Show 0 a THE ROBERTS ROBARTS CASE I A Dishonest Fight Denver Pe v Post Tho Tro opposition U t IA Roberts was as entirelY entirety partisan In the th beginning It was rots rein reinforced forced by religious prejudice and soon a wave wave of ot horror was was made to sweep over Ver Vert the t country countr people pro protested protested protested tested h the hundreds of thousands against Roberts They gave their hell representatives representatives an opportunity to assum atU assume a forgotten role of ot righteousness by making a vicarious sacrifice of Rob Roberts Roberts Roberts erts on the altar of purity The dishonesty of tire the fight on Roberts can be easily seen It Ji Ii lIlt 1695 he was a can cen candidate 41 to for congress At t that time th the lead era ers of or the Mormon church In Utah had agreed to deliver th t the state to the Hcan part paTh They The fulfilled their contract as was known they Would do 00 Roberts Ro ts was waa opposed op by Republicans simply be e because because cause a Democrat that year ear though just justas justas justas as much a polygamist then as now In IMS conditions had changed The silver had made so strongly Demo Democratic mo erotic cratic that even the tb large vote at the die dic dictation tation of orth the tho Mormon church leaders was Insufficient to turn the state into the Re Republican Republican publican column Roberts was nominated and the right light on him was made because Of his I polygamous practices undoubted undoubtedly u r ly in 1 the h hope ng that the tt g Gentile ie uv vote could d be concentrated against him ond hd the tim timorous timorous timorous orous Mormons as well Wt ll blurred bluffed into opposition O Os s to him Roberts Robt however never neter was the actual choice of the Democratic party part leaders They opposed his nomina nomination tion but without success They Ibe support supported supported ed oil him on hl hit promise to explain all the charges against Mm him This he lie failed felled to dond do doand doand and nd having so s failed h ho will receive little consolation from his hla former political friends at home As stated the time method of his expulsion was unconstitutional He Re had all there of or a representative and It is surprising that so 50 many southern south Demo Democrats voted against ag his even being beine bel allowed to take the oath of office Southern Dem Darn representatives t have In the past h bout been ousted from the house h in numbers C Cr the Republican majority needed in increasing creasing r I This i W they seem sem rt to have forgot forgotten ten ton The Republican side of course cour e voted as told Meanwhile President McKinley denies d having knowingly appointed polygamists to though a Presbyterian feio minister of Logan Ut Utah 8 wrote t three b times protesting againSt the t appointment of a polygamist and has bat tue replies of ef the I presidents secretary In acknowledgment off of 0 the letters An Outrage 4 t Washington Post Pest There Th re 1 l no lawful l way for preventing a a dutY duly elected and properly credential ed representative in i congress from taking his seer seat s t Mr Roberts of Utah appeared at tho capitol on the first Monday in n De Dc December cember comber last with as a good a title to a seat seal In i n the house as aa any member of that body bod The Post Po holds wIth the Hartford Courant nd nU with the best t jurists in lb the United d States State that as us Roberts had all aU the sos con constitutional qualifications stopping him his himon himon hison on the threshold old was illegal needless stupid and an outrage on ott some somE thetis ands anda Ot 01 qualified American vo voters rs As to tc tche the t he precedents t the Courant that with a single exception they date from frets stormy storm times Urn that saw sew many astonishing astonishingly ly l y foolish things hi done by excellent ex eliet but Il J excited men e with h a maximum of good motive anti and minimum of sober consid considers ra Roberts Paragraphs Helena Hei nu Independent While WhUa the Republicans Republicans I of the house are declaiming In I stentorian tones against Polygamist Rob Roberts Roberts Roberts erts those in the senate senat are defending defendini the presidents compact sustaining polygamy polygamy amy am undisturbed in the Sulu Sum islands 18 and ami ant paying b the expenses of the sultans harem baron t tout out of the public purse Boise Statesman Stat IL lL H Roberts now understands that the American Amer peo pee people people pie have hav no toleration for fee polygamy When Utah casts about for a man to elect elea eleato to the vacant seat se t she will ill have to be careful to select one against a whom can osa cannot n not be laid lard the charge charp that has ha C Roberts Butte Butto Miner Roberts really ought Jo it J have known better than thao to t try tI jo to win pu with it three queens queen against a st a house hoOse full of ot o jacks jac Chicago Herald Mr Littlefield i of Maine riddled the tha case against th tie the a seating of Roberts till It lost every sem ll Jt j blanco blance of legality right and j justice ff It I Imay l may still be bolstered up by hysterics but bus It Is It difficult to see roe how any MY congressman con concan can cart believe beHove that reason Is la on the side of or orthe o othe the opponents of or admission Butte Miner The precedent set t in the tb Roberts case is a dangerous one oue as ita has halt ha frequently been pointed out before It I places in hi tha thu hands bands of or a reckless re majority the question the title of men me elected to represent their districts in eon con congress gress giess my the simple force fores of numbers numb rob many man constituencies clett of their representation In the house It fa re not the Ute way wr ww fr the tho constitution contemplated house honce should exercise Its prerogative of expelling a a member |