SMITH SMITE AD SMOOT I Both Seem to be of a Law I Defying Body North American menca St trang scene for tile the twentieth j Is that presented Ute the sea n me ate wh which h Ia weighIng the right of C Reed to g agut Ip in the chamber The patriarch of the Mormon church a graybeard declare that for four Cour fourteen teen n years eaN he has deliberately brok broken n tilt the laws of hits his state and Justifies himself If en 11 grounds of eC dut duty To tn the gront grent mass of the American people um hag baa long seemed a legend rather than a fact fael They know that It on once e wat a by thou thousands sands as a religious dut duty President Smith hoW hofs that it tOUa today anti and while he denies that plural marriages have been since The prohIbitory tory legislatIOn of 1599 he proclaims its as a virtue e the continuance of the established before that drat date It cannot be denied that there is some Something tiling thing attractive in II his courage ConSt Confess lag Ing a be declares 8 his ble rea readiness Un s to suffer the p provided d dallu ace allu sturdily inH that In his dt fiance fe he has a higher r obligation than to the statutes But in spite ot of all this In spite 01 ot his manly d to what Ite he d deems his duty the eon con ho he ex exposes S or ore repulsive to the tho normal mi No ee can aa make him otherwise than grotesque or orthe the system he delen Otherwise e than ab abhorrent Rut But the r important chiefly as 88 f bearing upon the SM ease at trial the eligibility of Reed S Snout t who was duly t t to a set t tn in the d States senate this man maa It mu must t bl be understood no of unworthy conduct has been The some bat or Of or Organizations do not alter the that n has never practiced polygamy and ami lit In public and Private lIfe han haa been a ot of exemplary exemplar The therefore IS not that ho he hoIs heis Is pe unfit to the office A Senator but that the system which ho represents condones and defenda I Is St sO radically opole to the law and public ImbUe poll policy that his In the tho malt lug Ing would bo be an and a dangerous pr Mr Ir t Is an aim apostle of oE till the NOr NOrmon ro romon mon church As such he IS Rn an n ot of a hierarchy which holds polygamy a divine command anti and at flagrant violations of oC the In law tore More the creed to which he sub subscribes places the rules of oC the church hurch promulgated Its of officers superior to th thit statutes s or Of tite United States State His Ius first allegiance Is 15 to tho these 1 men Ho WON was senator Only through their Ol ent and cn The testimony thus thUN far that the positively obedient to the still noW polygamy to be right and protects the practice or of polygamous relations which are eju unlawful Mr r Smoot himself In iii of ft infractions lolU stands I these illegal and principles Anu asks a admission to the d States senate a a member of a la law defying boor bed