The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-21

sessed Of the usual number of ears
failed 10 hear one word of this irnpe-
Tious mandate" OF President Kelly's
requesting the mayer and city council
to remain after Sunday afternoon
meeting 10 pass q resolution. Apostle
Merrill was there and he must have
heard it. Mayor II. g Boden and J.
p. Christensen, Peter Knudensen and
Isaac a. Jensen OF the city council
heard it and remained. Rudger Claw
son, the apostle. heard il and remained
and there were others. In the opera
house meeting when President Kelly's
pent up feelings would not permit him
to talk he called upon his counselor to
explain Our stand as a presidency
There were two shorthand reporters
present and we quote from the speech
as taken by them The matter was
mentioned 10 President Kelly and il
WAS then agreed TO notify the member
OF the city council; they were invited
TO remain after the meeting and did
remain, and / believe three of the high
council were there, not the entire body,
also the president of the stake and
Apostle Clawson" In view of these
facts, why should any person assert
the untruthfulRess Of the statement?
The writer further says that nei-
Their President Kelly nor any of his CO.
Iaborers have ever. interfered with or
dictated the conduct Of our city IA
theirs" If this be true then your cor
respondent has done President Kelly q
gTievOus wrong. And in order to set
tie this your correspondent viii make
this proposition: If President Kelly
or If any Of his friends, will obtain an
affidavit from our state senator and
representative, or from our mayor or
city council, or from our chairman Of
the board of county commissioners, OF
from the county court to the effect
that President Kelly has not interfered
with the county and city functions
then / viii Tetract every word that has
been written. 1t ought to be an easy
matter. if President Kelly's course has
been proper. for him, or any Of his
friends, to obtain such an affidavit.
IF the man who signs himself Jus
tice' viii obtain such an affidavit
either from the representative and
senator or from the city council, or
from the board Of county commission
eTs the writer of this will give 81 1000
to the church the day the affidavit is
published Now, that should be fair
enough. Every official whom 1 have
mentioned, except one or two. is
member of the Mormon church and
they are 1.-THE payers. But each and
all Of these men have been followed
and pursued by President Kelly and
he has branded everyone OF them pub
licly and privately as priesthood
men.
This writer intimates that all that
President Kelly did in the city electric
light matter was to advocate a COM
promise" The facts are that in the
first place President Kelly was with
the people and favored municipal own
ersbip of an electric light plant. Then
a director of a private company had q
talk with President Kelly In the pres
ence Of several persons. The CONVEX
sation was substantially as follows:
President Kelly. you should run things
here like President Snow used to run
them. You are giving up all your time
to the church and you should get
something for it. If a private COM
p2ny would put in this electric light
plant then you could be president Of
it" Then President Kelly said: II
have no money to put in this business,
how could be PRESIDENT" Then the
man said; We can place a thousand
shares to your credit" This statement
was repeated to the present mayor by
a party who was present. 1t was also
repeated to others and spread like
wildfire The matter came up in the
high council and testimony was taken
I
page of his speech above mentioned,
said. ''In the meantime there was
some intimation and also insinuation
that the presidency Of the stake had
been bought"
We do not say that President Kelly
was bought, but we do know that he
changed his position and favored pri-
Vate ownership, with the understand
ing that street lights were to be fur
nished the city free FOR q number of
years. But the people voted for public
ownership. Then President Kelly IA
vored the organization of a private
company and the city was to be per-
mitted TO go in as partner IN the bust
ness. That plan was rejected. Then
President Kelly demanded that the pri-
Vate company be paid by the city
large sum, very large sum for their
holdings. 1t was to arrange this pay
ment that the city council was sum
moned before the high council. The
high council met as advisors and ad-
Indicators The councillor to the presi-
dent Of the stake on page of his opera
house speech. which was made in the
presence oe about 500 people. explained
all of these things and said that the
high council met as a balance wheel"
So the question was agreed upon and
the voting of the bonds was ordered
submitted to a vote of the people.
When some one suggested that the
people might not vote these bonds
then President Kelly said: 81 promise
you the people" The high council
unanimously decided that the people
should vote the bonds. The teachers
We're all called together in the Vestry
Of the tabernacle and there they were
instructed to go out amongst the pee
pie and instruct them TO sustain the
high council. And one man got uD and
said: God has revealed to that man
(pointing to President Kelly that it is
right TO vote these bonds"
President Kelly did not deny il and
this revelation was used with the peo-
pie. As the people continued stubborn
President Kelly said in a priesthood
meeting that Il now prophecy in the
name Of the living Cod that the light
Will never be turned on. referring to
the city's plant After the election in
the tabernacle President Kelly. speak
ing Of those who had opposed him in
this election, said. THAT they would
be trimmed and that their branches
would De Topped on
All persons who had been appointed
TO take charge of auxiliary organiza-
tons in this stake. who opposed Prssi-
dent Kelly in that election openly have
been dropped. If they had stock in or
udtetN &I tuG ocaG6lly It was given as
q reason Those who have never been
inside of the academy were dropped
lust the same. The trimming and lop-
ing has taken place. The Justice ar
tcle says if anything wrong is done
by a church cfficial there is a remedy
in every case" We say there is no
remedy where the statement of the
man IL denied and where he is abused
for making it. There has never. been a
man, who had complaint to make
but who has been discredited at once
by the charge that he was IAN anti
nriesthood. and an auti-lsoa nan N