Show LET some of our friends say that it is unfair to call saturday nights tabernacle meeting nonpartisan non partisan political gand that the meeting only considered the proposition of getting good men selected for office call it what you may is it fair for any church to call secret meetings of its members for the purpose of preparing a plan whereby elect its own members to office suppose father should call the catholic brethren together and should tell them we want good men for office euch men as held office when the catholics controlled the world and there were no methodists would there be any doubt as to what father cushnahan meant certainly not what would ba the result of such action every citizen would denounce abo priest and hia church in no unmistakable words the papers would be filled with and denunciations of such an american un priest and church we dare say that nine times out of ten the priest and hie followers would be forced to leave the community yet in our own beautiful city the hibb priest of this county deliberately calls bis priests and teachers together and instructs them tj leave their carlies and select such candidates only as were in power before the gentiles rot into office Is there any more justice in this because it is the mormon church of the catholic church Is it true that certain church leitera are the only ones interested in having rood men for office in ogden no indeed then it president iG wants only good men in office and has no desire to dictate candidates from among his own dees he call secret priesthood meetings to consider political matters why are not the meetings public why not invite the business men to attend those meeting men are wanted for office why not call the good awn of all parties together to consider that matter are to return to the condition when church officials dictated the candidates for office or shall we maintain the american system under which every good man has as much right to voice in making nominations as the baeli priests of any church flow lone is it dicce good men were wanted by the church leaders are the charch leaders judzas of men let us see in 1890 the church leaders of ogden dictated a nonpartisan non partisan movement which wae successful what did tho good men who were elected mayor and city councilmen on hat nonpartisan ticket do they are the men who ran this city ia debt they are therod me that caused the burden under which oar people are today groaning only two city administrations trat ions leave been elected on a purely political issue bince then and both of the administrations have been buby finding ways and means to reduce the debt created by thai nonpartisan non partisan mayor and city council good men tor office what is meant by that Is that an insinuation that the present city officials are bad men does it mean that mayor spencer is a real bad man or does it reflect on bishop taylor of the third ward doctor conroy is the bad roan in the body certainly no one would think ot eakins that thos E browning 8 P ash richard aill charles greenwell I 1 N pierce and miles jones are bad men or that they have faed to do duty perhaps it is the bad standing of E IL anderaon And ereon or henry G williams that has caused their for rood men t if tho answer is that all of these men are good men in the name of common enee why this rry tor rood men perhaps the church leaders fear that the city council which preceded the city council may be elected reelected re let ue tee who composed the last city council there ie john wm 1 I L dark F W adami L U aban H 11 spencer john A E gibon and joseph will anybody eay those men are not good men it poems then that the members of the present city council and the last city council re all good men what than does this plea tor good men mean in the language ot there is rotten in denmark Den malk or aa the back nian would eay baete ie a h niter in be it there were really bad men in there might be gome excuse for all this falkof cool mea slop the non trickery and the people as a whole can be trusted to select good men |