Show THE THOMASWEST EXPOSURE Ix yesterdays isme we made some eommenU upon the conduct of the two agents In Vashin jton of the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Com-merce Governor A L Tom and lon C Vf Vet The article was Incited by the incidental exposure of the sneaking perfidy of Jlr Thomas exhibited before the House Committee on Terrilories on Wednesday Wed-nesday I secnis necessary t make further allusion to the subject ami in order that no injustice maybe may-be done t any of the parties I I proper to place a review of the matter mat-ter before our readers and leave the t judge of the merits of the controversy This method is also suggested as the best mode of treatment treat-ment that the record of rascality made by prominent political demagogues dema-gogues and selff eekers may b preserved served and that examples of doubceJng d isonely ny pre a warning t future generations Arthur it Thomas and Caleb V Wet are the authorized agents of the Salt lake Chamber of Commerce The former w paid S500 by that body t repair to Washington and labor in behalf of the movement to ere a liberal appropriation for a suitable government bidIng to L erected here and to securea portion of the Fort Douglas Reservation Cora Cor-a public park Sir West is the president of the Chamber anJ receives re-ceives a salary being a paid officer That there may be no niis ke about these gentlemen being tae authorized autho-rized agents of the association named we here quote from a feet of resolutions passed by i a few days ago in relation t the Worlds Fair Be it resolved further That copies of the foregoing be snot to Governor A Thomas and lion a W We now representing Salt Lake Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce Washington DO whose support will assist us in carrying carry-ing out the purposes of these resolutions resolu-tions and request their concurrence and cooperation therein When the report was published in this city that MessrsThomas and West were using the Influence and money of the Chamber ol Commerce Com-merce which claims to b nonpartisan non-partisan to urge the passage of legislation legis-lation that would disfranchise numbers num-bers of its members there was somethingakia t a sensation in the community tie commercial organization organ-ization being specially agitated regarding girding it The Liberal organ came to the rue as follows mm Yesterday i lice fcrald had a purported rumor from Washington charging that Governor Thomas and exGovrnor West ere under the gnus speaking far the Chamber and in the employ of the Chamber trying to influence legislation against the Saints Itamounted to very little in the limit but trhen the NEWt last evening eehced the game thing C anti gravely averted that the matter should be mater < b investigated that was proof that behind the lea the NKW all the i chiefs of the creed have determined i 1 possible 1 preventany Mormons from joining the Chamber Ills enough to Jay that tatdc from tie impiMiUlity of Gwtntor Tkoman and eiGtcemor ireftdoaig any cocA tHing the ntlte of the CKawer vhieh Aare nereror one moncal relaxed erpkcttly fmrfid any reference to politic or any political work Those gentlemen are in Washington Wash-ington torn specific purpose and that purpose is to enhance tlio business of this city by hiving a grand public building provided for and to try to hue the unsightlynest side of the military reservation converted into a delightful resort for this people and the mere intimation ef CleAr betraying their trust u an utuU whine tttar Khole pail ucei are a protett ayanuL The attack upon them 1 as Cry a I i false It will be observed that the chief anlijrormon organ asserts Inc in-c t that If the two individuals referred t did inllueqce legislation legisla-tion against the Saints they were guilty of betraying their trust and logically of a dastardly piece infamy In consequence of the reports and general sentiment on the sulject the directors of the Chamber of Commerce a week ago today telegraphed tele-graphed to Its two authorized agents t the effect that the NEWS and JleraM had charged them with influencing the legislation referred I t Whether the Chamber did I intentionally or not we arc not prepared pre-pared t say but It i I fact that t misrepresented this journal which made no direct charge the following being the language used It i currently reported and widely believed here that Caleb W e i operating secretly in Washington in the furtherance of pending Congres ional legi Ution for the disfranchisement disfranchise-ment of all members of the Church of lusuj vnnsiol Latterday Saints In another part of the article we ttated that we gave the parties the prlc te benefit of the doubt and insisted that the rumor should not b taken a < conclusive until proof was exhibited exhib-ited Ae the report turns out t l true however this is of but little moment except that I gave this paper the appearance of pronouncing pronounc-ing unqualified judgment prematurely prema-turely wheli such was not the Ce So far as we know the two gentlemen gentle-men addressed madenodlrectreply i thedirectoryoftheCham used the chief us anliilormon chlc anloron organ as their shute through which t convey con-vey their reply the following appearing ap-pearing in Its issue of latt Saturday embodied in a long special from its Washington Bureau The attention c Governor Tomas and exGovernor West having been called today to tbe statement published pub-lished to the SEWS and JleraM I Dad respecting nn re-specting their attitude towards the iuiioui Odin corny replied mat i was none no-ne thing for these papers to misrepresent mr present their actions and motives and sad that this had been the uniform course of these sheets with respect to all public men opposed to their principles prin-ciples and methods Both gentlemen whilo expecting and whlo eplng intending to give farther attention to the mater which occasioned their visit to Washington reserve the right which every citizen b of acting Independently on any proposed legislation J The first pint sought to be made iu the foregoing is to the effect that the agents of the Chamber had been misrepresented on the sulject at issue The question now arises I taking this a Governor Thomas statement when did he utter a falsehood Va i when ming claim t being misrepresented or cow when bo admits having iOu uy I ton enced the Uisfranchhrcnjcnt leI tionThe second point embodied In the extract I that two agents claim the right to take any position they please in influencing any proposed legislation legis-lation That means that they claim the right to use the money paid them by the Chamber of Commerce to secure the dlsfrauchlsemcnt of I numbro It menh nli rnlfr n n the profession of that body t nonpartisanship non-partisanship I glaring falsehood I amounts t reserving the right to be guilty of what the True calls betraying a trustwhtch is treachery For the purfote of making this crpote complete I I in order hereto here-to reproduce an excerpt from the speech delivered on Wednesday by Hon John T Caine bere the committee on Territories while the disfranchisement bill was under consideration ilr Cnine said Vn astonishibg element in this matter I that the raeasnre i seeking e = lent without the endorsement of any party in Utah or the other Territories Ter-ritories Who wants snch legislation I Who asks for 17 No man who b any direct interest i this question A few days ag I Inquired of the governor of Utah who I here and hell he-ll emphatically that ho was taking no part and would not do s ono way another Prominent men here from Utah are equally as roll ctJ eeLAt At this point Delegate Dnbois Interrupted Inter-rupted the speaker and said that Governor Thomas exGovernor West and members of the Utah Commission who were here a favored the bill and thought It should become a law that Governor Thomas had mado ouch a statement before two or three members mem-bers cities committee Mr Cine replied he would only repeat what Governor Thomas had said to him that he Tom talked the matter over and had decided de-cided to Ink no part either for or against the bill and then remarked The committee have now both state menu before them and can judge what kind of a man GovernorThomas is I A special to tie leading anti iformon journal of this city appeared ap-peared In this mornings issue of that sheet under the followIng pen notional aiI defamatory headlines Iln large type A 3IOEMOS UAH COASTED GOVEB OB TIIOXAS GIVES OClt X > EXE fciTE JL WEIi EiKXED CiSTI UAT10X AXASIAS CArXE AT IllS OLD TRICKS His Excellency Career the Saintlr San Slick and Wanti t Scow Why He Cant I Act Decently The Church Uelerale Squirm and I Extremely Cncomfort abe Auncied I the alleged juttlfira Lion of Governor Thomas SALT LEE TBIDUSE BUBEAU 517 Fourteenth Street WASUDCQTOS D CJ Aprl JlS Governor Thomas was greatly surprised sur-prised upon arrival in this city today from a trip to Sew York to learn that he had been quoted by Delegate Caine yesterday as not in favor of the Cullom disfranchising bill and that the statement state-ment had been made to the House Committee on Territories The truth i that John T Came has been guilty of a very shabby trick one of the meanest which the Situ Slick of the Saints over had lIes hunor to be compelled com-pelled to father The facts are tlieso On Wednesday last the Committee on Territories of the House had under consideration the StruMo disfranchising disfran-chising et Delegate Dubois tpoke in favor of Ibo bill and Caine appeared for Ibo opposition In th < j course of his argument Caine stated that Judge Raskin kn alone fathered the mee > uro and that 1 was not supported by the Governor or any other Federal official of-ficial ficialDabois Dabois contradicted the statement asserting that the Governor and the commissioners his personal knowledge knowl-edge favored the measure To this Caine replied that the Governor Gov-ernor of the Territory wit personally assured him that he wai taking no action ac-tion in regard to the bill and did not prorose to and impressed tho committee com-mittee with the idea of Governor Thomassilent opposition lo the bill This wa rather relback Tis rlber bck to Du Iwi AnI h L u uu e Governor in an embarrassing position As the Governor was out of the city he could not b seen explain matters mat-ters Today however Governor Thomas returned from Now York and having been informed of the manner in which the shrewd Moron attorney bad distorted a private remark mark into an official declaration Indignantly In-dignantly sought Mr Caine for an interview in-terview Governor Thomas accosted Came in the rotunda and demanded rlnnda demande an explanation plantation Caine stated that he had only quoted the Governor as not interested in-terested in the bill and tried pquirm out of the responsibility for any attempt tempt to placa the chief executive an Improper light before the Committee Commit-tee on Territories GovernorThomas controlled himself him-self but vigorously denounced Cainea action as unfit unjust and as a un1 a a gross misrepresentation of bis piton Ho called to Calnea memory a casual meeting In the capital a short while ago when Caine drewlilm aside from Governor West and Raid to him that he wanted to ask him a question which he could answer hle answer nr oot I I am constantly asked by different differ-ent members Congress said membr CngrssJ ad Caine whetheryou are n here working In the interest of the bill prepared by Baskln Governor Thomas frankly Informed him that Governor West and himself were not here for any such par that their visit VBS solely in reference to tho public building and park and that he proposed to take no active interest iu any general legislation What right Lad you demanded Govemortotake remark drawn from mo by yon and wrenching It from iu connection use it to further your own purpose by giving I a false d distorted meaning By 6 doing you have deliberately attempted to place me in a false position which you ought to have known from my whole public life I never would have assumed Why cant yon represent the people of your Territory Instead of your Church alone Delegate CUiae denied that he was representing the Mormon Church I You represent nothing else retorted torted Thomas Your papers have been filled with lies and misrepresentations misrepresen-tations of Governor West and myself ever sic we came here because you suspected that our mission was to influence in-fluence antIChurch legislation We have done notIng and said nothing except when oar private views wren asked as you asked me for mine and got them We have appeared before no committee and sought no committeemen commit-teemen and have attended a you know or ought to know to the business ness for which we came here Coincs performance b been successful suc-cessful only in injuring his cause Governor Thomas who will not b Into in-to city on Saturday morning when the committee on Territories will meet called on Chairman Stroble and authorized him lo cay a the meeting that he personally > Dd be believed he spoke torah the loyal citizens of Utah favored legislation which would crush the Mormon power that thin bill wu in that direction that the Mormon organization wu a menace to good government and Christian civilization that it degraded womanhood woman-hood made capital of the sincerity of the people and Invaded the sanctity of religion and that the government could not too soon take decisive action ton The House committee on Territories will take up the Utah disfranchising bill Saturday next when Jerc WU finn will him heard for the Saints b an wI te Snl The flaming headlines of tlie Governors ernors organ might b taken ns correct If applied t Mr Calnes detractor Mr Thomas admits that he did make the statoment t tho delegate Ibat the latter attributed at-tributed to him before the committee commit-tee Mr Cine did him no Injustice placing him on neutral ground as taking no active position for or against the dbfranchisement measure meas-ure He placed the Governor in the position ostensibly assumed by tlie latter when ho accepted five hundred dollars from the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce to pay his expenses at the capital The stuff about the answer to MrCalnes question as to his I attitude being a nb confidential communication is the veriest rubbish the Interrogation I being put by the delegate to enable him t ascertain tho status of Mr Thomas in relation to the dlefran chlsement bill But If he Intended I as confldeiitlaJ of what character was the statement urging the legislation I legis-lation in question made t members of the committee IIu admits both statements otherwise other-wise he would make Dubois a Caller The one statement state-ment I the antithesis of the other and he j therefore In the light of a selfproclaimed hypocrite with two tongues and a double tce Seeing that he h been completely exposed he now proclaims his own villainy being according to the Tribune guilty of betraying a trust Having Introduced the special of the leading antiMormon organ headlines and allwe LOW give one which appeared in tlie Jlcraldot this morning which correctly explains ex-plains the position I Washington D C April 21 Governor Gov-ernor Thomas returned from New York ILl morning He is boiling over with wrath at Delegate Cine for using bin name In his argument before th House committee on Territories yesterday wherein be sold that Governor Gov-ernor Thomas emphatically stated to him that he Thomas was taking no part either for or against the Baskln dlsfranchi emcntblll IIochargcsDcle rato Cain with a breach of rourtesv CIne wlb I br curosv In making tse of I private conversation conversa-tion Delegate Caino when asked about tho matter spurned the charge of breach of courtesy Ho says that when ho inquired of Governor Thom ho was making any effort I behalf of the disfranchisement bill he told the Governor that bo did not wish to do him any injustice injus-tice that he h hen rrin rumor J and ho came to him frankly and made the inquiry telling Thomas at the same time that ho cuM please I himself whether ho answered him or I not Thomas then stated that be was taking no part in the matter cither for or against the bill Mr Cslno says further that between bimstlf as De gate and Mr Thomas as Governor there could bo nothing of a private confidential character in any conversation conver-sation concerning a bill pending InCa in-Ca which s vitally affected tho people of Utah I is strongly suspected sus-pected that the Governor Is trratby because be his been unina kedwblch was i unwittingly done by Delegate Dubois before the committee yesterday yester-day Mr Caiue I not the only person bon GovrrnorThomas assured In words that he was and Intended to remain neutral on the dlsfnuichise ment legislation A few days lie fore he left for the cast in A conversation convers-ation with Mr James I Anderson a representatIve ol the SEWS Governor Gov-ernor Thomas in reply t an inquiry in-quiry as t his position on the question ques-tion of disfranchising the Mormons Mor-mons Governor Tliotiiis said Of cnn yon know I have made certain recommendations In my r port but on the point you suggest I have not taken a plo one nay or the other I have not bothered my head about II a it I Is not my business a Governor and I shall not take any part in the affair I shall kep entirely en-tirely aloof from the question Having been thus full in placing before the public a record of facts which demonstrate beyond question that a couple of men with special reference t one of them have been guilty of the most flagrant doubledealing that they have used the money and influence of the Chamber of Commerce t cut he political throats of some of the men who contributed II and consequently consequent-ly have placed the organization In a very trying posUion what Is next in one The Chamber of Commerce has published the ac that these men aixila agents to Jo Its work and not t take a political action ac-tion against the interests of any of the members of tlie body Unless the Chamber shall recall these representatives repre-sentatives and repudiate their partisan par-tisan doing the association Itself will daub before the public n participator par-ticipator in an offense against fair dealing and common decency |