Show HE IS CONVERTED parley L L williams has repented for years ho he has been an antichurch anti church man and a leader of the american forces lut but with the ripened judgment that has como come oe of years of 0 experience per peri lence ence and close contact with things beligio politic he has al at last ope opened ned his eyes to a great truth and now in his declining days he is about t to reverse himself right about face and march with rectitude forgiving and forgetting and anti this remarkable recantation all camo came about in a peculiar way he ile was vas lobbying tor for bis railroads struggling hard to get v measure enacted that would give to the transportation companies the right to do anything not inhibited by the decalogue ho Is an eloquent advocate and a plausible reasoner rca using his powers of 0 speech and magnetic influence to tr the utmost to convince the legis legislators latora that mining raining coal and transporting the black diamonds were inseparable powers of a railroad and should not bo be abrogated or abridged and that the broader the scope of railroad activity the greater the blessings to be ultimately bestowed on the widows and orphans stockholders and bondholders bond holders in the tho harriman roads sir williams suddenly lost his voice and persuasiveness by discovering that however eloquently he might argue and however armed with righteousness might be his cause all ills lits flow of oratory and his presentation ol 01 facts were nullified by a caesar who said nothing but ut simply waved wavid a magic wand over the beads of his s worshipping wor shipping hosts and the scintillating brilliancy of parley L was eclipsed for several days mr williams bad had attended the sessions of the legislature and had seen harry joseph do dominate m that body and having come in contact with that game pame influence to his utter dismay he gave up in disgust then it was va that the distinguished lawyer turning to a friend said it was a sorry day when the mormon church got out ot of politics the church was responsive to convincing argument and was guided by reason but joseph ruled like a tyrant unyielding to facts and ame amenable natle to nothing this is one of the most sur surprising p conversions made in a number of years and it is the result of chic chickens acks coming home to roost |