The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-19
RETURNED TO ITS WON'T.

To the Editor of The Herald:
There appeared in your issue of the
18th inst. a communication over the
nom de plume Of ''Utonian." The cor
respondent alludes TO the course of the
Salt Lake Tribune in a way that is by
no means complimentary, but eminent
ly just. Here is brief extract:
1T is sowing the seeds again as was
done . few years ago, when it and its
friends were the chief instigators of
what proved to be one of the most
thrilling chapters that this people has
been called upon to pass through,
namely, the Cane creek massacre. that
took place in the state of Tennessee"
Your contemporary replies as fol-
lows:
"A correspondent of our apostolic
morning contemporary supplies that
organ with what he intended should be
u most bitter denunciation of this jour
nal He shows his good intention to be
exceedingly mean, but he lacks ability
to bring out what he wanted to say
except in coarse and bungling sem
fences. He gives himself away, too,
by frequently using the sir" which is
the address of legislative bodies. and
by again seeking to convey the false
hood that the wild men in the piney
woods of eastern Tennessee were
prompted to kill some Mormon mis-
sionaries who were preaching polyga-
my there some seventeen years ago.
He succeeds only in drawing pity to
himself
The massacre referred to occurred at
the house of James Condor. on Cane
creek Lewis county. Tennessee. on
Sunday, Aug. TO- 1884. The victims were
Elders John II. Gibbs and w. 5. Berry
of Utah, Martin Condor and J. r. Hud-
son, son and stepson, respectively, of
James Condor During the onslaught
]. r. Hudson shot and killed David
Hinson, the leader of the murderers.
AS the mob were about to leave the
scene of their atrOcious work they fired
a parting volley through the window
and severely wounded Mrs. Condor
On Sept. % following few weeks
after the tragedy-the writer of this,
delivered, in the Salt Lake theatre, at
the request of a number Of prominent
citizens, a lecture, entitled The Ten
nesSee Massacre and It's Causes; or, the
Utah Conspiracy" In vindication OF
the statement of your correspondent,
"Utonian," 1 desire to present few
extracts from this lecture, which apply,
to some extent TO the present situation
in the state of Utah:
There is another source more prolific
of defamation in this community. l re-
fer to the Salt Lake Tribune. the organ
of the conspirators. I wish that source
to furnish some OF the evidence to sus-
tain the position that / take tonight
There was published on March Is. 1884.
what was termed A Red Hot Address
1t purported TO have been delivered by
a Mormon bishop named West, in the
little town of Juab. in the southern
portion of this territory. 1t was very
prudent to select a little side station;
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not in the opinion of the conspirators,
be so easily made If perpetrated upon
a place of that kind. What was the
character of that Red Hot Address,
said to have been delivered by a Nor
mon bishop? 1t recommended the as
sassination of those who opposed
the Mormon community. One of the
objects of the wrath of Bishop West
was his excellency Governor Eli H.
dience that it was their imperative
duty to seize upon his excellency and
tread him down until his bowels gushed
out on the streets, and that those who
should succeed him, if they did not be-
have themselves better toward the
Mormon community than he, should be
treated in a similar way. This Red
Hot Address was true, with a few
trifing exceptions / wish you to note
the exceptions, for the organ of the con-
spirators does not stand upon trifles;
not by any means: In the first place.
there is no Bishop West in the Mormon
and has not been for many
years. There was a meeting held in
Juab on the day on which that address
was said to have been delivered. No
of that. kind Was ever deliv- |
cred With these trifiing exceptions the |
address was entirely correct.
II wish you to note this fact, how |
ever, that if there ever were any indi- |
on the face of this earth sus-
ceptible OF being deceived. they are