The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-01
ELDER TAYLOR OWES MUCH.

Ii isn't that The Tribune needs any
of Elder Joseph E, Taylor's money, so
much as it is that this paper would
like to sec him live up TO his own of
fer.
Some months ago Elder Taylor wrote
letter TO this paper. In that com
munication he offered to give one
thousand dollars for proof going to
show that any new plural marriage had
been performed by and with the knowl-
edge and consent of the Mormon
church officials. We think that The
Tribune has honestly earned that re-
ward in several cases, bringing Elder
Taylor into this papers debt by as
many thousands of dollars as cases of
this nature have been exposed. It is
true that we are unable to give legal
proof in these cases, for sufficient rea-
sons that are we'll known 10 Mr.. l'ay,
lor, and which he should allow to have
some weight in judgment as to the
merit of our contention. Elder Tay-
lor knows that it would be impossible
for even the new polygamists them
selves to furnish documentary proof of
their criminal marriages. Take, for in
stance, the case Of Josiah Hickman,
who took a young schoolma m from
Utah to Mexico and married her in po
lygamy. He testifies that he has no
certificate or any other written evi.
dencc of his marriage, and states that
the ceremony was performed at Juarez
while he and the girl were out walking
on n lonely road He docs not know
the identity Of the witnesses. he says,
and could barely remember tho name
Of the man who performed the cere-
Donald Now, if Elder Joseph F.. Tay-
lor would be fair about the matter he
would pay to The Tribune the sum of
one thousand dollars in the Hickman
case, because Hickman testified under
oath at Washington that the ceremony
performed by Elder Mcdonald was
later ratified and approved in the Salt
Lake temple, by aud with the knowl.
edge and consent Of the Mormon church
officials
Then there is the case of Walter C.
Lyman, president of the San Juan
stake, He was married to Lucy Halls,
the daughter Of his first counselor, Will
liam Halls, of Mancos, Colo. AL.
though Lymap's offending is well
known to the president of the Mormon
church, he is still retained in his &C.
elesiastical office by the bogus prophet
who could remove the culprit if his
conduct had been distasteful TO him,
This unlawful marriage occurred in
Mormon official circles, the parties
thereto being prominent in that Off
cialdom. In every sense Of the word
this crime was perpetrated with the
full knowledge and consent of church
officials, because it was an official who
committed it, and it was an officials
daughter that was dragged into it. We
think that, in all fairness, Elder Jo-
seph T. Taylor owes The Tribune
thousand dollars on this account.
Elder James Carrol's case is an.
other one in which we have sauarely
earned another thousand dollars of
Elder Taylor's money, Carroll married
Annie Burl in the month Of March,
1908 The ceremony was performed by
Anthony c. WINS, who has since been
made an apostle of the church, prob
ably on account Of just such distin.
guished services toward the polygamous
cult Surely the circumstances in this
case as set forth By The Tribune in all
truth, warrant us in claiming a thou
sand dollars Of Elder Taylor's money.
The fact is that there has never been