Show WILL STUDY MORMONS I o Students From the East and the South INTERESTED IN ROBERTS f NW EAMPSHThE W WITK LIBERAL VIEWS I Hon William B Cough Oppose t Expulsion of Roberts Unless He Is an Open and Defiant Violator of the LawVisited Church Of dais cias I There are now two gentlemen in Sal Lake studying the Roberts case and the Mormon church One of them is from New England and the other Is from Tennessee They are Rev E E Folk of Nashville and Hon William I Rockwell Clouh of Aton N H Mr Clough is the chairman of the national affairs committee In the New Hampshire house ofrepresentUves He Is not making an exhaustive study of the question but on his trip through the county he has stopped here for a feat days to learn smething of the Mormon church He will write some letters concerning hl obervatons to the News and Courier Yesterday he met President Joseph F Smith Apostle Brigham Young jr and Secretary George F Gibbs and had Quite a long discussion with them concerning the church They adorned to be vcr liberal and Intelligent men said Mr dough las evening at the Knutfor They spoke to me In what s me avery fair man ncr They declared that I is nw evi dent that a mistake had ben made In the nomination and election or Roberts but they maintained that the church did not put him up nor elect him I Should Be Liberal Now I know nothing about the facts of the case but we must be very Hb eral In these matter Unless Roberts is an open and wJtuLand defiant violator vio-lator or the law I think he should r man in cong I dot suppose It wns intended that men with more than one wIfe should not support them I would not be honorable to cast plural I wives aside If a man has had pleasant associa tons for years with his several wives we < anna expect hIm to break away at once Pobgamy will die out In time There are many members of congreSs who pay attention to more than one woman still we cannot give such pra tces open and avowed recognition A Nashville Dive Mr Folk a prominent Bapts divine of Nashville Tenn has been in town I for several days making an exhauslive Investigation into the habits beliefs and homo influences that pertain to Mormonism Mr Folk is the accredited representative of the Nashville Amen can and is gathering datathat will be use in framing a series or articles schedule to appear in the American I about the time cone convenes When asked how the people of his see tlon of Tennessee felt regarding the seating or nseatng of the Uta repre sentatve Mr Folk said The Na hle people that I have I talked with are unanimous In express lng their disapproval of the avowe bean liefa be-an practices of Il Roberts they consider that his 6ntments on I the subject of cohablat n with his three wives are repugnant to a Sense of decency and a slap in the face to morality What is particularly exaSperating exas-perating to them is the fact that he openly boat of be g the father or chidren born to two of his three wives since the issuance of the manifesto and the famous twins brought into the world shorty after the admission of Utah to statehood They consider that he is a lawbreaker s defiant one If you will and as such thInk i aantomlmlc I performance suc elect him to a boy whose business It is to frame the laws of the country that It Is an insult to the intelligence of the rest of the law Intelgence te res abiding peopie of the United States to expect them to abide by laws passed by a boy of which he is a member The people of he south and east feel very strongly on the subject and ave no doubt that he will be expelled from the house of representatives with but few dissenting vote |