Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-24

| ~ tbta pxupsea their pettifoppiuu pro.
o,,.,,,.,
wh.t ,h.v CHARGED and vbai the
ron,.,s,ca ,is,i.d was I'm, n cer,sin
nnn,ho, m pc,,on. during tbe veor
nan ia, ,'ast had entered into
,o,..ar,o,s ma,,lag.s This w.s also
s,,,,sJ Iy ,no p,esldsnt nj The ,,burch
who snon,d Know ot m, facts. The
rom,,,,s,a,.rs ,ow .av uD.nIals
and d.nuncl.t,ons prove notb,ny D
porhon. not Neither 40 upmppor,ed
ass.,,ions parlicuInriy when after be-
In, ob.lIenged. not n sorntilla of eyI.
demo. 10 subetantiate them ia offered,
rbls 4. the situation. D,nials and de.
nunelatlons de prove aometbipa under
these oIreum,taucoa. They provo that
tho Utah Commissioner either dare
not bring forward their alleged proois
O, Inflammation or that they have none
10 produoo. Depials and dcnunoia.
tions. an IN, face of their failure a.t.r a
yenrIs challenge. are worth more than
their trumped.up assertions for which
they orr no prool
But they dodge again from tho
question az to tho fact Of new polyga.
nous marriages being contIact-
ed, 10 tho question OF belief
I'm the rightfulnsss of such
marriages In the absence Of civil law
against IL. They quote DIR. Talmage
and IA. staiementa Of the Presidency
before the Master In Chanccry which
related TO the belief of tho Latter.day
Saints, to bolster up their own lalse
charges about recent . lurai marriages.
PcltifogeIng pgain In ils most desplc.
able SHAPED What certain persons may
possibly believe ~ one thing, what they
arc cha rgod with doing Ia another ana
different thing. The attack upon Pfesi.
dent Joseph Il. Smith IL Of the came
sort. He denied tho truth Of the Com.
minslone M, charges. His seclusion and
his religious belief had nothing 10 do
with the issue.
The eliminating point ia the das.
lardly ate mpt OF the Commission to
make IL ap pear that the manifesto was
pretense and that "polyRamy stlll
oxisls;p ia the assertion that; "Tho
commission has reports Of fifteen male
persons who are believed TO have on.
tered into polygarnous marriages during
the last year and of more than three
hundred persous who are known. or
believed TO 10 living In polygamous
relatlons.V
Observe tho cunning way in which
these charges are nut, 30 as TO do.
~ much damage as possible
and creep out OF the responsibility of
preferrlng them, They have "reports. ,,
The reports speak OF male persona nbe-
lie ed,j to have entered into thes. mar.
rlages, or who are 1belleyed TO be now
living in polygamous relations"
Shame ON the cowardly officials who
make these statements In this non.
committal, tlmorous and misleading
mannerl five were b tell all the tai
we bave had by way OF "reports" to us
Of the doings OF some Of these same
Commissioners here and elsewhere,
they would be planting suits for libel
or hiding their heads ON the ''under-
ground"
at II believed,v they raw. By
whom? No answer, We chalIenoo
the Commissioners to produce the
nantes OF tho accused and the namea of
their aocuses. They have been thus
challenged when they bore similar
false witness before. But they have
been as silent as the grave on this
question OF proof. They dare no, give
tho names lest their craven and
groundloss charges be 80 clearly dis.
proven that they stand exposed for the
miserable lihellors that they nre.
A. ~ 6.,,,, ono,,,to. 4, sails ,u
ra,,a,in. fa,.asoods q, ra,v.,,,n, a.
,,u,h D yho no. anv,tIn, % ,aIa ,n
mi rn.,,or 4, n. mo, A.. ron,,,i..
sloners who are clearly convicted Of
this wrong? Have they not been fight.
ing for their places with n desperatIon
pillabl. TO beholdY Have they not been
willing 10 take less than half their
former salaries to keen hold of their
easy ofli,esY Do they not now pIainlv
nlead for continuance py showing
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