Show 1 POLYGAfillST ROBERTS A SKULKER To the one who reads only the newspaper news-paper dispatches it does not seem that the Roberts Investigating committee has conducted Us researches In the calm and Judicial manner in which n question I of law should be considered The speech of Mrs J Ellen Foster for Instance though doubtless admirable I In its moral aspect must have been Irrelevant and devoid of anything which could bear upon the case further than I I the conclusipi already prevalent that It < is Inadvisable to haVe a lawbreaker I I a member of a great legislative body I Apart from questions of evidence I however the methods used by Mr Rob I cri < J during the progress of the inves I tlgallon havfs not been such as to con t linn the good Iniiireaalon he made upon iiilI his entrance on the floor of Congress I was well understood then that he was a polygamist that he believed in the doctrine of plural marriages and was not ashamed to avow his marital relations Ills plea that a Mormon husband hus-band had no moral 1 right to abandon the wives and children he had acquired under the old pnuUuo of the church Is I I one which appeals powerfully to chlv nlry and lie could have made his fight I on that line with credit to hlinstMf instead I I in-stead hi ban practically repudiated his 1 I bigamous niarllnl connections leaving It to be supposed that he has been living liv-ing In adultery with his two plural I wives and that the children they have borne him are illegitimate Such action is ns unnmnly as the first contention was gallant and consldeiate Had he maintained his earlier position declaring declar-ing that he had married hi wives in I the full faith of the accepted teachings of his church and that he would not I disovn either them or their children he would have commanded the respect and even the sympathy of people who now I I feel disgusted with bin pusillanimous conduct Loulbvlll CourierJournal Dem e In his argument In his own behalf before be-fore the louse committee yesterday righnm Huberts contended that the testimony did not show that Dr Maggie Mag-gie Shipp Uobortn was his wife In view I of the undoubted relationship between be-tween the two that contention alone stamps Roberts as 1 cur as well as unfit to asaoclaU with manly men or to have a seat In Congress Los Angeles Express 0 9 PolygamlPl Roberts has not improved his stnndlnr by his pelllfogglng arguments argu-ments before lie House commit Ills pleas that plural marrIages were con pulpory and that there are other evils equally as menacing to the American are on a par as to force and logic I I Is I almost a foregOne conclusion that Roberts must Minneapolis Tribune I |