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Show IT MUST CEASE. V ' Just as Mre supposed would be the case, the News exultingly points to Monday's election as furnishing indisputable evidence evi-dence that the people knew the City Marshal-elect to be a good man and true, and therefore gave him their endorsement for the office. The News further says that "the election on Monday proves that the People's party is alive and compact." Just so. But what is it that holds the members of the People's party in a body so compact that in spite of the detestation detesta-tion in which many of them hold the man Solomon, they go to the polls and vote him into ah office that ought to be held by a decent-man? It is simply this. The members of the People's party, male and female, are all members of - the Mormon Church, and they have been taught that unquestioning obedience to the commands of the Church leaders must be rendered if they hope for religious or political preferment here below and exaltation in the world to come. The Church authorities hope to establish here a vile theocracy, in order that1 they may with impunity, at the expense of virtue, and by robbing the toiling masses, gratify their basest passions pas-sions and live on the fat of the land. To accomplish this they donot hesitate to make the local government Bubservient to the Church, and in obedience to instructions in-structions all good Mormons must vote for whomsoever their superiors see fit to name for office. To put the thing in a nutshell, it may be said that in Utah the ballot is simply an instrument through which to carry out the will of the Church authorities, and if it were possible in all Utah to find a more objectionable person than this man Solomon to" place before the people as a candidate for office, and the Church authorities saw fit to nominate nomi-nate him, he would be elected by the People's party just as sure as that night follows day. And simply because the Church so wills it. It is this domination of State by Church that the non-Mormons complain of most. It must cease, now and forever, and the sooner the people here recognize that fact, the better will it be for all concerned. con-cerned. , ' |
