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Show Catholics and Senator Smoot. (Union and Times, Buffalo.) Anent the agitation for the unseating of United States Senator Smoot, of Utah, because of his connection con-nection "with the Mormon Church, a Washington correspondent says : - "The corridors of the Capitol are thronged with women, assisted by a sprinkling of reluctant men, who intercept unwary Senators to treat them to. a piece of their minds, or call upon them in their committee rooms to lecture them at length.' The only way the Senators can save- themselves, when these swarms bear down upon the Capitol, is to go in hiding in some quiet retreat and remain prisoners prison-ers until the visitation has' passed by." The war on Smoot is certain to fail of its ob- I ject, unless its main purpose is to secure notoriety for the childless women of the Mothers' Clubs who are the chief promoters of the attack on the Mormon Mor-mon Senator. The arrant hypocrisy of the movement move-ment is so apparent that it is the laugh-stock and scorn of official Washington. The correspondent quoted above writes further: 'Thousands of petitions and memorials on the subject have been presented . in the Senate by the different Senators (by request), but not a single one, by any Catholic individual, society or parish. A prominent politician of the Xorth told me, referring re-ferring to this matter, that the dignified position of the Catholic Church was in agreeable contrast to the hysterical behavior of these fanatics" The evcr-ccnscrvative old Church couid not have been expected to lend itself to the fancy of the hour in the Smoot case. There is no sincerity in the attack at-tack on Smoot, and there is no case against him that will stand the test of any court. |