MORE PRIESTLY interference EN C E FOR fon some time past rumors have been plentiful in regard to a recent secret anti antl mormon I 1 movement on the part of the resident clergy of the various denominations it has been stated that they had united in presenting to president cleveland a document requesting him to retain some if not all of the present utah federal officials in office because of the inroads it is claimed they have lately been making upon the mormon religion whatever has been done in this direction has been operated in the dark so that the true inwardness of the movement ent remains as yet a matter of conjecture with the public on saturday last we sent a representative of this journal to three different clergymen with a personal request nest for information upon the subject which is one of considerable local ird iri terest the gentlemen visited were e tho rev mr nir le do witt baptist and bishop tuttle tattle episcopalian rev mr iliff was not found both of those seen declined to give information on the subject of a specific char actor having each undertaken an obligation i gation of se cresy etwas it was ascertained however that all the clergymen commenced a series of meetings on the subject about one month ag ago 0 d bishop ishop tuttle acting as chairman a and rev dewitt de witt as secretary the result of these delibe dellbe delibera deliberations rw ions lons was a document on the present phase of the mormon quest question lon lor signed or at least agreed upon by the cler clen clergymen ely ply gien wien of all the sects the representation sen tation or misrepresentation it cannot be definitely stated which was duly forwarded to washington and a response is daily expected our representative inferred from certain tacit admissions by one or other of the two gentlemen approached that the document was inore more or less political in its inwardness but the for a statement as to whether it embodied an urgent demand for the retention of certain federal officials in office was met with a positive dealina lon ion tion to respond by any expression ither lither nega neza negative tive or af affirmative firmat IV e the rev dewitt admitted the pos ossion of copies of the documents and agreed upon in the underground modus operandi but declined ned to allow our reporter to opy copy or even peruse them of ourse course they will sooner or later see ligh litand tand consequently the only lif feasible e motive that apparently can se be assigned for the air of oi mystery assumed bythe by the reverend gent gentlemen leme a is that hey they feared the breaking of the force of heir leir attempt by a counter represents lon ion tion from the well known anti mormon bias not wt to say animus of some of tl them ie in it would be almost it charity h ari art ty beyond consistent bound sto to enter entertain ta I 1 n the idea that th the e resentment presentment was waa so favorable to the saints and consequently to justice and that the formulators were by the secret process putting off the stinging cuts of the ati a tl II mormon Sl ormon whip to as remote a date aa as possible still in the we absence of clearly defan defined ed information on tile the subject we will try with all our in litto olve give the gentlemen the benefit 0 of any doubt under the circumstances if future 1 developments I e lom is show that they are not p permanently m rie tty entitled to it then what we have haye 1 a said a in relation to their theli ze christian ha t i at br brethren e t h ren throughout the country belongs belong ftp to them in in tenfold ten fold ratio those at a distance act more or less blindly tho those senho who are here are acquainted with the fact th atno worthier or more intrinsically moral community exists under the fla fia of the republic than the latter day paints saints int S washington 2 atho tho senata senate ad I 1 joined sine dig die t i