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Show -228- align itself with the nation. this ear, as The a "formula" as in the usual But now, as heretofore, it is aloof, and reservation, 'it is different in Utah.'" Telegram printed in a box on entitled, uHow to win elections its front page of November 9 Part of it went in utah." follows: Take one Governor, a returned Mormon missionary, and instruct him to write an open letter, in which he untruthfully declares that the capital of the State is a hotbed of crime; that a reign of terror exists; Take sheriff who appoints fifty special deputies to do his political dirty work at the expense of the taxpayers. one Take one deal between the liquor interests of the state and the Mormon Church, by which the Church agrees to protect the interests if the liquor interests will support that political organization with a heavy contribution to fund. campaign liquor church • • its • Take one or more Mormon apostles, one Bishop and two counse lors in every ecclesiastical ward, and dozens of other zealots who hold the keys to the priesthood of the Mormon Church, and who would betray any political party, any pledge, any friend at the order of his superiors in the priesthood. Mix well together and apply it to the Mormon voters just be fore election in utah and it is guaranteed to effectually break up any opposition to the autocratic control of every department of the state; spiritual, temporal by the Mormon Church in the State of Utah. The school board elections of December, since the was ties. inception not fielded of the American against the Party where a and political, 1910, were the first full slate of Americans non-partisan candidates of the other par- Rather, in 1910, the Americans joined the other two parties in the selection of a non-partisan ticket acceptable to all. However, in the American stronghold of the fifth ward, where Americans had previously been unopposed, two candidates were to be |
