| Show TIIE THE commission instructed IF there is a possibility of reaching reading what may be termed the sublime point in arrogant egotistical assumption the salt lake tribune has attal attai attained ed it its latest exhibition in that line nue Is in the form lorm of an open letter to the utah U ah commission combined with fal staf flan puffiness the peculiar document incorporates the usual amount of presentation misrepresentation and falsehood th the e favorite and almost exclusive tools with which that paper works for the attainment of its pet object the demolition moli tion of popular governing go government vernin e nt that there may be a seizure of all the public offices in the territory by a few hungry office hunters who have a slender following lowin it I 1 Is s a letter of instructions to the commission informing them that they did not instruct Cun congress gress according to the tribune ideas in their last report and telling them what they ought to say to the national legislature in relation to utah affairs in their next the publishers of the document las assume for or themselves judging from its tenor much ampre in importance than does docs President the of the united states for himself they want congress instructed precisely after their plan to enable them and their fellow conspirators to reather leather their political and financial nests by placing the majority of the population of utah under the iron heel of ab 4 ism the commission are treated to this gentle chiding when two years ago the tribune voicing the opinions of the earnest ameri amerl americans c ans of this region urged upon you the justice and the need of a certain course on your part boulo you looked aked out and saw sav how clear the skies were herband here and how peaceful easeful 1 were the people accepted the L e statements of the i enemies a of republican institutions in this region and decided that no radical measures were necessary at least not then in your report of november 1882 1880 you specially stated I 1 your our bellef belief that the desired object will be accomplished complis hed without re resorting to measures destructive of local se self seit govern ment 9 it if anti americans were inserted in m place of earnest americans the statement would be more consistent this Is clearly the case when it Is considered that the commission are taken to task for deprecating pre cating a resort to measures destructive tive of local self government those arg are are the very measures that these earnest Amer americans ieans leans want there can be no doubt in regard to their being in earnest because public nubile place and plunder constitute their main object in life and they scruple at n no 0 means s however vile that will aid th them ezan eman in n reaching the attainment of heir desires the majority will not elect them therefore their chief aim isto have the majority rendered politically powerless an attempt is made to have it appear that the last legislature failed to pass laws in unison with the most recent special congressional enactment the edmunds hlll hili bill all that was required by that measure sotar solar so ar as local legislation is concerned was the passage of a harm barm onions election law which accordingly enacted by the legislature but it was not inthe in the pro gramme famme tamme of the anti americans to allow the act to become a law of the territory it they the could prevent it it required the bofill official signature of the governor who being abool of the anti antl popular rule clique ref refused used to affix it to the measure that is the situation of that part of the question precisely the document says to the commission will you not also inform congress and the country that you are forced to admit that from all ail appearances roly goly polygamy arefa ere my is swiftly on the increase this means that they should shoal d without a basis of facts make a statement founded on presume presumed d appearances the iatter latten to be tut a according cc 0 to toe tribune pattern here is an extract aress ress upon Con congress giess gless and thi til country trat at the ballot is here lere iere in trusted to thousands who have never so much as taken an oath of allegiance to the united states and that a upon on the part of the entire majority pt it is prostituted prostitutes to the will of the first presidency of the mormon church the statement in relation to people possessing the f franchise ran chise who have not take taken an oath of allek allegiance lance pl etc refers it is to be presumed to lady citizens who are endowed with the franchise anchise Ir but it la Is so worded as to create the impression abroad that there is illegal voting by chemor the mor mons in utah the other portion of the allegation is completely answered by the fact that voting is conducted by secret ret ballot and is exclusively under tinder uner tiner d er seth beth the e general supervision of the commission ion lon the comes commission slon sion are asked to inform congress that the mormons cormons Mor mons shield criminality by perjury which is a foul ard groundless falsehood for which 1 there is ia no I 1 justification ustin cation we have already demonstrated that that a gross and villainous fraud has been perpetrated to make it appear that witnesses committed such was not the case the only evidence tending to indicate a crime of this kind consisted of certain pencil notes alleged to have been taken in the grand lury iury room in some bome particulars did not hiar Flar harmonize monize with testimony given by the same witnesses in the stand we showed conclusively on saturday that those alleged minutes had been doctored in ia order to make this exhibit evidently for political capital as well as other purposes we uncovered the f raud fraud on evidence given by the minutes themselves which made it appear that the witness anna gallifant made certain statements in the grand jury room when the fact Is that she was imprisoned for contempt for d declining to reply to questions that she is alleged to have answered this was a part of the plot that it might be given to the country that the 13 mormons cormons Mor I 1 armons mons shield themselves behind pe perjury from the effects of the law if gury jury the commission will report in accordance cor dance with facts and give the real situation here those who are conspiring against popular rule in utah will NYUI get a scathing |
