The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-09-23
JOHN NICHOLSON.
Brief Synopsis Of His Lecture
~ Last Evening
TO A PACKED AUDIENCE.
Mis- Points Well Made and Received
with Applause and Favor
Who Are Responsible
for the Deed.

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Tie Theatre last night was packed,
up stairs, down stairs and on the stage,
on the occasion OF Mr.. JOHN Nicholson's
lecture on 1.-THE Tennessee murders and
the causes which led thereto"
| Tkelecturer was introduced by ex-
Mayor Jennings, who prefaced the in
Production with cation to the audience
TO give no heed should there be an alarm
OF fire raised, :.
| Mr. Nicholson was in good voice and
on the stage, fitted up for the
occasion, presented fine appearance.
He began his address by citing the
Interest the tragedy had created here,
inthe nation and nearly everywhere in
the world. following this WITH re-
/ hearsal of the; ciycumstsnees and details
OF the killing. OF the five Mormon elders
and the weundIng of au unoffepding
female in Lewis County, Tennessee.
and then proceeded to, show where he
held portion of the responsibilities Cor
these cold-bloode6 murders lay He
averred there-Nras, {. conspiracy aga5rst {
the peace, good ORDER and well-being Of
the community, and proposed TO
give evidence to- illIt efsct,
which he con.mencs2 to, do lsy telling ef
a Methodist meeting which had been
set apart fog working. up prejudice
against the people and inG3aming the
mimi OF the nation; is was so announced
by its presiding. genius. 1t was not al
togcther religious gathering-it was
also. political, and this, too, composed
Eof those who had been clauoring fog
separation of church and. state! There
were present Governor Murray, Judges
Mcbride and Foreman and Mr. J. F.
Bradley. 1t was there said the Metho-
dists had alwaySbeenf foremost IN oppos-
ing MormonisIn, and had compelled"
Congress to pass the Edmunds law; but
: thatlaw was not sufficient, and on that
particular occasion Judge Mcbride felt
as if he was an excellent Methodist
(Applause.) He seemed to con
form to the scripturat requirement
1--WE should be all things to all men. >
The taking away OF the political power
out of the hands OF the MormonS was
the object OF the conspirators. Mcbride
worked for the eradication from thC
, SIdIulSO LuC DtOTtolOll ESSdIOI4iS Tx
| testifying of wife against husband
: but if the present speaker was asked
] what he thought Of it,. he should say i
e was "a heterogeneous concentration o
I extraneous phraseology." twas thei,
determination TO put in circulation thu
most Infamous and sCandalous fabrica
; tons that could be conceived of in tn
$ brain Of man. (Applause.) He referret
; to DR.. McNeice Publishing his views il
y the INDEPENDENT, and the stor
IS OF the attempted burning of the Pres
u fbvterian church in Logan, whic
was at the time exposed as false; an
also mentioned the gratitude of McMi
liam, OF Saupete diocese, who publishe
lin the east that he had to go into hi
a pulpit .swith a pistol in one hand an
b, the word CT God in the other" an
u characterized these :" truthful" divines 6
Evolves in lambs clothingl" He spob
y also of Rev Lyford, and his narro'
y lescape in Provo, and said if he had take
aaSs off the latter letters of his name and lie
~ ~ the first two they would have repr
IL scented his conduct. He next referre
to meeting of Methodists. in Ogdel
which passed resolution which closet
"Mormonism should not be reasone
WILL IL ollOQio NC cttiAiikfC0 ONAt' W A'
a parody on Christian religion
or Stamped out!" He had "Handboc
ct on Mormonism," as it was called, file
~ with lies about and misrepresentation
of this community and from
y. he read an extract from the pc
is of ]. M. Coyner, whose appel
on ton was good. as he, was az Coyper
I falsehoods. Another source of defam
., ton was What was termed a RED H
"a Address," published in the Tribune
Gu March Is, 1884, the whole of which w
,s subsequently exploded as a base fab
Il cation, and shown to be true with fe
l"trifing exceptions" and they wer
he there was no Bishop West; no meetn
ah held in Juab at the time, and no q
I'D dress of the kind had ever been del
ax- cred. With these exceptions the adore
was correct (Applause.) The PuPhs
ers of the paper ,apologized, but IN col
ied SO said ss.sfhere was not a thing in I'll
o. address which has not been taught
yer Tabernacle harangues. Mr.. Nichols
the original address. (Applause.)
.re next alluded to.the editors of the Z
civ basTle stvling themselves American G,
IN tleInen.u and in sarcastic languf
lat showed that their actions toward me
bers of the community beGed their c:
I, ing; they had reviied and spoken evil
the respected people, and neither age !
.or, sex had been a bar to their yilliticat
ne, and abuse. AS an instance he quote
the sacreligious article headed " Ceremor
ZEN for the Stiffs,'-in which baptism for
and dead was mockingly treated, and q
on ing with the remark, 'sthe fools are
as all dead YETI And this emanated Il
considerate American gentlemen!
on would not insult the audience oy
the peating the vile aspersions publ1shea
ont these self-styled American gentleml
lay. The religious wing OF the consp!f
the desired to have the Mormon reig
Mr.. crushed out, because they thensel
With had no success where twas taul
rks, The 'tred hot, address had been
ter mulgated in Tennessee just PRIOR TO .
murders, and handed about by
fist minister named Van Dealer; ,
refutation of it was presented by Eli
Tor. Gibbs and Jones, but too late 10 =
any good. There was another pa
~ the conspiracy; The Mormons wei