brazen and flagrant exercise of church domination over a state ever seen in the Republic. The Republican triumph in Utah this year will supply the opposition to tho Republican party in 3908 with more arguments than they have had before for fifteen years. The contest in Utah is now irrepressible and will have to go on until Utah is either all American or all Mormon. |