Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-22
GOING TO FIGHT The M0RMONS.
Introduce Resolution Calling For
Strictly Gentle Mayor and
City Council
THAT IS THE POLICY AGREED UPON
Presentation Of the Resolution was
Deliberately Withheld from the
DeScret News.

Some OF the things the Salt Lake
Ministerial association did yesterday
ere worthy Of particular note. The
organization met in the name OF the
Prince Of Peace and listened to the
customary arraigument Of the Catho-
lie church, as viewed through protest.
ant eyes" In the name Of the Master,
too. It gleefully plunged once more in
TO the pool OF politics and denounced
the Mormon" Church through the me-
dium OF a resolution that gravely sets
forth that the time has come for the
election OF an out-and -out Gentle ma
yor and city council"
The session was a secret one, as
usual, and only such information as
It's members care to communicate is
forthcoming. a representative of the
Deseret News, however. was promptly
on the ground waiting for the meeting
to adjourn and to get whatever the
public was entitled to- with the as
sociations secretary he sat down and
talked over what the meeting had done.
The News man was the only repre-
sentative Of the press present. He was
given brief outline OF the business
transacted and Informed that that
was ALL other members Of the assoc
citation told him the same thing The
reporter, whose life's training has led
1 him to believe that ministers should
speak the truth, whether they do or not,
went away under the impression that
| he had been honorably dealt with To
| his utter amazement he discovered his
mistake. He found that he had been
| deliberately deceived That which he
had oonscientiousy taken as truth, was
apparently not truth--but falsehood. To
! the nom Mormon" competitors OF the
| Deseret News went the statement OF
what the ministers did Who leaked
not one OF them will tell. But that
one of them did, is certain THE brief
outline" which was given to the
News did not contain the one essen
| TALLY important item of Information
the introduction of the denunciatory
| resolution of the Mormon" Church and
the call for wholly Gentle ticket at
the next election.
ACKNOWLEDGED FAIRNESS.
Just why the Ministerial association
should have withheld this particular
piece of news from this paper is diff
iicult to understand In view OF private
and public Acknowledgement Of late
as to the superiority Of the News
over It's contemporaries. For instance.
during the recent conference OF the
Methodist church, and the sessions OF
the Utah Presbytery and Teachers In
stitute II was frequently aud unms-
takeably asserted by ministers and
members OF their nocks that the Des-
eret News published the fullest and
most accurate accounts OF their pro-
oeedng-that II was the foremost news
paper of Utah, and that they
always knew where to find il
on every question These express
slons were entirely voluntary on
the part Of those who spoke them and
We're In no wise solicited by the News"
or any OF Its representatives. Why,
then, the discrimination
THE REASON.
This Is the reason as youched for by
prominent member OF one Of the sec
tartan churches THE associations
greatest objection to giving the Deseret
News such information first. Is TO ST..
cure a non-Mormon colorlng through
the medium OF the non Mormon press.
Then when the News makes announce
ment concerning II the first impression
has been made. It Is not worth a great
deal but Il is worth something and that
little Is wanted"
THE RESOLUTION.
The resolution referred to was laid
over for one week, II Ia stated that
It win be considered In all OF its de-
tails az that time, In fact II Is get
ting a good deal of consideration now.
It's text Is as follows
Resolved That II be the sense Of
this Ministerial association that the
time has come for the election OF an
out-and-out Gentle mayor and city
council the majority OF the members NJ
which win not be tools In the hands of
the Mormon hierarchy
POLITICAL PROGRAM.
The truth ls the association has
agreed on a political program. II is
in politics deeper than It is I'm affairs
OF church and win be- for some weeks
10 come. IL ~ argued thut there "
much to be gained by making a strictly
anti-"Mormon' campaign, that such a
course wll have an important bearing
ON the "Smoot question later on. So
from this time forth the association can
be depended upon 90 boom GENTLE
stock, 10 proclaim Mormon delin-
quencies, and to stir up strife general
~ II Is in the game Tor keeps ana
WIN make lot OF noise and throw
lot OF dust
WILL GET THE NEWS
Meanwhile the Deseret News win con-
tinue TO get the news and publish it AMI
endeayor to remain, in the unsolicited
Language OF DR. r. G., McNiecc OF the
PRESBYTERIAN church, the newslest. hess
and ablest edited newspaper I'm On
state" From this time on there VIII
h., considerable going on In ministerial
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