Show DEff WOODRUFF DOWN El expresses presses his liens on hie file recent salt lale election n THIT iii n is so S thoughts if or rain oving en mat mase t to canada or the hopes and Ie deploy tinT or th the church tile following interview with president woodruff ir was bad yesterday by an associated frees press correspondent and was last evening telegraphed I 1 ed abroad ab road as the only statement the venerable leader bas made upon the political light which lias has just ended in in salt lake ilia remarks says the correo correspondent can bo be und as hie ilia feeling of every mormon in tho the territory president woodruff I 1 would like to got your views as to tile political campa campaign ign here and ilia questions at issue well bir sir I 1 consider this aa as something more than a mere question of what men shall compose the city government aad n hat bat party they belong to there is i a deep laid scheme to deprive tile mormon people mille of all their political rights and privileges go so hat that the minority here may obtain control of the territory they cannot do tins this by fair faar meace BO so they resort to foul by misrepresent aI ion and taking advantage of popular prejudice against the mormons cormons Mor mons founded chiefly in ignorance hey they succeeded in ia securing the disfranchisement of the tile old older e r 6 fet e t tiers who made the country and then of all the women this not giving these schemers Ech emers a ma majority bority they have song sought h t other means the ld ed munds tucker act lias list lie helped ped them thet somewhat Ime what but t the he teet test oath it provides can be taken by a f majority n ajo rity at least as well as by the their ir 0 po enow they want e cry mormon deprived of the right to vote and hold office no matter how good and law abiding a citizen he may be at the ogden election a year ago large of names of resident voters were va ere stricken from the tile registration lists hundreds of non residents were imported and the election was carried by the liberals by open fraud since then by fictitious valuations the assessments of property have been raised raked from three to five times the former amounts of taxes vice has flourished official salaries have been raised public improvements I 1 prove ments hae have not advanced a and the h change is is deplored by the best bee t people of irth parties boasts we v ere r a made after the ogden election that salt lake would be the tile next point of attack and ti at it would ba be carried by similar means the result has proved the boast to have not been made in in vain vain I 1 consider cons der the election bs been gabed here by striking from tile registration lis lias liss s hundreds of 0 legally qualified citizens and by voting bordes of newcomers newcom new comers erp not lawful citizens I 1 regard the action of the registrars regist rara ther the r bitting sitting as a court to judge of their own acts and the whole course pursued as part of a scheme to capture p the city at all hazards I 1 v view i sty it with profound regret as a prostitution of law and olli official cial powers power that should sadden every lover of fair play and the welfare of hia his country what effect will this change have upon tile church and the peoples party oh as to that I 1 cannot see that th the e church will ba be iu in any way affected as an organization it is entirely separate and apart from political mattery matter members of the church belong to the peoples party and they will naturally feel that they have been robbed of their rights at the polls but I 1 presume that will not apfei t their pAi political views views or sta us the church was not in the cam cairn ragn a agn and the result will have no faring bearing upon it at all that I 1 tan can see what willbe v ill ba the future of I 1 cb isa ai lar far as I 1 know it will be to preach the tile gospel to all tha world instruct its members in their religious duties and move forward I 1 to 0 it 1 its I divinely destiny as if the to actual living church of christ Is there any probability of the mormon church or people removing to mexico or elsewhere none that I 1 know of I 1 do not a see ee I 1 any my necessity of such a removal 1 individual members may go where they choose to better their condition but there is not nor has there been any contemplation of or any such exodus as 3 sou ou ask about U hit is the mormon idea of its rule aa as the kingdom kindom of god it is this we bold hold that this church giai all set u up P mid and organized by command of the almighty that it baa has the ilia right to form forma and maintain rules of church discipline applying only to ils its own members that the extent of its pu punitive in etive powers is the excommunication df of the transgressor that it has no power to punish any one by deprivation of life liberty or property or by per personal Fonal injury in any form that governments ern ments should not regulate the church nor the tile chunh seek beek to control the state that all men should be p cally free and equal free to vote as they please and BUS sus tarn tain what politics they please BO so that they do not infringe n the rights of others we I 1 clie 0 this church will prepare the tle way for the coming of christ to reign as kirg und end that the church will olve d elop lop into the kingdom King doin cf god which all christians pray will aill come that the will of god 10 may ba be done lone on earth as it is in Jl heaven eaven we belles believe e in III the full and tree free agency of man aud that when that kin kingdom g d om is is ea established there will bo be berf perfect act I 1 lib I 1 b r ltv ta on earth civil po political J and ad r religious e ia gl then n sou do not feel I 1 gloomy as to the ultimate result of this election 9 0 no o I 1 believe taxes will be raised th that t there sill be euch such a looseness of the the restraint imposed upon im morall ty and such a striking contract contrast formed under liberal rule to the order hones bonery y and consi consisted con sister stert t progress of the city under the ho peoples Peo regime that ai As in oden ogden the more respicia cla ble his people of all classes will soon de abrea sire a return of the farmer former methods the plotters against the tile majority will probably bo be emboldened to pursue their plans tor for tho the destruction of republican publican gub lican government in tha 0 nut ut I 1 should be sorry to believe t that b rya congress or tile country will P proceed roc 0 ed to such unconstitutional and I 1 infamous af amous extremities as those that will w ill be proposed in any event there Is a power superior to all men who will govern things for the good of there those 11 who 0 servo serve hun flim 11 president wood woodruff ruff appears to be in good health and not in the least worried over the result of the election he ile is now in his year and apparently parent ly aa strong and as M well preserved aa as the ordinary man at 50 |