| Show VfHEf OLD TWISTING AND HYPOCRISY I I The Provo Enquirer charges that TIe Tribune boa used vltuperallpn and abuse of the Mormon pcpple It jnas always so If any man o r wivfs paper used a word against the pobg arny of the Saints It was vituperation and abuse notwithstanding V that polygamy Is a crime under the Statutes Stat-utes of the State under the Conslftu UOTI of the State under the laws of all elvllJraUpn It flatters Itself that something some-thing It hnH said troublen Tile Ti bune very much Ft waG never more mistaken mis-taken It denies again that the Mormons Mor-mons under ono cllngulse or another I begun lo lake more wlvos What j lSe is thrro In that We have published tho names of a good many there are a good ninny we never IlaVeV VVe said under one disguise or another mud tho Enquirer fiercely denies and hurls I back the assertion In Its own sneaking sneak-ing way the Enquirer is taking the ground no doubt that Is clung to by I Saints in auch a category For Instance In-stance the friends of Abraham Cannon say he did not tako another plural after 1S3I and they explain ttb sayIng say-Ing that It was not he that was married mar-ried In fact but 01 dead brother Those distinctionsare a little too line for ordinary or-dinary AngloSaxons That was a sample sam-ple case The Enquirer knows all about it JUst as It does about plenty more Again it denies that the nomination I of p t > H Roberts was the Vork of certain I tain high church ofllcdrs and It gays The editor of the Enquirer wag present pres-ent at that convention and knows what transpired and he knows that V high church olllclals such men as Hcber Grant and John Tjaylpr had no more if as much Influence In controlling con-trolling the nomination of B H Roberts Rob-erts than some other persons who were not high chinch officials We care nothing about that denial It Is not pertinent B II Roberts was only Inform In-form nominated In the convention His nomination was fixed weeks before that I convention He was picked l up after I he had killed hlmseit politically Hens He-ns picked up to be rewarded for his recantations of his Americanism made V two or three years before which recari tations restored him to the church and caused him to be looked upon as the V dead are fobked up nby the Gentile leaders of the Democratic party Wo as good as had the fact stated to us Uo weeks before the nomination that he would be nominated and by an I apostle of the church Of course there was a little jawing and wrangling at S the convention So thero was after Coy Wells vetoed the Evans bill and Jt was all fixed It was understood that Evans < should rant that Whitney should rant that Tanner should rant but to be sure not to pass that bill over Governors veto It was exactly S actly the same as when John T Caine Drought home a Constitution from Washington In the old ilaya and the convention met and wrangled for weeks and weeks and passed it at last exactly as it came from Washington without the change material word or a line Some of us who have been here a good while know all thqse things and the editor of the Enquirer V En-quirer is trying to Imitate tho craft of the editor of the Deseret News to meander through a subject and leave l It KO that IIO V one can fell which way the snake went In and which wtay It came out There Is not very much us in threshing over old straw with this people There are about 2000 boss polygamists in the State They hold the ofllces pull the parcatrlngs and V tho Mormon people cannot throw off their control They like to tell what a small percentage people In Utah were ever polygamists and yet that few have ruled this Stale and the Territory Ter-ritory before It They have caused this people more sorrow more suffering suffer-ing than all their necks are worth and the people stand It and probably It will always be so until a little intelligence intelli-gence Impresses upon the people the fact that they too aie Americano and that Jt Is time V that thiN little Ijantl of defiant lawbreakers shall cease 1 ° V9 and keep in I commotion and did grace this distressed SL ta1r Oo V I |
