| Show THE HOB CKITICISKU Ii I A nfllioer ObJ a ti U UCMil lhhl I i lions lu file gl14ur To the Editors llavlui read your comment upon i r tbe I proceedings of the Joint assembly that resulted In the election of the I j ROD Joseph L Iliwllnslo I the Unlti I j j Blates Senate and having been preienl upon the occasion I wish to may that j I your strictures were none too oDI ICU 1 severe and your utterances only true notwithstanding the not that the asianibly has since by a whltewaihluz process too common and altogether too popular In Ibis century Bought to justify lie presiding cfflcer and his tympalhstio rabble the lobby and galleries Nor was the dIgnity olin what should be the most august body in the State so rudely converted Into the frenzy on howling feeling mob The president 01 The sovembly pu countenance to this traDilllou by permitting per-mitting the utmost freedom of utterance utter-ance to those who spoke In denunciation denuncia-tion or dominant Church lu Utah and by restricting thom who attempted I attempt-ed to reply Ihereti That ha did thin truthful person pretenl upon thai occasion can deny Ho never once called Mr Rldeoul order although big lengthy addiess was Almost entirely entire-ly made up of a deep a DJ bitter arraignment ar-raignment ol tbe Mormon Church but the moment said Cburcb wan t referred to by these whose feelings had tbUB been outraged be Immediately began to call them lo order and to IL BIB that all reference to Church matters should be eliminated train their remark n1 a i though a reply l could be made to what had been Bell without vagatchjoic the Bimo latitude In this rupect that he bad accorded to those who bad precipitated the unwarrantable un-warrantable and unluit attack Jiy permitting the Stealth upon ills Church Pm g Ii 10 tie wildly applauded and luiie who repelled he disgracefully hissed and I Intuited bo exblbltud a prejudice t comiauled by a spirit ol uufulruese that should forever condemu him In the estimation ol all lovtrs ol justice und 1 fair playAs play-As thu representatives ol both the Tribune mail file Jicrald belonged to Metal age that were In sympathy with the riotous element that transformed the peace of Iou Assembly Into a pandemonium pan-demonium III Is but human that they should nave viewed the whole matter from a partisan eandi olnt and therefore there-fore I have tried to palliate Rod uxcuie tboso who created ibodligruoilul confusion It I con-fusion and those who untcuroged l Doll I I permuted That you were Justified in inferring that Ibo supporters cf I Thatcher had thus packed Ibo hall with sympalhlzen la I born out by the fait that tn all appearance few but fall friends vote inert and that they were there too lu OUCh nuuibem DB to Lo emboldened I lu attempting coercive co-ercive methods toward the members of I the Assembly who porBlsled In voting an Ihe woo and nol an dom t tioxues for the plaudits of a mob I to hay a mob for when respectable cHl I Zen allow themselves tu be wrought up to such a wild frenzy as obaract < Had the galleries on fall occasion ru lurrnl to the term employed IB I n hall too > ev re It bu Ody exOtesbul Ibo pvoticle prefl nle I An to lIe mm qupstlou at I Usuo In ihe cOOlrovroy Ju eDdo 1 but which omr sly 10 1 tug lUll ojminenct I In Utah It would 1 be more truthful and coluUtcril say Lilac MOMS Thalcher Isltlbo diniim of the Juurch to sank In the domain of politics I a vindication it bis course In a Church controversy Chile tj say lust the dominant Churcn in Utah led Us lotlllniate Abbots lo pursue a deposed Church illlolal The controvert began In the Church over a question of dlicllllue that bad never beore been questioned vli The right of the Church lo rtqulre ol its Apo llts thai May first obtain per ruliBlon of the Church before quit ling their duties for political Rod other places chit Would prevent thorn giving that time and attention that they had solemnly pledged iheatolvei to give to their exalted poiltlont as ApoillM of the lord Jesus Cartel Not only the tdlcala nl the Chutes but the great rnembursiilp thereof sustained by vote In Uoneral and Stake Conferences as well as Inward In-ward meeting the rule and yet llblo Apoitle re used compliance therewith I and at Ibo agree lime Ihoujht It 1 grevlout and Unjust that bo should not beporrnllltd tj hold his exalted place lu I the Church Instead of submitting II grico ully ti the will ol f the mbilly In the case like Ibo eleventh juryman I Jury-man he persists In saying that everybody every-body that dots not ten as bo does IB I wrong and In testing In the political arena a Justification for his course tied that too at the hands ol those who being largely outside of the pale of the Cburch have no buslutss whatever what-ever with the question at Issue JitIng a question purely of Church and not ol I Billie none but members of the particular Church In which It 1 has arisen have any Just right to Inter fire with It It looks to me tberefole that In place nl t the Church Interfering with the i ff Irs ut Ibo Slate In this controversy contro-versy Moses Thatcher baa sought to use Ibe machinery of the Stale to Interfere In-terfere with an flair that It I purely a Church miller for by justification that bo has sought he has tried to breakdown and destroy a rule of dlt pllue thai all fair minded will say Ibo Mormon Church has a eifeot right lo mule i anti wage ti moll to enforce u tuer by dlerellowehlpplni Ibo rrcalcilraul member from Ibe quorum of which bo was a member or by lulling blm oil from tbu Cburch altoietber A UlMOOllAT OODEI Utah Feb 8 Hl7 As to our correspondent criticisms in Ibo first paragraph of the foregoing communication the NEWS Is once I more compelled to say Ibal In Its opinion the presiding officer ol the joint assembly was more ginned ugalont than elnuluj Ills rullcgs upon points of order in Iho eeailou rilcrrcd lo appeared lo us to be fair atd uniform and while the uproar of the rabblQ was dl rcul and Is I deserving de-serving of all censure the Assembly itself It seems 10 ur wa lets ztnlouj In desiring In supprtsslon than was the pn siding olllcer whe brake his gavel lu attempting lo restore ordir ij NEWS |
