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Show .. IT MUST NOT BE. th • Liberal pa:-ty dissolved, Tribun said it as , i h it When The "quits;" that if symptoms of the old trouhl CVPl' (•amc back we ,v< ul<l <'all upon th M nnun vcovlc allCl pre-.ss to suppr ·s th m. Th , organ of 1 • l\-1ormon chur ·h at th tlme volun ecr d to say it ,vould • t once respond and 01110 to our help. V have 1t pt the faith. o v the ·lvs Ia;st evening-, in an C'di- Hon·. .r1os< lorial iuclirc Uy sai<.l that a high meml>er uf the ·hureh-mcaning Moses Thatch r-had disobeyecl counsel, and further, gave almost a direct threat "'C:I to the Legislature that it must not elcct him 8 .nator, and as good as openly proclaimed that the church it- . . self vould directly mterposc to defeat his elecUon. To that The Tribune sa}·s "hands off!" _1, If Moses Thatcher has br ken his I ~ 1·1 I priestly covenant·s, and with him there is a. question of church clisciplin to be settled, with that ,ve have nothing to rio. It is a matter vhich does not con- ,!, cern the people at large in the least. But when the Mormon or any other ·1 church directly threatens t h at it will 1 interpose all its church nower to influence a Legislature to defeat for office 1 a. citiz n because he has clarcd to assert his independen~e. even in the face of th hurch, then we beg to f-ay that this people will not stand that sort of tyranny, and if it is atlemptecl, then the oJd fight will be opened all at I c n('e, and though not under as favorI aule ircumstanccs as formerly, it can j be wagecl, for behind us is the s lcmn I f; Thatch( 1· .·uhrni t l in an interview ·with~ 'l'rHun, rqr0.scntU.·· tive tw( or three days ago. '1_'1 (' uuruPn of that was that lH ·, onld accept the .]enato1·.·hip from tlw Legislature if that bo<1y vi a:-:Nl to t •nd r it t(J him. H" furtlle1· anieu th id Pa Urn t if tPndcr<:',1 him h ~ ,youl<l hold it a:.; a ·:in- dication of a l)rinciple which he had stood for. Apparently in n~vIY, thouc;h 1 no names were mentioned the Nev,rs I t . d -' t . 1as eYcnmg pu)1 11s1H! a some w 11a striking editorial. It open a with an intimation that a good deal of the Democratic timber was not a11 oak, ancl hinted strongly that it rould n t prove seaworthy for a Senatorial voyage. That v:,as tou7h on the Yeterans who are now in training preparatory to the race, but that may lP put down to spleen. It is plain that it was all merely 1weliminary-merely a leading up to the real point of a ttac1~ proposed 1 by the article. It is swiftly followecl 1Jy ' a direct charge couched in somewhat indirect language, that one particular 1 candidate "has abandon ,ct an admitted rcli1"ious vrin iplC',' wh icl "he l ad heC'n publicly and privately taug·ht for half a Iif Ptirne.'' Furth r, that he },as disregarded "i:mcrecl and fraternal ti es and ohliga tions, all in 1 ursuance uf Yanlting ambition." Supnose all that is t rur: how dof's thc1 t a.ff ct him a:3 a i Uz n <,r canclidat '? As und rstand th at- a ·i 11 |
