| Show AN OFFICIAL refutation i A press dispatch contradicting the statement that the I 1 mormon I 1 church had bad apro appropriated money in aid ot of the dejac democratic rat presidential A tiei tiel ticket et hav having ing been published the creatures who fabricated the false report about the morion church became enraged etwas claimed la in a certain sheet in this city that president taylor and president cannon had never denied the tid story first published and that the patch fes ees stating their denial was a lie ile behave te have punctured the bubble thus out from the tribune soap pipe bulto butto tit lit to make milka assurance doubly sure lai iad that the public may max know how utterly groundless was the report forst first seato sento sent over oser the bhe wires to prejudice the democratic cause we here present the fill full text of a dispatch which has been to 10 me parties concerned and now let the scribes who pretend to know what the tha Mo formon renon authorities have said na have aade not said and impudently assume to speak lor for gentlemen who uve nothing to do with them in any sift wy deny the authenticity of the con te diction again it they think anybody kits fits who is foolish enough to believe the said scribes may say or publish COPY of origin NAL SALT SAIT LAKE CITY october october 13 1884 1894 to T I 1 the k H lion ifon IV JL badum chairman C national democratic committee vew new york the following is a copy of a tel tei telegram eram sent to the chairman of the republican national committee this day an associated pres press telegram of the eleventh alleged that your committee had bad received from a source it considered trustworthy that the 11 mormon lormon 1 church was taking a hand in the pending political canvass to la behalf of the national democratic ticket that ata at a council of the d mor mont mona church in salt lake CRY city it was teed leed to give the national democratic committee one tenth of the church ming ti to be used in lir aiding the election of cleveland and if possible a majority in both houses of Cori corl congress gress in return for this contribution the illi 1131 mormon ormon council secured a promise from the democratic committee that in tho the event of success utah shall be admitted as a state it Is ia also allen alleged ged that as an additional inducement for admission the council promised that she will is as a democratic state send two tabi democrats to the we are aref the only persons who can cali authoritatively speak or act in ii matter like lie lle ile that referred to above we emphatically deny all the allegations in said telegram and assert that the Sl mormon ormon church has taken no DO part la 12 the pending ending political cam campaign campalo palo paio and has neither appropriated nor given a dollar to either party neither the church nor any member bemb er of it authorized to act in its behalf has hag been ap national democratic committee of or agent or person acting for lor it arkino asking for funds for campaign gli xii i purposes nor has there been been any communication of any nature whatever between the democratic committee and the mormon church or any ot of its officials we desire to mike make the 64 denial of the above named slanders most emphatic and sweeping JOHN jonn taylor TAILOR giorge GEORGE Q QA CANO nos nox no of the first presidency 01 of the church jony TAYLOR taylon trustee i in trust I 1 above dispatch also aiso sent on same F jones chairman national 0 1 republican committee new york |
