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Show SHOOT'S CITIZENSHIP. Apostle Reed Smoot, so soon as the election returns re-turns were in, threw off all disguises and claimed the United States Senatorship as his property. He was so eager that he did not once stop to think that his claim would supply absolute proof that the Mormon people had been instructed to vote tho Legislative ticket which would in turn vote for him. He tried to hedge a little the next day by saying that he had never asked a man to vote for him. This shows what an amateur he is in politics. All the people know that in every precinct pre-cinct the church authorities, under orders, were working for him, first to get men who would vote for him nominated, then to see that they were elected. How babyish, then, it is on his part to say that he had never asked a man to vote for him. If he was so innocent, on what ground did he instantly claim that the Legislature was, virtually, vir-tually, his property? |