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Show Smoot Election. Some of tlie State papers take a rather pessimistic view of the election elec-tion of Mr. Smoot to the Senate. Some of them are of oplnon that there will be "thunder a popping" when he attempts to take his scat. "We do not think that any thing very serious will occur. Of course the Ministerial Association Associa-tion will make Its usual appeal to the country in which it will point out the awful danger that thieatcns If a Mormon Mor-mon is allowed a scat admidst the august au-gust Senators. Petitions will be prepared pre-pared In Salt Lake and sent to all of the Kndcavor.and Y. M.O. A. Societies with requests to procure signatures, and names will be sent in by the millions, mil-lions, tho Senate will be told how many miles of them there are and how keenly every signer senses Ino awful calamity about to fall on the nation if poor Siroot be given a seat. AVe will wager Mr. Smoot never half realized how dangerous an clement he was In the community. Tho ildlculousncss of tho whole thing will be apparent enough to the Senators and after they have listened to a few lampant speeches on the menace that Morinonlsin Is to the country, and piobably heard some testimony tes-timony of the awful oaths Smoot has taken against the government; they will conclude like scnslblo men that a belief in Mormonism does not disqualify disqual-ify a man from cxcieislng the rights of citizenship in our common country. And outside of a few disappointed office of-fice seekers and a few ministers who have failed In trying to make converts from Morinonlsin and arc jealous of Its growth, this decision will be appiovcd by the country. |