Show THE MOB criticised criticized having read your comment upon the proceedings of the joint assembly that resul resulted tail lo in the election ot of the hon joseph ii rawlins to the united states slates senate and add havice been present upon the occasion aalon I 1 wish to say eay that your strictures etric turea were none too severe and your jour utterances only too true notwithstanding the fact that the abe assembly has bainee bai since noe by a whitewashing process too common and altogether too popular in this thia century sought to justify its presiding officer and blik sympathetic rabble in tile the lobby and aja galleries berlee Ue rlee never was wae the dignity of what should be the mot most august body in the stase so 0 o rudely converted into the be frenzy of of a how howling lingi rowing roaring mob the president of the ibe membry assembly gay to this transition by per emitting be abe utmost freedom of utter nee to those abo who poke la in denunciation of the dominant church in jtb and dd by restricting those who attempt ed d to reply thereto that he did this so person present upon tha goo deny re he never once malon can call called mr rideout to order although 1119 let gaby add addred room WON wa almost on eutlee tire ly made up of a deep and bitter or ir fiRn meat of at the mormon church bj the moment the said ld church wall wa te referred lerrea to by those chwe feelings feel loga had bad thus been oot raked he be immediately Immediate lj began to call them to order and to Is IB out tot that all reference to church matters should beald be eliminated from their remarks remark f anat get am a a reply to 90 what bad been aai be agamid without exercising the same latitude attitude 1111 a ibis respect that thai be had bad accorded to thou tho who baa precipitated the warrantable and attack by permitting we the assault upon the church to sw be wildly applauded applaud and who disgracefully disgrace tully hired biased aoa and quelled fuelled lied to SO bei be insulted be exhibited a prejudice mic c by a spirit pint of unfairness hould forever condemn him in of oil an lovers lovera ot of justice sad bd fair play representatives of both the As catbe me tribune and this hola herald id belonged to that otaw class that were jim in sympathy ym pathy with the ma riotous gloom element at that transformed rana formed the daae of the into a pan it to I 1 but human bumm that they geould nave buys viewed the whole matter from a partisan tand stand point aud and therefore 10 hive to tried to palliate ana excuse taze tae who orest d the disgraceful CUB cos alon audion and thoe bogs who encouraged and 0 data permitted t sted it that Y you ou were justified to in la terrina wag that the supporters up portera of Thale thatcher jer bad thud packed the abe hall ball their in borne oui on by abin fact that to all few bat als alb friend were snore and that they were there too goo in such BUOB numbers number as to be emboldened in attempting 00 oo methodi toward the bembera of the assembly who in and not as B dome dema so a tree soon men gogus for ahe pl plaudit audits ot of a mob I 1 my y a mob for when respectable chiu ague allow thea elvei to be wrought UP to such men a wild frenay as aa character led izad abe galleries gall erle on the occasion re terrea to we term employed ie 19 none dons to several oTere it but the abe prevented ed ted As ag main question at issue in the just andev but which some joae any ay Is but just u commenced la 10 utah it would be more truthful and stent to may gay that eliat moses thatcher left the ibis domain of ef ibe church to nook la tike the domain demaid of politics politic a vindication of his bl course coune in a church controversy wan than to say ay that the domin atit charon la in utah left its legitimate to pursue a deposed church official the controversy began in toe the church over a question of discipline that hail had never before been questioned viz the tight right of the church to require of its apostles Apo etlea that they arst obtain permission of the church before quitting their duties for political and other places that abat would prevent them giving that shag time and attention that they bad solemnly pledged themselves to give BIT to so their exalted ioas as apostles of the lord jesus ohm MASS not only the officials of ef the charob but the great membership thereof sustained by vote tote in general anu ana stake conferences as well as a in ward meeting the rule and yet this apostle retired refused compliance therewith aud and at the same time it grevious grev louB ions and unjust that he should hould not us ue permitted to hold bold his hie exalted place in we church instead of submitting gracefully to the will of the mit larity in the abe cese cane like the eleventh jury man he persists in saying that everybody that does not see bee as he does doea is wrong and aad in seeking becking in the political arena a justification for his bli course and that too at the hands handi ot of those who being largely outside of the pale of the church have no business whatever with the question at issue being a question purely of church and not ol of state none but members of the he particular church in which it has baa arisen have bare any just jaet right to inter fore with it it looks to me there fois that in place of nf the church interfering with the of the state slate in this 0 very veray moose thatcher has baa sought ought to use aae the machinery of the he state to in with an affair that Is ii purely a church matter for by the f u that he be has bai sought bought he be hu has tried to break down and destroy a rule of ef die that all fair minded will may aay the mormon church has haa a perfect right to make and wasu doeu so ao made tu to all worce enforce either by he be recalcitrant member from the quorum of which he was a member ur or by cutting him off from the church altogether A DEMOCRAT utah peb feb 8 1897 ras faa to our correspond ent s criticisms in the he first paragraph of the foregoing corn ion the NEWS la in once more compelled to boy y that in its it opinion the presiding officer of the joint assembly was more sinned against than binning sinning 0 his ruling upon points cointa of order in the abe messi aerion oll referred to appeared to us to be fair ard ald uniform and while the uproar ot 0 the rabble was waa disgraceful and la Is deserving of all censure oen aure the ames hembly ably itself it beia IOUs to us was lew im zealena to in lag its if suppression than th a U was waa the presiding pre alding officer who broke his ravel in 10 attempting to restore order ed |