Show The Persecuted Saints The Mormons have heretofore held their semiannual conferences in Salt Lake City These meeting have been regarded as church festivals and reunions and have drawn thousands of the Saints from all parts of the Territory to the capital When it was announced a few ireeks ago by the leaders of the church that the coming conference which is now ifi session would be held not in alt Lake City but in a little village called Logan near the northern boundary of the Territory a great majority of the fcthful sere sorely puzzled Logan is from the centre of population and al JJ5t devoid of hotel accommodations Held in such a place the conference roi not be a general reunion of the Vfl1 but would of necessity be a cold 11f1i insignificant in comparison with those which had preceded it Why had lie apostles gone out into the wilderness hold this meeting The most plausible explanation is one that throws much light on the real effect of recent legislation and prosecutions ipi the Mormon leaders This is that these loaders were unwilling to hold the meeting in Salt Lake City because if held there their weakness and the fact that they have been badly frightened by the courpc of the National Government would inevitably be revealed to their people lany of the most prominent men in the Tiranization have either fled from the crritory or concealed themselves in it to ivoid deputy marshals who would like V arrest them for polygamy These Were are not attending the meeting t Logan and they would not tat dared to show their heads m alt Lake City if the conference had ten held there But their absence ould excite less comment in the distant village it would have excited in the city which is the headquarters of the or unization The selection of Logan therefore was to those who had followed the history of the war against polygamy a confession of distress In the epistle to the church read to the conference yesterday yes-terday oven President Taylor found it I necessary to explain why he had run awa awaIf the saints ever hoped to find amend a-mend in President Cleveland they have I probably discovered by this time that I from the new administration they can ex I W only a continuation of the pressure to winch they were subjected by the old t is predicted that after the new administrations admin-istrations policy shall have been demonstrated demon-strated to them hjjats acts the apostles mmi receive and 1nulgate a new and finely revelation > providing for a discontinuance dis-continuance or suspension of the practice tif If polygamy Perhaps such a revela on may be brought out at the next conference if the deputy marshals and Ie I courts do their duty in the coming SIX l monthsN Y Times April 7 |