The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-22
HIS BRAzEN PROFFER.

The Tribune must confess to having
neglected Elder Joseph Il. Taylor-that
Joseph L. Taylor of the abundance of
polygamous reward money-of late; but
we must plead the flood of other mat
ter demanding treatment, and must pro
test that our lack of attention was by
no means due to any disrespert toward
the gentleman. Knowing his delight at
personal notonety, we feel that this eX-
planation is due before proceeding.
II will be recalled that Elder Taylor
became righteoNsly-or unrighteously
rs the reader may care TO conclude-in-
dignant at The Tribune for its persis.
tent exposures OF new polygamists in
the Mormon church, The Taylor wrath
must have been indeed mountainous,
since in the midst of it he even went so
far as to risk money in a proposal made
to this paper. For the moment he de-
termined to show that patience over"
taxed could even produce a bluffing
hand movement toward the purse of n
tightwad. So he up and offered to The
Tribune a reward of one thousand dol
lars in cash for proof in each and every
case of new polygamy that this paper
could substantiate. Of course, there
were onditions-carefully and adroitly
formulated in the interest Of Elder Tay-
lor s bank account. With respect to
these conditions, perhaps it may be bet
ter to produce a few illustrations,
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z, Cowley were and are new polygam-
lists. They were wanted by the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections; :;
they could not be found, Apostle Heber
j. Grant was once wanted on account Of
his polygamous sins; he skipped to Eng
land. Elder Samuel Newton was desired
by the Senate committee; he sloped off
to Canada. Lillian Hamlin was n de-
sired witness; she could not be located.
Elder Winslow Farr and Sarah Gra-
ham Farr could give valuable testimony
TO the committee; they avoided service
of subpocnas. Ella C. Steffenson could
not be found, although her abiding place
was known up 10 the time that the sub.
poena was issued at Washington. Elder
Thomas Chamberlain was looked for; he
travelled just ahead of the marshal,
guided, warned and protected by ad-
herents of the polygamous cult Nell c.
Brown could have told how she came
to be polygamously married to Elder
John Silver since 1890; she soiourned
elsewhere until the danger was over,
Mary DANES was the new polygamous
wife of Elder Joseph Morrell, and it was
within her power TO inform the Senate
committee concerning the details of the
criminal ceremony in which she en-
gagged with Morrell; she was lost in
Logan within thirty minutes after the
arrival Of the marshal" lost' in the
holy" precincts of the Logan temple
Elder Joseph NJ. Tanner. the committee
thought, would make splendid wit
ness; but the committee could not get
hold of him.
And so it is that Elder Joseph 4.
Taylor feels safe In offering reward
of one thousand dollars for evidence in
any case of new polygamy. He knows
Just what the situation is, he knows that
there are hundreds of cases of new
polygamy within the church; but he Of
fers his reward with feeling of secUr-
ity begotten Of the knowledge that not
one of his own plural wives could prove
in court that he was her husband-cx-
cept by repute And it is by repute that
we know the new polygamists, and 1t
is by the same means that Elder Taylor
knows them; and it is because his own
wives could be denied by him with I'M
nunitzy that he feels sufficiently brazen
to make hypocrltically dishonest offers
of reward.