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Show WAS NOT CHURCH INFLUENCE. Tresldent Joseph F.. Smith In his address In tint Salt Lako TaJiernaclo last Friday den lid that Hon 11. II. Hot ciin was In any enso of the word a church candidate Inst fall or that his nomination or election was duo to thu fict that he l.i a tiicml'cr of tho dominant dom-inant church. Preslduiit Smith said lu part: Brother Huberts was tho candidate or his own party; ho w is elected by bin own parly, and the chinch had nothing loiln with It any more than Ii had In do with the u'eetlou of a representative representa-tive Irom Now York Cite. It Is a matter of regret that, some of thu press or iho State contlnuu to assert as-sert that Mr. Huberts was elected as a "Mormon" and that Church Influence was lesponslblo for his election. In point of fact wu think thero arc very few pe.iplu in the Statu who honestly liclievo ihat tho church had anything to do with It. Mr. Roberts was nninl-noted nninl-noted as the choice of iho Dituocratic p irty, nnd cur own experience loads us to bedevu thai hu lecolved proportionately proportion-ately more Gentile than huilld Mormon voles It Is noieworihy thai his largest majorities wem received lu iioo-Mormon i-omunitiMcs. This cry of "church Inlllleni-e" should ho stopped. It, does no good to anyone and ig doing" Incalculable In-calculable Injury to Utah. |