Show MORE OF NELSONS LETTER IN OUR last issue we touched upon a few of the po ants of prof nelsons belsons Nel sons letter to mr thatcher Tha teher and we now desire to call attention to a few others speaking to mr thatcher Tha teher of the it manifesto mr nelson says but bat no doubt the brethren realizing bour want of that highest form of moral courage the courage to make amends hoped to bring you yon into harmony through your your much counted democracy as it if they would have said when all the latter day saints have ratified it brother moses can join without humiliation milia tion to his feelings he can then teen say I 1 submit it is the will of the people let us briefly examine the above the brethren then used the manifesto as a political lash to whip mr thatcher Tha teher into religious accord with them make amends for what you do not claim that he had proved traitor to any political principle at this time he had simply done as his religious leaders had bid him do both by word and by deed they had divided on party lines they had counseled the people to divide themselves according im e to their political convictions his fellow apostles had taken the tump stamp to proclaim their political faith mr thatcher Tha teher was therefore doing 6 only what his file leaders were doing some of them held political office and others were seeking in it 25 mr nelson vol you I 1 fail utterly g to see the difference between the proposition where A is called upon to vote for a thing which was cut cat and dried for him and one in which which he is is asked to cast his vote for the same thing when it was cut and dried for B you mr nelson as much as admit that the manifesto mani feato was written for mr thatcher Tha teher and you wonder why be could be so 80 undemocratic as to reject it after all the saints had ratified it had resolved that he should swallow it if our memory serves us right mr thatchers name was withheld from the conference within two hours bours from the time that the man efesto was first presented to him for acceptance and furthermore prof nelson mr thatcher Tha teher was then lying at deaths door and the saints had not ratified the document when cheh the name of moses thatcher Tha teher as an apostle was withheld from the sanction or vote of the conference the people could not lot understand it and when they saw that the man whom they dearly loved was thus summarily dropped the question upon every tongue was what has brother thatcher Tha teher done that question to inis day has not been answered the people would not and have not giren him up tor for they are endeared to him by hy bonds of sympathy and love and no man knows this better than mr nelson or he and others of his kind would not have been so diligent and earnest in their efforts to P poison 0 ison and corrupt this god given giren feeling of the people r rioted sted there by the noble life by the ilie high character and by the ff ng zeal of mr thatcher in the cause of truth the second poat to be noticed is ia the following from mr nelson but you not only did dia not enter on a platform parallel competitors peti tors but refused to be entered erea ort on any other Assue to the church charcy mr cullwell ful lwell well that he has not here the tr 4 J S that he is constructs a platform forces forcel mr thatcher upon it and then kicks him for being there tb ere all the lumber for this platform is by a process of legerdemain hewed out of mr thatchers That chera statement as to his being placed in a position involving a great principle and that if utah young utah thought his election would be a vindication of the principle he would accept the office of senator if tendered him the following brief statement from a great writer will answer mr nelson fully minds of moderate calibre ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range and now a few lines as to the last gem of mr nelsons belsons Nel sons letter wherein he charges mr thatcher of rallying to his support all the past haters baters of his people descending from his high moral level and adopting the mean petty tricks of political hucksters leading the pack in their yelps against a church which he has defended and upheld for forty years and at last posing as the crucified redeemer of the world mr nelson we take it that you have not had a lapse of memory and that you are at least a nominal democrat you of course remember the election in 1895 you have not forgotten the complexion of the republican and democratic tickets for congressional honors you we believe assisted in making up our ticket men whom you have known and loved since your childhood men whose whole lives had been identified with the interests of this state and your people were turned down by whom lonz lon tried friends of your people you may answer these questions by consulting your own memory or the late history of utah the national portion 0 of our ticket was not alone in this regard the different branches of the local ticket shared almost a similar fate this is only suggestive and if mr nelson will but reflect on it he can find another opportunity to sob for anguish others have not only rallied the past haters baters of your people but they have exalted them to the highest offices inthe in the gift of the people others have and that recently stood in the pulpits and instead of preaching gods truth have judged and judged again and called upon the people to jud judge ge a man whom the people love and delight to honor bonor a fellow citizen a friend a brother mr thatcher we know is not in league with the enemies of the church to which he belongs or with the enemies of any church we have come in contact with the mormon people all over this state and know that th at moses thatchers friends are numerous very few men in the church have more friends than he we say in conclusion to all who are am prone to condemn their th air fellow men lf juc judge ige not lest ye be judged for with what judgment ye judge it shall be met unto you again J |