to the offices of the last election, and
Bro. Davis told me to day that this Johnson has reported that F M Lyman John Henry Smith both promised him
that if he would be baptizsed they would
make him president of this Stake. I
have more confidence in these two
men than to believe any sutch report
he is an enemy to this people, and I
believe would sell us all far a few dollars
apiece. The same Johnson has married
Bro. Davise's Daughter which I suppose
is one cause of his being in favor of
him I have received reports from both
parties, and I can see that the division
is universahl and growing continualy
wider and more bitter. Every bishop in
the ward feels that bishop Hatch and
councillor Davi's course in electing an
outsider, and a bitter enemy is entirely
wrong as I do myself. I told Bro. Davis I
thought very strange that he and bishop
Hatch should have united with the
outside element to elect a man outside
of the church and of his character for
a selectman. It is said there is a petition
in circulation to the Presidency of the Church
to have bishop Hatch elected President of this
Stake. But I do not think that he is a man
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to the offices of the last election, and
Bro. Davis told me to day that this
Johnson has reported that F M LymanJohn Henry Smith both promised him
that if he would be baptised they would
make him president of this Stake. I
have more confidence in these two
men than to believe any sutch report
he is an enemy to this people, and I
believe would sell us all far a few dollars
a piece. The same Johnson has married
Bro. Davise's Daughter which I suppose
is one cause of his being in favor of
him I have received reports from both
parties, and I can see that the division
is universal and growing continualy
wider and more bitter. Every bishop in
the ward feels that bishop Hatch and
councillor Davi's course in electing an
outsider and a bitter enemy is entirely
wrong as I do myself. I told Bro. Davis I
thought very strange that he and bishop
Hatch should have united with the
outside element to elect a man outside
of the church and of his character for
a selectman. It is said there is a petition
in circulation to the Presidency of the Church
to have bishop Hatch elected President of this
Stake. But I do not think that he is a man
"Letter to John Taylor and George Quayle Cannon, 29 June 1886," p. 4, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 14, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/nx5R