Show A WRETCHED TO CLEVELAND pittsburg leader has published a long article articie par purporting cr to have been written by a representative of that paper sent seat to utah and other places for forthe the purpose of correct in information formation taking president cl cleveland e e severely to task tor for pardoning a large number of mormons cormons Mor mons convicted of at polygamous practices the alss aiss lebed aeger facts asto as to the pardons are gro exaggerations and in several iu instances stances intentional and the whole screed with ima ease headlines iu in true bill poster style 0 over 1 double colum columns vs is but a campaign I 1 document badly designed and miserably executed 0 the funny fanny part of it is an attempt to make president cleveland partial to ts because ot of a supposed ganiats ganis relationship 0 between his charming wife who is universally esteemed and a widow 0 of the late president brigham against whom even the scribe hired to work up this diatribe cannot utter a syllable of reproach except that she made what he calls a wicked mormon marriage no positive connection is established between the two ladies except that their maiden surnames were the same and they are supposed to lie either third fourth or fifth allta cousins it is not noi that inai they ever met or that there has been any communication between the parties yet president cleveland Is painted as partial to polygamist criminals because of this fancied and remote kinship on the part of his bis wife can the absurdity of offensive partisan reach a higher climax than this we do not propose to reproduce eny any of the stuff which this too willing recipient C ent gathered up for I 1 I 1 f facts acts I 1 i in u an alleged ged visit to this thia city where lie b e says the Ge gentile little people are terribly terri oly outraged at these wholesale liberations libe rations of lawbreakers law breakers and that they have a grievance that will be carried to every voter in the land but we will simply say that the bitterest anti mor imor will to the clemency shown to a very few persons convicted convict ei under the edmunds law Perhaps in t two wo cases objection his has been raised but in the others both republicans public ans and democrats have acqui acqua escel some of the names given of I 1 persons pardoned were never convicted y at all and the exercise of amnesty pa powers aers by the Pre president which has been very gAp gingerly gerly extended and that under very stringent require requirements mea ts is twisted by the leader correspondent I 1 into wholesale pardons pardon 01 A number of papers allude to tile the I 1 sensational six headed beaded mess of twaddle and the best ol of them receive it with ridicule while a few part partisan izan journals briefly reter refer to it as a serijus charge against the president eRt it if the facts concerning the prosecutions against the mormons cormons Mor mons are as designed desi sned ened in the reso lution passed on en saturday in the house of Represent representatives aties it will he be seen that under the present administration a most vigorous onslaught has bac been made upon the social affairs of the mormons cormons Mor mons and that tie number of pardons are insign insignificant compared pared with the convictions and the infliction of the full penalties prescribed by law and that these pardons have in every case care been recommended by the Federal officials and in several instances instance endorsed by leading Gen gentiles liles of both political parties the leaders sensation is a wretched attempt to make a huge mountain out of the shadow of very small molehill and it if that piper paper has been to as much trouble and expense as it pretends to hunt up the trail frail dilta data on which it has reared this transparent bugaboo it has shown very little business sense and will not add to its journalistic reputation anything commensurate with its outlay and how bow about this being a clean campaign |