Show antiquated AND EXPLODED STORIES KATE FIELD fiel D is quite rampageous over the removal of her admired and admiring friend ell eli H murray from the governorship of utah ins in contribution to harpers weekly of april she fairly trolls over in a frothy attack on the presidency of the mormon church the female bohemian probably attributes the downfall of her crony to the influence of those gentlemen and so they are made the special I 1 objects of af the venom of her tongue the article like her anti mormon lectures is made up of stale go gossip i with barely elou enough h of the salt of in it to save it from corruption the nub of the whole thing is an affidavit printed years ago inthe in the DESERET NEWS and thoroughly refuted and now brought forward as though it was something newly discovered to do duty against president george Q cannon it is the affidavit of the jew which was manufactured for tile the purpose of helping a contest against delegate Uel Del agate cannon for his seat in congress r it alleges that on or about the fir arst t day of march 1855 brother cannon taught razi a that it was the duty of evry every mormon to shed the blood of his nei neighbor h bo r for salvations salvat ions sake an and d bat that ought to kill almon W Bali babbitt bitt who was going east and was in 1856 killed by the indians on his way home f from rom NV washington ashington the wh whole ole story was bought and paid for and is so absurd and self refuting as to need no denial to those acquainted with the e circumstances related brother cannon at the time mentioned was not prominent in the church and early in the spring of 1855 went to california where he published the western standard the affidavit was not co concocted till march 1874 and yet the lively kate tries to make out that disappeared as the consequence of refusing to do as he was told in ia 1855 she ought to be a little more mere particular in examining dates before dishing up such an old and exploded story as kazins Ra to supplement that falsehood she presents in a deceptive manner the reply of delegate cannon when geo R maxwell axwell accused turn him ain in a contest for tile the ot of living with four wives in defiant and wilful violation of tile the laws of the united states his answer was simply a legal response similar to a plea ot of hot guilty in in order to put the accuser to the proof and as a matter of fact he be was not living with any one in defiant or wilful violation of tata law kate tries to whitewash murrays Mur rays attempted usurpation and violation of his oath of office in giving the certificate of election to a person who was not elected and says that george Q cannon was an alien unfortunately for her veracity mr cannons cannon s citizenship was conceded by the house committee which investigated the matter and murray was just as ina much ch of a violator of the law and of his gathof oath of office whether mr cannon was an alien or a citizen all this is awfully stale and the grounds she presents in harpers weekly as they were new to the country have been gone over so many magy times that they are to be numbered among the old and paths bags of ancient history whether in lecture or screed in written or spoken diatribes against the mormons cormons Mor mons kate simply repeats a lot of stories that were told to her while in utah and that have become so superannuated t ed that the term I 1 chestnut does not begin to describe their antiquity they are mouldy bouldy with age and ready to fall to pieces with inherent weakness but the ancient though frisky damsel manages to make a little mone money by them and she is welcome to all the good she can get out of their repetition all the same however she must despise herself as much as she does her dupes when she reflects upon the falsehoods she is helping to circulate through the country |