Show KIL B LETTER dark insinuations that tr treamon tre essop aion or ox worse wore had bad been expressed in a letter written by a prominent nevator of me legislature have repeatedly appeared in a city contemporary and were also uttered on the me floor of abe tb joint assembly pending the final vote tote for united beates senator the name of the writer of that portentous portent oui epistle we waa not however made public until yesterday when in the joint an embly be arose and by way of a reply to all that had been said laid about the dreadful character of the letter read it in full it to in a brief and polito polite though nome what pointed declination to comply with the urgent win besof a liann friend by voting for the candidate referred to in it here la Is the letter lefter entire I 1 sane kane county utah dec 81 1896 mr joseph A smith ogden utah dear sir your letter of the dinst received I 1 at present am unable to take that higher ground you yoo speak of and indorse for the highest civil position that utah can give one who has proved himself recreant to te a cause to which he had tio no completely and wholly pledged him self elf and which I 1 should judge you in connection with myself consider even higher and more sacred than that of the united states upon this question I 1 am free and and intend to remain so no but unless imless my views are materially changed I 1 will fil not in my fooling feeling nor by my vote indorse moses f thatcher batcher for senator respectfully JOB ROBINSON the spirit meaning and purpose ot of this letter and even its language an guage have been grossly misrepresented and rule misstated stated cr it has ban been repeatedly assert in it 11 the writer declared he hold held a higher allegiance than that due the state and a member of the legis lature latare threatened in a certain coo cod tinge ocy to challenge the authora author a vote for united states state senator on OB the ground that his letter contained such declaration new hew utterly untrue all this Is Is proved by the letter itself which completely vindicates its author no jno sueh ND 0 o idea as the allegiance of a citizen to the state or to something higher than the state ie 19 contained or defered to in the letter it simply expresses we the authora author a view that the ca te which the candidate we wa formerly pledge dand to which he had bad become a recreant was even higher and more sacred than that of the united states 01 in the view of the author of the letter the baum cau oa uM to which the candidate bad been formerly pledged was that of p proclaiming rocial ming the plan of sal eal to a lost and fallen world in the capacity of a apostle Apo fitle of the lord jesus jeene christ add that huch a cail calling liag was higher and moma ored own even theoffice 0 I 1 a united state ae Is it treason to believe that to be an D A poetic apostle of the lord homr christ la in to lo pursue a calling higher and more snored acred than the efflow of a united states senator Re if 0 so o what of the members of the catholic who look upon its lt higher priestly officers as ae occupying positions tlona coven even higher and more sa creal than any political office what of the members mem ben of the methodist church who view their presiding bishops io in a similar light and aad what of the clergy and membership of christian churches obo robee generally who believe that spiritual things are higher than political things hinge and that there Is no calling more ex albod alted than that of the man who labors to save human souls aola in every age since christ appeared men a favorite argument ol of antichrist anti christ bar ban been that devotion dero tion to we tie principles plea of christianity wee inimical to true patriotism but history has baa proved times unnumbered that the be patriots pai riota moat mo devoted to their country and aad most to be trusted with power in it have bays been those who were most moat devoted to their god |