Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-26

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and stop their ears to the claims OF
politicians who are members Of the
Mormon Church and who make prom
ises of Church influence. Treat the
Mormon Church just as you do the
Methodist church, the Catholic church
o, the Presbyterian church
The Pocatcllo Advance, which is on
tine other side Of the political fence, has
this TO say on the same subject:
But action by the party against the
MOrmOns In any way VIII open the way
tor action along other lines that may
never have an ending. The Democrats
Of Pocatello know that Mormon relig-
ious teachings are not the only religious
teachers against whom they have
/ grievance. In fact II the question were
answered by the Democrats OF this
town, 10 would be found that nine
teuths OF them would not think a Nor
mon at an II asked TO name the riglous
official they had the greatest cause for
complaint against
Action OF this character Is distinctly
undtmocratc. The Democratic party
has always s,ood for the largest person.
al freedom possible. consistent with the
general good II this fact Is
kept strictly IN mind there win be lit
he danger that the Democrats VIII
make the mistake Of deliberately drIy-
ing several thousand votes from he
I party
The Statesman, however, keeps up It's
ycnomous, irrational and basaless at
tacks on the Mormon" Church as It
/ did IN the matter Of the assayershiu, In
which It was so ANONYMOUSLY defeated
| In response % the false witness before
the Senate committee, Hon. w. T.
Eorah has the following in that paper
Of sunday last
Editor Statesman: This commune
/ cation would BE- unnecessary were il not
| Tor the statement OF Mr. Calvin COBB /.
| before the Investigating committee at .
| Washington, ! cannot In silence ger /
! nit other people 10 interpret affairs Of I
| vital concern 10 myself and especially I.
| when such Interpretation reflects upon /
men who at one time made known their |
confidence IN me by giving me their /
| support for a high office The truth 1
should be stated regardless Of whom 1t /
| affects and regardless OF what fine the |
! Dries retire before II,
"The charge that I was defeated or |
that Senator Hepburn was elected |
through the influence OF the Mormon |
Church Is unreasonable to those who |
are at all familiar with the facts, The |
/ Mormon members who were with me at |
the start were there at the close just |
as loyal and lmmoyeahle as men could |
l be- Not only that, but they were In |
the meeting which was held after the /
caucus determined I'm favor Of Senator |
/ Hepburn.
Resides when the breakup came and |
Judge Standrod and Senator Shoup re-
tired from the contest. more Mormon |
votes came 10 me than Gentle, But
they say that | did not receive enough |
Mormon votes and that the division |
was made so as to let me out, enough |
Mormons voting for me to conceal the |
situation Wen, ! did not receive |
enough Gentle votes, either, IL oc-
ours to me that they divided up SO as |
10 let me out. If | had received the |
Gentle votes which | thought | had |
reason to believe | would receive, | |
would have been elected easily enough. |
am not charging bad faith or anything |
Of that kind but simply explaining |
what ought TO be apparent, that this |
idea Of the Mormons either electing |
Senator Hepburn or defeating me, or |
that there was any other cause for their |
division than that which divided the |
Gentle vote Is ridiculous. To those !
who saw the bitter controversy all day |
before the last caucus between the |
Mormon members OF the legislature |
and their friends and the earnestness |
which prevailed on both sides, the idea |
that they had q secret understanding |
as to certain division Is so unreason- |
able that only those who are ignorant
Of the facts would give credence to such |
proposition
THE members Of the legislature who |
talked with me about Senator Smoot |
being seated did not exact any pledge |
TO vote for him, They seemed to feel |
that the charges against him would |
prove groundless, and If so, they We're
| DESTROYS Of knowing whether | was In |
such a frame of mind as to give him |
a fair hearing or whether J would be
In favor OF Ousting q member simply |
because he was a Mormon. | stated to |
them in substance that of course | |
could make no pledges as to what ] |
would do I'm the matter of seating Sem
ator Smoot, that | would have 10 hear
the facts and pass upon them as the
facts appeared but that they ought TO
be satisfied judging from my attitude
upon the Mormon question since 1892,
that Senator Smoot would get a fair
hearing They stated that that was all
they wanted and that they did not eX-
peCt any pledges and expressed them
selves as being entirely satisfied ! am
satisfied those men voted for me I'm the
caucus, So upon no theory or upon no
state Of facts can Il be asserted nor
can facts be given from which affair
| inference can be drawn 20 the effect
| that | lost votes by reason Of n refusal
| TO make a pledge In regard to Senator
| SmOot holding his seat. Judge Price
| IL Just as familiar with these facts ms
| | am ana / have reason 10 believe he
would agree with me IN all these mat
| tetS
am utterly tired and disguised with
| this constantly ringing the changes on
| the senatorial election / had my indl-
/ vdual friends and enemies, as II were,
| In the Mormon membership, and |
suppose / have them yet, but am able
| 10 distinguish between some mems indi-
| vdual dislike and the opposition Of an
organization ana other men would be
also II they did not have an object and
purpose I'm view,
Immediately after the election, one OF
| the STAFF of the Portland Oregonian I'M
| deriouk 10 give the reason why l was
| defeated. aud ] have been informed
that he secured his reasons largely
| from Mr. Cobb. In fact Mr. cobb has
so stated, and from the article ! would
| have judged that % be true without
| Ms statement in that article It was
| stated that ] was defeated because OF
my separation from the party In 1896
and for the further reason, as ! rcmem-
Der that ! favored a revision ~ the !
! tariff That article was written immo-
dataly the affair was over, and when
an those facts with reference 10 mat |
tiers touching tho Mormon members
wego Just as woll known and much !
froshcr m the minds Of those connected |
with the affair than now, and yet there |
was no thought OF charging II to Nor |
mon influence,
"Now, the whole truth Of the matter |