John Taylor teaches that the Saints generally "vote as a unit" in elections.

Date
1867
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
John Taylor
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

John Taylor, "Political and Social Economy," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: B. Young, Jun., 1867), 11:355

Scribe/Publisher
David W. Evans
People
John Taylor
Audience
Reading Public
PDF
Transcription

In political matters we are pretty well united. At our elections we generally vote as a unit. This, we know, is contrary to the general custom, and because we do not disagree and contend as the world do, they say that we are wrong. If we had intended to do as they do we should not have left them. We have long ago weighed them in the balances and found them wanting. We have no desire to be affiliated with them; but in politics as in everything else we want to know the will of God, and then to do it.

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