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Show MORMONS AND POLITICS. The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader is responsible re-sponsible for a mass of drivel on the situation situ-ation in Utah, in which it is asserted that the Mormons "expect a feeble administration adminis-tration of the anti-Mormon laws on the part of the Democrat who will succeed Governor Murray," and that "in the next campaign the Democrats will not all be Mormons, but the Mormons will all be Democrats." A very large volume might be filled with what the Leader doesn't know about the situation in Utah. Whatever the expectations of the Saints as to "a feeble administration of the anti-Mormon laws," etc., .leeause of the removal of a Republican Repub-lican and the appointment of a Democratic Demo-cratic Governor, the Leader ought to know that there is absolutely nothing to justify those expectations, and the journal jour-nal that insinuates to the contrary, as the Leader does, wantonly insults both the President and the officials now here who are charged with the duty of enforcing enforc-ing the laws. As to the Mormons all becoming Democrats Demo-crats in the next campaign, that is a prediction pre-diction which only serves to illustrate the dense ignorance of the man who makes it. The Mormons are not Democrats. neither are they Republicans they are simply Mormons, the subjects of a priestly despotism which has ' for its object the establishment of a theo-. cratic form of government to which no J true American, Democrat or Republican, could attach himself. Democrats everywhere every-where believe in the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and a complete separation of church and state. The Mormons believe in allowing their leaders lead-ers to muzzle everything that squints at such individual freedom, and to a man they believe in and uphold the union of church and state, as exemplified right here in Utah. Until they experience such a change of heart and sentiment a3 will lead them to entirely repudiate the doctrines they now adhere to, they can never become either Democrats or Republicans. Re-publicans. The Leader is a Republican journal, with Know Nothing tendencies. It certainly cer-tainly knows very little about the situation situ-ation in Utah, and only makes itself ridiculous ri-diculous in talking about things it does not understand. |