Show A commercial SCOOP oar contemporary the commercial copies a letter from bishop leonard of bait salt lake lal e city to the st louis republic because as the commercial avera avers it contains several nice little morsels that will make food for ogdena thinking citizens of those nice little morsels here is one 1 I heard that the mormons cormons gained control of the man municipal ic apal government of 0 I 1 ogden at the last election the mormon church has all the mormon cormon congregations organized in strong and undivided political bodies this organization of the tile church makes the mormons cormons very formidable as they unite the spiritual i 1 igual with the political and the aal cormons mormons amous can be made to vote as a unit in tho the way dictated by the high officers of the church THE STANDARD confesses due humiliation at having to place this nice morsel before ita its readers admitting in tha the meantime that it is but one of many scoops in the same line which we have buffered ol 01 late at the bands hands of our rustling contemporary interesting as the matter it contains may be we rather suspect thit that in some quarter a at least the deeper Inte reit will attach to the question of mentality in the tile organ that republishes it that tha statement of mr leonard is a straight out oat an and unqualified lie is not of BO so much concern here as the question tion of what motive the Commer commercial cW might have in republishing the lie for the benefit of lp fl thinking citizens As will bo be remembered by those who were attentive to the operations of the election here alluded to the most buncombe of arguments argument e against the success of the citizens ticket was that from it this lie here quoted approvingly by the commercial might get abroad to the prejudice of agdens commercial growth indeed mr leonard though the bishop of this diocese undoubtedly created it this lio lie which the commercial has 11 scooped us on for the scandal trado trade simply in this view of the case what shall we eay to ita its appearance in our ogden it if not that once the late unpleasantness in the ranks of liberalism the commercial has turned tool fool 7 touching the case of mr leonard this new una line ot of labor labar which I 1 ha his has undertaken to justify a thought though t as to himself personally and in some sense his profession spiritually mr leonard might have baen been first rate in his utah mission were it not for jor just ono one fact hia his predecessor in office was a gentleman for a man of mr leonards obvious caliber to assume the shoes of bishop is 13 aa an ox ample of personal courage moro more rare to ministers of a cartain certain grade thia than truth speaking to small demagogues demagogue 3 bishop tattle being a rather splendid sort of man generally operated in a circle of pretty large diameter A diminutive person commissioned comm to occupy the vacancy bo he has left will not be blamed for losing bis his boundary and wander wandering ing off into missouri or anywhere else that ft a lost loat soul might go 90 to find company lla ire evidently knows known juet just as much ranch and no more of ogden and ita its people than he I 1 r 1 I 1 1 S 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 does about the broad christian br istian doc trino preached and inculcated by his hie predecessor it if he would employ a ft guido guide to assist assiat him to confine his peregrinations to the limits of hia his dio be might know something about it beyond ear shot of his hl Is salt lake parsonage running about over the united states in the calling of a political scandal monger however eminent will not afford to him the knowledge spiritual or temporal which enriched the character of t tho he man whose place he has line under undertaken tak en to fill it will never protect his fa fame demal 0 from the just and eternal condemnation con of honest meo men which a habit of lying is sure to bring on a profess professed ed minister of jesus christ W we a hope before mr leonard writes any moro more letters about ogden to eastern papers he will give this subject his personal attention and if it between his visits to missouri he can find time to give ogden a call he will be able to learn atom tho the first person he be meets more about her politics her people and their ways than he be ever knew know before or would be likely to learn through a half halt a century century of ardone study in salt lake or st louis |