The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-27
HEBER's FLUIDITY OF SPEECH.

Apostle Heber j, Grant has been say
lug number of things again, but CON
fined himself principally to declara-
tion that men have falsely represented
him in the matter of politics, and that
there is some awful fate awaiting in
dividuals who thus malign "the Lord s
anointed." Perhaps the funniest
thing he said-(Heber J. has 50 per.
sistenly devoted himself to humor of
late that it has become almost impos~
sible to consider him seriously
the following, as we get it from the
morning newspapers:
AS an example OF willful misreprescnta-
ton, l recall some years ago that | was
elected, without my consent, 10 be a dele
gate to the State Democratic convention.
! had made up my mind to Keep out oil
politics and not to aspire to any Office,
and did not care to attend the convention.
but, as | had been elected a delegate
while l was out OF the city, went.
Then Heber goes on to complain that
a certain newspaper described him as
having made himself extremely busy
at the convention, which assertion he
declares to have been entirely untrue.
And he should have had the candor to
say that the paper which made those
reports about him (and we believe the
reports were true, in spite OF Grant S
denial,) was the organ of the Demo
cratic party in Utah,
However, as VIC have intimated, ii is
the humor in the thing that appeals to
us most LARGELY. As if Heber J. doesu I
know that it is not unusual in hicrarch-
zeal political practice to designate men
for certain duties and activities with
out thclr consent, under the knowledge
that they will prove to he obedicnt to
the "call" to the particular "mis
sion mapped out. it is assumed that
there were also aternates elected to
serve at the convention in case of un
willingness or disability on the part
of principals to serve. So that if Heber
had disliked the job so furiously he
could have called upon one Of these
alternates to represent him-but he
didn't
But if those who lie about the Saints
are to be punished, what shall be done
with those Saints-like Heber J.-who
| deny the truth and pronounce facts TO
be lies, thus lying IN double degree?
We also "recall some years ago.
that Apostle Grant became extremely
active as a political letter writer. Elder
J. Golden Kimball will bear US out in
this assertion. Mr.. Grant desired
ever so much-that a certain candidate
for the Senatorship should receive the
support of the Legislature. So he wrote
several very interesting epistlcs to Mr..
Kimball, urging this candidate upon
| the attention Of the people, and sug-
gestng TO President Kimbali that he
could 10 much toward achieving The
! Grant ambition to become maker OF
United States Senators, us we'll ms t.
| repair Hober's ''financial anatomy -
| Elder Kimball s special calling in the
! church is to travel throughout the sew
eral stakes of Zion to preach the Cos
| pei; and Apostle Grant realized the
value of mixing with this religious
duty a little politics now and then.
| Therefore the letters
Now, it is not for us to say that
even in this matter the singing apostle
was his own master. And if he now
desires to plead that he was grossly
misrepresented by The Tribune when
il printed those letters in full, this pa.
| per will not care, for il can stand any
amount Of the Grant dcnunciation that
may he suitable to the apostolic or
| prophetic purpose But for the sake
Of his own repute we trust that Heber
J. will not plead that he wrote the
kimball letters in his sleep.