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Show ELDREDGE KN8VS CHURCH INFLUENCE. The following, from the Hon. Alma Eldrcdge, post marked Coalville, November No-vember 7th, reached us yesterday. Editor Salt Lake Tribune: "Better late than never," goes the old adage. My attention is called to your editorial In The Tribune of October 13th last, wherein where-in you B"tatc: "Wo aro sorry to see Hon. Alma Eldrcdge Join tho feeble and furry cry that there is no church interference In politics in this State." I might not, under other circumstances, feel chagrined to know that you would make such a statement. But knowing as I do that tho cntlro sentence is based on an assumed measure, rathor than on your own knowledge of facts. putB a different phase on the measure. Your presumption relative to my nomination nomi-nation in 1803 is far fetched and shows a lack ofvknowledge of tho circumstances connected therewith. Your statement. "So Eldredgo was nominated nom-inated and by tho very church influence he now declares does not exist, and has not existed," docs not ngreo with tho facts, as Eldredgo has never made any such statement or declaration. You aro fully aware that Eldredgo knows too well, and he knows whereof he speaks, tho history of tho political procedure pro-cedure in Utah during the paBt five years, and over, to make such a statement aa you Impute to him. nicatlon spaco in your paper, I remain, yours respectfully, ALMA ELDREDGE. Coalville, Utah, November C, 1001. With regard to our knowledge of the facts regarding Mr. Eldredge's nomination, nomina-tion, wo havo only to say that we know very much more about it than ho thinks we do. We heard the job put up, In the alley to the east of the Grand Theater, by the Utah county delegation. del-egation. For the nccuracy of the report of Mr. Eldredge's speech at Richfield, where he Is alleged to have attacked tho American party as stated, we of course cannot .personally vouch. But it is a Joy to have from Mr. Eldredgo such nn unequivocal admission of his knowledge of church Influence In tho politics of Utah as Is conveyed In his statement that he "knows too well, and he knows whereof he speaks, the history of the political procedure In Utah, during the past five years, and over, to make such a statement as you lmputo to him" that Is, that such Influence In-fluence haa not been exerted. Thlsols a frank and manly statement by Mr Eldredgo. We wish he had not delayed bo long In making It. But, ns ho says, "better late than never." His worda on this subject, uttered not from the hearsay, but from his own knowledge knowl-edge ho knows loo well, and he knows whereof he speaks that this church Influence In-fluence has been used, is but another strong link In the binding chain of evidence evi-dence which makes the caso against tho church political leaders In this matter mat-ter complete. |