The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-28
LII Addition to Aiding Poor,
They Are Forced to Aid
Church Republicans.
DEMOCRATS HAVE PROOF
POSITIVE OF CONSPIRACY
In Three Stakes of County the
Smootites Have Attempted
Reprehcnsible Methods.

Absolute and positive proof that
ell S Relief society of the Mormon
church in various wards in Salt Lake
City and county arc working for the
Republican party has been furnished
the Democratic state and county com.
mittees.
So Jealous have some Of these wom-
en- become that they have whispered
to their sister members of The church
that President Joseph i. Smith did
not mean II single word that he had
publicly said in the past nor the state
ments which had appeared from him
as editor -in-chicf Of the Mutual I'M
provcmcnt Era regarding prohibition.
So Overzealous have some of these
Republican ticket win in Salt Lake
county that they have. even gone so
far as to say to their sister members
of the church that President Joseph r.
Smith had received Il new revelation
on the word of wisdom as given to the
members of the charch by its found
er. and that the new revelation would
be made known to the members of the
church in a short time. The new revc-
lation, it was said would show that
the conditions which exist in the hu.
man family today are different than
they were when the founder OF the
church received the fword of the
Lord" on what was good "for man
10 eat and drink
Work in Three Stakes.
That members of The Relief society
have been at work in at least three
x,l- Snlr T,1r t1r 10 In
These stakes are Granite. Liberty and
Ensign. Ii is said that when the in
formation that members of the relief
society were working in his stake in
the interest Of the Republican ticket
reached President Frank Y. Taylor
lato Thursday afternoon he gave no.
tice that it should he stopped. 1t is
understood that President Taylor called
up some of the women who arc said
tn have been engaged in the work
and insisted that they desist. Presi-
dent Taylor is understood 10 have de-
clared that he was responsible tor the
had received information from the
president of the church that the wom-
on were to engage in political work
they should confine their efforts TO the
work Of relieving and assisting the
poor
President f, w. Young of the Ensign
stake is said to have given similar adj
vice.
Democratic Woman in Service.
The Democratic committee has been
Informed from an absolutely reliable
source that Mrs. Herman Grcthcr, presi-
dent of the Relief society in the Thirty
third ward. has been visiting women
OF the Mormon church in that
ward aud distributing 4 pamphlet con-
tanning the alleged statement of Ben
Rich. as published several DAYS ago in
the Smoot HMouth.' Mrs. Grether
and her husband have been rated as
SOLID Democrats ever since statehood.
Mrs. Grcther is said TO have visited
the home of woman of the district
who has always been known as a Re-
publican. This woman welcomed, as
she always has. every teacher of the
church, male or female. The following
conversation, in substance, is said to
have taken place:
The president of the Relief society
| know that You arc a Republican, and
] want to leave d little pamphlet with
you and to urge you to vote the Repub~
lican ticket this fall.
The voter-Why do YOU ask ME to
vote the Republican ticket7 / have
always voted it, but am not going TO
this year. Why should you come to me
with Republican litcruture7 j thought
that you were d Democrat
The PRESIDENT have been asked to
distribute pamphlets and to urge that
the sisters vote the Republican ticket.