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He did not deny it later, when the whole community had learned of it. He went with Apostle John Henry Smith to see Mr. P. H. Lannan, proprietor of the Salt Lake Tribune, to ask him not to attack the Church for this new and shocking violation of its covenant. Mr.
If this first polygamous marriage had been the last if it were an isolated and peculiar incident as the Smiths then claimed it was and promised it should be it might be forgiven as generously now as Mr. Lannan then forgave it.
If it had not been for Smith's consciousness of his own guilt and his knowledge that the whole community was aware of that guilt, he would never have gone to the Tribune office to make such a promise to Mr. Lannan.
Some few years ago, Irving Sayford, then representing the Los Angeles Times, asked Mr. P. H. Lannan, of the Salt Lake Tribune, why someone did not swear out warrants against President Smith for his offenses against the law. Mr. Lannan said: "You mean why don't I do it?" "Oh, no," Mr. Sayford explained, "I don't mean you particularly." "Oh, yes, you do," Mr. Lannan said.
The decision seemed to me final and momentous. I felt that the new Utah had faced the old and had been assured of independence. I found Mr. P. H. Lannan, the proprietor of the paper, anxious, indignant and ready to denounce the Church and fight against the admission to statehood. "When I heard of that sermon," he said, "my heart went into my boots.
I do not know all that the Smiths said to him; but I know that the conversation assumed that Joseph F. Smith had performed the marriage ceremony; I know that neither of the Smiths made any attempt to deny the assumption; and I know that Joseph F. Smith sought to placate Mr. Lannan by promising "it shall not occur again."
Lannan had been intimately friendly with my brother, and he was distressed between his regard for his dead friend and his obligation to do his public duty.
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