Show APOSTLE LYMAN EX EXPLAINS 1111 HE HB TREATS FULLY ON THE anavit Am DAVIT very serious misrepresentations in it needing envision Greel greenwood awood invited to come down tho the tolton affidavit and apostle ly mans brief verbal reply to it were fea cap tures of tho the recent election campaign mr lyman has since trade made 9 written statement coveting tho the whole matter it is 1 reproduced here as follows salt lake laka city nov 7 IM editor provo inquirer 1 you issue 0 of tile the lt let lost contains a report of a con vere verea ailon tion had bad between a reporter of your paper and myself in regard to whitt what my lai e m 0 c ratio rail a brethren have been lately saying about me mc in wha want t la in known ns as tin the T tolton olt on affidavit and tho the a daress address adopted by tho the lito life reconvened convention tito tho report of thet conversation la is mixed a as such repol ts is are apt alit to be ni rit ten as aa they usually are irom from memory as thin one was after the conversation took look place it wait to the address that i referred whon when 1 to lold d the iho reporter there was waa no truth at all lit in it not to tho the affidavit mado made bv our brother tolton tile the meeting referred to finx ft OB a private path consisting of just a bakers doren and not tho the general priesthood meeting hel held d before us as stated by your reporter I 1 presume that our brother tolton writes front from memory after four and a halt hale deais have elapsed apsel cl and tile iho errors errora contained in hla his therefore should be 10 looked upon as aa pardonable lit at the iho samo same time a man of brother holtons Tol tona tons standing in the community requires when it comes to affidavit making exact neam and fairness and tile tho whole truth I 1 am quoted in the affidavit as having asked t the h e following question in theme words how 1 I 1 ow Is it that to BO many of sour lour leading lea ani brethren in deaver aro are democrats I 1 take lako it for granted that our brother tolton t on wishes to lo ile bo fair and I 1 therefore ASK IF IT IS FAIR to presume or co consistent to belleve believe that I 1 used such langu ago adien it Is known that there acro but four of such brethren present at tho the mec meeting ting two ot of whom were republicans and one of whom Gr brother othor M L shepherd I 1 supposed omed at tile time wag also a republican publican Ro tito tho am alit davit charges mo me with having paid by way of 0 re reflecting fl e ct 1 fi g t the h e w i sh eo 0 of t tho the authorities ot of t tho ii e e 1 ti arc n T that h a th tho 0 people should dinico 61 ido about equally bott leen tho the two great erest national parties and then jhc thc n I 1 am mado made to aty a ty that it would bo be proper for some to remain ind independent c pendent ond and neutral duty u ty compels mo to correct our brother brot cr I 1 in n chareen e hark char eln n me ith having uttered the words wor which w ach 1 q I 1 have put in quotation marks they are arc not my language neither did they then nor do they now express my sentiments neither have I 1 ever board tho the idea od ad alced lanced or even referred to by any of my associate bi ethren republicans or democrats I 1 find this idea expressly I 1 in it tho the all allaretta dretta adopted adapted by the reconvened contention anil and brother george 11 1 1 gibbs Is I 1 therein h brein charged charf fed v eiith ith having conveyed tha th mon idea to his hie brother in law in what hat Is known as tho the gibbs wright letter tho the author of which claimed in a communication to the tribune of last sunday I 1 that in this ho he had been misrepresented a ond ad I 1 find that the letter alac llac a 0 ir ain since e e p published ii b ll 11 e supports support 4 ills his claim it I 1 r repeat isad e p c at th that et t I 1 nev never b ld er h c ili d t tho li 0 t idea 1 l 0 a ex expressed r e g b by y a anybody n y b much IOB I 1 can hod 11 wl I 1 c conceived on ce 1 v e 1 l it myself m y se if u until n t i 1 I 1 read re a d that t h a t part of the address paying in it ants to brother gibbs this goom to show most conclusively that our brother tolton murt have rot not tills this idea front from hla his associate democratic brethren no doubt about tho the time this thin address was formulated formula led and our brother has been to believe that it come coma from mo me and unfortunately expressed it 0 so A RELIGIOUS DUTY I 1 am now nov free to admit and tim nm willin that my fellow citizens generally gen rally should 5 know it that tile tho object of 0 that particular ir was nothing more nor less than to correct the impression which had bad gone out among tile tho people to the iho effect that it was their dellal religious italy duty to loin join tile tho democratic party and also to show those leading mm men to whom hom the people of 0 f their respective stakes looks looked for guidance in all filings pertaining to tile iho welfare that it was just juat as aa inconsistent c Crisi stent for the mormon people now disorganized as 11 a Peo peoples Poop pies lct party to go EO bodily over to a tho he democratic party parly as it would bo be for them to go co over to tile the republican party and that to do either would bo be defeating tile tho object and purpose ot of disbanding tile tho re peoples oples party parly as tile tho solo sol object of dis organizing that party waa ins for tho the purpose of division and to put an end to the iha union n politics which had been the distinguishing feature of our people under that organization which had bad been objected to by both of the national parties I 1 did adelo on that occasion that the people should bo be enlightened on this point as aa I 1 thought lt it was an only fr fajr fair to them aa as well as to everybody concerned that they should be so BO informed I 1 also urged upon these brethren that tile the republican party should hie a fair show allow among the people PI 3 and that tho the people should bo bit made to feel eel that they iole just its aa tree free to join on one L part party as tile the other and I 1 did comb coin biLt t th tho idea 11 which had pone gone forth that no no person could lie he a republican and ile be n latter day saint and that Domoci lierno cincy acy tas aa our religion rell slon and xe 0 o should there foia li u democrats Domo crata I 1 am quoted in the iho alli davit as follows that ahr lit object in such division la 14 that 10 will tl I 1 I 1 then have more power potter in the na nation and g get 0 t a more mon honest administration alon tra on 0 of t the baity in power each parly party wl will cater to us as moro more or loss less in order to lo secure control of the territory thero there art are two ideas involved in this one Is 13 self belf explanatory the other should be explained pla ined at that time a measure looking to t the disfranchisement of the mormon people had bad been introduced into the of oc the united states and tho the idea sought to bo be convoyed conveyed was waa that by adopting tho the poh policy e of dividing upon national tio n at I 1 party I 1 lin lines e s the mormon people would become like oilier people and that both parties would take oke lin an interest in us ua that la Is the substance of my offending in southern utah THE greeb GREENWOOD WOOD LETTER now as to our brother alma greenwood alma and I 1 had aldays alv ays boon been A fil endly and brotherly our conversation on tile ilio occasion referred ed to by him in fit tho the which lie has haa seen nt fit to make against again t me vine mm of purely a friendly character ho remar remarked kod to me that he had not declared himself although his brother joshua hai had ha I declared himself IL a democrat as aa I 1 had bad heard board As a ituala I 1 conceived it to be my privilege to invite brother alma to come down off the fence on to our aldo as wo we needed his help sly explanation in hat having ng ex tr t this 11 a invitation il at that particular time atmo aaa because brother alma was a citizen and his brother joshua no ISM so a and I 1 thought I 1 it t only fair seeing that lie he was on the fence ice to invfio him film to 10 come boarn and to have lm s done otherwise would have been unfriendly lit in nu me that pi li all there Is to brother almas case I 1 usi d no church influence to move him and he soon declared in favor of democracy ri FRANCES ANCES 1 M I LYMAN |