Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-28
Organ of Crooks Demurs to Story
OF Interview With Mrs.
Cohen.
CLAMoRS FOR MORE FACTS.
In Doing So Disrcgards Them Entirely
70 Discredit Man Who is Charged
With Saying Unsaid Things.

An expose of the methods employed
by the Women's American club TO
bring about the defeat of Senator
Hopkins of Illinois, contained in yes
terday's News" was subjected to two
columns of criticism by the Tribune in
todaNs issue, No complaint is maze
by the latter journal that Mrs. Cohen.
an interview with whom formed the
basis Of the story, was misquoted. but
fault is found because the News" did
not publish all that Mrs Cohen said
to its representatives. The reason for
this failure is apparent-newspa
are restricted in the matter of space,
and to have printed all that was said
pro and con would have been quite
impossible in one issue
The News gave the main questions
that were propounded to Mrs. Cohen
and the gist of her answers thereto.
II said nothing that she Gid not say,
even if all her comments and argu
ments We're not given In detail
Two things that the News" re-
porter did not say in the interview
which Mrs. Cohen declares he did If
she was correctly quoted in the Trib-
une, which may be doubted, were the
following: He did not acquiesce in
her statement that 1t is the purpose
of the Church to force polygamy upon
the people of the country: and he
did not state that i'm the event OF
crisis In Utah he would save fellow
Church member rather than the lady
to whom he was talking.
A TRACT NOT SANCTIONED.
Mrs. Cohen advanced the idea that
1t was the intention of the leaders of
the Church To rule this nation, and
in support of her argument said that
20 years or more ago while living in
Summit county she read a tract which
told of IA vision that someone had had
of seeing the seats of the Congress of
the United States filed with none but
Mormon elders. and that the nations
executive chair was occupied by the
president of the Church.
Mrs. Cohen was told that the pamph-
let was doubtless the result of a mind
diseased or the product of some alto
gether too visionary individual The
interviewer stated ii to be his belief
that such an effusion had never been
sanctioned by the Church nor would be
credited by sensible Church people.
When Mrs. Cohen had told of state
ment made by a Mormon woman friend
as to what would be her attitude in
case of a crisis in Utah, no question
was asked or answered az to what the
reporter would do under similar cir
cumstances
Mrs Cohen reiterates, according To
the Tribune that the Carthage mar
tyrdom was occasioned by the thievery
and evil practises Of the people of Maui
VOC. She was told during the inter
view referred to that the lower element
OF society in Illinois at the time gave
that as the reason. while others at
tributed it to politics. AS bearing upon
this matter il may be well to quote
the authority which was briefly sum-
married. in Mrs Cohen's hearing. Thos.
Ford, governor OF Illinois In 1874, VINO
subsequently wrote a history OF that
commonwealth speaking OF conditions
in and around Nauvoo, said;
NO PROOF ADVANCED,
Nor were any such offenses COM
mitted at that time, except the steal
ing of some provisions, and there was
never the least proof that this was
done by a Mormon.
Again. on my late visit 20 Hancock
county, l was informed by some of
their violent enemies that the larcen-
les Of the Mormons had become un-
usually numerous and lnSuiteraDle'
They indeed admitted that but little
had been done in this way In their inn
mediate vicinity. But they insisted
that l6 horses had been stolen by the
Mormons In one night near Lima, III
the county OF Odams. At the close Of
the expedition, | called at this same
town Of Lima, and upo Inquiry was
told that no horses had been stolen in
that nelghborhood, but that l6 horses
had been stolen In one night in Han
cock county. This last Information
being told OF the Hancock county story.
again changed the venue 10 another
distant settlement in the northern edge
of Adams"
Thus Governor Ford. an avowcd
enemy OF the Mormon people, dissip-
ates the very theory upon which mem
bers Of the WOmeu's American club
assai their Mormon neighbors Follow
ing Is Governor ford's own opinion
OF what caused the trouble leading up
TO the crime At Carthage;
EARLY POLITICAL ANTAGONIST,
IAN election ION Congress In the Nor.
mon district was to come off in August,
1888 Cyrus Walker was the candidate
on tho part of the Wings and Joseph
r. Hogc on the part Of the Demo
Gratis, both Of them distinguished law
yers. The Mumons very clearly de-
cided 10 support Mr.. Walker the
Wing. but owing 10 causes which /
viii relate, they were induced tu ciausc
their resolution. aud this was the cause
I'm a great measure OF that wonderful
ecitement which subsequently prevailed
against that people.
From this time forth the
Wings generally, ana "a part Of Inc
Democrats, determined upon driving
the Mormous out Of the state; ana
everything connected with the Nor
mons became political, and was oonsid
cred almost entirely with reference To