PRESIDENT LORENZO SNOW expressed his pleasure in seeing all of the brethren present who were in the country. ... Had been pleased with the prayer of brother Thatcher supplicating the Lord that we should become united. He had desired the union of his brethren more than any other thing. Said that we should be greatly blessed of the Lord and that great power would be given us prior to the time that the Lord and Master should come in His power and in great glory.
The political condition at the present time was to his mind a very important and a very serious matter and he felt that we should get the spirit of the Lord to aid in directing matters aright at this state of affairs so that we will not fall into the hands of our enemies....
There were some who were finding a great amount of fault with brother Jno. Hy. [John Henry] Smith on account of the part he is at the present time taken in political matters. He had not felt well pleased at first at the action of brother Smith in going in to the field to talk politics, but after reflecting on the subject he had arrived at the conclusion that it was done with the approval of the Presidency and so he felt all right about it....
FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS, said ... He had never had nay [many] manifestations form the Lord that Statehood was coming to us at an early date. ...
HEBER J. GRANT said that he ... Did not wish to make any political speeches but he was placed in an awkward position when he refused to do so as he had been on hand to work for the People's Party and his Democratic friends could not understand what was the reason he did not come out and work for them. Bros. Thatcher and Grant at this junction had a little argument on the tariff question and Prest. Snow called us to order and said that [he] felt it was not profitable for the brethren to argue in our meetings. ...
JNO. W. TAYLOR said ... when he called at the houses of the saints they asked him if he would take tea or coffee and he said neither, but told them he wanted milk. ... Spoke of the circumstance in the history of the Prophet Joseph where he had promised to vote for a certain man, and just before the election his brother Hyrum had got up and told the people that the Lord had revealed to him that the saints should vote for the candidates on the other ticket. The Prophet got up and said that he had never heard his brother Hyrum say the Lord had revealed anything to him unless He had and that while He (Joseph) should vote for the man he had promised to, that he supposed the saints would follow the counsel of the Lord to them through Bro. Hyrum. Bro. Jno. W. felt that this very circumstance had hastened the death of the Prophet. ...
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
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