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Show FRANK CANNON SEEKS TO STIR UPMINISTERS In Campaign Against Mormon Church Detective Said to be Hera Mri Shepard' Disclaim ( It la said that Frank J. Canuon, ' I f"L formerly of Salt Lake City, dcllvoreJ. ' I l an address attacking Mormonlsm and United States Senator need Smoot, before tho Chicago (Illinois) Presbyterian last Saturday, tho substances sub-stances of the address being advocacy of tho adoption of' threo resolutions to bo acted on by pastors In tho United States. Tho resolutions, ac cording to' the report, demand (1) reopening the attack upon tho validity valid-ity of tho scat of Senator Smoot; (2) dissolution of tho Church as a combination In restraint of trade, . and (3) prosecution of tho leaders of the Church on the ground that they aro sending obscene matters through the malls. It Is also said that detectives representing rep-resenting tho headquarters of tho W. C. T. Union and possibly tho executive exe-cutive officials of tho National Congress Con-gress of Mothers In Now York City havo been In Salt Lake for threo weeks endeavoring to collect evidence along tho lines of tho latest campaign against the Church. Mrs. E. E. Shepard, president of the W. C. T. O. In this stato when asked this morning If sbo had any Information concerning the presence hero of such detectives, declared (hut sho knew nothing about them, ir.nl had not heard about their being hcio until called up Saturday evening :y a representative of a morning paper who, sho said, after telling her about the presence of detectives quoted her ub giving the Information. I "I cannot believe that the W C. T. U, la conducting an Investigation of that kind here at present," said Mrs. Shepard. "It certainly seems ! to me that if It were doing so I 1 should have had either an official or 1 a personal notification of it in somo way, and in this case I have had neither. I havo talked with both Mrs. C. E. Allen and Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Cohen and they also know nothing no-thing of it. "The W. C. T U. In this stato , would take no part of any kind in 9 such a campaign anyway. Wo took no part whatever In the contest of Senator Smoot's scat. Wo neither gave any information nor assisted the Investigators here at that time to got any in that matter. That is not the business of tho Utah W. C. T. U. , On various occasions I havo written letters to officials of the national association as-sociation and of other state aasocla-' aasocla-' tlons protesting against tho campaign being waged against Utah, and am still opposed to It. "I did say to tho representative of tho morning paper, who has misquoted misquot-ed me In every other way, that on my recent trip to tho east I noticed that a bitter feeling la entertained by the members of women's clubs ' and other organizations against this state, and that Interest Is being worked work-ed up against Utah. The Utah branch of the W. C. T. U., however, will take no part In whatever Investigation Investiga-tion or campaigns or propogandas that aro made against this state." |