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Show ; think of country first and the claims ! assumed as-sumed revclators secondarily. This article referred to briefly isjas-eur.-il I y an opener." Mr. Cannoijbas been for many years past, as he is n , a member of the first presidency of the Jkor-raon Jkor-raon church, and it is generally con ded that he is its premier. Certainly no ane .-lands more highly in its counsels. Re want.- an ' era of -rood feeling," but jn t thi same a-in day-of yore with a big "I" ain and a little "yon" arc in relative proper ou. Jt. Salt Lake City, I'tah, .fan. 30. COMMUNICATIONS. A Reply to Mr. Fergus Lester. Emtok The Times In your issue ot the loth inst., your reply to the VVwwl AVtea headed, The liiuud of the Church," ii just splendid, because every allegation you make about the mormou bill (the Caine and Faulkner bill, so railed, ) is absolutely true. And, in my opinion, you could truthfully have added: Said bill of conspiracy against the peace and welfare of all the people of Utah wa concocted by the well known mormon democrats, or republicans, Cannon, Penrose ami Caine." These men can change their polities at. the dictation of the mormon priesthood every few weeks, at occasion requires, as they have done ou the polygamy ijiu-sMuii. it is also quite natural, from a mormon stand). lint, for the mormon republican SUtnianl of Otrden to jump upon you with both feet, because it is one of the kittens of the old I tab cat, like the Salt Lake tfcrald. Vou can thank your (Sod that I'tah is not yet a state, or you would soon know wtint it was to arouse the feelings of a mormou editor. If you will allow me space I will make a short reply to a letter in said issue of your paper, signed "Fergus Lester, Murray, L'tah." Mil. Fullers Lf.stkb: I have no doubt von ore "'" infant republican, and a- an old lii.m, and .in o,il republican, I have th same right to criti-i-e jU:ir h-tt'T to The Tmss as I have to eriti-1 eriti-1 1-.. i ni.e.t Hnrri-ou. Your. fit, complaint about losing faith. Do you. not know ih it It nnlv nc -lis Ik-ht ami fcnowl--.CL'. to .a o!;,-li (iiiti,, mill 1 pr.-sume the recent Topics p.iriy trickery has fiirni.-hed Tut Times wltfi taut light. i ' u r second paragraphia all mormon sophistry. Ji Judd Co. i.re only tools in the pnest- " " - ' i ' c ,!io:'ped v.:i..;i II . I.l:er 11 S.il. 1 leu v., a sin v.iu nr.. a iinirinon and republii an to the hitter end. That "hitter end" gives you dead away. Aii:onu'-t all the niillbms of repuli-'ii repuli-'ii nils. in h an ....n asioii wa- never before made. I UeTo is no "hilter end" to the most glorious Jlirtv that ,vns ev.u orsanied upon tlib beautiful l arth. When men shall cense to love liberty, equuiiiy anil jutii e; when the mi shall eease to shine; and when men shall eeue to live, then .mil not tili then, will republienniam come to an end. Hut "bitter end ' has all the brands of the eh nreh collar forced upon you aaint your coii-- coii-- i.'n. .. Vi.u proclaim to the world you are a mormon, eoni-nuentlv you not onlv behove but you know by the spirit that (iod and Jesus Christ iame from hem en to Joseph Smith, anil tb.'n sent Peter. James and John Into the state of N.-w York and ordained Joseph Hmith to the priesthood of Mel-cbideaeck Mel-cbideaeck and Bulde him the blgh tnoch muck and hK vie., re.'nt on Ihe earth, because all religions ware false, and all governments mid otlicials corrupt cor-rupt and il!ei;ii,reiidy to In: bound by the saints for tlligreai honliie of the inoinioii god. Vou know the nUsatos of the mormon demo-cratsj demo-cratsj or peoples' partv, i to capture a state, then the I nite.I Stnt. e, then the world; to establish an ecelealastlcal tbcocnu-y, with the priesthood to rub' in all things tempered and spiritual. If you do not believe and know that all tnis nonsense is ti in1, v on ere not a innruiiiit. And if pou know it like all the mormons do, ttm you cannot be a rc-li'tlihruti, rc-li'tlihruti, or itemocrat, ncaase they both bftieve in the iiitlit iiinal tfoct'ft ianity of iuti, und that all power comes from the people, and not from tlod and his priesthood. You write like a consclenelona morinon who ha only believed what church papers taught hiui. Yuii know as a luonnoti that the Salt Lake --( --( is run in the iuterest ot the inornion church or the ui'ii'inon democrats. You aUo know that the Ug leu stamtortt ie a iimrmoii paper, run in tin iuierests of the mormon republicans. If you bare I ecu a mormon for forty years you know vou have always voted for the people's parly, la'cause it was the unitv of the saint-. I'hut was the terror of congress und the world; and surely you know there is no more split iu the mormou church today than then- was tin ntv live years ago, t nly were there are enough gentiles to show their superior civilization over mormon-Ism. mormon-Ism. Mecinoiiisin cannot live t day in 1 (aa side hy side with civjlinatinn anv uioie' tiian it could in Nei York, Ohio, Mlssoorl Ot Illinois. You und your .Murray friends, I advise to join ihe republicans ami dein.-i ruis composing the grand old liberal party of t'tah, and he saved troin your folly. Yours truly, KDvVAltl) F. Mt'NX. II. in per. I'tah, Jan. 17, IHltt. M, Th liberals met yesterday at Ihe Farm-iiigtnii Farm-iiigtnii court bouse, Davis county, in convention and elected delegates to the territorial uui-ventlon uui-ventlon next month. W e have lost T. Brandon of ( eiiti'i'ville and o'llrlen of l.uytou; they craw 1. d back into the beehive democracy. E. V. M. -. L , |