Show falsehoods WORK WHEN the falsity of the dispatch sent by the associated press agent of this city in regard to the protest against the reappointment of judge zane was exposed the author autho roof lof the untruthful message endeavored to make out that no error was intended but the object of the misleading telegram was partly attained newspapers receiving it were led to believe that the signers of the protest were cormons mormons Mor leMor mons while the truth was that they were every one non cormons mormons 11 A mormon I J appeal against zanes appointment would be of course construed in his favor as the public had been led to believe that the mormons cormons Mor mons would oppose any one who endeavored to enforce the laws i the dispatcher understood this and therefore framed the dispatch dispi atch forthe for the purpose of conveying eying to the press the impression which has ob stained Ita ined it was also iLA intended tended to have an effect at washington damaging to the protest that part P axt of the project has bas failed the influential persons thus sought tobe to be influenced fluen ced obtained better Info information una they know how to valzean application supported by falsehood and fraud A number of eastern papers received here have editorial articles commenting on the caucus of mormon lawyers and their conferees and repetitions of the additional dit ional falsehood that under judge sandford the leaders of the mormon church convicted of polygamy have received nominal sentences and quittance for the past pact those papers ought to know that none of the mormon leaders have N been beem convicted of polygamy that they have not even been indicted for that offense and that jn in cases cam af pf unlawful cohabitation the penalties inflicted by judge sandford band ford have been ample to vindicate the law and much bc uch more effective than the merciless policy of his predecessor if the object in view is to bring about respect for end and compliance with the laws of congress some borne of those papers speak of the knowledge mormons Mor mons who were supposed to have held the caucus that judge zane would carry out the law rigidly and im partially no such caucus was held as represented but tremor the mor mons whether in or out of caucus know exactly to the contrary they will concede the rigidity when cormons mormons Mor Morma mons oits were at bar but not the impartiality cases in which judicial clemency ought to have been extended because the law had been but technically violated received the full double penalties provided for as the maximum when mor imor mons mono were convicted no matter how slender lender the evidence but bat in cases against non mor imor mons mong 11 such light penalties were imposed by the same judge who trembled arid and paled with rage when cormons mormons Mor mons sl were sentenced that the contrast was striking and shameful the record will bear witness of these facts and they cannot be truths truth fully disputed it la Is true that the mormon people do not favor the reappoint appoint re ment of the judge who so venomously and openly exhibited his spleen against a a certain class and his willingness to screen another but they did not figure in the pro test which the press dispatcher in this city attributed to them as he well knew fenew when he sent it with the object swe se have explained it is also true that the mor imor mons are thoroughly disgusted with a person who has been willing to permit efforts to be made in his interest to turn airn out of a four years office a gentleman who has occupied it but about six months so that he might wiggle his way back into it himself and in this the mor mons have the sympathy of af a great number of respectable gentiles who have been more pronounced in their protests than the mormons Mor mons nw have been the papers capers which have been misled into publishing and commenting upon the untruth sent over the wires from this city ought to be fair enough to print the she f facts acts and pillory the author of the falsehood |