Show WHEN COX CALLED MORMONS TRAITORS from the citizen if governor cox of ohio lida men risen in the rostrum at the tab tatar dr nacle and said THE MORMONS ONS ARE TRAITORS republicans and demo brats amid have been sp aehle ith amazement and yet the socratic nominee is on oil record as having said that very thing thin mr cox did sa at the tabernacle was quite different lne As one listened to his hr panegyric rie of the pioneers one fancied that be he had fed on oil the of paradise so beet and fulsome ansas ash laudi tory discourse it allas the happiest ill moment of in III life in this thill wonderful nond erful bui building ldina etc etc to pa p homage to tho mareci hid 11 illia ii the himself had youn young oua men etc etc ingham place hetoum heT etc etc b thi spellbinder spell binder from ohio the oui g ei folk aare ere captivated aho ho had fo 0 man nian plea pleasant ant thing to say about the tal ta lart uart men and the fearls women who vho amid vicissitudes almost unparalleled in the m inning of the west ivest built up tip this great commonwealth balth of ual utah but u wine of the older folk etere ere overcome oyer come with abhorrence at the peal ers for they ren ron how fifteen year yearb before he lie had nw run a series of article articles in ii s paper the ile dayton daily new brand in ing the members mea ibera of the latter day saints church as traitors in III thoe day days mr cos cox was not a candidate for presiding dint of the knitel ditc deat it is just possible that in tatt ambitious brain of his jim tue we thought of aiming the nominee of a great party for president pa bid taken root bat but if so it ud W not occur to hm jim lit his wildest flights of imagination that he would ever covet the electoral vote of utah at any rate he did not try to hide his real views and feelings in those days it is said that he wrote or if he did not write ordered to be writ avrit tell ae many as eighty editorial editorials and article articles against the Mor mons but when the day arrived that he must seek the suffrages of the people he had reviled he his tune his whole talk was one of sai ebaline seductive new the very men whom he a govenor had ched to expel from his state he was now eulogizing as super inea ae heroes and ns as the beat of americans we will here quote ae as an example of the governor a mormon nomon eating proclivities an editorial abich appeared on peg page four ol 01 the issue of eberry 1 1905 perhaps the governor will wall neall that it wae was headed mi AND TREASON lite editorial wae was tu follo follows 4 MORMONISM AND TREASON some thing tilling were eaid sald by b 1 lasses iam asey in the smoot swoot inquiry at faeh bugton which will strengthen th thi copular impression the mormon church stain stand dif first of nil for Mormonism if indeed the faith docs does rot embrace TREASON among it its tenets it is the toli testimony of witness falln Wa 1114 who has ha he says been twenty ti nee through the endowment hoube that who go through this most secret of all 4 mormon ceremonies take aa an oath to alv 19 uge lige the blood of the upon upu the nations of the earth and tench terell this to the remotest rento tet generate gene rati n palpably PaP ably this prophet ProP hIst to ahm m in the oath reft rs 14 joeph jo eph canth and palpably the nation upon V wandi inith vengeance ie is to be visited a chest united states sub an oath enjoins 4 upon ions who have taken it vengeance tor the manner of smith a 4 dath it 14 in nature natam and ef essence a birett rl 1111 lilt joll it t to the of the unitta Sta statia in faar r ot fit the lie mormon harch and if that dips dei nut not spell tromon theu verb ver wide lati tIt must be given the inter interpret pre tation of that crune crime it matters little that witness wullie wallis deL declared lared he looked upon till thin q house proceeding an a joke and subscribed to to the tile oat oath 11 with the understanding of what it imposed epou him hill were th the leader leaders M of like wallis the churtz would be harals har bat there are men in the council of Mormon imn whose sagacity and alid statecraft q tate craft cannot be despised despi aed or under estimated alid a every man mail of them thein who took the oath to avenge the death of 0 prophet smith knew precisely pree wely what was imposed Im poised upon him as a mormon it is not reed smoot but tout the mormon normon church w under investigation at washington smoot himself is of little conse but it is of the utmost utilio st concern concerti that any organization having baing its IN heat of if go eminent in thu nation ahall shall not impose upon u pon those who look to it foi spiritual guidance TUB DOCTRINE OF VU 11 AND ND TREASON it will be bo seen that the writer of th foregoing editorial is not quite sure that the faith embraces embrace i among it its tenet beneti p but whether it doe or not lie is A confident that the lat ter er da saints clirel cLi reh I 1 lincies lin pies upon those who look to it for mm ual will guidance the doctrine of vengeance and f reason treason 11 ahat 1 bat was what governor cox thought tho light in 1905 when did he be chonge hie his Is there any record prior to the tabe tabernacle maLle for that he had cha changed ligeti hie ing here is i an opportunity for senator king and congressman 1 will ing to explain instead ot holding a debate on oil the league of nation well for and kuig asanet lt t the two explain to their people what they think of the th democratic nominee and his denunciations of the tile men and v anin of this katr I 1 the republican party has nom mated as it ih candidate for gover nor of hah itah churles it R mabey laboy A the boxi of a pioneer in lil tivo wais mr mabey hia his auntry even at the carillon i mouth A distinguished general sail sat I 1 of him that he was wai one of the bri hr aest est men bt h had ever known in the world war he went to franc and fought for hie big country only a it fen months month after governa ox 4 I bad had been ul 1119 an alii alli in nt germany the tile I 1 nitch tates states gamst the allies iet let senator kin kaiu aall daid ar N fuld euw out olit s lilt till ig i abo it their pre ci cd lit lite ti tle can ean reconcile him to to tin tilt people f I 1 tah th ato might ask him what he thinks of halle R mabert ibey I 1 hey might ask him whether he think th the th aall Is of f one of letb who fought the in world air r the of an or guim tion which imposed imp osei the dot me pie of ven gean t it mid il t art r is III n let senator king and mr ur heillig We illig avi and uld mr 3 I 1 C 1 11 I a I 1 r t ti i tl d out olit what exie mr lux ox had for hurlis hurling ig the behare ot t treason ill 11 IW 1905 that waa wai esix a years ream after the war ts 1 war in an 1 tind lind hundreds hund rods of other eon sons of I 1 tab tah had hail bAt battali tILI tor the aate ty of their yes ye and the of mr ir n of 4 the da dil to ton I 1 daily new news we realize that in thus wung using the name of major ilabe we may be doing vio violence leneL to the reticence of a soldier as modeal modest as he lie is ij 1 brave but we believe that it in 6 essential to point the moral of tin story to tear the maak mma from a canting c candide andi date who speaks 08 tw lair today bt eftim he outda our oue but who in iab denounced ow our people as traitor traitors after they had proved their hero em sn and fidelity on the battlefields of cuba and u the philippine j L IL A |