Show PRESS sS The chief promoters nf of tho the religious crusade Smoot still try to Impress the time minds mind of ot the pub public lic Ile the tho falsehood that the gentleman Is Isa Isn isn I n a polygamist Tills This note nets as ns n I power powerful ful tut Irritant to time tho average church memo mem her nod particularly to la those who lio he be long to tho female fernnie clubs and Sons The he common of the thi meaning of ot the term tarm Mormon Is Isa Isa Isa a man who has hag ha many mall wives vvo How flow loin It U will take to remove that notion It ll Is U hard liard to predict There are alt still and antI writer writers for tor the papers paper and nath I lines sines who entertain It and exhibit their I Ignorance accordingly Even some of the preen defenders defender of ot tho the Senator take tRI e the ground that its Ise wives WIlI end and draw favorable between hit his and that of at national lawmakers lawmaker whose lives live are notoriously Jn In con let in with the tho co sod of liber Sher tines who ho cn cast t oft their theil paramour paramours whom when hen tired of oC their society It nil shown KhonH how haw little mommy million of or people know of ot the tho actual facts In III Inthe inthe the CAPe easo which hoe canned 10 so much agitation In n title this country snit even In They do not understand that hut but a 1 small email minority of ot the Mormons Mormon over ever practised polygamy We Y 1 have now before Jerore us liB the I judo Inde Independent pendent which refers refer to 10 the time Morning Pout Poet ant alma 1110 to the article by Sydney that has lias b been heen en widelY copied and sagely pud pule time the ce care In this way vay Tinto In Is no about the en on tire tiro regularity of ot Mr 11 la credeu It U In la not alleged that his lili aloe elec election tion was wai procured by lIy bribery false counting ballot stuffing or III In fact tact by y illegality In any forte form The rime complaint against him U le I that he hll Is l a by hy practice as iii well an ns conviction that nM MI s such luch he Ise hili ha broken the time well under tinder stood compact under tinder which Utah was wan adopted a III as a state Into the American Union mid amt that but hilI election IH is there therefore tore fore void That In Ix you know but It has ban bent been obtained front from American Out Our contemporaries lee ies everywhere where should tind understand r t nd by this time that the gentleman onto with the exception of ot one Metho MothO Methodist dist diet preacher who thought he WM was VA help holp helping ing the cause of religion by swearing to n II have havn not claimed that Senator Smoot ever over lied had more than titan o n f le to wife or that there u is anything against hi Ile hll personal character nf ot any kind In deavors lute have been t en made scads to make him dm himIn himIn In same ome sense en r or ble bie for to the time alleged s Ile ge m I l ge of or other ashes peo iko people IIO pie Jilt lint hIlt the reil point sought nought to b b e em el is la that he wo wag waa elected by h tit the influence of ot the Mormon Church Tint ling has hn not keen heln accomplished mod cannot he be because ho he was wm mid elected by time the party In lot and 11 11 many of ot voters of his hl own faith WHO were opposed to him iho tU Is party tb bet r Tho The halo holo against him blot blott t r l are an Merman raid starting with religious bigotry and amid hatred of ot Imaginary Church Influence that has hau not b been n In his case and would not have halo been boon a disqualification under any law or rule of at Congress If It It had Imd been bean used no pretended Wo We 0 snake make this lithe explanation go so that persons and amt papers that really wAnt to know may not riot run Into error and absurdity whether they are uro lighting or supporting Senator Iliad Uell smoot In it the conflict that thatIs Is by hy no means cleans concluded I |