| Show IS IN MR MB FELTON PRESENT PRESEN I 1 I 1 have any of our readers the ex pleasure plea eure ot of an ec with caleb felton of salt bait lake city A person by that name and bal hailing from this thia town eat sat in the st camei hotel bolett now new york on thursday Thu evening or of last week and abed the radiance of his bla intelligence for a lew few momi ants upon a writer for the mail and ex ei pr drcar earthe the result being mono om elbing logs than half a column of talk to in the friday issue of that paper we quote from toe the interview as aa lebed with out knowing whether mr felton in IB correctly reported or not or without knowing indeed whether there li in such a person as felton at ai all the people to in the be fast do not real lie ise the strides that the mormon church Is making in utah 10 said he be you cannot know what is ie going on there unless you are on the spot then you are amazed at the situation the mor mons have been working quietly for th the future for the last laet six hearp arid and as soon oon an aa utah la is admitted us an a state you will see their power dl dim spayed and its extent will astonish the people ol of the united samel referring to the election then impending caleb informed bs bis listener that we vote on tuesday for and against polygamous barriager marr iager the will not try to lo biti wi that provision will be overwhelmingly y detested defeated by teem simply for the be purpose of lead lending ing congress to believe that polygamy la Is no longer loader wanted that will cheate the anti our national legislature who would hiob ably oppose the statehood of atut it if tj the ae people upon cork con inking tidying plural marrianee marri macri agee ages lot let utah once enter eater the of states and what in ii to prevent ber from convening another constitutional convention and incorporating polygamy or ary ar y other of the tenets of brigham young into her constitution A a state abe can do able AM ama a territory she ebe cannot lil then he be went on to tell an arrant falsehood about president joseph P F smiths epistolary activity lo in polities pol ittes referring to an incident concerning which the whole truth has already been published publia bed anti and ise he winds winda up with the she following stupendous paragraph it A possible that the genuine anti ints who understand thoroughly the deep game of politics being played by their opponents opponent a will be obliged to fight fire with fire and strive to have the polygamist provision inserted and thus insure a delay in gaining statehood that is the only way we can hope to keep polygamy in check cheok let the mormons cormons gain control of all state affairs which they will and you will see an army of missionaries sent out to proselyte all over the world as they were some years ago and ingi incidental dental to the to secure brides to be sealed to the church the NEWS hardly feels equal to the tk task of grappling with an imagination no 0 o lively as ae that thai of mr caleb pelton felton we might point out that the queston question of polygamy was not to be voted on at all so BO there was no provision provi Blon on the subject to be either overwhelmingly defeated or otherwise by polygamists we might further say aay that so eo far as ae concerns the matter of that doctrine in a future constitution by a reconvened convened re convent convention loc a project which nothing but lunacy could think ol 01 0 the enabling act 0 congress speak with all necessary and aad desirable emphasis we might go on and recite a number of other proofs proof that mr felton old aid not know what he be was wag talking about and was waa making not only himself but the mail and express ridiculous by his hig chatter but what is in the me use uee of wast ing time or space here at home upon a matter so beander Beside Be aider we are more thao than half inclined to believe mr caleb felton is a myth |
