The Daily Astorian

The first and only exception to the supremacy of Brigham Young's word, if it is an exception, was the trial, conviction and shooting of Lee for complicity in the Mountain Meadows massacre. What effect the death of Brigham Young will have on the fortunes of the Mormon church none can tell. Most likely it will be divided up among a number of persons each ambitious of becoming the head of the church. No one has ever yet developed sufficient capacity to be even spoken of as the possible wearer of Brigham Young's official and priestly vestments. If Mormonism should vanish from the face of the earth, it would not be necessary to fill the space it has occupied in the history of America for nearly fifty years.