Now, you
are going to have an election of county officers by and by. What are you going
to do about it? Are you going to split tickets? Are you going to the polls to
scratch off names, and put on the name of somebody else? I should hope not. I
do not care who is put in office, only so far as we must obey the commandments
of the Lord in these things. We must choose righteous men, good men to fill
these positions. Hence if you will only get good men to fill these offices no
one should care who they are, so that you have agreed upon them, and were one.
We want you to be one both in temporal, political and religious things, in
fact, in everything you put your hands to in righteousness. We want you to be
one, one as God and Christ are one, seeing eye to eye. Do not try to crush
anybody, or build yourselves up at the expense of your neighbor. Do not do it;
it is a custom of the world, and it is a wrong principle. (JOD 25:251 | July
18, 1884)