Year: 1874

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When Mrs. Ann Eliza Young left


Salt Lake City she bore testimonials


and recommendations from some Of
the most respectable citizens of the
place. Her recent connection with
the unclean system of polygamy rem
dered such Endorsement necessary to
her success before the Eastern public.
When the telegram announcing that
she and her agent had been IN fla
granite delictu was published here, her
friends said nothing publicly, but re-
solved to await further light. We
understand that they now pretty gen
orally and fully reject the stories,
since given in detail, as malignant
scandals. For this conclusion they
assign the following reasons.


A thoroughly responsible gentle
man of this CITY was in Bloomington
when Mrs. Young lectured there.
After the lecture he went in company
with Major Pond to the room occupi-
ed by Mrs. Young and the Majors
dutghter. At about half-past 10 Ma
jor Pond went to his own room, ac-
companied by our informant, who re-
manned with him until midnight.
Obviously, then, the interference
drawn from the story of the night
clerk about the key goes by the
board.


VIC. wooDHULL' s SHARE IN THE sLANDER.


The yarn telegraphtd d to the Chi
cago Times, and republished with so
much gusto by the Herald, that Vic
toria Woodruff knew of the truth of
the scandal, is contradicted by the
fact that this notorious woman was
not in Bloomington at the time, as
well as by the fact that the rooms on
each side of that occupied by Mrs.
Young and Miss Pond were taken,
the one by our informant and the
other by Mrs. Young's agent.


The Milwaukee dispatch. to the
Times has all the appearance of a
malicious fabrication, the object of
the creature who sent it being to yet
further srhirch Mrs. Young's charac-
ter by associating her with so notori-
Gus person, We feel entire conf
dence that Mrs. Woohull did not
make the statement to the Milwaukee
audience that is attributed to her.
If she did, which we will admit for
the sake of argument, it was a bald
and palpable falsehood, and her ami
mas may be understood when the
fact is stated that she had several
months before attempted to take Mrs.
Young's cause under her patronage,
and that the latter lady was warned
on leaving the city against having
anything to do with her. OF course,
she observed the warning, and hence
the spiteful fling of the infamous ad-
vocate of free-loveism. The HerdM
stoops pretty low when it republishes
the filings of Brick Pomeroy and Vic
toria Woodruff as authority.


THE sLEEPING-oAR STORY.


So much Of the story as relates to
the sleeping car was started immedi-
ately after the lecturing party left
Bloomington. A note was promptly
addressed to Major Pond, asking for
an explanation. 1t came at once,
and the substance of it was publish
ed in the Tribune two days since.
We venture the statement that no
candid person, who knows the parties
implicated, doubted its correctness
for moment.


At every point the scandal seems
to be met, and that, too, with the
imperfect information furnished ap-
parently by accident. If anything
further were needed to brand the sto-
ries as UNANIMOUSLY false, it is found in
the fact that their vendors did not
dare publish them until Mrs. Young
and party were more than a thousand
miles away. More than q month had
elapsed from the time they had left
Bloomington. The hearty indorse-
ment of.


THE YOUNG MEMS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Of that city had been meantime pub
lished throughout Iowa and Wiscon-
sin. Yet no breath of the great scan
dial. But no sooner were the West
ern lecture engagements fulfilled, and
the parties off for Boston, than the
dastardly agent of the Priesthood
here emptied his filth and venom into
the columns of the Chicago Times.
The very day Of Mrs. Young's engage
ment to lecture in fremont Temple
was the time chosen for the publica-
ton of the falsehood. Of course it
was supposed that the telegraph
would carry the news, and that she
would be overwhelmed on her first
appearance in Boston. In this the
conspirators were disappointed. Mrs.
Young lectured in Boston on the 10Th
to an audience of seventeen hundred
persons. The impression produced
is shown by the fact that Redpath of
the Lecture Bureau at once offered to
engage her for q month for two thou
sand dollars.


THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MoRMoNIsM.


We have given in this article the
naked facts, as far as they have trans
pired. If others have fuller or diff
ferent information, we are not aware
of it. We concur with the friends of
the lady in this city in saying we be-
lieve the stories to be utterly false.
At any rate, the evidence SO far is en-
tirely inadequate to sustain them.
Doubtless the Herald will be able to
fish up from the slums of the Eastern
press some filthy morsels for the del
ectation Of its readers. But that it
will ever adduce proof sufficient to
convince impartial judges that the
story over which it gloats has any
other origin than dastardly purpose
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