Show OPINIONS or in order to acquaint our readers with the sentiment prevalent over he be state in relation cotha senatorial contest we ire reprint the editorial opinions of our regular ex 0 without drawing largely on th the e metropolitan dailies the ih anti banti messenger says it looks lore like it would ba senator moses toses thatcher than anybody else ogden press elder B D II 11 returned to zion vest yesterday erday i time if need be to take a hand u the coming coining senatorial fight Bing haia Dul bulletin letin all around ie state the local pipers papers are div ig expression to sentiments which tend to show that M mr r hatchers catchers hat chers chances for the senate hare bave not been injured by the acion cion of the church leaders toward im f tintic gintic miner it is reported bat B 11 II roberts is chinin coining back utah to enter the contest for the cited states senate as the church eandi candidate date ile he will combas close 16 6 he did ping going to congress last vear richfield advocate moses hatcher formerly one of the twelve apostles of the mormon hutch hurch is deposed ile he now biolos he lowest possible rank in the body not even being isible to go on a mission his ri emotion occurred last tuesday wasatch wave thatcher s bances for the united states senate have only been strengthened y the action of the church leaders reward him arid and they have been aade so strong that the result w will ll 11 e the ex apostles election to tl that t r agh honor bonor which is as it should oe with all due respects to judge powers arid and the other candidates mt pleasant pyramid the ase ae of moses thatcher and the church has reached a ery cute stage and it should be worth ne while of every ever citizen to take sue isue with caution arid and delibera ion on ans any precipitate and injudicious ait act on either side inguld reawaken a past which none care i have return there should be hesitancy however in uphold ng truth honesty and virtue wherever they may present them elves deaver beaver news it is said eaid that lder ider 13 11 II roberts It his has been ailed home from his mission in he states and another elder sent u L take his hia place some think he ill take the place in the quorum f the twelve apostles vacated by loses thatcher others think he will vill be elected to the office of the united states senator Box boxelder Bo selder elder news A great deal of on is being stirred up no in he senatorial contest it is surmised from an editorial in the deseret Jc je seret news that the church an hori bori ties are opposed to loses candidacy now if they aro are they had better keep such atte utterances rances out of their church agan for lie ho will aurely be sent if opposed on that ground only the nen men who will make up the legislature of the state of utah ire are going to consider the man for this place as a statesman and politician only provo etonian Uto nian hon mogas thatcher hae announced in response to questions a aked zed by the salt lake press representatives that if tho the legislature decides to elect him to the position of united states senator lie he will accept but that lie will enter into no scramble for the 0 office M ce provo etonian the difference existing between the quorum of apostles anil and moses mosea thatcher have 11 now 0 W bean somewhat mors more fully s spread p read before the public correspondence pon dence which passed between pre aident and moses thatcher previous to his being beine severed from the quorum and explanations by president sno snoie v of the cause which led up to the deposition have been published aud and now we fail to see wherein there is ig auy political signi finance in the whole aldir it i ia clearly a case of religious differ er ances and shoud not iu in any ma manner n affect mr thatcher s c chance for election to the united slates senate but thi has nothing tr to do with the election of our candidate hon S K R thurman who will be the from rutih richfield advocate there is run fan in ditore store for the republicans of utah when the new legislature convenes and the senatorial olec lection comes on apace all but three oi 01 the conscientious members of that august body ars ara already in a quandary and their nervousness increases as continues to fugit tho the poor devils know that if they elect moses thatcher and the deseret af yens ws makes good it its threats the mormon church will not jo do a thing to them and that if they do not elect thatcher they thereby give the lie to the solemn protestations made fit at their reconvened convention atik city record the decosi deposing ng of moses thatcher as one of t the lie the twelve apostles of the mormon church and stripping from him of all coffle official cial power is the of the day dav amen among both mormons cormons and non mormons cormons and the general impression is that serious complications are very liable to result the action the unfortunate affair had its birth in politics and if carried to a logical conclusion trouble is bound toi tou follow ollow as the church organ is very very outspoken in its opposition to mr thatcher a candidacy for the united states senate the paper has really threatened direct church interference in case cage mr thatcher develops formidable strength and as the democratic party cannot very well so go back on the gentleman without stultifying itself in a great measure the outcome of the almir will be watched with great interest by the people of the entire state richfield advocate speaking odthe of the thatcher case yesterday a prominent saint told the advocate that the fact that the Deseret Ni news aws is opp opposing osina that gentleman in his race for the senatorial rial toga is no indication that t the lie mormon church is averse to his election he said the fight is simply one of the cannon against the thatcher khatcher families the news ha ba been leased eased by the candon boys and they have full control of its pages and entire dictation of its editorial policy while the mormon church is permitted to ase the N news aws as an official organ being allowed to insert therein herein their notices statements statement ac it has not the slightest privilege of its editorial columbi and i is 4 inno in no way responsible for its lengthy anti thatcher Fe creed reeds if our richfield nich field informant is right another light is ii thrown upon the squabble now interesting the entire state castle valley news the le legislature is which convenes in january next n will ill have soine grave responsibilities ties first to annul some som e of the contradictions the last legislature passed as laws of the 1 state a somewhat arduous deity daty then they will have a lot loft of fresh freh aws aira to enact thit the public may know that the law maier mailers s are a democratic body and they must also choose a united statis senator in this last laet duty the legislature must proceed with great wisdom or there will be ba hell bell tto to pay 1 heir actions will be closely watched and if they perform their duties with inith intelligence of their 0 own wn and act independently of all undue uridge influence the public will ehnow janow it and those whose respect is 13 worth having will hold in high esteem those members who so act aati 0 I 1 i richfield nich field advocate the censor has given up its fight fights against the advocate with a sa sad good byr bye i john oh n and next takes jup up the labor with the deseret news the I 1 ast named paver paper is bitterly opposing the senatorial s ial candidacy of ex apostle thatcher and our contemporary comes back pt t the tha official organ of the L 0 1 S church with such expressions as these ever may be the standing of moses thatcher in the c hutch church the people of utah love him and want him to be sent to the senate A moses thatcher is a man of intelligence and he must have grounds for the position taken an and now his bis side should be fairly pree presented to the people too go 10 to it t hoys boys you are both professedly professed 13 neutral in politics and so BO are in your proper element when lofte locmag ng horns borns over a democratic candidate thank fortune the advocate Advocat 6 is a republican publican Ue paper and has no finger in the democratic pie malad enterprise down in our sister nister state utah qu quite I 1 ite a stir is being created in church and political circles over the fight which is being waged against the lion hon moses thatcher by the heads of the tha mormon church Some time ago thatcher was removed from the quorum of the twelve apostles for refusing to obey council and since he be has been dropped off the heads of the church has been waging a bitter fight to defeat him for the united states for which he is is a candidate the church organ I 1 tho the deseret news is f the be main aggressor gres sor and through its efforts to d apat thatcher is succeeding in bitti budging bunging ging the church dead square into politics again tintic gintic miner the deseret news the official organ or of the mormon lurch church contained i L lengthy letter monday evening from pr snow of the twelve apostles Apost leg in I 1 justification j of the action of that I 1 body in deposing moses mosea thatcher from his priestly prie eily atly office in the church the letter may be a factory explanation of the reasons for taking away from mr U r thatcher his church office and of courte course AS to that proceeding wo is 0 are as oon non cormons mormons Mor mons have bava no right to object I 1 I 1 buttee but the letter dopa not explain I 1 i why tho the mormon church through its official organ should attack mr 1 I 1 hatcher cally lly and an should at tempt to give instructions to mormon members of the legislature legi lature not to vote for him as united states senator if mr thatcher is i elected senator as we believe he I 1 will be he will be elected as a democrat and as an honest and able ei eilien cili tien yen and we ire do not regard rard 4 c as the business of any church chur eh I 1 or organization to colpi consider d er whether or pot not he is in harmony with his bis j I 1 quorum even the deseret news i does not dare to impugn the honesty or ability of mr bir Tb atcher or hig hie democracy aud and with that i i only should the legislature deal in i determining his fitness for the position of united states senator |