1899-01-13-New York Sun-The War On Roberts

New York Sun, January 13, 1899, p. 6.

The War on Roberts

Connecticut Women and Massachusetts Legislators Against Seating the Mormon

GREENWICH, Conn., Jan. 12.—The Rev. Josiah Strong, D. D.. formerly President of the Evangelical Alliance of the United States, is soon to present a remonstrance to Representative E. J. Hill of this Congress district, signed by the eighty-five members of the local W. C. T. U., against the seating of Roberts, the polygamist, of Utah, in Congress. A meeting of the local white ribboners was held yesterday, and a resolution was passed deprecating the election of Roberts. Mrs. Josiah Strong was directed to send the remonstrance by her husband personally

Boston, Jan. 12—Resolutions were introduced in the Legislature, to-day protesting against the seating of Congressman-elect Brigham H. Roberts of Utah.