Show r REUJIIER POLITICIAN Rev J Hyatt Smith Defines Ills Position Now York 28Rev J Hyatt Smith in his sermon at Brooklyn yesterday said have been 1iculd for ° moving my church to Washington This is no place lor a reply to sues attacks I am going to Washington and shall preach there exchanging with Mr Chittenden God bless him tI do not speak as a politician but as a citizen clergyman and congressman I have never spoken of my election here before but now i will say I was not elected by a party but by > the people and I shall cast my votes regardless of party ties for or against each bill according to the dictates of my cunscience I did not make the pilgrimage pil-grimage to Mentor recently as has been stated I went there upon the invitation of Grfield In my interview with the presidentelect I told him I believed he was going to be president of the whole country not of a section or party or a faction of a party alone but of the whole people His two largo eyes looked into my face like twin republic as he replied While I am uperintendentof this national farm I shall allow no man to interfere with me and by tbe grace of God it will grow the largest crop of prosperity peace and happiness the country bas over known I told him I had no favors to ask and was too small to extend any I had imply come to say that while he was president and I was o congressman if I could serve him in any way should be proud to do so I have been ridiculed for saying thi I do not care as I repeat re-peat it I did not say it as a partisan and I hold that what aid I can extend the President as a congressman I shall extend and it i is due him that I should so long as he is president not of a party but of the whole country When he ceases to bo that he should bo dismissed as unworthy of tho support of anyone I expect to preach lure nearly every Sunday and if I find congressional work interfere with my duties as a minister hall resign m7 seat Another man will do my pastoral work for me |