Show TRIBUNE WRONG AS IS USUAL secretary of W C T U writes letter tells the tribune that the W C T U of utah took no part in fight against smoot the tribune would not acknowledge that it was wrong wrone in its resort of the failure of the W C T U to get a permanent permin ent organization established here but the secretary of the arzani bation for utah takes a fall out of that paper in the following fol lowine eom communication muni cation which appeared in tuesdays issue editor Tri tribunes bunee in a recant issue of of the tribune under the title stake president does flip flop the paper caper falls into an error after recounting reco an incident SUD Dosed no have lave occurred at richfield in which the he stake president of the mormon church is reported to have first aided mra L L shepard ores president ident of the utah W C T U to organize a branch of the society there and then ordered that it be smothered this statement was made no reason was visa given for the altion of the Mormon officials but bat it is generally understood that it was a result of the fact that the state organization of the W C T U sent a petition to washington against the seating of apostle reed smoot etc As this is the second time that a similar statement has been made in salt lake lae pacers I 1 feel that the statement must no longer loncer go uncorrected corre eted no such protest as ever made bv the utah W C T U I 1 was then as I 1 am now the corresponding secretary and am communication of that sort k n L A 74 01 ailcy lv by rill ail the state officers and then sent through my mv office the matter as never been talked ot of at an executive meeting that I 1 can remember I 1 also know positively Positive lir that no individual member of the official board took part dart in any protest or veti petitions eions directed against the seating of mr smoot as senator on the contrary contrare arv I 1 believe the attitude of all the state officials was that mr smoot had a perfect right to the office so far as known tome to me only one member of the W C T U a member of the salt lake union ever took any part against mr smoot the washington pacers spoke of her as president of the utah W C T U but she was not even a member of the state executive we have no dower cower and no wish to control individual oo ninion but the majority rules in ou our r as aa it should evera where and in this society has so fr far ruled without friction if any difficulty arises between the mormon church authorities and the womans comans christian temperance union of utah it will not be because of any anything thine unjust or unfair on the part of our organization LEOTA S KENNEDY state secretary W C T U ogden feb 21 1910 the utah branch of the W C T U never petitioned congress against smoot and as that was wag the premise of the antagonism which the tribune built around the alleged leceil al incident about president See emiller that premise beme beina wrong the whole areu ment is wrong wronie and the whole affair is nothing more than the fuzzy uzza old tribune getting wrong as usual |