Show MORE MISREPRESENTATIONS THE TIlE New York World of the contains a special from Fort Wayne Indiana Indiana purporting to t give the views of Co Col Robert Robert- Robertson son Robert son SOD of the Utah Commission who is said to chairman of a sub commit subcommittee tee of that body appointed to frame fr methe the official report Among other statements is a sided one-sided explanation explanation explanation tion of the manner of electing a City Council in this city which is said laid to have been designed to defeat the election of Liberal candidates in any of th the districts in which the Gentile party had an acknowledged majority Tf If Col CoI Robertson said this he was certainly lying under a mis mis- mistake mistake take for the reason that the charter of Salt Lak Lake City and the ordin ordin- ances passed in pursuance thereof providing for elections were In y force long before there was any self self- styled self styled Liberal party in the city and before there was either an rl acknowledged or disputed majority of Gentiles in any district f fIt It is further stated that So well has this plan worked that the Gentiles have never been J able to elt elect ct a single representative in the Council which has always been a Mormon one and under the control of the Twelve Apostles of 4 which Wilford Woodruff is the Pre Pre- President President If the author of this sentence had bad put the case fairly he would have explained that the present City j Council has four Gentile representatives representatives gentlemen selected by j their own party and voted for by bythe bythe the very people who who are said to have s1 worked a plan successfully to the opposite If Col Robert Robert- son conveyed this impression the spirit if not the letter of his remarks was undistinguished by candor and devoid of that accuracy which r should characterize a member of so important a body as the Utah Commission i The statement statement that the Council y has always been a Mormon on one Is not true and the assertion that it has bas always been under the control of If the Twelve Apostles etc is an l absolute falsehood It does not matter whether it was told by Co Col Robertson or fabricated by the i World reporter it was something that neither could vouch for that nEither could offer oWer the slightest evi evi- evidence evidence dence to substantiate and is certain certain- certainly certainly f lya ly a piece of pure fiction and misrepresentation misrepresentation shameful to the indi- indi individual Indi Individual f vidual who is responsible for its ito ut- ut utterance ut utterance terance The dispatch goes on to echo the colonization falsehoods that have been manufactured by Salt Lake City Liberals and are now put In inthe Inthe the mouth of Col Robertson and J says When itis it is understood thata resi resi- residence residence residence dence of only thirty days In any given q ven district entitles such such imported Mormons to vote the danger dangar that threatens the February election win will willfully willfully 1 fully Cully appear Col Co- Robertson Rot does not believe that any consider consider- considerable considerable x able part of the the- younger Mor- Mor Mormons Mor-Mormons Mormons cast their ballot baIJot with the Gentiles at the August election To j jb have done so publicly would have j wrought a complete ostracism from Mormon relations relations religious social ocial and commercial and the Church i has never relaxed its bold hold upon its K fj members Indeed one ene of the Mor Mor- Mormons Mormons Mormons mons chosen for lor the Legislature at atthe atthe the August election eJection was arrested three or four days thereafter for une un- un JJ J e lawful cohabitation and n no r eats of ot election will be issued to him by the Commission until the z charge is removed His name is t Samuel R B Thurman and his place rf of residence is Provo a town rank rank- ranking ranking ing third in population after Salt Lake and Ogden r The fact that six months in the A Territory is required by the law is suppressed in the foregoing also that the thirty days residence only within the city is not a municipal provision A still worse suppression suppression suppression sion is the fact that the ballot here is t strictly secret and that neither the Mormon Church nor any other body or person can detect how an elector votes vo As to th the thA arrest of Hon Samuel r R Thurman for infraction of the Edmunds act it is well understood and currently proclaimed in Provo f- f that it was done political effect And the grand jury composed entirely entirely en- en of non Mormons has ig- ig nored the complaint so the Utah Commission will have no reason to decline issuing the certificate of Mr Thurman's s election And the in inference in- in inference inference ference that the Mormon Church h has had hold this a upon gentle gentle- gentleman gentleman gentleman man so that be he was induced to vio via vialate violate violate late the law is a vile and shabby piece of assumption all an the worse if it came from a Utah Commissioner However we do not accuse Col Robertson of ot all the inaccuracies which appear in the World dispatch as press telegrams telegram are noted for their misstatements of the views of persons inter viewed wed and particularly particularly u- u lady when in relation to Utah af- af affairs affairs af affairs fairs But we wonder whether the dispatch fiend of Salt Lake will be beas beas as diligent to wire the news of Mr I J Thurman's discharge as he was wag to spread the tidings of his arrest Also whether the inexact inform inform- informant informant informant ant of ot the Worlds World's World correspondent I will have the grace to do the same |