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Show llGI CHIEFS ( TRY COERCION i Stten)t to Influence Ogden ?Vo(ers for ''Dry" Side Is I H ilterly Resented. I " NY IGNORE SUMMONS TO SECRET CONFERENCE iy Thai They Owe Obligation to Obey Political Commands. ial to Tha Tribune. .UIjDEN. June P. Seldom in the his-Kry his-Kry of Mormon church political affairs Buk there "been such a determiner! effort Influence the suffrage of the ilormon T ae has been evidenced since the t" and "dry" campaign opened at mholdened hy public utterances and ed statements of men high in the rch nrjvjjlnc members of Ihe faith 'ote the "drv" ticket at the corninp :lal lifjtior election, leaders of the ch in Option have made a determined mpt to voiral the voles and Influence he presidents and their counselors of various stalseH, the bishops and other ibr of the priesthood That this at-?t at-?t to coerce the officers of the church isft their positions in the priesthood erllous. is gathered from the stale-ts stale-ts of church member?, some of whom irn that a disruption of the Jjatter-Sninls Jjatter-Sninls church will unquestionably It If thn matter kocs much farther, orv president, counselor, bishop and her comprlsinc the priesthood rc-:d rc-:d a wrlllen notification several days trnuestlng them to meet with Apos-David Apos-David O McKay and other church Drs at the Weber academy Wcdnes-cvenlriK. Wcdnes-cvenlriK. Many of those who are in r of resulalod saloons flatly rofjised I tend the mooting. Others of similar s went to the meeting and there yj their protests apalnst such an at-t at-t at coercion, hlle those who attended the meeting reticent rcpartilnir what took place, franKH admitted that they were d to support the "dry" ticket, and : told that their obligation to do so as jiaried as the articles of faith, considerable furore has resulted ig thy- Mormon people at Osrtcn. A nf-h member of ihe church refused Ittanco lo two missionaries who called Is hom cK.erda.v. He assured them teli we'eomr if they came to teach the sospcl and dlKruss religion, but l lie learned that they had been dl-id dl-id to talk prohibition he showed them door me of those members of the priest.-who priest.-who it-fused to attend tho meeting V.'ednesdav say thai they arc willing eep hands off in the campaign and so informed the leaders of the ch. but dosplte thle fact they are urcd to change their viows on- Ihe r o,ucslon and work for tho success he "dry" campulgn. |