Show A GRAVE WRONG J A correal correspondent oil lent from richmond seems to verify rumors that have been heard in logan about tile methods sorted resorted ye to at the last 1 as t election in that place it lias has been fie fluently stated that al apostle ostle M 11 merrill gave the I 1 weight of his influence luence 1 nf against 0 the democratic ticket and that is why his is son came so 50 nearly being elected clort cd now we wish irish it to lie be understood that we do not lot believe the story any illo more re tj than in we believe a letter said to have been written by him lias 1115 been used in ill tho fourth biru al int by one thomason to make republican voters we do not believe it because mr merrill could not i afford to arid and lie because cattle lie would be flying in tit alic face of the instructions of the first presidency I 1 of tile church lut but we do believe that men lien are using the names of church leaders to try and induce members of tile alio church to vote the he republican ticket we lve believe that influence was used in ill richmond and we ire arc satisfied it is being oil used liero here we do 10 not think it a nian man who will talk politics at a reli religious ious meeting is above resorting to such methods it is reported that tile the man inan thomason Tho macon is doing it that janes james quayle has said the leaders of tile the church wanted this bickering to stop arid and that the people should vote the republican ticket that john A Il endrickson the gentle I 1 man who uses lye at liis his knitting factory and otherwise is making tile alie politics of tile the leaders of tile the church the basis of liis his arguments in favor of republicanism it is reported that bishop thomas X smith is doing doin 0 all leecan lie can in favor of republicanism while liis his name is still on the democratic club roll the pronounced republicanism Republic anis ii or of bishop A is notorious now we do not charge these men with doing M anything 0 improper but it is an all undeniable facts facia that rumor is busy with their names and the effect is the faille ame on oil those hearing 0 the rumors as if they were true we want it understood once for all a 11 that any an man who says the leaders or of tho the church ire are secretly favoring 0 one party or the other wilfully lies about tile leaders they are on record again and to the co contrary a it to say thai tha after all tl beir public declarations that they ire arc now secretly fcc relly using their influence for either cither party is to say that tile the leaders of the church are falsifiers a i id trickster sand we denounce the il 11 11 ll who ue such infamous means us as those that have neither rever enve fr f r rv religion ligion nor respect for the truth they are not to lie be trusted in in anything for the effect of their efforts will ivill be to place the people of utah in the same condition is the cormons mormons of idalio idaho to make voluntary apostates apo tates of them and nd sacrifice their liberties wholly |