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Show H A PROTEST FROM HALVERSON AND A DIF- H FERENCE OF OPINION. Il Mr. Editor: In justice to the Governor and the H friends who so ably supported me in ray contest H for the appointment of district attorney, X do not H think I should pass your leading article of last H week In silence. While your moral concludes that H. if anyone does not like that article they can lump H it, I do not believe you wish to persist in being H wrong, and you are certainly wrong so far as the H appointment ot district attorney Is concerned. R My chief support came from Gentiles. If it had m not been lor at least two leading Gentiles here, I H should not have been an applicant for the posl- H tion, and it I had not received such generous sup- M port from Gentiles as well as Mormons, I am cer- H tain I should not have received the appointment. I DID NOT HAVE THE SUPPORT OF BISH-H BISH-H V OP McKAY OR BISHOP WADE, AND THEY H ARE THE ONLY PROMINENT CHURCHMEN H SO FAR AS I KNOW, WHO ACTIVELY INTER-H INTER-H ESTED THEMSELVES IN THE MATTER. They H wero active partisans for my opponent. H 1 simply wish to give credit where credit is H due, and refute the charge of church domination H in this case. Respectfully, GEORGE HALVERSON. H Ogden, Utah, April 30th, 1903 H The above is part of a letter written to Good- H win's Weekly by George Halverson of Ogden. The H letter is oi some length, and only the extracts are HI printed having immediate bearing on the article HI in question, that Is, the mention of "Church in- Hj lluence" in the appointment of Mr. Halverson. K v O ? H Mr. Halverson, this is for your benefit. You H are a young man and though you are more or a Hi Mormon now than when you returned from coi- H lege, your sudden appearance as the apologist H for the churqh does not carry the assurred priv- H ilege of deceiving, with impunity, the un-Godly H Gentile. Tnough your chief thought in a church H way lately has been a private congratulation H that you did not leave the church as you at one H time contemplated, the fact remains that you are H Mormon bred and, as such, the church probably H j knows it can put its finger on you whenever it H needs you in its business. But that is outside the H case. You see above that part of your letter H which "refutes the charge of church domination ' I in your rase. Now, Mr. Halverson, the world H is divided into two great classes of men; those H who know and those who do not know H You "have, gone on reqord - over your H own signature as one of those who does not know. At least you say so. Read the last six H or eight lines of your letter again. Do ypu see H I anything there about Shurtiitf? No, on the con-H con-H I trary, you say Bishops McKay and Wade are Hi f the only prominent churchmen who interested H "Nfci themselves in thq, matter. H Sfc Now Mr. Halversdn, if you are telling what . yu believe to be the truth, you are indeed one of H ' the "don'tr knows,", and as such you certainly H f dcu't lenow enough to be district attorney tor H theSeconti Judicial district. If you are not tell- . ing the truth, you ought to have your ofllce tak-H tak-H en from you for attempting to bolster up a poli- tical fraud with a cunning and evasive mlsrep-H mlsrep-H resentation. Of course, Mr. Halverson, you may H .be one of those denee mortals, living as you do In one of the rural districts of the kingdom, who B ' d( es not know when he is struck by Brigham " street lightning, and though you preface your I I statement by saying "so tar as 1 know," It is I ft more reasonable to suppose that you are not I ll such a rare donkey as your bray would indicate. HV TB NoW' Mr' Halverson' attend: Do you mean to v v Hto" say that 3 U d not lcnow tnat Weber's political H 1 HHjrtfa contortionist, tho foxy Shurtliff, demanded at - - - 1 ' the hands of the governor your appointment in the name of the church? Do you not know that Shurtliff was o proud of his successful ecclesiastical eccles-iastical jugglery that he bragged about it to acquaintances ac-quaintances here and in Ogden, saying, "I did it." Do you not know that leading church authorities asked for your appointment? Ot course you know all this; yet you have the nerve to sign your name to a statement practically denying that you know you are alive. More than that, you know Bishop McKay did more for you than he did for your apponent. As for Bishop Wade, God and the governor alone are able to say where he stood and because ot the juxtaposition of interest, inter-est, neither is disposed to tell. Again: Do you not know that your people in Ogden and your relatives here openly boasted that you could not be beaten because "the church" was backing you? Do you not know that Apostle John Henry Smith urged your appointment to tho governor? gov-ernor? Don t you call that "active interest"? Finally, dont you know that your extraordinary statement that you did not know anything about it will be read with astonishment by scores of people wno gave you credit for reasonable intelligence? intel-ligence? To conclude, Mr. Halverson: You knew when you wrote the letter that Apostle John Henry and President Shurtliff, especially the latter, lat-ter, were Insistent in your behalt. You also knew that Bishop McKay went out of his way to misrepresent mis-represent your opponent and you were the beneficiary bene-ficiary ot his peculiar conduct. Yet you plead ignorance. Your letter is very maladroite. But there seems to be no hope tor you. You even misconstrue the moral tacked on to the article you object to. We are more convinced than ever that you are the wrong man for the important office of district attorney. |