The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-11-23
WILL FIGHT ROBERTS
Christian People of Kenosha Take up
the CudgeI Against the Utah
Congressman.
PETITION TO CONG. COOPER

Asks That He Use His Voice and Vote to
Secure the Expulsion of the Congressman
from the House-The Petition will be Pre-
sented in all the Churches and has AL
ready Found Many signers-Rev. Navlor
Denounces the Mormons.
The Christian people of Kenosha
have taken UP the cudge1 against
Brigham II. Roberts, representative in
Congress from one of the Utah dis
tricts, and in the near future largely
signed petition will be presented TO
Congressman Cooper asking him to
use his voice and vote to secure the
expulsion of Roberts from the National
house. The petition was presented
Yesterday at the Park avenue church
and already over a hundred people
have affixed their signatures to the
document. In time it will be presented
at the other churches in the city and
the ministers hope to have the names
of four-fifths of the people in the city
and county on the petition before it is
sent to the Congressman. The petition
reads as follows:
To the Honorable H. A. Cooper, Rep
resentative of the First Representa-
tive District, in the House of Repre-
sentatives of the Fifty-sixth Con-
o,ress of the United States Of Am
erica:
We, the undersigned, legally quail
fed voters Of the said First Represen-
tative District of the said State of
Wisconsin, do hereby most respect
gully and most earnestly call upon you
TO use yot1r utmost endeavor and 10
exhaust all honorable means to secure
the prompt expulsion of Mr.. Brigham
H. Roberts, of Utah, the avowed poly9-
amist and Covenant-breaker, from The
House of Representatives, in accord
dance with the provision of the Ma
tiona1 Constitution in Article ], Sec
ton 5, Paragraph 2, which reads IS
follows: each House (of Congress)
may determine the rules of its pro-
ceedings, punish it's members for dis
orderly behavior, and with the conc11r-
renee of two-thirds, expel member.
We also do most respectfully and
most earnestly call upon yoa to Use
your utmost endeavor and TO exhaust
ali honorable means to secure action
by the Fifty-sixth Congress, propos-
ing an amendment TO the National
Constitution, and submitting the same
to the legislatures of the several
States, defining legal marriage to be
monogamic and making po1ygamy and
po1yganous cohabitation, under what
soever guise 'or pretense, a crime
against the United States, punishable
by severe penalties, including dis
REIMBURSEMENT, ard disqualification TO
vote or to hold any office of honor or
emolument under the United States, or
any State or Territory thereof.
In presenting the petition Mr.. Nay
1or gave very interesting pulpit edi-
toria1 on Mormonism. He traced the
entire history of the sect in this coun-
try from the time it was founded in
New York in 1880. He showed how it
had been forced 20 leave New York a
wear later and the D1oodshed which
had attended the adjustment of the
sect in Missouri and illinois. He char
acterized the practice of po1ygamy as
a relic of barbarisn and urged all the
people of the city and state to unite in
The effort which was being made to
force Roberts out of Congress on ac-
count of his connection with the Nor
mons.