Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-09
uTAg IN AN UGLY HUMuR.
Little Needed to Produce a Necessi-
tyfOr Troops.
ex-confederates Proudly Defending the
Fiag---The Raising Of an Immense
Bribery Fund to Get the Ter
ritOry Admitted to the
Union,


previous to the firing on Fort Sumter has
ITS counterpart here in Utah. Since the
studied insult offered to the flag By the
Moym on the Fourth of July the ant
mostly between the Saints aud Genue'
has greatly increased, and the enniI5
g now SO pronounced that II would
not take much to preciplta'e Tou'
ole IF the most serious chsra =
ter. While the more intelligent of the
Mormops realize that the halt-masting OF
the flag was foolish piece of business, the
great majority of the brethren rejoice in 1t,
and threaten to repeat the performance at
the first opportunity. Nothing but the
wellknown sReaking cowardlce OF the
Saints seem to stand in the way of hostiii-
ties here. The people are practically a.
swords points already. The newspapers
oristle with fierce denunciations, and indl-
viduals are calling each other liars, thieves.
.coundrels and traitors, and threatening
violence in a way which is decidedly dis
pleasing to people with weak nerves
Whatever the outcome of this most serious
problem may be, it seems certain that some
thing must take place before long. Things
cannot go on forever in the way they are
now going. The Gentiles have been exss
perated 10 point where they may be leo
into violence at almost any time, and the
local Mormon authorities are sufficiently
ugly to make very quick work Of any Of
ending outsiders An aggravated as
sault and battery case in the present condi'
ZION of affairs might produce dis,
,urbance which it would require Federal
troops to quell One significant fact in re-
Iation TO the attitude of the ex-Confederates
here. The man who made the Mormons
take down the halfmasted banner from the
City Hall was Major Wilkes, who served un-
der Lee, and in all the meetings that have
been held since then the Southerners now
here have been prominent in their denun-
citation of the Mormon faith and disloyalty
When Major Wilkee was demonstrating with
the City Marshal for half;masting the flag
he said:
IL fought for four years to put down that
flag, and it couldn't be done. 1t Is now the
flag of 100000 Of people, and you cannot
insult it with safety"
Everything now turns on the ttag episode
The Gentilcs are no longer the Geuules. The'
call themselves the loyelists, and designate
the Mormous as the dsoyalists. The !oyalIsts
are aggressive and threatening, and the bur
den of their remarks is Try it again II you
dare" The Mormons are undertaking to
be little the episode, and yet they are sggra,
waiting enoug b. They have sworn in several
hundred elders as special policemen, 80
that if trouble occurs. j is likely to be
serious at the very outset. One result OF
the increasing luminosity has been an assess
ment bY the church authorities OF $50 on
each Mormon family, ostensibly for the pur-
puse of completing the temple, but in real
i,v 10 enable the Saints to conduct vIgor-
GUS warfare against the anti-polygamy SEN
,iment which is now making itself manifest
in the rigid enforcement of the Edmunds
law. 1t is the intention to raise $500 900
az soon as possible for use in Washington
and elsewhere in influencing legislation and
the acts of officials of the Government. The
Mormons believe that every American has
his price, and that bribery ia one Of the
most effective weapons that can be
used. The plan of the church campaign IS
said to be very elaborate. 1t includes first
Of all the raising Of this enormous corrup-
lion fund. Then in October at the annual
conference the doctrine of polygamy is to
be formally renowned, with mental res
ervation, and when Congress meets a de-
termined effort will be made to secure the
admission of the Territory as State A
few of the elders are preaching defiance OF
The Government, but the more influential
leaders of the Church are said to be arrang-
ing this other plan, and protesting that 1t
will, if adhered to for q time, result IN a
practical solution of all their troubles. The
ugliness which prevails in all quarters was
clearly shown the other evening when three
deputy marshsls went to the house OF Elder
Edward Brain to serve q summons,on his
nolyramous wife. Brain refused to open
the door, and when the officers
threatened to batter it down he got big
pistol. and, coming around into the front
ward said he would kill them If they did not
| leave. The officers soon had him covered
with their own weapons, and on sdiourning
TO the house he declared in the most posi-
i've language that his alleged wife was no.
here. The officers searched every room
and finally on coming to the kitchen they
oticed trap door in the ceiling. Braiu
srd it was put there when the house was
7uiDt and had been nailed up, but one Of
,be officers got an axe, aud after he had
| humpcd it a fcR times the door ope ned aud
il. wcmsn'S lead was seen looking down
Stain IVES told to help her down, aud in 6
moment the young woman was standing OF
he floor in the presence OF the officers
Both were taken into custody.
On the examination of Brain he claimed
that he was in the habit Of keeping large
sums of money in the house, and as the OF
fcers came AFTER dark he took them for bur
glars. He had no intention Of resisting
them, and as for using his weapon on then
he had never thought of such thing. Or
bis cross-examination he was pretty thor
oughly trapped He was asked: did yoI
not know that the marshals were at you
door, and that all they wanted was to serve
a summons on a woman in your houseY
81 didn't know who in the devil the.
were
Nov, didn't you believe that they wer'
marshals? Didn't you know itY
mo, / did not. l had money in m!
house, and thought burglars were after it
Then why didn't you pu, your money NJ
in the loft instead OF your wIter
81 saw Deputy Collins through the win
dow. and knew him.
KNEW he was an oficerT
well yes; l knew him.
And you thought it was more necessar,
to hide your wife than to hide your money
she got up there herself
Brain was held for trial on the charge o
unlawful cohabitation and resisting an off
Ger.
All through the Territory the greatest in
dignation prevails over the recent indignit
to the flag in Salt Lake, and in the smsiie
communities the feeling is so bitter tia
some people look for trouble there before