Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-01
A poLYGAMous INCIDENT.


n Treatment u Woman Delegate
Olives Her FelIOw.Wives.
Hon. G. @. Powning, Republican candi-
date for Congress from Nevada, continues
as dumb as an oyster on the Mormon
question. His motives for silence are evil
dent. 1t is possible, however, that Mr..
Powning is unaware that polygamy has
been truly described as q blotch upon civ
ilization. We reproduce the following
from our Republican contemporary, the
Salt Lake Tribune, in the hope that it will
fall under the eye of Mr.. Powning before
the 7th Of November, and that he may be
induced thereby to say whether or not he
is a foe to the Mormon lechery:
A political convention in which a por-
ton Of the delegates are females would be
a very odd affair to our Eastern friends,
but here in Utah it is considered the
proper thing on the part Of the dominant
Church party. In the convention OF the
Mormon party, which held sessions at
various times last week, there were two
female delegates to represent in part one
precinct in this city. Both come under
the clause in the Edmunds bill and are de-
barred Of any right to vote because OF
their polygamous relations. One is q very
aged woman, and she told in q speech she
made to the convention last Thursday
night, that she had been with her brethren
driven in the early days of Mormonism
from place to place until she came to Utah
with the pioneers, where she has since re-
sided and labored in the interest Of the
Church. We are told that she has for
years been a leader among the women of
Utah, in advocacy and perpetuation of
polygamy, and that she practiced it by
having her husband enter the celestial"
beastliness. While she upholds her hus-
band in this crime, and tramps the coun-
try over advocating the doctrine of the
chief tenet of the Mormon Church, she
has shown a brutal disposition towards
the victims of her husbands lust in
q way we would not look for from so
earnest an advocate Of polygamy.
We are told by reliable authority that
upon a recent occasion, when one of the
young wives of the husband of this apostle
of polygamy gave birth to a child, she was
left in a helpless condition, with no one to
wait upon her and show that tender care
and provide such comforts as she required,
except that some Gentle %neighbors went
and kindly did for the woman what was
uenleu ner by tnOSe VINO nad persuaded
her into this unholy marriage relation.
This modern exponent of Mormon polyg-
amy and political manipulation in Mormon
conventions, would not go near that young
wife of her own husband, and, more than
that, issued orders to her own daughters
that they must not do anything for that
young mother to make her comfortable
in her hour of sickness. We speak of this
incident as another evidence that in every
case of polygamous marriage there is a
deep jealousy among the women, which
they in their natures cannot subdue.
This jealousy often prompts them to con-
vince young girls to become victims in
polygamy, that the ''green-eyed monster
in their bosoms may be appeased. This
spirit prompts them to become pro-
curesses in the interest of the institution
SO long fostered in the Mormon Church,
and nerves them to bear up under their
own sorrow, that they may enjoy the graft
fication Of a demon in seeing the torture
of members of their own sex whom they
may wish to afflict.