Show LETTER FROM ONEIDA Clipp clipping lol from the silver hammer enclosed for publication cation the correspondent thinks that even cm can afford to la honest and cites the case of a republican campaigner EDITOR I 1 am a republican and I 1 have been told that therefore I 1 had no business to sympathize with our beloved apostle moses thatcher in his sickness and trouble but I 1 saw the enclosed piece in the rexburg 0 silver hammer as it il was written by bv ben rich I 1 have known brother rich a long time and have heard him preach lots of good mormon doctrine and I 1 have also heard him make a number of good reau republican alican speeches next to frank cannon I 1 look upon him as the best stumper that ever went through utah for the republican party brother rich looks at this thing just as I 1 do for it is r not ot a party parta question any more when n it comes to turning down anybody in the church for taking part in politics or cutting them off I 1 am as aa good a republican as any latter day saint but any other latter day saint ought to have as much right t to 0 be a democrat a f oi 0 brothe a c and it le republicans p I 1 wint want to td know k why it has been told to me that nobody but the democrats sympathize with brother thatcher here is some remarks by a mormon democrat in a conference at first joseph smith gathered about him the brightest minds of the day among his most crainey followers were olner er cowdery and sidney rigdon in the beginning they were content to assist joseph in his labors themselves remaining in the background but after a while vh Is they grew jealous and attempted L d to di dispose C p the prophet aud abd become the leaders leader of 0 the church the result was aas that they eie dropped by the mormon chuilli and died in ignominy just so ao it is at this time moses is an eloquent speaker anda and a great thinker a man of profound learning ile he did much good so BO long as he be wa Aar swilling willingto to submit to the nil of those above him but now he had taken upon himself the responsibility of dissenting dissen from the lie minds of his co tiu laborers laborer saw and superiors and had bad been suspended irom froni his hia position in this there could be no cause for so much criticism among his political friends butini but in it was contained a good lesson to all true saints and ana this is what ben rich our republican mormon says bays about it the above is is a newspaper report of a portion of remarks made by president down in sevier county utah at their last quarterly conference people holding high church positions and who have been called upon to be leaders of the people in the various stakes of zion should carefully e examine themselves and be absolutely certain that no beam is found in their own eyes before calling the publics attention to the mote existing in the eye of their brother it is pretty generally understood der stood that the council and advice vice coming from the mormon leaders to the people were for them to drop all unfair and cowardly methods in their political campaigns and to fight such battles upon political principles it is said president has been very slow to heed beed this advice in the past and many of the people over whom he be presides have severely him in the past for the unchristian manner in which he has carried on secret and even nasta nasty campaigns against a member of his own church 3 iet ft to listen to the above one would imagine that tin thu man who uttered the words never could have himself disobeyed the commandments of the church leaders in any manner at ai d had always been too pure to have been guilty of a fault in the eyes of his president had no right to use the words quoted and it looks very much as though he just ima imagined ined that apostle moses T thatcher hatcher 7 was too weak through physical infirmities to defend himself and that under these circumstances he be would take advantage of the situation to make a litt little e rapi api tal for himself by gaining 0 favor it in the eyes odthe of the leaders of the e chuich apostle moses thatcher is a very sick man more than once in the recent past has the life light within him almost gone out and it would have been much grander and much braver had bad the report come up that the people of sevie stake were failing and praying for his restoration to health belth and strength than for the above to come as a portion s of the remarks coming from the lips of their president when the quorum of the apostles hand down to the people a verdict against moses thatcher it will be time birne enough for the people to think about criticizing him at present brother thatcher Tb atcher deserves deserve and is is entitled to the he faith and earnest earnest prayers of all who are worthy of being called saints I 1 only want to say in conclusion that tb there ere are hundreds of lican mormons cormons in utah and idaho blaho feel with brother rich that president see or anybody else that jumps on to bro brother iller moe ca thatcher Tb atcher while he is a sick man is not doing the square thing by him or the people yours truly FAIR PLAY oneida co idaho may il 11 06 96 |