The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-15
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To CONGRESS
Promoters of New Party Have
Another Meeting.
STRONG PROTEST ADOPTED
DECIDE TO ORGANIZE AGAINST
MORMON CHURCH.

MORMON CHURCH.
ONE hundred and eighty-seven men
| and one woman met last night i'm
Hamburger hall. made speeches.
cheered, sang America. and PASSED a
/ resolution Of protest against the testi-
ntony of President Joseph +. Smith OF
the Mormon church that polygamous
cohabitatiOn was condoned in Utah.
The committee on organization OF q
Liberal or American" party re-
Ported in favor of charging the com
( mittee and giving further cous1dera-
/ uon 10 the method of making a fight
against church influence. This report
also was adopted
Farley L. Williams presided at the
meeting, and j. 3. MoretOu was secre-
tary as on the previous occasion. The
first action taken was the adoption OF
( The report of the committee on pro
test 10 congress. The report was signed
Dy William Nelson, John A. Street and
II. J. Dinlnny- On motion of George
4 X Hancock it was adopted by a ris-
ing vote. II is as follows.
Memorial to Congress.
To the Congress- and the People of the
The law-abiding people OF Utah have
read with Arrangement, indignation and
disgust the declaration of President 10
Seph J.. Smith OF the Mormon church thar
they are brOad-miuded enough to consent
10 the shocking violations Of law and
pubic dccency which he confesses 10
I have committed.
We protest that we are not deserving,
OF TINS sort of praise; on the contrary we
most emphaucally repudiate and repeI
the statement which. i'm. fact is an allie
cation that we. knowing of his defiant
ls.MSIessless' are accessories to his
/ We declare, on the contrary. that he
duu Ihe other polygamists have sur
rounded themselves with an inpenetra bic
wall OF secrecy in their pcrpetratiOn OF
the misdeeds testified to have svsfeulsric-
any suppressed the record of births re-
CURED by law, and IL has been fmpoSsi-
4 ole through court process or otherwise
20 OBTAIN any exact knowledge OF what
I was Delng done. much less legal evidence
! ~ tHe olteil5eSi thaC the public seuti-
/ uehJ OF the law-abidinC pecSle here has
. az an times been jealous for Inc Dlrr7isb-
ueht OF polygamy and polygamous prac-
! tices, as we'll as of other crimes
Owing TO the power and control 81 tbe
polS sdIl-sL hierarchy over their people
/ ana the pressure they have constantly
! DIOusnI 70 bear upon them in support OF
I me special crime 10 which they are prone
- mas become a matter of discipline with
on VINO are under that dominance 10 re-
iraln from talking about pOlvganlous re-
lauons and TO deny knowledge OF me
same on all o-sasions The one v,bo
E
teIS mas been stignatized as a traitor "A
SPY and an infOrmer and among the de,-o
f fSe OF the Mormon church is held TO be
aTnist is subject to ostracisn. 7fllsa a.
PflFatlon Of business and 10 every men
e az ~. MHlcn unoridled, unscrupulous pow
Humiliation in Utah.
1t has therefore been Impossible To
! kuoW Wnat was being done in this re-
gard. Notwithstanding strong s1ISDicfons
OF the IacJs entertained by many persons
+ ne vel has been lifted in part for the
Hrst time in the testimony thar has iIsr
Deen given by the church leaders in
" ashlhston, and nowhere in the whole
/ country Old this testimony occasion So
much establishment and humiliation as In
. l tan The Investigation thus far has
/ DetH 50 fruitful that we call for it's rigid
Z cOIltlHudLce, confident that further dis
closures, equally startling. may be ex-
& gSCtSu a. tnere are certainly deeper
uSpIns than have yet been sounded
we therefore denOunce President
Smlth statement that the people in
i IAN Pai!laIe or cOudOne his and like Of
lenses as a libel upon their citizenship
80 Coltselellces- q repudiate the
statement as one wholly untrue. and pro
test against being classed with those
whose MINDS are dead TO the enOrmity or
the offense Of which these seIf-coDfesseJ
IIaW-DrSedkers have been and continue 10
We also most earnestly. protest against
me continuance of the state of degrade
ton and immoral living the resfiTnor--
IeLeTreu 10 discloses, and demand that The
Tvs AGAINST this crime shall be en-
forced with such vigor as TO cornDeI me
GeIlallT transg ressOrS to come within fha
Jaw and Keep good faith with our gen
We therefore show to the country thar
our protest Is tWO-fOld; first against the
! dItempt 10 place us in the false position
or condoners OF this crime. and seco-15
We emphaucally protest against fts fr1r
lIler continuance. and demand that this
/ li'E -DI esltAllS De given up in an its forms
and that Utah shall keep. i'm spirit and in
IeI1eF, the faith it has pledged to the
people OF the United States.
To Secure Signatures.
1t was later decided. on motion OF
Colonel Nelson. to preserve the original
. resolution and have it generally signed
county Attorney George Westel-velt
moved that a COMMITTEES Of fifteen he
. appointed, with power to appoint as
slStants, TO obtain signatures TO the
protest This was carried Chair7nao
Williams named the following commit
tee; hal w Brown. chairman. W F
Earls, Samuel Hammel, r. 3. Hide
brand Samuel McDowall Frank 2
McGurrin. Willard Hansen. H. 3. Bur
ton, n d. Corser. 5. D Chase. H \
Lawrence, George Hancock, ]. N
courtney, Walter J. Meeks. Arthur
Brown and B. s. Rives.
chairman r. ID. r. Thompson OF the
committee on organization made the
following report, which was mani
! mously adopted or motion OF .Judps
/, Samuel McDOwan:
Il Opposed to Mormon Control
{ Your committee appointed bv this meet
D ing OF cltlzens. held ON the evening OF
D Friday the 18th inst, begs leave 10 re-
1 | port.
: That your COMMITTEES is unanimously Of
: ! the opinion that the present social and
J ! political conditions existing in the state
70 Of Utah warrant the formation of an or
. I ganiZatiOn in sympathy with America
O posed 10 Mormon domination and control
Of our state, municipal and and school
] governments.
Your committee recognizes. however
that the questions involved i'm such ac-
! ton require such wisdom as can only
a come from careful consideration and fur
| Their deliberation by larger committee
/ Entertaining that view. VIC respectfully
recommend 10 the meeting the prOprietl
= Of the selection and appointment Of
"a committee consisting OF twenty-five rep
s resentatiVe citizens in sympathy with thi.
1 movement and who shall be authorizes
= such careful consideration as will enabl,
- them 20 present a definite plan Of or
u ganization for the purpose Of furtheriRi
g. such views.
. e T. r. THOMPSON.
: ?. J.. WILLIAMS,
A. r.. DERGE,
=. j. DAILY
GEORGE WESTERN Ell
\ Speeches Were Made.
= Judge Street moved that the commit