Show CALLS FOR OVERTHROW OF PRESIDENT T SMITH C A of Ogden Member of the Quor Quorum um urn of Seventies Demands Change of Policy Declares Present Ruler Guilty Guily of Tyranny of Leading Mormon People Away From High Religious Purpose and of Violat Violating Violating Violating ing Laws of Church and Nation I A of nt i CHARLE 1 Ogden one of the th leading heading business businessmen bu ine I men of Utah and all a member of the quorum of seventies or of Weber stake in il an open oven letter leUer to his bishop K E K KoUe T Woolley oUe calls upon members of or the te church to lo join to depose the th le leaders who have RO go goime 1 astray aty He declares d lar President President Joseph F Smith is leading leding the church op away from spiritual paths and and its high purposes to commercialism Mr protests against aln t what ht he be terms the t religious commercial and political tyranny t rny of o President Joseph F Smith i and declares delre President Smith is i violat violating ViOlt violating ing the he t laws II w of ol 0 the th church and an the th thelan lan Ian la a im of the th country cout He de demands mands mn an accounting of a tithing that the faith faUk of the church to the nation be kept and that the te church state retire from its is domination of or the Refers Refer to Presidents Threat Threat He refers to a personal interview with wih Pi trident PI Smith Sih during duing which th ti the president is i 1 declared dele to t have hae made threats ts of business annihilation for thre bU en entering entering teeing into competition with wit a business enterprise in which the te church was wa in interested Inte te te Copies Copie of Mr 11 letter were mailed maie Monday MondY evening to The Salt Sl Lake Herald Herld the th Deseret News and an the Salt Lake Tribune At 1130 l oclo yesterday forenoon after th letters leter had reached Salt Lake he was served sere with wih a summons to appear be before b before fore Bishop Wooley Woolley to answer charges of or apostasy and ton con conduct on duct duc preferred by Hyrum H Goddard Godard a teacher of the Fourth ward in Ogden The complaint was wa dated date March Marh S 8 8 and ad the summons March llach 10 but Mr r knew kne nothing of either until yesterday Says It Is a Tyranny Supplementing the statements made in his bis open letter eter Mr last lat evening said saidI si I am merel merely taking a stand std against a religious tyranny which is i worse than anything since sine the days day of the Reformation which is contrary to the tile constitution and the spirit of our go goI gov government I maintain that under the I presidency of Joseph eph Jo F Smith freedom I of speech is denied to me in my may quorum of seventies I maintain further that th even an apostle is 1 denied liberty of c 1 speech in his own church Und Under r th tho Uis s ci rule a member of ot the Mormon hur h his his hi is i refused political and i 1 freedom I believe the members merb rs of cf f th ti church should bould unite to free lv 3 m from this tyranny If we can t fer frer dom of or speech within our church t treet tx rest reet will follow we will be a ahe h l p t h speak our minds In hi political eon cons l and we W will not be De interfered wi vs i in commercial pursuits pur The tyranny is the key ke to it all If we a arid arid rid ourselves from that the rest ill wil w follow Complaint Against The complaint tiled filed against v valte follows Ogden City Utah Marh 1 Bishop Edwin T Woolley and Conn 5 Fourth Ward Ogden Weber W ber st im ti r t Dear Brethren I hereby pr t charge against Elder Charles A m n r waite wIte for apostasy y and i 1 T conduct and for cause of or cutup con nt n I allege allese That he expressed and had hadon on a number of occasions very v ry r F rand l 3 1 and unbecoming statements a aga RI i 1 authorities of ile the Church of Jeu 3 III v i of or Latter ay Saints of h hh h r member Especially does h hp he a 1 f V character motives and actions i pf f Tr dent Joseph F Smith h 3 that President Smith is not a pi It r r r t God and that he could not and aid u c i inot not sustain him as such uch Buell or a I a r M s i t of the church He maintains t I f t T r seph F Smith is leading lesdin the h hr r h destruction and that he was not 1 si Sc s sas i as aa president in accordance wit with ii thc t li ius l 1 n s a sand and rules governing the churn churL His Ills expression against the L Td r whom the church J prophets prophet seers and revelators tr r r HT tT i becoming a I Saint A r 11 withstanding he has been visits v r n IT her ber of times by myself and othor t lT as teachers according to the th rul i J t I church he still stilt maintains the thc nm arn I f c a 31 3 I end nd ideas and does not wish ish to u IJ jc tI i II I again by br the teachers with a i t tor of or getting getti g him to change his pr POi I j l r I these matters It therefore be rr duty as his teacher to pr r f t I si 5 charge against him hm and I 1 ak ask th thit it i r tl I cited to appear t ore you yi U arid TI 1 s1 sl sic W tv cause if It any aay he has why the th aa ila jS ri r fellowship hip should not be withdraw T from him Your brother in tn the opel Signed HYRUM BYRUM H BL G GOD UD hD Presiding Teacher First Di trl t The summons s foi served ur upon ou M 1 yesterday ye requests Li hl t J Jl l Carance at S Mar March Marh h ia t t northeast upper room over the lIT tr 1 I ment hall hail in the Fourth ward buill I at Ogden h |