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Show TOMOJPS The following has been handed to The Dispatch by tbe signers with the request that it be published: lo the Members of the Church of Jesvs Christ of Latter-day Saints, in the Utah Stake of Zion: It is reported, upon good authority, that different individuals in this stake are attempting to influence voters to support certain candidates, upon the statement, "That it is the desire of tbe first presidency of the church, that this or that ticket should prevail," If such claims are being made, it is ' a reflection upon the honest and sincerity sincer-ity of the first presidency, and all persona per-sona who use such persuasion should be rebuked. The fir6t presidency have emphatically emphatic-ally 6tated that the members of the church are entirely and perfectly free in all political matters, and that if any man claims that it 's the wi-h of the iirst presidency that a democrat shall vote the republican ticket, or that a republican re-publican thall vote the democratic ticket, let all people imow that he is endeavoring to deceive the public, and is unauthorized to make Buch statements. state-ments. Your brethren in the goepel, A. O- Smoot, ! David John, Ewd. Partridge, Presidency of the Utah stake of Zion. Dated at Provo city, October 29th, A. D. 1894. |