The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-08
APOSTLES ARE IN
OPEN REBELLION
Cowley, Taylor and Teasdale Are
Said to Have Defied Pres
ident Smith.
ARE OUT OF HARMONY"
THEY REFUSE TO OBEY ORDER
TO GO TO WASHINGTON.

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Apostles Matthias F. Cowley, =
John w Taylor and George. Teas y
= dale are in open rebellion against =
= the authority of President Joseph y
f i. Smith, head of the Mormon y
= church, according to reliable in y
formation which leaked out yes y
y terday. \
1t is stated that some months \
y ago President Smith wrote them, =
= directing them to submit them
y selves to the jurisdiction of the y
= United States senate and testify =
y in the SmOOt case, and that all y
= three fatty refused. They dared. =
y II IS said, deIy the president of the y
y church rather than be forced to y
admit that they had taken plural y
wives since the manifesto.
Since then, it is claimed, PreSi-
y dent Smith has treated them as
y virtual outlaws from the church. =
= They are regarded by their fellow y
y apostles as being out of harmO- y
y ny with their quorum The last y
apostle who was adjudged as
y being out of harmony" was Mo- =
y ses Thatcher, and he was sum-
y marily depOsed.
This strengthens the belief that y
= the three apostles will be depOsed =
= today, and that four new apostles =
y instead of one will be sustained at
y the present conference ~
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With every member of the church
consumed by curiosity as to what Pres
ident Joseph F. Smith will do with the
three apostles accused of having taken
plural wives since the manifesto, the
session of the Mormon conference yes
terday was remarka bic chiefly for what
did not happen. The entire day was
spent in dOctrinaI dissertations and ad-
dresses by officials of the church, coup
led with accounts of experiences in the
mission field by several presidents of
missions.
The semf-annuaI proceeding of "sus-
tanning" the general authorities of the
church will come today, and d record
breaking attendance is expected. 1t is
then that President Smith will make
public what he intends-tO do in the
cases of George TeasdaIe, John W.
Taylor and Matthias F. COwley- The
general expectation among the Saints
is that they viii be dropped from the
quorum.
Hand of Smoot Is Traced.
A prominent political friend of Sena-
tor Reed SmoOt is authority for the
statement that the senatOr-apOStIe has
been insistent for months that at tins
I
dale should be depOSed- Little doubt
seems TO exist in the mind of anybody
that Apostle SmOOt wishes the three
apostles Ousted because he believes
that it will help his case before the
United States senate.
The body of the congregation was
on tenter-hOOks all day yesterday
Every time President Smith pulled a
paper from his pocket or made any
other possibly significant movement.
there was an anticipatOry rustic all
over the big tabernacle, and d sus-
pense until is was ascertained that the
alarm was a false one, and that the
sustaining" was again to be delayed
The close of the Afternoon session came,
and there was nothing doing" so the
audience filed out to wait the coming
of another day. Today is the last day
of the conference.
At the Morning Session.
The morning session yesterday
opened with the hymn. How Firm
c. F. Middleton. a cOun-
sellOr in the Weber stake presidency,
offered prayer. and then the hymn.
''AIl Hail the Glorious Day. was sung.
George Reynolds, a member of the
council of seventies. was the first
speaker. AS a member of the quorum
which has direct charge of missionary
WORT, he said he rejOiced in the fact
that never before in his experience had
he known such a willingness on the
part of members of the church to go on
missions as exists today. During the
present month, he said. $50 missiOna-
ries will leave for various parts of the
earth.
A disceuraging thing. Elder Rey-
noIds said, was the fact that many of
the missionaries do not keep the
Word of Wisdom" which is the rev.
elation enjOining abstinence from to-
bacco, liquor and other things. He
emphasized the necessity for Observ-
ance Of the Word of Wisdom Elder
Reynolds paid a tribute to the church
schools, and said that as a result of
their efforts missionaries are better
now than ever before to
preach the gospel
J. w. McMurrin, also a member of
the council of seventies, said that on
all missions one man of experience
should accompany those of less expe-
rience. In this way, he asserted, bet
ter results would be secured. In a gen.
aral dissertation on the church. Elder
McMurrin declared that the Mormon
church was so founded on truth that
people of other denominations who try
ways meet with failure in their eff
forts.
cIawson on Commercialism.
After John Smith. presiding patri-
arch of the church and a brother of
President Smith had made a brief |
address. Apostle Rudger Clawson took
the floor and spoke until the noon re-
cess. The burden Of Apostle ClawsonNs /
talk was a defense of the right of the
church to give counsel not alone in /
spiritual things, but in temporal things. /
The general authorities, the presi- !
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