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Show The First Smoot Protest. jg yM Great Falls, Mont., Nov. 4, 1902. An election 1211 that will be held today in Utah is of more than rifl passing interest to the people of the other States', fol tUfl because it is a clear-cut contest between the Mor- SSl' H mons and the gentiles of that State. Hl'Mi During the last year or two the Republican ma- fj f 'jM chinery of the State has been rapidly passing into K' h y 19 tho hands of the leaders of the Mormon church, H$ 7pB and now it is said to be altogether there. The j&f'fl Democrats, on the other hand, are almost wholly J! TpH working with tho Gentile element of the popula- f, ''KM tlon. HM The principal issue in the campaign is the w I 4 U election of the Legislature, as it will elect a Sen- P ijJSH ator to succeed Senator RawlinB. The Senator is ' j fi V;fll a candidate to succeed himself and opposed to him j I 19 is Apostle Smoot, one of the leaders of the church. gu i jf JJHfl Rawlins himself is a member of the Mormon l & Iijhh church, but he is not a polygamist, and is opposed ; w mU to the church dictating in state affairs. Smoot is E fi'tffM being aided by all the machinery of Mormonism , 2 ' i H9 as well as by the Republican machinery. ij plf IflH It is probable that the Republicans will win, ' I l tfufl but in doing so they will have stooped to methods ' I fi 1 ffSfl that are un-American, and which should be i JL I)U frowned upon by all those who belip .hat our ) n JjwH forefathers were right when the .. ired that 1 jfULfflH there should be no intermingling of church and 1 dl & 1 state in our governmental affairs. ' .- 'rf a Ijjfl . M r ;H |