The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-13
THE PRESENTATION PERFECT.

Pursuing our presentation OF the
truth that Joseph and Hvrum Smith
were murdered by their own Mormon
brethren The Tribune will again refer
TO the witness imported and brought
in bx the Desercj News, namely
Something of Men | Have Known, .
bv Hon. Adlai T.. Stevenson,
This paper has reviewed the many
conditions entering into the cause OF
unrest aud final election which the Nor
mon people experienced at Nauvoo In
the early fortics. IT has shown that
the grossest immoralities were prac-
ticed-and this out of Mormon testi-
mony-and that the political abuses
were somewhat enormous. In the
meantime we have demonstrated by the
recital Of Denison l.. Harris, who, for
many years was the bishop of Monroe,
Sewer county. (thc recital having been
printed in the Contributor for April,
lSSl) that there was a bloody conspir-
acy against Joseph Smith. Mr.. Harris
was boy at the time, and he was ad-
viscd, as his recital VIII show, to at
tend rs many of the meetings of the
Mormon conspirators as. he possibly
could, and report the proceedings to Jo-
seph Smith. On the face OF that recital
is evidence of the fact that Joseph
Smith feared most of all the vengeance
Of his own brethren. He knew that he
had oppressed them by means of his
authority as a prophet and the mouth
piece of God Almighty, mayor of Nau-
VOC, Lieutenant. Governor of the Nau-
WOO Legion, and political boss, under
the unnatural powers of the Nauvoo
charter. He had, as history will show,
smashed the types and the press of the
Nauvoo Expositor, little paper print.
ed in protest against the wrongs thus
perpetrated. This paper was owned by
William and Wilson law, Francis Hig-
bee, and other Mormons In fact, Will
liam Law was Joseph Smith $ first
counselor in the first presidency Of the
Mormon church, Although politics
seems to have had n great deal of cf-
feet III the final consummatlon, it seems
that even in that respect the greatest
danger TO Joseph Smith was threat
cned from inside his own church.
Now, The Tribune has gone to the
trouble TO show that the murderous and
fatal assault upon Joseph and Hyrum
Smith was committed by Mormons
Dcnison l.. Harris, IA Mormon bishop,
speaking through the Contributor,
Mormon publication, under the pen of
Horace +, Cummings, a Mormon writer,
says that Just before the death of Jo-
seph Smith three meetings were held
ut the house of William Law, first
counselor TO the "prophet.' The Trib-
une has declared that this was the
| fatal elimination of the great con.
spiracy. Whether or not politicians, or
Joseph IS naturally immoral bent, had
most TO do with the provocation, we
contend that this conspiracy inaugu-
rated at William Law S house put
into practice the vengeance Of that
community. Hon. Adlai Il. Stevenson,
after having described the contributing
conditions in precisely the same line as
has The Tribune, establishes the verac.
! ity OF Bishop Dcnison L. Harris IN the
following;
That this condition OF affairs could not
long continue WAS manifest. The bloody
| termination however came i'm a manner
| unexpected To all Two OF the Mormon
leaders. William ana Wilson Law were
| at the time mentioned. in open revolt
against the ncwly-assumcd powers and
the alleged practices of the prophet
OF course, the bloody termination
could not have come unexpectedly TO