The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-14
PARKHURST Is
ON THE WARPATH
Someone Asked His Wife to
Become a. Mormon.
TAKES LETTER FOR A TEXT
PROPOSES TO DISFRANCHIsE
TIRE SAINTS.
TAKES LETTER FOR A TEXT
Especial to The Herald3

Washington. Fob b Rev. DR.. Park
hurst has joined The crusade against
AIormonism. ia recent sermon he
read to his cougreg ptios' a letter pur-
ported 10 have been written by Nor
mon elder to Mrs. PaTyShurst urging her
to become q member Of The congrega-
Jion services being he6d by the Nor
mons in New York city. Ehe purportesl
letter read. i'm part. as follows: We
are going to turn New YORK. out 1,o0A-
coo strong for the Mormon church a14i
God within one year. TIE night IS a ,
ready on. God is on, oar side, WE
mus and shah win We neeQ 50 mucn
Just such good women as you are,
etc Dr. Parkhurst useIl the letter rs
his text in a sermon in which ne pre-
posed an amendment TO the fedeI al
constitution prohibiting 9tOrmons from
exercising political rights.
Hitchcock Of Nebras ska.
or the newspaper men in congress,
Representative Hitchcock Of the sec
ond distriCS OF Nebraska has aaIeady
In his short. term established q ~ puta-
ton. Mr.. Hitchcock, who is the fowner
Of the Omaha World-Herald, wbn his
seat in congSess by beating Dav Mer-
Ger. one Of The strongest men in the
house. He stepped into notice by Of
ferinE the res buttons TO fOOk in TO the
horse and cArriage graft" arid by
backing M the resolutions with FlgOT-
Gus, ready aad effective arguT 0ents
Mr.. Hitchcock. has taken a more active
part i'm the door work of the bouSe
than scores Of members who have been
in congress for many years, and unlike
most new members. he has mace no
bad breaks Reports from NeblaSha
are 10 the effect that Mr.. Hitchcock
viii he selected by his party as the
candidate against Senator Dietrich DeXt
year.
Good Story BY Williams.
When the Democrats of the house at
tine beginning of the. season in NOFem-
her last selected John Sharp Williams
Of Mississippi as their leader on the
noor. they selected a man who for Der
ception ana aptitude for crOss-hre in
debate, has no equal in his party. Mr..
Williams finished his education at
Heidelberg, Germany, and this finish
ing course abroad was preceded by
many years hard study in the best uni
Yersities Of the south.
He - conceded to be one OF the best
story-teIlers in congress, and often wins
his point by the telling Of an apt story.
At one time he is the ShreWd debater
and at another illustrating his point
with q story which fits in with the
matter under discussion Recently when
the appropriation bilE for the depart
ment of agriculture vas under discus
sion in the committee. an item was
reached providing for the salary Of one
Of the numerous scientists supported by
Secretary Wilson in his department.
Williams was opposing the item on the
ground hat the. matters which were
developed by these scientific gentle
men were too abstruse and generally
OF a nature in which the general pub
lie was not interested, and that they
seldom knew anything beyond the
boundaries of their special callings- As
illustrative these gentlemen he told
of q very learned professor who was
lost in the perusaI Of a scientific book
in which he was deeply interested one
night at his fireslde when he was re-
quested By his wife to look outdoor
and report as to the condition Of the
weather He slowly got Up from his
chair III an distracted manner and
walked out into the hallway, but it APP
pears before h got 20 the outside door
I'm an abseut-minded way opened the
Co0r of a pantry and peered into its
dark. recesses Some very pungent linz
burger had been kept IN this pantry,
and ne whiffe1 it in a scared manneR
and quickly closing the door hurried
back into the room where his wife was
sitting. and said: MARY, its as dark
as pitch outside, and everything smells
like cheese"
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