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Show -130or ever away on having the seen a Mormon elder, but the Tribune continued to such diatribes story, printing as the harp following: In the jail of Salt Lake County James Campbell is incarcerated because, acting under the advice of elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and following the example set by a majority of the ruling powers of the Church he took a plural wife. He is a law breaker. At the Beehive House on Brigham Street, in the City of Salt Lake, Joseph F. Smith, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, lives in luxury. Five wives call him husband. He is a lawbreaker like Campbell. He married his wife's sister, too. Further, he is a law defier. He is not molested. He breathes the air of freedom. prison like Campbell? Why? 19 is he not in Why carcerated in The News staunchly and effectively defended the Church in this case, but the widespread circulation of the Tribune succeeded in spreading the tale far and across papers the country wide, and it as Immediately prior its concern over an actual to the which of the was case wrote the whether or Tribune, not he would was of utah in several news- polygamy. election, the Tribune editorialized major political parties benefit of the Church influence in the 1905 Smith, reprinted to Morris problem as of enjoy the President city election. faced with the support Mayor was deciding repayment for the deal which the Morris administration had concluded with Utah Light and Power, thus lining the pockets of the Church President, or whether he would support William J. Lynch, the candidate of the Smoot Republicans, evidence to Eastern politicians Republican majorities, exerted on in the that the Church could still hope of relieving Smoot in the Senate investigation. some as produce of the pressure |
