| OCR Text |
Show -4candidates for the the coming election acceptable independents selected During a mass the convention of Outraged, ticket. a new summer to themselves. of 1870 the following call was issued for independents: The citizens of Utah who are opposed to despotism and tyranny and who are in favor of freedom, liberty and progress, and of advancing the material interests of said Territory, and of • • • • church from state, requested to send delegates to Corinne, utah, Saturday, July 16, 1870, at 10 a.m to put in nomination a candidate for delegate to Congress separating meet at • • • • are on. • •••• • At this convention the ''The Liberal name Party of utah" was officially adopted. The completion on May 10, 1869, way made futile any further Mormon sufficient economic empire this point petitively organized. gan to the weaken.,,5 Many At once was to establish the self- envisioned linked with the dominant a national economy position and which petition for economic control Brigham Young died they com- of the Church be Gentiles arrived in the West intent upon more Prophet, At by Brigham young. mining ventures and other economic activities which ful to the Mormon as attempts originally "the economy of Utah of the transcontinental rail- soon produced were distaste- serious Gentile com- of the area. in 1877. Many opponents of Mormonism felt had at the time of the death of Joseph Smith that the Mormon Church without its prophet would crumble and fade from existence. The utah non-Mormons, perhaps with the goal of speeding this circumstance, gathered ment by new life. Additional emphasis was placed on the Gentiles in the Salt Lake Tribune, and in Liberals continued their vigorous criticism mining develop- general the of Church officials. 4 |
