Show THE conspirators EXHIBITED IN another part of this issue we give place to tp a capable article from the springfield republican it is the second in the same line that has appeared in that able journal and was evidently called forth by the hornets nest awakened by the first the billingsgate lings gate of the salt lake tribune I 1 and the oppressive and insolent methods of the loyal league stimulated the yen pen ot of the writer barring an evident misunderstanding of the genius of the institutions and the real moral status of the mormon people le the article Is deop an excellent one an and in its strictures upon the antl anti mormon local leeal and political political obstructionists of utah it is logically gi cally unanswerable the allusion to the endorsement by the nepal branch branca of the loyal league of ex registrar witbeck has an element of humor in it the force of which it was impossible for the be publican to see not being aware that those who adopted the resolutions commending the action for which he be was deposed from office by the commission amount to a mere handful they would not constitute a corporals guard compared with the body of electors in that precinct had the trouble been taken to do it a set of counter resolutions condemning Wit becka becks action might have been adopted by a body of people who in point of numbers would have swamped the endorsers dorsers en that he should be supported by the members of the secret political society that prescribed the oath with which he sought to supplant the legal one formulated b by y the commission did not add an iota in the way of sustaining his bis position it was simply the act of a fraction of the league endorsing itself since the organization of the me society to abolish popular government in utah self en has been one of its leading characteristics Ac according cordin to te C 7 W bennett it is composed of political authorities I 1 land and J B R mcbride claims that it practically has possession and control of the district courts there is some truth hidden under the idea expressed by the republican regarding the value of the league to the mormon I 1 people the conspirators through the agency of that organization have made the hollowness lowness bol of their hypocritical pretensions so plain and the nefarious character of their designs so mani manifest test that a reversal of popular sentiment appears to have set in the change is dot unfavorable to the mormons cormons Mor mons and its tendency does not have the effect of elevating the self seeking politicians of utah in 11 general esteem in many quarters their their course is being severely criticised criticized and is creating a feeling of unutterable disgust bothi nothing n g has contributed more strongly to the alteration of the current of public feeling in this regard than the attempts to invade in the furtherance of a political plot the sacred domain of belief and conscience and the flagrant overstepping of the law in making those attempts to demolish the rights of the people the republican shoots directly into the eye of the inaptly named loyal league when it asserts that it simply attempted to thwart the will of congress by means of an oath manufactured in a duo club house As a consequence of this effort to override the law being made tolerably ably clear the conspirators spira tors are getting pretty roundly clubbed from a good many q quarters rs from which the blows were startlingly ably unexpected the country and congress do not propose to see the anti mormon crusade carried beyond a given point when it is forced beyond the prescribed limit the reaction arrives |