Show the thatcher letters moses mosea thatcher seems to have bave set making a record for himself after the october conference by means of letter writing and now he furni furnishes all his bis private correspondence very reluctantly of course to the salt lake morning papers the letters are between sir mr thatcher and I 1 the be president of the Quor quorum of the twelve lorenzo snow inov they consist mainly of mr thatchers own statement of the case president snow having very little to say in fact he said in one of his hie letters to mr abat cher I 1 hoped that further correspondence would not oe ide indulged in by you but that just as soon as you fully rea realized lizea your true position you would not rest until you vou had bad conferred with ma personally in regard to arranging for an interview with your quorum for the purpose of regain regaining ine your fellowship I 1 repeat I 1 hoped your feelings feeling would have prompted you to do this and I 1 felt warranted in believing anat your wisdom would have led you yon to do it but 1 in this thia I 1 was disappointed and so eo were werey your nur brethren one and all mr thatchers first letter was dated oct 16 when he appeared at the temple to meet he says with his quorum and found the doors closed against him later he read the card of the first presidency in the deseret news suspending his functions in the priesthood he was aware he said that his name was not presented at the last two general conferences but he did not know that such actions could result in suspending his priesthood until the remarks at the last general conference were published mr thatcher says that he be did not kno know w that his brethren held aught against agamet him save his refusal to sign the political declaration he seeks to make inake that his only offense in all hi his 9 subsequent letters if there were other offenses he asked for them in detail that he might answer president snow answered briefly referring mr thatcher to the deseret news hews which contained stenographic reports of the remarks concerning mr thatcher at the late conference moses thatcher then writes a long letter telling how he had bad sought to t meet with his quorum and been refused and how his case had been handled at the recent conference when a promise had been made to his bis son that nothing would be done clone for a period until the writer was again well and finally concluding with a request for a public trial inasmuch as he be had been referred to charges in public c print I 1 next president snow cites him to appear before his quorum and in reply to the request for a public trial president snow says it is ia not a proper request for these reasons it is not your standing stand inz in the church that is at issue but your f fellowship ellow ship with the bi ethren of your own quorum m this is ie the tipsiness tiu nu siness to bs be settled between yourself aud and us and ana when this is sett settled ed satisfactorily there wilt will be no difficulty remaining nine concerning the document on church discipline you yon have beer been informed on several occasions that the members of your quorum could not fellowship your spirit and conduct several of them have waited yon and informed you that the twelve felt that you a abaid ld make amends and take proper steps to restore to their fellowship this therefore is not a matter for the general public nor for the presence of witnesses witness ee you yon yourself are the cipal party inter cited and f if f you can talie the necessary fleps which are altogether within your own power diere need not be the least difficulty about your having the fellowship of your fellow apostles this has always been the course taken in our church arm the tha beginning to the prom ent time it the question of your fellowship with the tha church should be brought forward at any time it will then be for the church to give you such a hearing as aa will enable anable its members to express themselves as to whether they will hold bold you von in fellowship or not mr thatcher then replied that if he could get no specifications and judgment seemingly having already been passed on him he could do nothing else than await the actions of the quorum and what would be required of him to regain fellowship with his bis brethren he then pathetically con finues the thought n of the tha o vr manent losa of t that hat exalted position and of your fellow ship ebia and of the consequent humiliation end and bitte bitterness rnear that may follow are very dreadful I 1 shrink from the contemplation it beems a sad a fruitless reward for years or more of 0 earnest estand devoted ina a cause c a u e that haq bai inspired and does still i inspire n spire the best efforts effort 0 ot a ii life Is subject of couise cour seto to human heakne weaknesses eee and human armors but nevertheless devoted and true I 1 cannot brethren I 1 utterly fall fail to feel that I 1 deserve the fate that now teems hanging banging over met mel president snow next notified him of the action of the quorum on mr thatchers failure to appear the letters of mr thatcher Tb atcher b er are very ingeniously 1 y irah wen ten and 0 confirm 11 h r m I 1 1 r I of ofa t Is said K he was few day a ago when a AA A quite as cunning as judge powers on the face of the record made in the correspondence re spon dence he be appears a very much mi misused eusea man he has sought bought reconciliation with his quorum and found the doors of their meetings closed against him all it seems from his letters letter is because he would not sign the declaration last fall and stands for a complete separation of church and state he says nothing about the months and years of labor with him testified to by nis his brethren at the last general conference he simply imply B appears as a devout christian unjustly p persecuted persecuted WE are indebted to col a member of the utah commission for a copy of the final report of that body it is filled with valuable statistics and other political information and contains in full the famous powers proclamation of the reconvened ogden convention which the eo ea generally endo endorsed throughout the state the last las t manifesto of the church which was as generally e brally and unanimously endorsed is is not given JUDGE powers will yet loom up as the most prominent senatorial Senat ozial candi date of the anti mormon forces as predicted by us would be the case long before the election turn your attention to judge powers this thatcher matter i is s only a side issue tup THE salt lake lae tribune seems a little disappointed with the thatcher Tb atcher letters it thinks they betoken a craven spirit soon the tribune crowd will also forsake the misguided church member |