Show CHURCH INFLUENCE Report That It Is Being Used In fAN f-AN EMPHATIC DENIAL MADE BISHOP OASAOX BE OinVOCS IT ASA AS-A GY3IPAIGN ME1 A Leartlnpr Editorial In Last Nights Deseret News Sujrt the Harmons 1V111 Vote According to Their Con Ictions LenAlrif Out All Questions of Religion or Church Meiibcrsltis < Special to The Herald POCATELLO Oct SOThe report circulated here and throughout the Mormon counties of the state that President Woodruff had issued Instructions Instruc-tions to the Mormons of idaho to support sup-port McKinley could notbe verified in Pocatello Bishop C J Cannon In an interview today stated that no such order had been received by the Mormon authorities and scouted the idea that Intelligent voters would follow such a course and believes itto be simply a campaign He OChe Dempcrats and silver sil-ver Republicans are somewhat exercised exer-cised over the report hoyever and unless un-less a denial of the report Is forthcom ltg it may result scriontyo the silver cause In Idaho u The Morinon vote is estimated at 5000 in the E state The Herald has not Relieved that there was any foundation for the r pods coming from Idaho that church influence was being exerted In the campaign paign in that state However those who may have thouglbhre WM seine foundation the rusnors rs wUl find reason for dismissing helr fears son hinlsslng fl fear upon reading the following from the Dfseret Evening News of the 3Ulh the official organ of the Mormon cfiUrch THE IDAHO CANARD AGAIN The church interference bugaboo in Idaho Is still being worked on there and a dispatch in the Salt Lake morning pavers pa-vers asserts that Hon V1liiam Budge and others in church positions In Bear Lake had stated in public meetings that the Mormons were instructed not to vote for Bryan The News does not have the exact language the sneakers referred to may have used If they spoke on the subject at all but front a long and intimate inti-mate aCQuaintance wltjit the gentlemen I named as one of the accused parties and from a knowledge I fc his character the News feelsfree to say that he has made no such statement Possibly he or somebody some-body else may have said that the Mbr mons were not instructed to vote for Bryan and if he dld that is true So far as the church is concerned the Mormons Mor-mons have not been Instructed from that source for whom to vote and will not be It will b observed that the transposition transposi-tion of one word in the sentence quote makes all the difference In the world and 1 i8 Jnr hnekwgi scheming I politicians and rank partisans are not above making such a transposition transposi-tion They havs done things equally as bad in the Idaho campaign this year as noted in Thursdays News And whatever what-ever persons may say or claim the News reiterates the fact that the Mormons have not been instructed to vote for Bryan I an the Mormons have not been instructed In-structed vote for McKinley or any other candidate so far as any church Instructions or influence Is concerned Certain politicians have been instructing instruct-ing the people on either side as the News stated yesterday and possibly these politicians are a little 1ftsl because be-cause the people recognize those instructions In-structions to be bogus The Mormons ulll do as other citizens vote according to their convictions on national party Issue sues leaving out all questions of relig ion or church membership In the Montpelier dispatch referred to I the milk In the cocoanut Is revealed In the closing sentence that no contradiction I Woen h1 tion has been secured from gn church authorities at Salt Lake The allegation allega-tion that any church influence had been used or church instruction given was emphatically contradicted but there was no response to an impudent demand for a telegraphed official denial A reason was that the design of obtaining such a telegram was recognized I was that church influence might be used in a negative nega-tive form in the interest of the parties making the demand just as has been caught to do with other expressions pro and con by both parties to the contest in Idaho But the trick did not work The Mormon church influence Is not available controversy to < or the other aide In the political |