Show I i Ut n 1 I t east I New York Dec 1GTh first gun In the campaign of some of the women of Ifcp E lit against Apostle Reed SmooLs entry Into the United States Senate I was fired by the resolute hand of Dr I Sir h J Elliott at the West End Pres t bjterlan church last night Dr Elliott made President Smiths denial of the pr Nicc of polygamy among the Saints the text of her address Miss Elliott r ferry 1 to her ten years residence at 1IIoah and elsewhere In Utah and Than Irg upon that experience made a genual denial of all President Smiths stataents I Sitting In the audience was n stout snot yhalrcd biovneyed woman who Is reckoned as one of the most power nil foes of the Church of LattcrDuy Saints She Is Sirs John D Martin n number of almost more clubs and reform = re-form organizations than she can count 1 < dc from these club activities she Is a w > man of leisure She hub the cooperation co-operation of her husband a man of uoillh in all her reform movements i Shortly before the admission of Utah as a Stale they spent some weeks In a tour of the State and In studying conditions con-ditions The Jesuit Mrs Martin said was that they returned to New York dLUrmlnid to oppose Statehood with all their might Cut we had too much npnlnst us she gad we failed Our I knowledge was turned to account however how-ever when we began UK fight against u Mr Btlglmrn Robci tsb admission to Congress We won that light and we ulll win Hi IK against Apoblle Smoot If he Is elected Mrs Martin Is a member of the oman + o-man Board of Presbyterian Missions which eras the leader In the womens iiiovfincnt against Mr Roberts She is ai oflln of the National Womans Christina Temperance union which is the mot experienced of all the womens oiganlzatlons In political work She IB a member also of the Daughters of the American Revolution and has a trc mrndous influence In all these organizations organ-izations As superintendent of the department of purity In art and literature of theY the-Y C T U l she agitated the matter of Willss famous painting Love and Life having a place in the White 1iouae until President Cleveland yielded yield-ed to the storm of 300000 letters of protest pro-test and sent the alleged Immoral painting to the Corcoran art gallery Since Mrs Roosevelt has ordered the picture to be again hung In the While 1ouHC Mrs 1 Martin has renewed the agitation In the same quiet determined manner that has characterized all her campaigns Her motto Is contained In the conclusion con-clusion of the pamphlet which Is now going out by thousands to whatever quarters It Is I believed to be needed to form an anilMormon sentiment Concerted action of patriotic women has already driven u polygamist from Congress Concerted action In favor of the Constitutional amendment will hurl polygamy from Its throne and drive It from America forever The women oC 1 America have a patriotic duly still to perform a light yet to wage for the I honor of the Republic and of womanhood woman-hood Mrs Martin lives at No 231 W Nine p tysixth street and has an olTlce at No 1 Broadway 1 1 A letter from one of the young women wo-men who Is Just now an alien from Utah In New York contains a scrap that Is not without Its plaintive note Some of the boys who are hero at school are fearfully homesick Worse than the girls They cant see why the letters seem to drop off after they have been here a month or two Nobody relishes the thought of Christmas away from home Please for my sweet sake remind them to send letters l or something some-thing good about this time to their faraway far-away friends Christmas in a boardinghouse boarding-house Oh Oh 1 11 1 Miss Josle Moirls expects to forsake the Western colony In the metropolis soon to return to her home She hal ha-l spent a profitable season here under the Instruction of the late Alfred Ayers teacher of elocution IY I Miss Amy Taylor who was employed em-ployed at John WanamakerH department depart-ment store has given up that position and la studying stenography Mrs Sum Young Gates Is getting up a benefit for a Harlem family Miss Luella Ferrln will have charge of the music and Misses Blanch Thomas and Josie Morris the dramatic features of the programmer The benefit will be given at TIcwthorne hall the meeting place of the Saints In Harlem sometime some-time during the holidays Miss Victory BatemAn left on Saturday Satur-day for Montreal where she will open i with the stock company at Ills Majes tys theater December 22nd r Mr Robert H Davis known to many Salt Lakers and brother of Sam Davis Comptroller of the State of Nevada Is the author of a ballad published In a currant monthly i Mls Jennie Ilawlcy has deferred her departure with Tho Defender company com-pany Indefinitely Mrs Guyer formerly Miss Nellie Grenman of Salt Lake City Is recovering recover-ing from a serious Illness Lieut and Urg Gujcr are at Fort Slocum L I n Mrs Isabel Pills came In from Ron konkoma for two days Christmas shopping shop-ping lust week ADA PATTERSON |