| Show jf W DEFENDS HIMSELF Pull Text of His Answer as Written by His Own liand for the New Nev York YOlk and ad Published by That Paper To Refuse a LI a Seat Scat Where lie las lias Been Legally Elected is a Proceeding Utterly Without nt As to Expulsion No Member lias Ever Been Expelled by the House for an fl Alleged Defect of Moral Who are Responsible for the Present Agitation to Encompass ion Says Mr Roberts arc Aware Of tile the Weakness of Their position and are arc Taxing Their Ingenuity to tile the House Act Without Regard to Precedents or Legal Rights th e Mn AIS Pren on Sunday lut laut lautt 1111 id tJ I thO country the synopsis t witten b by n II nir t fIn 3 ir r fr f r the CW York Times d in fl that journAl on that d t Tt Th In question Is It a ref re ren t i 1 n s1 d Jt t of facts concerning t 4 trI E CY by Mr r Rob and Is In published In foil tull II 1 e In U till the Information of th tb Yi V Ii 1 11 1 tUa rI It Is in as rt lt Sf se In working up It a pub t ut the i t fain nh of 01 the tho House of I either th tInt t he be not note 1 to 0 I 1 Ice ke hIS seat eat to whIch It Is e th t h was vaR b brg admitted that hr he lac ho II Tt the House can do either CI c 1 tW Is extremelY doubt T rU a I his bin seat te t in be been n d In the election return t I by candIdates candidate I f h ol tiIe e find It II IS II admitted that thaI t fipp aH IJO all the C b by the t I i Ih the a 11 pro g Y without precedent and andL L 1 br b urd as to be out or of the theA A t I the proposition to ex exi i 1 1 m n from Utah after sent sentI I t 11 Ihl It Is conceded that the theA A t s d the House nrc not alto the Aub of at atI r I r on subject l I ezi ill a ot t It IS II perfectly IL I thit II t never yet ct lina ex cx ext t 1 an 1 fl fur fr nn an alleged r I The clause ot of the ther r I a 3 that grants to the House Boone v i Iff t I I Tl a member Is II as tot fol tota M a I 1 tr h 1 may the r 3 j pr punish It Iti ItiL L tI f d behavior and Ht tt flurrence of at ex ext exI t I I May him for forI I Fr F r dl May V tT t h 1 fr f t what Evidently for or dlly y I r R t Cf t n a more aggravated k 1 11 y si hh b h the hou Is disturbed It iLl or lI It dignity U cr L e mtr lg d Certainly not for 14 fd m It if com oom t N at al all al eRn committed before the ther r r S i WitS known t P t I rr was wall charged against I 1 rr th tb campaign tn In which he heva va 11 t t I a un hail under the theL L 1 1 i the th state Stat from which he comes omes I k I tit h 9 are at the bottom ot of tl r nt u on to encompass the I n I r the member from Utah are 2 of tb of their poet I 1 II q m gI 1 standpoint and hence t C rt r LI 11 1111 the means their In r r In Pt to 10 Induce the HOlse II to act Without regard t rU tn Ir r the legal lelal righta C 1 J 2 t tbt end th they Y have hae started I Ef it f th tb and other q E n thE th present agitation y ill t the member from 1 lJ Lit tire the whole Mormon Mormont t f I 1 V nO fl far however that t jI I ill LI utI rt without regard to tor tor r i tr or m my I toga gal C 1 r rf d I the members I U iI i b much by I I r f i tartan tarlan religious so co coC C fr tb III r lion ason I first that It l is n a leary outside tire the sphere ot of the tho theM t M lind i because th the e k a In Is In bam ullon ire n f fads and absolute falee A A I 1 iS man many pen peo tn p a J ministers minister outside of IA 11 ire by the falsehoods of I r at IJ t ottom It cit the t I t 11 t aed thus thu d detent eat the expressed i nj f the ppe ot of a sovereign State I I po t ut ClOP ot of the false loisI charges on C h the o Is based I rUm RAS nAS OT DEE BIE BROKER f It II that the Mormon ormon Jt it Iii IS faith with the SO gov f th Staten In refer I 11 r If II I PYgmy that Is It Is charged the r t f mar has ia b 11 resumed b by th the Church ChuCh It tot the Ort pae Nue It must be bc i td that r the exists between and the govern overn t t ct t lb Ih cl on the sub t of r a flay Tile The only compact c 0 subject II the c rid theIr t fI III the State 1 the e and the thc I People ot of p nit I represented b by the Itt thit t nd lI To understand TIT rna at t I important as 1111 by ren rea of t It t th the Whole vexed u question or of orr tr T PO gamy was settled and the he nature ot of that J ar th I t iniquity of tho appears In tire the en n lr kg af t pF by Congress lb te ot nah to form e a State at It wall Wa expressly stipulated 1 convention b by ordinance r hates t th Ih of the United P and th people ople of paid State IJ ar r or plural mar nr ar f r Per prohibited ts I the h That j finly demand made u upon On tIrl Ett by tn People ot of the tho United r te t r fUr n could be Induced to tn t I h r thouGh an iii it do so When In the the i r ot 1 the people of 01 Utah Ulah dealt t tho they adopted ho or r tire enabling oct net In 11 I to this till tile convention also JItt IL IO i of CI format territorial p nned and 4 provided for tor the I lr f Ik It to be In force In th the s This law ex cx II the enactment or of Con 2 3 fin On fl same amp subject It defined ir In Inu the same Mm terms B an the Con Conj j ri t did II and nit pro d J It also aho dp de r t terms cohabitation lion In the This i I the acts lIeta ot of I lIving In UI relation after the Illegal th t have bare been formed Ih thi 1 1 CongressIonal and Tel Ter It ai nor ae made n a t CEy Thi l therean POlygamy ti Us a 0 tel el Ia ta I lI repeat the Jrr t I o all and made the tho tart part punish marrying ot of the I 1 Constitution th the part ot of th the law 3rd 11 liv tog Ing In WI was Wll ue there Ihre wi nothing In the g not lot that d di banded the disruption at t those exist Ing marriage relationS which lied had been Into under the ot of the Mormon Church It only required that 1 r or plural shoUld be prohibited for the future When It was Val to 10 tire gentle gentleman man who Introduced th the resolution making the above aboe that the part ot of the law defining and punishing unlawful nine also be included In th the ConstitUtion ht he replied In erred hurt thO or conditions he wag not aiming tom to meet t that the en lI not t required that po lO tuan go for the future should bt b prohibited arid flint I Ia all 1111 that was done donI All iI thin In th the reported amid published lie ile bates ot of the Convention That was the he ot of this That Is In Inthe till the compact ct between the United States and the thc 1 tOple ot of Utah Those were cere the tho terms no 0 for far al was IM con concerned corned on which Utah was admitted Into the UnIon And I 1 I ly that that compact been n kept on the part ot of the Utah The of m my State ore are not covenant breakers as her charge chare There is 11 II no made to repeal or the of the thc Constitution Ing or c plural marriages There Is no desire to disrupt that corn com pact with the tho United States Slates The Mar Marmon I Imon mon Church hell bee not lIot violated tire corn com pact bud aird hlll has no de desire to annul It but buton buton on the contrary the venerable ire d ot of the thc Church has ha avowed ids determination to adhere to this settle settlement ment of 01 the question The fhe to tram from Utah has hal not violated this compact the a assertion or of hi his to the eon con Wh the little ot of seCtarian ministers and din appointed bosses In Utah who tegan this agitation 88 say that the Mormon ormon ChUrch or Its Ill mem hers Jerf vIolate the compact between our Slate tato and the peep of UI the United Stilt because II a feW men in 11 Utah morally morall bound tp to their a lions to tile the women t tn marrIed under of th the Church pre previous to the ot of the Church manifesto ot of they say eay this ii 18 a violation ot of the compact with the they 81 that which th they know to be 00 untrUe disrupting nn and din dla continuing those polygamous relations vas no ot of the It was not demanded by th l act It Was Willi not day riny vart ot of the action or of tire the Constitutional Convention but on the contrary steps were taken not to ti those thOle relations b by con b by Isca lm the parts or of th thi law whirls would hate hae brought aboUt that rl result indeed was not that thaI II a just and settlement ot of the vexed questIon What Wha I good Would come to the people or of the United States b bY n a disruption or of those plural families What good come tb Ither mor allty or religion to tUrn tho those wives winK and their children adrift 1 omans home be the securer for lor knowing that s a Mormon Plural home was lOW tew destroyed nd I iet t It be remembered r that thaI the mm home and family ot of that was WI es under the sanction her hor hera 1 a hol holy church ceremony and with tire the ot of nil oh her people A broad salad mind and arni n a Christian spirit wIll ap prop or of the settlement that was a made ot of that question The foUntain of the evil was as dried UP th the p ot of the United States can enn b be h to allow th the streams tr m that flowed from It to take cour course p until lost Its In the oblivion of death Sine inee her admission Into the Un Union n Utah has been under the surveillance The whole natIon haS haO watched Iter iser en nectar an priests iii Utah to their own reports to church and articles tO tisa tree Iren lift left lIon their high callIng ailing u an ministers of It the anal spotters and pines upon theIr rl to see If thY thoy could oa toh tb them 1014 the agreement with the and yet fl all al th tiny can truthfully charge harge 1 a that sam cornS is few and rapidly growing entered into marriage to iSIS ISIO when the Church formally and or of discontinued such marriage sad and ot of course pre loti to the settle of the Qu Uon by till the compact or of our State I have felt It II morally upon UlOn their to fulfill the obligations ot of theIr mar owa tl I those thoN fans fam tiles ThIll a the only that Iras hu In t Utah tah alnee the admissions hm 01 f the State Slate or IID In feet And yet tt these have n so I reported b by the prent pr fint agitators as asto to make It appear that they were new cases of polygamy lIm that the Mormon was resuming thE practice of 01 polygamy th that ot of Utah was lal breaking iti covenant with the nation I teens any ellort egort to Ut the contempt one naturally feels leet for tor thois who like to deceive sail and bear isear false wit fleas against their neighbor A con contempt tempt Increased by tilt the recollectIon that for tIle most malt pert purt this artta lion bawd ft as sad by falsehood I ii the work of men Inca II as ministers ot of the gospel of Jesus JIW and aDd sent nl out to Huh forsooth to convert the from Irom the error o 0 their ways It II NOT OT A CHURCH Ill It is faiNt falsely that th the or ormon mon man Church the ot of Utah UtO and Ind that the from Utah Wag wa nominated elected b by Mornion Church The political convention fated the representative Utah w was th the regularly called convention of at the Democratic pert party patter the governing such tuch bodies In which both and set at u as mem members From time the candIdates for lor the nomination Roberts wa ori the tue heat ballot hillot and no Question ot of the regularity ot of the convention or of at Its proceedings was ever eer raised miNd b hr Demo Democrats rat either on the part at o Gentilee or and both classes claSIe worked fur tor his election The Murmon Church had nothing to do either for or the representatives talles election It ill ta tItIe he had Mermon frIends who worked for or his but It Is also true that there were Mormon bearsantI a hUmr ot of them high In Inthe Inthe the councils or of the II as sought by every honorable means arcane In their JI power er to hll hi defeat The representative eory stronghold In the State and many almost exclusive ty y Mormon settlements because the tise majority or of the people ople tn in them Were and came caine ou out t ot of other almost exclusively counties with lIh gre 11 reduced majorities and he Is loda today from Utah Ulah I rather b by reason or of loathe than ot of Mormon sUI support Ort It Is not true IMle that he was either nominated ot or elected by Mormon Church m If NO 0 TEST or OF AMERICAN S Tr TrIM MIT IM T TIt It Ii f nInety charged that the Mor mon mun Church lenders to 10 havo to 10 test th the ot of the people or of the United States StatH as to whether Utah would Ie l held to the agreement In matter maIler ot o the wo aban of po polygamous or plural plum mar narea This Is 1 the first time the MormOn leaders fl ere ever er charged with khoo lute stupidity Any An question about the people of f Utah being held to their agreement to abandon polygamous or plural as provided In their State ConstitutIon has hili n never ver existed There never lisa hu liMn been In the minds of anybody at allY airy time a doubt about It Time The struggle for toleration ot of a plo rat ral marriage system running through bolt bait a century attended a as LI II Was with the Inflicted upon the Mor men penile Onder special legislation and vindictive crusades with Its Ill en forced exile imprisonment and for those tho who out ot of an air honest hOMal thought believed the thea were hut but doing Gods Goos this and much more Is not nol forgotten Th The Mormon people know knoll the views of the people ot of the United States Slate on that final sUbject without to testing It ft again never Was wal a more puerile flea than that th from Utah was Wall elected to make such a tent tet it 11 Js is too silly to refutation IV IVOl V Ol OD YOU GS TIO It Is i falsely charged that Roberts wu was elected to crowd polygamy do down n the throats of at tile the American Congress and people to an alleged prediction ot of Brigham Young that It t would yet el be dune dont dontI I challenge first firt of at all tin th existence 0 Oc an audi Ie tI on II as I 1 as with all that thaI Young ever said Id or wrote rot that f on record and 1 am with his contempo caries I n trever r ti san or hel hearst ot of any nath prediction until this charge lah ss In med Ide a t few months ago In 1 a f ew York p paper r and nd repeated Ae Illy by bya 1 a minister at an ab lt tont fot log Ing is ht Boston Seon Second I challenge that suds a anywhere or at an any time Into ray my mamma Ion Uon or otton I It I Is pure and simple pr Y V DOES NOT SENT LiO LiOAm Am AmI AM AMIt I It Is falsely charl charged that th the Cn Con from Utah Wi was elected to represent polygamy Th That t I if hI he I Is eest at ate e ed AUt and retains hIs tl sent I it m mean Inn that Ihal Congress polygamy and that there wIll 1 he 1 an Immediate re nt of the Mormon plural marriage system em In luau In the of 01 al all that II I I would like to 10 how th tire Mormon could hOJe hope to tn base n a of ti the pretties ot of plural if they had hod the I to doo do so soOn On n the tart fact of 01 the N representative from tah taking sad and hl his seat NAI In Inthe Inthe the Do Peon Ih time Houe or of Hepe the Individual view of all the Ihl mn men it II admits to member m r I If hould from some Congressional nal t elect n a Conra Congress Jn lien would ouM hl isle admission to the lous house I sty to tM the world that tw the n C Congress SaUa Socialism Su Suly ly I my give If the Marinas people amid even Congress onn 1111 little credit 41 for common anI when thee InN ty ln tin Mh n a I cla char l as this j I g go ts 10 iliin to ton l as 1 a representative at I al am not there Jr by tf a to ask aM Con Congress to to 10 tle tire f re repeat peat al ot of the ciao eleose In our lon tiers which del prohibits And pun I It should bold b be Jn rt re that Ihl ibis clause ca II In stir Stall State cannot I ins rt re ald without U lb o of the ni States shall Ilhan I nol net f go to tn a to 1 le O or even n pa 11 Tt The I sea passed M the point WH eIther Is In necessary In tM the American eon I fly the It settlement or of tl lb matter between th the people of 01 th the States sail 1 ti the People of the State ot of Utah lh t the I has b bee taken from 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