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Show -73The of Salt Lake Baptists movement almost as soon as it was City endorsed the new publiclyannounced.22 political Roger Williams, they claimed, had established separation of Church and State the cardinal principles on which he had founded the Immediately following the Auerbach one as of Baptist Church. meeting the State Repub- lican Committee submitted to the Tribune and to the Democratic Salt Lake Herald willing a repudiation of to print it. the afternoon of the Salt Lake Tribune, but neither paper The full statement September 9 was in the Deseret was subsequently published Evening News, as on follows: Whereas the Salt Lake Tribune has repudiated the ticket regu larly and fairly nominated by the Republican State Convention, held on August 25, 1904, and has refused to support those nominated by that Convention for State and National offices; and, Whereas, it has and is now advocating the formation of a new party in its nature un-American and antagonistic to Republican principles, and is so doing for the sole purpose of advancing the political interest of its owners, therefore be it RESOLVED, by the Republican Executive Committee of the State of Utah, that the Salt Lake Tribune be no longer recognized by the Republican Party as the exponent of its principles. Dated at Salt Lake City, September 8, 1904. William Spry, Chairman Allen T. Sanford, Secretary The Tribune labeled this statement "asinine and ridiculous" and further stated; The Tribune wishes it understood that it is still a Republican newspaper, and that it sustains and supports the national ticket of the Republican Party, but that it declines to sup port a state ticket nominated by the Mormon Church of Utah and masquerading under the guise of Republicanism.23 It was immediately suspected moving force behind the new and publicly repeated movement was Thomas that the Kearns, although this |
