Show AS AN OPEN LETTER MER to the liberals of ogden there are times when men need to speak plainly and with as bouch much strength of expression as kindness kindne ea of 0 feeling having been brought up under reform influences and having always been connected with reform movements I 1 ought to know something about reforms it was my Y natural disposition to help th those WILM who ho were trying to make the world better and humanity happier that led me to loin oin the it republican publican party and when I 1 came to utah finding that the people of this territory were not quite abreast of the times in some respects I 1 joined the liberal party which I 1 was assured was a party ot of reform and progress so 80 gentlemen of the liberal party I 1 have a right to call your attention to facts and conditions which you ought carefully to consider since the elements ot of neither reform nor rese are arenow now to be found la in your party As I 1 am now a republican and not a liberal I 1 shall not say we 0 out u t you in speaking of the tle liberal r a 1 party I 1 in the first place I 1 want to ask yoa gentlemen it you did not give strangers coming to utah to understand that the liberal party was only a temporary device to meet an emer emergency genc y which existed only here did you not say that you were still democrats or republicans as you always bad had been that Is you were not a party trying to beat the republicans and democrats yon you were simply a new party trying to boat beat the mormons cormons Mor mons were yo you not well then why dont you give up the diberal liberal party since you have beaten the mormons cormons so no completely that they have dissolved their party yon you gentlemen said that the ought to be beaten because they believed taught and practiced polygamy because they believed taught and practiced the doctrine of agov a gov bar bythe the priesthood andas and ba causa cause of these facts you claimed that the mormons cormons were in doctrine spirit and practice disloyal to the united states government and hostile to it has it been your purpose to correct these evils in utah of or have you simply taken advantage of 0 these evils to raise a wave of indignation against ade fenceless people did you not plan to do just what you have ac ailbe a tide of public sentiment against mormonism on which you might ride into public poel positions did you not presume on the blindness of outraged virtue and say to yourselves that thai people will praise our virtue it we cry out oat against the asiatic plague which has come to our land and so the tide was raised and it deluged mormonism while the eastern people a 0 le who raised the tide W were ere of the driftwood of worse evils which it piled on tha the mormon people yes gentlemen yon have beaten the mormons cormons Mor mons you ton have av e made in utah a deeper bell than you found foun dhere here you have eclipsed the mormons cormons in everything which you denounced in mormonism you complained of the political power of the mormon priesthood you said that it was wag a crime against american citizens to compel men to vote as their leaders directed and yet when tha the first liberal victory was waa gal gained in ogden the tle party scourge was applied without mercy you denounced the forcone mormons because as yon you said they had bad voted dead men and mules you did not do th that at no no you only voted prospective citizens and bites asses for your mules were not yet brought for forth jour you have raised your hands in holy horror against polygamy but no sooner had you taken possession of the city of ogden than you threw throw the aalee gates wide open to prostitutes who flocked to this city like doves to the cotes cates prepared for them yes yee you encouraged conditions which blighted the love and virtue I 1 r tue of many ogden homes and sea sent men to revel in lat lost when their virtue was gone and they were lost to shame and then 0 th the 0 mockery ol 01 oJ justice tice I 1 you still hunted haute d down men mer whose crime wag almost virtue tn in comparison with yours it A harem is a social curse a bouse house of prostitution is a stench a cauldron cauldren caul dron ol 01 corruption and you gentlemen while asking the government to abate the former shamelessly protected the latter you claimed that the mormons cormons would not obey the laws of the land and a nd that for this reason they were disloyal now gentlemen you who are abio to igal loyal and who want the laws 0 obeyed w J T do 0 you 0 so 80 utterly dis disregard YV 9 an and defy afy f t le the lab laws ot of the territory and the ciak C ty 7 yoa you have encouraged the establish est establishment ablis ment of gambling houses and have allowed men mea to defy the laws against gambling you have openly defied the laws in regard to saloons the liberal party in ogden when in power in the most favorable circumstances for the exercise of authority and the enforcement of law not only did not try to enforce the laws but with a strong liberal support fw or not 0 IW ver very y I 1 indirectly I I 1 y defied those laws when h n t the be U united ad states deputy marshal tried to enforce carta certain def z wholesome laws one hundred of you 0 u liberals signed a petition to have him m removed from office tor for bis his temerity da do yon you think that the people of ogden are so blind as not to see that you did not want the laws obeyed and yet you are giving out to the world that your mission is to pot put down the mormons cormons because they are disloyal if it tha the mormons cormons deserve the pen tor for their disloyalty v let us have a I 1 little ittle revival of Calvan th theology until the amera american can P people e a C can a 11 devise same punishment lo 10 for disloyal dip disloyal loyal liberals commensurate with their crime liberals of ogden your conduct conduct shows you to be either hypocrites or cowards and one would not go far amiss if be he called you both yoa you claim to believe in american institutions and yet when such institutions come to your doors you yon refuse them clinging still to an on un american party whose mission if it it ever had one is gone taken away by the dissolution of the peoples have wanted the mormons cormons to break away from the priesthood but when they come to an american ca camp m you try to beat them back to their old old party put if it the mor mons do sincerely want to get out of political ways which you have denounced as un american you would let them do ti if you were honest the face fact is when men are long unfamiliar with honesty they sometimes forget that each such a virtue may exist and the facts suggest that some of the leaders of the liberal party are in that condition the mormon people are divided about a equally qually in the national parties part lea you liberals are cowards or you would be willing to meet them now and show your confidence in the american principle of government you are evidently fighting for the spoils of office and not for the principles P lea of the declaration of independence if not let the world see that you will stand by principles when you are challenged to do so when did you thoroughbred liberals you of the pure pare blood ani who have save not by your matrimonial alliances tainted the blood of your children with mormonism when did you discover r that a mormon mother to n law w I 1 is a political factor which ought to disqualify 1 lis qualify a man tor for holding office or for asking the suf frages of bis his ellow fellow citizens but bince you have ma made de this discovery let us suggest bat that you go to the men whom you have lave put in office whose mothers in law are mormon mormons Mor mons and ask a k them to real resign that some rome simon pure may fill their places you ought to have made this wonderful discovery I 1 long 0 n g ago you put pat in the first city coun council c fl which yon you elected some men who bad had been brought up in the mormon church and some whose wives bad had been so brought perhaps however since you have not done it before you would better now publish thieron this wonderful discovery beside the celebrated speech 0 of I 1 a certain democratic orator and i inform form the public that you 13 simon imon pure liberals do not want the votes of men who were once mor mons or whose parents were mor m mons one or whose wives were ever mor mons mono or whose sweethearts have mormon parents or it if some frenzy of honesty should attack you tell them that you want their votes but that they ought to know their place better than to aspire to public positions themselves now liberals be honest once da do you now cherish or have you ever fostered any purpose except to secure the offices in in utah D dj you n not at know that you are hypocrites and cowards when you talk of progress and reform 7 Is there a vice a crime an evil of any kind which you have charged against the mormons cormons which you have not encouraged and protected among yourselves do you not know that you deserve nothing but the contempt of honest men 7 do y you G u not know that it is not the evils of 0 mormonism which you hate but the pe people 0 ale 7 if you yon hated the evil you ce certainly r t a aly w would u d not encourage the pr practice a atice of it gentlemen the liberal party as organized and managed today to day does no not t recommend itself to fair minded men it makes no moral issue it aims alms at nothing progressive or helpful the republican party in utah may not possess all the virtues but one bing thing is true it does aim to drop the past and in a manly way to meet the needs of the present and to prepare for or the future the republican platform is not based on hate and it doe does not appeal to prejudice men alen who believe that mormonism niam is wrong but who would rather convert the mormons cormons than coerce them can consistently vote the rep republican u alican ticket mormons cormons who believe in f n the doctrines of the republic republican can party can vote the republican ticket men who are W willing illing to trust their ambition to the judgment dg of their fellow citizens can consistently ly vote the republican ticket liberals who believe in the republican party for the nation can consistently vote the R republican ticket in ogden men who coun couil t ir right ight more than personal promotion can consistently vote the republican ticket yours tor for the right NEVER A amon |