Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-13
NO FEiISiENr N SAN LAKE.


The Denver News. like d number Of
other journals. has 'Hpoclal' from
Salt Lake about the Cannon case, ana
~ led 10 believe that this city Is won
dcrfuliy stirred up over the sensation"
when the subject matter % Ola and cold,
and would have beonn dead " it had
not been boiled up aud Hplcod by AN
anti-"Mormon" newspaper. The prose-
cution. u IL true. caused something N
hurry for a little while. but the Inn
imagined furore IL but common "trm-
pest In n teapot" except 10 the prime
movers IN the ondeavor 10 work up a
paper war. All kinds Of spcculntlona
arc INDUCED In a. 10 what win be- the
consequences u the new crusade. ana
these are duly reported In the
"spcclals" sent out from this city,
which appear under such headings an
"Mormondom In a stew
That does not matter much. but the
impression II created outside of this
state that the prosecution Il evidence
Of tho continuance Of polymmy, that ~
the performance OF now plural mar
fthNfA III lAAhs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AH'
provisions Of the State Constitution.
The Denver News, for instance. cone
oludos lengthy but temperate editorial
on the Hubjee, with this paragraphs
''rhe Nowa. us ataunch opponent ~
pOlyEamy. was prompt IN accepting in
good faith the pledge of the Mormon
Church that, " Utah were admitted Co
the Union, the practice NJ plural mar
Cd. ..N.H.UAnU#A HNhHH
Try at lnrEc accepted this pledge, ole
though II was freely asserted TINT u
was not made In rood faith. The uuoa-
tlon for the Mormon church leaders tn
determine 10 in Whnt position thry Inc
tend 10 place THOSE who accepted their
pledges. Were their friends wrong and
their enemies right' This H Just the
point tu which tho alleged secret prnC-
ticu Of polyEamy l4 lending 10 thUlr
own interest the Church leaders should
do their utmost 10 stamp out ull REM
nantH u the practice
That paper f. clearly under the mis-
apprehension that the pledge that
plural marriages. would cease with
Statehood has boon BROKEN. That h.
exactly what the anu-"Mormon' sheet
In this city. I'm league with the preach
cra who have ben trying 90 raise money
over It IN the East, have been lnboring
20 make the public believe, 10 Do ut
terly false. as those who have clrcu-
lated IL wen understand, Il % that
untruth which the Desorct Ncws has
90 frequently denied, and IL lH because
Of its repetition that we keep up the
contest
The ogden Standard. uou-"Mor-
mon" paper. remarks. In response 20
the comments OK the Denver Newa'
"The "Ncws apparently draws "a dis
tlnctiun between pnlyElmuuH relations
and plural marriages but Us led 90 bee
licve that Angus Cannon has been
guilty of tukng 20 himself "a Now wife
since the manifesto prohibiting plural
MARRIAGES was issued uud statehood
tho News has ~ the case, aud NJ that
~ the impression which hlH hryu grri
ntod by the HturW-HihrtrtH Zoo NlN
Lake then the people of IIuh lrt
placed in false llghi. Angu. NJ. CON
non ia charged with hulnE thu fIthpl
OF a child born tu Matte Hughes cam
non "A woman Go whom hU was uultpt
In accordance with Mormon practice
and belief many years before the man
ifcsto was Issued
Another false impression conveyed bl
specials from this city Ia that M
convictions can Doc had In polymml
cases because the majority on jurlo
would be "MormuuH" % Re- asserted 70
those dispatches us published east AN,
west that such iuroH viii either acqul
or fan to agree. Thus tho work i1 on
again Of stirring MP the country ugulua
the 'Mormous."
II the chief plotters NJ th.s mlsohle