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Show I SEN. SEEGMILLER ' m. CREATES SENSATION WpL Someone Has Lied or is Guilty IS' of Double Dealing, From jff Evidence Submitted. If' SEEGMILLER REFUSES ,Kj" TO BECOME "POLLY-WOG." m K& Signed Statement Published in Kane CHf County News Makes a Stir When Rttf Paper Reaches Salt Lake. IfPt'' A very profound stir has been crc- jHT ' ated throughout the state and partic- wHfc ularly in Salt Lake City by tho pub- IK. ', Mention of a signed statement by Sen. Mi William Seegmiller through tho mod- IigBF rium of tho Kano County News. The ;5v statement, which we give below, has ' I'cen reprinted by all the Salt Lake fJMjt neighbors, are, "Whore is tho Nigger, UR& and whose wood-pile is he concealed jK. dalics, and the questions that every- IK one is asking themselves and their S "?" "Who has lied?" "Is Governor Spry tho victim of a conspiracy, or We is ho a bigger rascal than we had any mSt ot us heretofore supposed?" fir So far as the statement by Senator JK Seegmiller is concerned, we would al- 3g most vouch for its correctness. Mr. f Seegmiller has proven himself to be off a nmn ' Prnc'Pl an( character; ho ilp could not bo swerved from his path of j5fir duty and good faith to his constitu- j onts by party fetters or reported whis- jffls perings from his superiors in tho $HL church, and he will not shrink from Op. " facing anyone in relation to tho statc- :jtt? ment ho has given out, no matter who fifij&l , it may implicate. , IJF' . There has been a lot of dirty, un- ?' ' derhanded work done in connection Km With tho defcatinE of the prohibition Jm bm nd we hope it will be ferreted j out to the core and the rcsponsibil- IJjv ity placed where it rightfully belongb. IJB " There is no getting away from the Ift fact that Govornor William Spry will !k have to carry a largo proportion of JM, the odium and disgrace that his ac- Wf tion has brought upon himself, and so ', JE far as he is concerned nothing can be JF brought out by an investigation of JL." theso charges that can materially W aid his position in tho matter, but -to without question, there are others at, deeply implicated who ought to be KL shown up. ffi Following is Mr. Secgmiller's state- M ment as first published in tho Kane s W County News: IK "Tho day following the Hotel Utah ja B incident, in which Governor Spry be- 'J mi rated the 'indignity' which had been f perpetrated and did it in a perfectly T; undignified manner the governor sent g!'-' for tho three stake presidents in tho & Senate, Joseph Eckersley, Don Colton s, and myself, to visit him in his office, 9 at which time he went over tho early '. Mormon persecutions of tho Liberal 1 and American party days and showec' what damage those persecutions hac1 ;V " . done tho state, tho church and espec tK, ially Joseph F. Smith. M- "He stated that ho loved President tyf Smith better than any other man on j earth and held the church dearer than $ anything elso. Would Cause Persecution. "Ho said that President Joseph F Smith and Bishop Charles W. Nibley could seo very plainly that if tho prohibition pro-hibition bill were passed this sanu anti-Mormon persecution would bo repeated re-peated and that it had gone so far al I ready it could only bo stopped by his offering himself as a sacrifice to the church by vetoing the prohibition bill. "Ho said that he knew what that would mean to him and his family and what humiliation they would have to suffer, but that he was willing to stand in the gap for the gospel's I sake." 4p "Ho then continued: "Now, brethren, I como to you as I your brother in tho priesthood and not I an govornor of the state, and I brine I a message from tho president of the I church to you as stake presidents and the messago ia that President Smith desires you to sustain my veto on the iloor of the Senato and defend me in , 14 my action when you, go homo to your llfo people.' MlM "I told tho governor that neither he ill nor President Smith nor anybody else iJH had any right to attempt to make a J H polliwog of me. My peoplo knew what H to expect of mo when I was elected, IB )H !P and I refused to become a traitor to them and to make a hypocrito of myself. my-self. Would Vote Over Veto. "I told him emphatically that I wou)d vote to pass the bill over his head and that I would lcpudiate him before my peoplo when I arrived home. "I also told him that I considered his actions in the Hotel Utah very undignified un-dignified and very much uncalled for, which he admitted to be the case. "When I had finished telling him these things and that I refused absolutely abso-lutely to obey the order, ho said: "'"'"Wclljr'Miavo performed my duty, and have delivered you tho message.' "He also said that Bishop David A. Smith was appointed to verify the instructions in-structions he (tho governor) had had brought from President Smith, ind terminated the interview by saying say-ing that he had no intention of shirking shirk-ing his responsibilities by using his -onstitutional time before acting upon the bill, but that he would return it in plenty of time, before the senate adjourned, ad-journed, to permit tho senate to take any action the members saw fit. "Some two or three days after this incident I talked to Bishop David A. Smith and he told mo that what the governor had said was not true and that President Smith was very, very much in favor of the prohibition bill. "WILLIAM W. SEEGMILLER." |
