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Show ; : CRK!;i:rr ALS TO : CniTE WEST ;T7EE!j Has Outlined Ko Plans for Future ; Acti:n, Lut Expects Ex-pects to Meet Scnic Opposition Op-position In VfasMnitcx " Ignoring the protests against his election elec-tion to the United States Senate, Apos-- Apos-- tie Reed Smoot will leave for Washington Washing-ton early next week and will present his credentials as though there -were no protest Senator-elect Smoot, who was seen at the home or Mrs. Chloe Eldredge, his Lake stake, denounces the ministers In Strong terms. 1 . i "The denominational preachers are back of this protest," declared Mr. Cannon. Can-non. "It is signed by some business men and others, it Is true, but they were worked up to it by these! howling dervishes of ministers. Don't I know the breed? Wasn't it a pack of sectarian secta-rian fanatical preachers of the same tripe who drove me out to this wilderness wilder-ness years ago, an orphan child, and those with me, hoping we would perish In this wild country? The protest is , the same old issue of lies they have always al-ways urged against us. If they had their way Reed Smoot, nor myself, nor any other man of our faith would ever l be aHowed to hold an office, because we j are Mormons. j "Do you know what they did? This , crowd of canting ministers came to me 1 and asked me to subscribe to their fund for finding homes for orphans, or something some-thing of that kind. . It was this man Wake, I think, who approached me. I asked him who was back of the orphan fund scheme, and he said It was the denominational ministers. 'What,' I said, 'do you expect me to give money for your orphans? I was a poor orphaned or-phaned boy once, and your crowd drove me out across the wild plains to this desert country where they hoped ' I would perish. And now you dare to ask me to subscribe to your fund?' "The protest should have no effect whatever, and It will not. The Senate of the United States is too great and too sensible a body of men to be moved by any such stuff as that. Mr. Smoot has as good a right, to his seat as any . man in America, and he will get it, I too.- . iuumci-ni-ian, jui prior o nis aepar-ture aepar-ture for Provo, denied that he had been in conference with the first presidency of the church. He haJ been attending to his business affairs. Sir. Smoot 'a Statement; - ; 4 ' Regarding his future movements, Mr. V Smoot said: . , . . ., ( "The protest will make no difference with my plans. I ehall go to Washington Washing-ton and present my credentials Just as I have Intended to do. I have outlined no pl&ns for the future. I can't tell what I will do until I get to Washington. Washing-ton. I expect to go some time next . week, but have not decided on a date. I wilLhave to see what the situation is there." 'Do you anticipate any opposition?" "I really don't know what the situa-. situa-. . tlon is there. There may be some opposition. op-position. I presume something of the kind will come up, but I don't know tinyining aoout it. l expect to take my seat m the Senate, and do not look for any 'serious interference. I see no reason why there should be; Nothing can be . brought against me excepting that -I am a member of the Mormon church. , ; Friends Among Gentllea.: , "In a, business sense I have never questioned 'whether those with whom I have conie in contact were Mormons 9r Gentiles. . Some of my warmest frienda are among the Gentiles, and I. have always dealt honestly and fairly with, every one. The statement made. In one of the papers that I came up' today and was closeted with the presidency presi-dency is untrue. I came up last night and went to a party. This morning I attended to several pressing business rnattera which needed my attention, and a large Bhare of my time this morning was taken up with the executive board of the woolen mills.' "In all the - business interests with which I am connected there are" always al-ways Gentiles, and in these matters the church question is entirely eliminated. elimi-nated. I never inquire whether a man . is Mormon- or Gentile if I have deal-v deal-v ings with him, and I fall to perceive how it can enter here." . . ; Senator Loose's Views. State Senator C. E. Loose; who managed man-aged Apostle Smoot's campaign for the Senate, spoke .strongly of the signers of the protest yesterday. He voiced the sentiment of Apostle Smoot's supporters support-ers when he said: "The signers of the protest are merely mere-ly trying to besmirch the fair name of Utah. They are basely slandering the . State in which they live. Their statements state-ments with reference to bad faith on the polygamy question are false. If Senator Smoot could be as false to the interests of his country as these men are to .'the ' interests of their State, I would do everything in my power to keep hlrn from being seated. But he is Incapable of such perfidious and traitorous traitor-ous conduct. . - "I am not a Mormon, so I am able to speak without prejudice. I know Reed Smoot well enough to know his church connections will not interfere with his duty toward his country. He will be true to his country and his oath of office. I regard him as being as true a patriot as I am, and that is saying a whole lot, for I will take off my hat to no man when It comes to devotion to my rountry." Apostle Smoot returned to Provo last night. Cannon Scores ministers. Angus M. Cannon, president of Salt |