| OCR Text |
Show -lS3- history, or other some the News for When criticized in return derogatory point. injecting religion into politics, by the Tribune retorted: The Tribune has not been fighting the Mormon Church at all. It has been abusing nobody. But it has resented the lies told by the Church organ and has condemned the lawlessness, vice, lechery, usurpations, tyrannY2 Mormon Church leaders. 3 At the F. Smith made to the a conference of the Church, President general statement which particular Republican Party and robberies of the on election day. was great value doubt of no Joseph At the end of the closing session the Church President stated: I thank God that this State of Utah is and has been represented in the halls of Congress by honest men men after God's own heart, men who love their own people, and who are just and im -- partial and true the name of day Saint should not by the Church political to all the citizens of common sense regret but by their own parties.24 In the halls of our state was to Congress from utah at the time up for re-election before the come be elected in November. In • • followers and by their Joseph Howell, friendly Gentile George Sutherland, and Smoot, who • • I deplore the thought that any Latter that good men and true have been chosen, were own Mormon Mormon Reed legislature The President's statement could hardly to be misunderstood. The Tribune Church," and was able in wrote that it politics. ally interpreted in the was the statement "a command to the open and clear evidence that the Church Said the Tribune, Prophet, as Seer and "Smoot and Howell Revelator.,,25 the final session of LDS Conference "a Goodwin's Weekly wondered • • • have The Tribune called Republican ratification why an meeting.n26 the Church President had bothered |
