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Show 209 It claimed by'_the opposition party, and it was that the church authorities had previgusly the candidates and that the action of the merely ratified, with the appearance of a popular selection, the choice of candidates so previously made.8 was evidently true, selected all meeting Yet he was a dates fails concede to the public meeting, apparently voted upon, were which Judge Rolfe describes Grouard and Church the gives one as the meeting he describes anyone, the candi and the that impression if desired. original conflict between follows: summoned before the Church council, announcing himself as a candidate least thought of doing any wrong or it had occurred to him that perhaps he when Grouard, open to could have been made votes dissenting that the pOint that had not the but that harm, in explained he could fill the office with credit to himself and bene fit to the people, and if the people chose to elect him he would be pleased to serve them. He was then ordered to apologize and say he was sorry for what he He refused had done, or be turned out of the church. He never to do the former and submitted to the latter. went back to the fold of the church.9 At that resulted in the Church party Independent party for the of Church. Each victory of was force of the 8. 9Ibid. was the beginning rift in of the Mormon Independents or that their succeeding but the they - The were authority of they narrowed the margin party. be remembered Independent fight against election period Anti-Mormons. consistently defeated, the Mormon It must election the remainder the and doggedly persistent 1855 firmly established political groups two each other opposed this any rate, that group was the leadership provided by a and driving close-knit |
