Show i I 1 OFFICIAL DENIAL i f 10 k I 1 I 1 ofa of a bl campaign laign lie by tl ieEe Y publican n rational committee j I 1 f tho the following telegram seat from tron I 1 sail skit lake lake city under date of october explains itself I 1 hon W T chairman chaa t akun rational democratic Comm tUe headquarters nw nap york I 1 the following I 1 is a a copy of if 0 a telegram sent to the chairman of bf the republican national Wat ional commit ice ec this day I 1 an pan associated press telegram of the eleventh alleged that your committee had bad received information from a source it considered trustworthy that the mormon church wai wa takings aking a hand in the pending D political canvass in behalf 0 of ft the ai e national national democratic ticket that thai at a council of the mormon church in sail sait lake city it wag wai voted to give the national democratic e tenth of the church tit tithing bing te to be used in aiding the tile election of cleveland and if possible a majority in both houses of congress in return for this contribution the mormon council sec secured ureda a promise from the democratic committee that in the event of success utah shall be admitted as state it is also alleged that as an additional inducement for admission the council promised that she will as a democratic send two damoci ats to the united states senate wo we are the anly persons who can an authoritatively speak or act in a matter like that referred to above we emphatically deny all the allegations gitt ions in said telegram and assert thet the I 1 mormon normon church has taken isken no part pait in the pending political campaign and has neither appropriated nor forgiven given a dollar to either party neither the tile church nor any member of it authorized to act in its behalf has li as been approached by the ille national lif democratic committee tebor or agent or person acting tor for it asking for funds for campaign purposes nor has there been an any corny coiny mu of sif any nature whatever between 11 the democratic committee Commit teb and the mormon church or any of its officials we desire to make the denial of the above named slanders most emphatic and hwe sweeping JOHN TATi or GEO Q ci CANNON box of the first presidency of the church JOHN i t I 1 11 trustee int traut 1 I 1 6 I 1 dabove above dispatch was also sent on the same date late to 11 hon on B F jones chairman national Natio nol republican committee new york |