Show AND THEY CALL Th TIL T TIL T AT CLEAN X POLITICS It Is pretty prett difficult to support a bad cause with good methods Because of or that fact tho the American party gang is compelled to adopt methods which do not commend commend commend com com- mend themselves es to fair people All through the Tribunes Tribune's of or the current r f political contest there thero Is an insistent assumption that tho the Mormon church is managing both the tho Republican and the Democratic parties that no final decision Is or can be made b by either cither party part but that the word of tho the rulers of ot the Mormon church is the one and only note of or authority for either i Tho credulous read reader r of or the Tribune sees nothing J but empty pretenses of political activity in either cither the Republican or tho the Democratic party and gets an ImpressIon impression im Im- of or a hierarch sitting In serene obscurity and arrogant power unmindful of the preferences of ot tho the thousands who compose the Republican and Democratic parties indifferent to their convictions untroubled by their desires The credulous reader will be bo forced to f see seo that vision of a a. secret and unmentioned potentate 1 strangling independence thwarting purpose crushing f f. f manhood manhood and and deciding the r election en entirely rely as ns suits his 1119 whim when election da day arrives And yet the Tribune knows that Is not at all true The men who make the Tribune know both Democrats and Republicans are working for the tho best possible advantage ad ad- advantage vantage of their respective parties that the same problems Problems lems ems o of individuality existing everywhere else In the nation nation na tion are encountered here that men must be convinced with reason and won by argument that methods of ot absolutely fair political science are arc employed every hour of or the da day b by leaders of either side sIde AND AND THAT NEITHER NEITHER NEI- NEI THER THEn IS IN THE SLIGHTEST DEGREE INTERFERED INTERFERED INTERFERED INTER INTER- WITH ITH BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE MORMON MOR MON CHURCH OR BY ANY ONE AS THE REPRESENTATIVE REPRESENTATIVE OF THAT CHURCH The Tribune knows this election will express the tho will wll I. I o of a tl majority of the people and that the Mormon churchwill church churchwill will abide that decision Just as every one ono else will when I the tho purpose of or the tho majority is expressed in any my election in In this nation The Tribune knows the Mormon church Is not even cven in the slightest degree Interfering in the pol fifes Hies of or the ell city that it Is not being invoked at Invoiced at least by bythe the Republicans Republicans and and that It ft Is not going to influence I tho the decision of or the tho people In November But tho the one hope of or the tho Kearns crowd Is to make mak the public believe c there thero is a a. t. t dominant church control o ot of I everything that does docs not belong belonS' to the Kearns party I that but the tine Kearns party Is sold body and soul that everything but the Kearns party is servile f slave to that bugaboo the hierarch and that there I Ino b bno no freedom outside the pale of or tho party of ot peculation That hope is a Q vain one They can not make the tho even even the slightly Informed informed believe believe bellevo It The They certainly can not make tho the well informed believe a word of it ft x At the time Dr Plummer was nominated the Tribune loudly and gleefully cried that he had been selected for forthe tho the sacrifice and they made mado a n. picture of or a n. headsman and his block with the fatal atal ax ax and told in text of or tho tho I treachery tho the Republican lenders intended for their candi can can- di Some Somo people believed It for it is one of or tho funny things 8 that tho Tribune is still believed ht best hest st by b- tho the people who have havo caught it lying Well Yen do you think the they believe beHove NOW NO that tho Republicans Republicans Re Re- I I publicans mean treachery to Dr Plummer or that they ever e meant it Not ot a bit you dont Tho The angry ry labor abor of ot tho the Tribune is the tho best possible evidence that the Kearns I earns crowd of insane and insolvent ent campaign n managers managers man man- agers nITers rt realize that Dr Plummer Is Ig making a winning canvass canvass canvass can can- vass that his party part It is for him first and all tho time lime that the Republican committee and the Republican I leaders are his friends friends and and that they are going to elect him It is dirty politics to raise a n false issue But It is a silly public that will permit dirt dirty politics to deceive No Is rs controlling this campaign in fn either of or tho the old parties And Anel none is going to |