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Show MOLLS IIZIHTtS Salt Laker in Physical Dan-j Dan-j ger From Ministers, He Writes Home. Women at Pittsburg Con-ference Con-ference Are Worst of Hecklers, He Says. Writing of the treatment accorded him at the third World Christian Citiien-ship Citiien-ship conference in Pittsburg, Apostle James E. Talmage of the U D. S. church ! in a letter dated Wednesday, November 12, and received yesterday by a Salt I Lake friend says: "If hatred, bitterness, malicious faiae- j hood and malignity In general can ever be associated with perfection, then wo have Just about reached the end of a well nigh perfect day. President George W. MeCune and Major Wesley E. Kim both arrived this morning. The forenoon session of the Christian Citizenship convention con-vention was scheduled for 9:30 o'clock. We three were duly registered, and, to coratfy with every detnil of the rules. Major King and 1 presented wr.lten requests re-quests to be heard in the discussion. We i were treated with insults from the first. "Winifred Graham and William E. I.a Rue spoke during the morning. The last I nanieil was listed on the program as flavin?" flav-in?" once been ft 'Mormon.' but It de-' de-' veloped later that he claimed that dls-I dls-I tlnctioh only because his father l.ad been i a member of the Reorsranlied church.' j Winifred Graham went beyond the ne. paper accounts of what she was golnR to I say by charging up to us about very crime In the category. Says Mormons Unchristian. "Superintendent James S. Martin of the National Raform association announced an-nounced the presence of a Mormon j i apostie, and staled that 1 had no right I to the fh-or, as the conference was dis-! dis-! tinctly Christian, and that, as all pres-' pres-' ent were supposed to know, 'Mornionlsnv ! wns distinctly unchristian. He sub- j I muted to the audience of approximately SO00 the question as to whether I should I be allowed to speak as a matter of conr-I conr-I tesy. Inasmuch aa I certainly must not I attempt to speak as a mat:er of rlitht. I At this stase the audience manifested Infection from what one of this evening's eve-ning's papers calls germs of riot." "D A. W Wishsrt of Grand Rapids. I Mich., made himself heard, and remarked: i We are mak'.ng a sorry exhibition of ourseves.' I was then told that by tils courtesv of the conference 1 might speak, but only for five minutes. I read the letter from Acting Governor Bennlon. supplemented by Governor Bamberger s telegrarhic Indorsement, to the accompaniment accom-paniment of hisses and other ridicule. Woman Vitriolic. "At the opsnmg of thp sftsmoon mest. ; InK somf H the DMIsbara seemed to hv ; experienced a little sens of shArue, and ! on motion I was Riven another fivs niln-! niln-! utes. Minglfd applause and hissing came my way. Then Mrs. Lulu Lovsiand ! Sheperd launched a vitriolic tirade, more venomous than nnthing 1 had read of ; her utterances. She was rampant In de-. de-. nouncinjt our publicity work, and cited her recent experience In Georgia. "Then followed a habbttb over the i OBMUoa of allowing Ma.'or King to speak ! arid he was told to go ah a, but not to take more than ten minutes. He read the statements signed by the officers M the Commercial and Rotary clubs and In-! In-! dividual! and then was loudly hissed. Trie ' atatemsat ilgrted by ministers was rw-l rw-l celrsxl with surprise and loud outbursts 1 of protest, and ne was virtually accuaad of having forged or otherwise olilalnsd I the signatures falsely. He Hood his ' ground like the soldier he Is. and paid I h'gh tribute So the Mormon' rlllaens of Utah, at which he was Insulted beond i what most men would icur without violent vio-lent resentment. "Mrs. Sheperd then challenged me to take the stand ami say that I .lid not believe In polygamy, and the audlsjf, which at this session numbered more than (ihiO. voted fhal I le required to respond. I weht to the platform and tried to point out Ule difference between belief and practice and was hooted. Surrounded by Mob. "Mrs. s I demands,! that I say whether or not I was wearing n secret garment with marks to Indicate the treasonable oaths I had taken and asked that I be taken by a committee OI men who would strip rue for examination and report their findings to the conference. "I was on the stage when the benediction benedic-tion was pronounced at .VnO o'clock, but It was nearly an hour later beforo I wai able to descend, for I was first surrounded, sur-rounded, men crowded, pressed and literally lit-erally huallej by 'ministers Of the gospel' and olhera. Who kept hurling queartwas at tne, but giving me little or no ihance to answer. While from an elevated oei. tlon at the rear of the greflt stage a couple of women went wild In their demoniacal yells and accusations. Ministers, Min-isters, two partlcularlv. shook their flats within a few inches of my face. Neither J'rcH'denl MrCilne nor any friendly person per-son could get near inc. As the mob atood about me In' a circle alx, or more seep "After forty minutes of this experience, experi-ence, 1 heard one man telling me In a 'half whisper to close my head, to aplrlt nn self away If 1 could, as there was a crowd forming below to s-lc and strip me. At this point one of the officers called on all to leave, as the slags bad 1o be prepared for the night mooting." |