Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-20
What Bishop Connolly Said in
Remarks at Eureka on
Sunday
REMARKS WERE DISTORTED.
Interview In Deseret News Puts an
Entirely Different Light on the Seri.
Gus Charges That We're Made.

ON Tuesday, Jan. 10, the Salt Lake
Tribune had a sensational story with
suggestive headlines boldly displayed
on the first page, attributing to Bishop
Connolly at Eureka threatening re-
marks concerning those persons who at
tempted to expose Endowment Cere-
monies. lie was quoted as saying "as
they are traitors ! shall treat them as
traitors. / have know men 20 be shot
to death for breaking their oaths." The
subject which the Bishop was treating
when he gave expression to the words
was the revealing OF the Endowment
and Temple oaths by witnesses In the
Smoot Inquiry. He condemned In the
scVerest terms the witnesses at Wash
ington. They have broken the most
sacred compacts with God regardless
Of their solemn oaths 1 look upon
them With the utmost contempt"
The Tribune went on In the same
strain TO attribute to the speaker re-
marks that he did not make and init
nation that he never thought or 90 he
declares I'm an interview with the Des-
cret News. The falsehoods contained
IN the Tribune report were wired to the
committee mt Washington, and 10 pa
pcrs In the east, IN order 10 inhame
the public mind, Following Is the in
teryiew with Bishop Connolly I'm which
he makes a plain and straightforward
statement Of what he said last Sunday!
"What I said was greatly misrepre-
scented, Just why | don't know. You
win notice that there is a vast differ
ence between what ! said and what |
am reported 10 have said, when ! tell
you the facts. First OF all | desire TO
say that ! spoke but eight minutes. A
portion OF that time ! talked upon 10y
atty and then called attention 10 the
unfavorable light In which people are
held by their fellows when they violate
q common or public trust. | said that
traitor was always TO be desplsed
and that a man who took an oath or
obligation that he would never reveal
q secret and then publicly or otherwise
break that covenant was particular
subject for pity or disgust. / did not
say by word or ntimatlon that ! had
known men 10 be taken out and shot
for disclosing such matters as had been
disclosed during the Smoot hearing at
Washington, or because they had re-
Veaed church secret of any kind
Any iutimatlon to that effect is whllly
and mallclously false. What | did
say was this: i HAVE KNOWN OF
MEN WHO WERE TRAITORS TO
THEIR COUNTRY AND THE CON-
STITUTION IN TIMES or DANGER
BEING TAKEN OUT AND SHOT, /
HAVE NO RESPECT OR SYMPATHY
FOR MEN OF THIS CHARACTER,
NOR HAVE ! ANY SYMPATHY OR
RESPECT FOR PERSONS WHO ARE
TRAITORS TO THEIR CHURCH OR
PEOPLE"
"This," said Bishop Connolly, us
what ] said, word for word, as near as
| can remember. II is what ] told a
representative Of the Tribune when he
called on and interviewed me during
the course OF a fifteen minutes CONVEX
sation, That Is what | expected to
see his paper publish But Judge OF
my astonishment when 1 saw that It
had been given a wholly different color
ing. / was quoted as saying what |
did not say. and what said was either
entirely omitted or mlsconstrued in the
most shameful manner"