Show LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLEVELAND DELEGATE JOHN T calne CAINE AGAIN WRITES totne PRESIDENT dest DENT TO RE FUTI LIBELS AND APPEAL FOR JUSTICE by courtesy of lion ilon john T caine wo we are favored with a copy of therol the following letter which he presented to president cleveland on the date mentioned washington D C dec 10 iwu sir I 1 have the honor to transmit herewith the result of the tile inquiry made by he this cour Cout council tell of salt lake city touching ili the unfounded representations ad made to you by the governor of th the e territory ot of utah and other federal officials seriously lly liy ily reflecting upon tile the peaceable and aud law abiding character of the mormon horl Hort non citizens of that territory I 1 am ain sure that you will be convinced after reading the official report of the city Cou council that the federal officials grossly misrepresented the character of the mormon people and that mere there was not a scintilla of truth in the statements they made to you of danger clanger to life and property at the hands bands of lawless inita inin inspired by Mor mormon leaders you will notice that the scope of the inquiry was broad enough to cover the whole ground that the federal officers and the military gerein were invited to be pres present eilt erit and give their testimony that every wild wila rumor was traced to its origin you will observe that it was con proved that po body of armed men came into salt lake city and that ahat the rumor of the threatened lynching lunching lyn ching of deputy marshal collin was wholly untrue that the gathering at the city hall ou on tee tec night of the shooting of mcmurrin by colliu wasa was a quiet aud orderly assembling of lotmore nol not more than two nuri buti hundred ired tred people that the stories about the secretion of arms and ammunition in the city and the or organizing anezin and arming of ilor mor alor mons in the vailous various settlements throughout the territory were without any foundation in fact I 1 cannot doubt sir that you must be satisfied that the monstrously false stories which have been telegraphed to the eastern press had their source in the same quarter whence emanate emanated ct the representations made to you they are but exaggerations of the baseless rumors which irresponsible part partisans sans of the governor originated doubtless for the sole purpose of affording him a u pretext for requesting the quartering of of federal soldiers in silt lake city As I 1 have heretofore assured you verbally jand in writing it is not the presence of troops quartered in the city of salt lake which we protest against but out the me false malicious and inexcusable misrepresentations which induced you to order them thither I 1 beg you sir to reflect for a moment upon the serious injury these false accusations have caused a whole community which whatever may be the difference of opinion re rejecting pectin ting 9 some of its religious teachings and practices is 13 recognized by the whole civilized world as an eminently peaceable and conservative one not only have the vast material inter interests esta of the mormon people been irreparably damaged by these wickedly false stories but a feeling of insecurity has been created thereby in the minds of capitalists who have InvIe invested sted millions in utah I 1 respectfully submit dir air president that hat t the tile men who have so grossly deceived yo you u in this matter are unworthy of your conti confidence dence and unfit unlit to represent the federal government their offense has not been I 1 a trivial one it is a very crave grave and serious matter to bear false witness against an Individual land laud arid arld still more reprehensible to vilify traduce and lie about a whole people the offend offending inz of the unworthy officials has been aggravated by their inspiring the wildly sensational dispatches to the press of the country which would have been treated as they deserved by all reflecting people if the stamp of df truth had bad not been given to the same by the ordering 1 of troops from omaha to Uta utah hand and the quartering thereof in salt lake city far removed as you are from the sz scene ene ede of these occurrences and naturally reposing confidence in the men who represent the federal government in doubtless felt that if it was but prudence on your part to respond to their application for additional troops controlling as these officials do an antem intemperate and violently partisan newspaper and through it the associated press dispatches sent fromwalt from rom sall salt lake they have been able to give wide circulation to their deliberate deliberately lv manufactured falsehoods the action of the federal government thus induced in us its turn super lu induced i duce a belief oil on the P pirt urt of mi millions 11 10 an erill of people pl that the 11 mormons cormons Mor mons were on the pointon point of actual rebellion while therefore it is true that the presence presence of additional dit ional troops in utah and the quartering of a company compary in salt lake city has not se an injury to any individual the resultant consequences have been most seriously injurious to the mormon rmon people and indeed to the whole country the men meia who are responsible for these things I 1 repeat ought not to retain your confidence I 1 submit moreover that in view of the demonstrated of these officials of their to say 1 the least suspicious conduct the t h p people eople I 1 have the honor to represent ought to have the tho opportunity to be heard beara by f air fair and impartial imp arUal men who would report the truth to you I 1 an am sure that there tire are many such men who would gladly respond to an invitation from you to visit utah and make inquiry and report the facts for the guidance of your administration very respectfully JOHN jonn T canne CAINE to the president |