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Show JLn.K CAHLTON'.S VIEiTs. Jfrx.1- Cakitox, formerly chairman chair-man of tbe Utah Corfntuacrj, has been vl'ely Acdsed by Ihe organ ot all that is filthy and false the Salt Lake "Liberal" orgAn bn-ause be wanted "I'air ITii' for tlUe Mor-meni.":- f he "tcrre Haute Uazittc of Oct, IS lias the following In regard to Judge Carlton's losltlon: "Jndso Carlton, formerly chairman of the Utah Commission, being asked by a fiaitttc reporter w bother ho was nurprisod at tho ialo action of tho Mormons in nbandomni? pe?yp"rin-, said that he was not at Ml rorprised. On theconlrsry.'Mid he.'l predicted thisovcrtbrecjcarsigo-. ttwastbi-n perfectly evident Vi ry nlind that the Mormon pc-h had wisely resoUed that uie practice offwlyaam v shoald So atnndoned; and I then ittcd In an oflidal report to tttl government that polygamy In I'tah was practically d&ad and would oon I -e a thing of the part. On account of the espevon of this opinion, together with the facta on which it wr; based, I was denounced de-nounced y certain non-Mormon zealots in Utah as if I bad bsen guilty of treason, murder, and exery other crime In the calcmlar. They dreaded above all things that the Mormons shoald gho uppolvgjmy, for then the oocunefori ot the agitators would bo p&e. As to tlie sincerity of the Jlormons In this movement there can bo no donbt about this. It has been publicly declared by tho head of the Church and unanimously ratified and sustained by over ten tbccsed pep'o in conference s-sCtSlod.' " |
