Show QUJRER MENDACITY The Provo Enquirer Is indiscreet enough to put out the following i i j With lie characteristic habit of making unfounded and reckless chirgOH The Trlliunu Hays Tho trouble came when Mormons under ono or mother disguise hrnn I to take moro wives and It culminated I culmi-nated when he attempt was male to ond n 1L Roberts to Congress and continues The editor of tim EVquher kuown all this What the IInquIror Knows Is this Il la Hot true that Mormons under one or nn tither disguise began doing anything of tho kind alleged It Is a falsehood thnt hits been hurled back In tho teeth of our contemporary over t and over again und its to the attempt to send Roberts to Con frrcss The Tribune knows itwua not tho work of tho Mormons but simply apolitical a-political attempt Roberta wns nominated nomI-nated for Congress In a regularly culled Democratic convention and many Mol jmqns In that convention mad doaporjto efforts Jto defeat I 1 his nomination 1 Hud r ns I miiiy nonMormons on hut occasion dono llicwijo Roberts would IJnVo fic6n dc < icatcil In lie nominating convention and more than that oven If after tho nomination nomina-tion had the nonMormon Democrat1 und several hundred nonMormon Republicans Re-publicans especially I In Salt Luke Cjly voted differently at the polls J obgfta I would not havo been elected lc Is a mutter oC common notorietythat antl Motrhons svoro zealous workors for Itob crts In that campaign and It has even been reported that The Tribune people and I their lost and confidential chums cast their ballots for B H Roberts Such a i report would hardlY appear consistent InvIew of The Trlbunns position during that heated campaign but wo merely mention the fact of the rumor for what It Is I worth It la fjcllevcd however by the editor of the Enquirer and many other people that Robcrtss nomination was used I ya large number of antiMormons In Salt Lako City In particular as a convenient pretext I j I pre-text to work up Uio storm that followed fol-lowed that gentlemans election We be JIcvo that greater and more satisfactory results were anticipated from that move ment and that one of those results It wan hoped Tould be the enactment of a constitutional amendment But It Is true notwithstanding the denials and the hurling back It has been known by the whole community Mormon and Gentile It has been admitted ad-mitted as true by much higher officers of the church than theEnquirer editor As to Roberts no one knows better thnt the Enquirer editor that his nomination nom-ination wa3 the work of certain of the liigh church officers such men as He ber Grant and Taylor and the others who are determined that polygamy shall bo perpetuated Roberts Was as dead politically as Julius Caesar until he was picked up by these men and made a candidate The programme was outlined tothe writerof this bone b-one of the same schoql who came weoks prior to election fo ask In case I a polygamist was nominated by the 1 Democrats for Congress that The Tribune would not attaokthc candidate on the score of his acflve polygamist rejatlonsj until after Uie H ajUljjhjjUld I l l thus attack him nrhcn asked who was to be nominated tho answer was I have heard Sir Roberts favorably spoken of The play was for a Republican Re-publican to coax The Tribune Into silence si-lence until after the Herald spoke and It was known then that the Herald would netfer lead In the iUackI It IB true that some Mormons opposed him I in the convention Whether they did when It came to a vote no one but themselves know It is true tlmt some Gentiles on election day voted for him but that was because he v as on a ticket called Democratic It Is true t l several bright Gentile Democrats supported his campaign This was because be-cause Mr Roberts said to them In the most solemn manner that he could explain ex-plain away the charge that he was living in active polygamy that there was nothing In it Tho rumor that The Tribune people voted for him is characteristic Noone knows tjie falsity of that mention better bet-ter than the Enquirer editor It Is true that elcd Robcrtss elecilon awakened the storm and caused many people Who had never thought of such a constltqllonal amendment to favor It with the necessary legislation to make prosecutions of p polygamlsts In the Federal courts possible The charge Is like saying that a great fire caused many people living near to want more Insurance 7 T The Evans bill tln the late Legislature was buta a further evidence oC ihc de termination of certain elMS of men In this Slate to protect and perpetuate polygamy and the grief of the Enquirer En-quirer editor over the failure of the bIlL to become a law sufficiently ac counts for his present Insolence and impertinence r |