Show RELIGION IN POLITICS church ami and state re religion ligion an in politic politics together with poly gam my yare are staple articles upon pon u which the anti mornion mormon writers fall back when other subjects of inter att arc are exhausted if a member of the 21 mormon formon church is elected justice of the peace it is mixing religion and politics if an in elder or other officer of the 31 mormon ormon church is is elected mayor probate judge or a member of the legislative assembly then it is blending church and state and a terrible cry gocs goes up from the tile disappointed office sek seekers ars that tho the cormons mormons Mor mons are hatching conspiracy and aro are concocting concoct ing schemes of rebellion agai against i ast the tile government but how is it when minister ministers of the numerous christian churches elsewhere occupy civil positions in the municipalities in the states of course that is all right and when their blushing M civic honors arc are conferred upon them they arc are ac compa companies nied cd with congratulations t of the friends of tho the party to which they belong ecclesiastical and political when the ai ministers of the GOS pel at chicago and other places inaugurated the crusade against the mormon Nl ormon people and vehemently urged their senators and representatives senta tives to introduce in the tile national legislature laws fo for r their political ostracism they were applauded by the phan sees of every christian denomination in the united states when V however these pious hypocrites po crites desire es irato to dabble in politics and use the cloak of religion I to hoist their political parties into power they arc are only exercising their inalienable rights nevertheless ne i ess they would deprive the people of utah of like privileges we lve clip the follo fol lowin ving article on religion in politics from the newyork world which will be of s special p ecial interest at the present time don camerons toothache seems to have been troubling him again not content with reviving the hatreds which disgraced philadel Philadelphia phia nearly half a century aso he is seeking to fan once more into flamo flame the anti catholic prejudice the manifestations of which not less violent formed another black blot upon the history of tho the same period it was at first planned to secure the whole presbyterian vote by patting putting beaver and marshal Marshat on the cameron ticket but the independents unconsciously went one better by nominating stewart and junkin now it has been deemed wise to conciliate the tile methodists so a special stecial edition of the campaign alga life of general beaver haa has E been een seat sent to all the methodist clergymen with a portrait of the generals father who was a wesleyan minister and a facsimile fac simile of the rev peter beavers certificate of ordination by bishop ashbury it might at first glance glanco be thought that such a course was unwise because apart from the fact that it is not riot the rev peter beaver ft who ho is running for governor and that no charge lias has yet been made by any de democratic mop rafic or independent paper or speaker that bishop As burys certificate was not in correct form a methodist who would be weak minded enough to be affected by such an exhibition would be apt to regard general beaver with disfavor is ts a renegade from the religion of his father but it must ho be been seen that general beavers plan is singularly efficacious and promising any ny man it ia is evident can by judicious management and intelligent research into liis his family history contrive to sit surprise rise himsel fand disown his own and anthis his wiles relations satisfactory pledges to each one of the important secta sects of christendom for instance a presbyterian candidate can be imagined with a congregational gat ional wife a Aleth methodist odist father a baptist fit ing mother ther a dutch uncle that is to say sav a dutch reformed uncle an episcopalian daughter in law a unitarian nephew a catholic great grandmother and so soon on at the same time it is alleged reports are being circulated among the methodists that comptroller Patti sons election to the governorship would be fraught with danger to tho the country because he has filled the comptroller s office ollice with catholic clerks mr pattison is like gen beaver the eon son of a methodist minister but the world is in a position to state and the editor of tho the cleveland leader will we are confident back up our asset lion tion f that hat the democratic candidate for governor deliberately concocted his own parentage in order to carry out mo more successfully cess fully his intrigues against the tile protestant religion not only is he in constant communication with thesel detary of the propaganda but he lie is is a jesuit and if ever ilia his opponents get him where the hair is short they will have no difficulty in verify verifying in our sta statement temen t that he lias has receive received the tile tonsure arrangements have bave been made for tho establishment of a branch br anch of the inquisition at harrisburg as soon as governor pattison has been in an gal rate daod dand contracts for the necessary tar ar haye been signed with the phila dalphia dali hia gas trust the venerable simon cameron bus has been selected as tile first martyr and edison another jesuit a agent benl enl has exhausted his ingenuity on an electric rack and gridiron combined which promises to inako make the pennsylvania edition of FOKS book of martyrs particularly lively reading by rail rall ing to tile tho a of cameron cooper and beaver cheso machinations may yet ct lo lie 10 mado or of none avail and a de deplorable plo rable scarcity of fuel and thumbscrews thumb screws averted but there is no time to bo lot lost let us thank heaven in in our public capacity that the cameron managers ma arc are alive to this the greatest peril that haa has ever menaced tho the protestant religion rel ision even jf it as individuals HO wo lind find it necessary to express heft pinion that the pennsylvania method not quite auito as mafi malignant gnant bigots and blooming idiots as the managers in in question assumed them to lie 10 |