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Show H "Truth," which is one of the most H fearless, as well as the most search- H ing paper in the state, has the fol- lowing pertinent article on the at H tempt that is being made to revive H the old bitterness that existed in H Utah before statehood. The fact H that "Truth" is non mormon, relieves H its statements from the charge of be- EH i'lg biased by its religious faith. Hb- Another fool movement, about the P' twelfth in the last twelve years, with H the avowed object of resuscitating H the old Liberal' party, has been H started. Such a movement is so ttt- H terly inane as to create seriousdoubt H of the sanity of those who are con- H cemed in it or engaged in it. The H personnel of those appearing in the PPHb movement, with a few exceptions a B' very few. is not calculated to dispel H the doubt. The dishonesty of some H who figure prominently in the "up H rising" is well known and leads to H the inevitable conclusion that they PPJH are there in the hope of getting H something out of it in a pecuniary or PPJB a political way. The names of a PPpH a few reputable citizens who. how- H ever, are pronounced monomaniacs, H also figure among the patriots, H The protest is the most menda- PPpH cious document that has been put J forth for many a day. H Then follows a liberal quotation fc- from the protest which, as our read L ers nave secn xt ln the daily papers, VP' This is utterly false. It is and HP 1 has been a matter of public notoric- L ty, undenied, even openly confessed Hte that Joseph F. Smith and other po- P lygamists under the oid regime have H been living with their plural wives. H There was no secrecy about it, and H why has it been impossible to bring the offenders to punishment? Per- H haps County Attorney Westervelt, H one of the signers of the protest, H could answer that question if he H .would. When the lute grand jury H was in session, impatineled at the H instance of senator Kmi ns fur the H sole purpose of investigating the L. maiital relation of members ol the PPJ Mormon church In the lujpe ol co H cicmg the church into exercising its H priestly mflut-nce in bfliclf of hena H t(. Ke.irii- .tut lnv Heath loi H election to tii.- United states senate, Pl County At oiney Wi stcrvclt h.ul for H a time charge of t'. raud jury. H He was expected to buuj; io the H kouwlrdge ! the uit-mber.s of tne H grand jury violations if the law H County Attorney 'esiervelt knew. H as. did every signer of the protest, H for it was a matter of public notene H ty that many of those who had en H ttred into polygamous relations H prior unite issuance i the manifesto H forb tiding any inure polygamous H mi itaes, were still maintaining H tl ise relations. If County Attorney B Wrrtrfvelt did not know it prior to H thr convening of the rund juiy H (which is scarcely possible), he cer- " tamly learned of it while the grand H jury was in session, because his at H tention was lime and again called to H it and the proofs offered to him, H but County Attorney Westervelt tie- cliued to entertain or investigate in- HBbt to such crises and stated that it was H not snrjh cases he wanted, Evidence H of new poljgamous marriages, he H said, was what was desired. There H -was no disposition to prosecute the H old polygamists, he said. If Mr. H Westervelt denies this, Trtith is in a H position to furnish overwhelming H0 and Bbsolute proof that he was so gi informed and made the statements B- attributed to him. Yet he was one H of the signers of the protest stating H ' that he had no knowledge of such fe infractions of the law and read Prcs- H ident Smith's testimony before the. H Senate comiltce with "amazement, HL. indignation and disgust." Colonel H Nelson, Senator Kearns' hired man. H also no doubt read the testimony Kr ' with "amazement, indignation and H disgust, although he for more than a H year has been in possession of a list : of the children born to polygamists B since the manifesto. The members of the grand jury, a majority of which were Gentiles, some of them pronounced anti Mormons, Mor-mons, knew of the conditions and were specially informed of them as well, but declined to entertain cases against any old polygamist. Why? Hecauso it was well understood that the old lellows should be left alone. .If this is riot so, then the prosecuting officers all Gentles, and the members of the grand jury, should be impeached im-peached and sent to jail. If the public knew nothiug about the con ditions that existed and that it was impossible to find out anything about them, what species of insanity was President Smith laboring under when he told the Senate committee all about them? If such a movement move-ment as that just born is needed here, to be a success it will have to be backed by a diflerent class of men to most of those who are identified iden-tified with the present "uprising" It will have to demonstrate a little more honesty of purpose and mincer tty than has yet appeared, |