I will further say I had an inter-
view yeasterday with Bishop Glines
the Probate Judge and C. C. Bartlett the Tithing Office clerk & they gave me a
general history of the political and
temporal situation of the whole Ashley
Ward and the trouble lies in this
that Bishop Hatch and his first councillor Nathan Davis claim the wright to
govern controll and dictate all political
conventions, caucuses & to get up the
list of nominations & control the
elections, and the influence of bro's
Hatch and Davis is with Lycurgus Johnson
who is Davi's son-in-law, and it is
said he runs the county, controls the
county funds which he manages to put
a good share in his own pocket
And they are intending at the next
election to leave aut Bishop Glines
as Probate Judge and put in Davis
who is with Johnson and the outside
element and are so managing the card
as to deprive the Saints from holding
I will further say I had an interview yeasterday with Bishop Glines
the Probate Judge and C. C. Bartlett the
Tithing Office clerk & they gave me a
general history of the political and
temporal situatian of the whole Ashley
Ward and the trouble lies in this
that Bishop Hatch and his first councillor
Nathan Davis claim the wright to
govern, controll and dictate all political
conventions, caucuses & to get up the
list of nominations & control the
elections, and the influence of bro's
Hatch and Davis is with Lycurgus Johnson
who is Davi's son-in-law, and it is
said he runs the county, controls the
county funds which he manages to put
a good share in his own pocket
And they are intending at the next
election to leave aut Bishop Glines
as Probate Judge and put in Davis
who is with Johnson and the outside
element and are so managing the card
as to deprive the Saints from holding
"Letter to John Taylor and George Quayle Cannon, 29 June 1886," p. 7, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/K1rn