Show REED SMOOT AS GREAT REfORMER Good Roads Man Declares He T Fought Dram Dramatically for Abolition Abolition tion of Plural Plum Marriage 4 EARNEST PURIFIER IS HE VIRTUES ARE PROCLAIMED TO TOt t WONDERING EAST Reed Smoot apo Ue and senator is isone Isone one of the great reformers ot of today according to W V H I Moore Moore Moor is I the individual who posed as a good roads exponent and entered the politic c cal l game with Smoot in the Utah Good Roads convention to humiliate former Governor Hober M Id Wells On the sub subject the Cleveland Plain Dealer ha the following Last year wag wa a 8 busy buey one for President President dent W H Moore oi of the National Good Roads association Uon and his associates He at the tho Hollenden yesterday In their private car Mr Moore and the other ot of the 1 association miles I through states and two territories During these extensive jaunts conventions were held at which the good roads propaganda was spread broadcast The last convention was held in utah and was presided over overby overby by Governor Cutler and Heber M Wells Our canvass and tour of Utah lovering a period of several weeks said Mr Moore gave us a thorough knowledge of its social agricultural and commercial conditions Ye We met metT T the leading men of the moos mons and Gentiles engaged in political and commercial life Ufe We met the ac active f tive and We visited Provo the home city of Senator Reed Smoot and held a convention in the theold theold old Mormon church of that city with over in attendance The deposed j Roberts and Senator Reed Smoot spoke in that convention Wherever we ent we studied existing t 4 Utah conditions ii We met President Smith and ten of cf the apostles of the Mormon church 1 We much of the life Ufe and char character character acter of Reed Smoot We met his C faithful frIends and bitter opponents When we discussed hIs home life Ufe never neer did we find a man or woman Gentile or Mormon even insinuate that Reed Smoot had ever lived or I advocated a plurality of marrIage On the contrary he was the origInal or first or of the church to advocate and congregate delegates at Salt Lake LakeL Lakein L in 1901 front from aU all countries where Mar Mor Mormonism monism is established and in that r important and representative conven convention convention tion hE h stood up and fought the bitter st opposition when he declared That Plurality pf of marriages must forever be from the creed of the Mor Mormon Mormon mon faith He won his great reform battle He vigorously opposed and fought the nomination and election of Roberts who is a Mormon with Plural wives 1 Reed Smoot is one of the great p of the century He has i more mort to purity purify and place the i Mormon faith on a level with retho Metho diem Presbyterianism Judaism and Catholicism than all the apostles from Brigham Young to President Smith th reigning president of the church T r do not b believe the sound wisdom of If the members of the American Amerl an senate will ivill be influenced by biased I tion but upon a thorough investigation of facts Will vote in iH favor of Senator Reed Smoot holdIng his seat |