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Show Tkc Mormon Senator Washington (Indiana) Jlornltl. Remarking on what is supposed to be tho situation at Washington with respect re-spect to the Mormon Senator, Reed Smoot, that most of tho Republicans in the Senate are for Smoot and nearly nil tho Democrats against him. tiio at. Louis Globo-Dnmocrnt thinks it "Htrangn that thrro should be a division di-vision on party linos on tins issue. It is not so strange ns it is disgraceful, disgrace-ful, Partisans hang together pretty closelj-. Otherwise thoy would not be partisans, wo suppose. Perhaps wo should not say it. of the dignified and distinguished upper House of Congress, but the probnbilitv is that if Rood Smoot. the apostolic representative 01 the Mormon church now sitting in the Senate, wore a Democrat ho would have just about ns much show oi holding hifl place there as the traditional snow-flake snow-flake would have in Texas. The question ques-tion ought to be settled without reference refer-ence to Smoot 's party affiliations. Smoot pretends to be a Republican. Ifc is prominent in politics now be-causo be-causo the Republican party is in the ascendcnc3 It is the political policy of tho Mormon hierarchy to push forward for-ward Republicans when the Rcpnbli-, can party holds tho reins of government, govern-ment, at the samo time thrusting back the Mormon leaders who are classed as Democrats. Brigham II. Roberts is taking no "interest" in politics now. and Charles W. Penrose, the editor rtl the church paper and one of Smoot s colleagues in the council of Mormon apOBtles, Democrat though he assumos to be, is that thoroughly effaced that his journal, tho Deseret. Newa, trying to curry favor with the administration, administra-tion, is insisting on tho ronomination and tho re-election of President Rooho-volt. Rooho-volt. The News calls itself a non partisan par-tisan paper. Really it holds itself. ready to support the policy or the politician that best serves the ends of the loaders loa-ders of the Mormon church. At this time it is fawning at the President s foot in the hope of saving the church's agent in the Senate. Wo quote again from the Globe-Democrat: It is stranger still ttiat anybody. Democrat Demo-crat or Republican, should favor expulsion. expul-sion. Senator SmooU hns all the ciuallnca-tions ciuallnca-tions for membership in the Sonato asked for by the Constitution. He has committed commit-ted no crlmo of any sort. He lSTnot .1 polvgamist now, and never wns. Nobody has over accused him of being- n polvgamist. polv-gamist. He opposed polygamy even before be-fore his church, through the manifesto of Its head, supported by a vote of its executive council, publicly renounced polvgamy. As a business man, as a hun-barid, hun-barid, ns a father and as a citizen, his roputatlon has always been abovo reproach. re-proach. He holds his seat by as valid a title, mornl as well as political, as any man in his chamber. The Globe-Democrat places too much importance on tho question of Smoot's personal character. If he were, in his habits and private life, the most immaculate im-maculate man in tho United States, that fact would not change the situation. situa-tion. The opposition to Smoot as a Senator is not against Smoot as a citizen, citi-zen, but against Smoot as a part of a church cabal that attempts to control con-trol tho politics of Utah and others of the intermountain States. If Smoot simplv wero a member of tho Mormon church, tho cause would lake a different differ-ent aspect. But he is moro than merely a member, he is one of the dozen men who are tho dominating spirits of this powerful organization which employs tho superstition of religion for political poli-tical and temporal gain. Granted that ho never has been and that his sympathies sym-pathies aro antagonistic to polyganvy, tho fact yep rmains that "he indulges the pol3gamous relationship in others, for Joseph F. Smith and Brigham H. Roberts, one of the principal rulers of the Mormon church and the other next to Smith in ecclesiastic aulhori-t", aulhori-t", each living in open, notorious and defiant poky'gamy, hold their offices in the church through the act of tho twclvo apostles, of which body Smoot is a prominent and an influential member. mem-ber. Whnt nonsense it is for the Globe-Democrat Globe-Democrat to say jn a seriousness that credit should be given because the president pres-ident of the Mormon church "publieb-rcnounccd "publieb-rcnounccd poh'gamy," when at the same time this identical man Smith, head of the church and believed by the ignorant, and duped, members of his church to be divinely inspired, continues contin-ues his pol3'gamous relationship and justifies his conduct by tho assertion that his life with his'fivo wives and fortj'-thrce children is sanctioned by his church and approved by the Al-mght3'! Al-mght3'! A. thief preaching honesty, a liar proclnimihcr the gospel of truth, immorality advocating the wholesomc-ness wholesomc-ness of modesty! Impossible! If one church sought to manipulate, the politics of the State of Missouri, how long would tho stand for it? Yet ; that T'SM the Mormon church is fl0t! t. and in doing so throtieh of comipting influences thu 4B than the blighting effect of tvr corruption which taints thn a few of tho mon who nil L Sm ato, but who, thank goodnpi? l' M olsc than sit there. In another editorial of v f Democrat, printed a week - "wlr assumption that the local 'lii'i of Utah havo it hi th!rN break up tho remaining lnfl tt" the old .polygamiets by pffij polygamists under the Ia-jr tv, i'l they don't, do it. and ihCy ri?e- 1 so until the church hold fmiW shaken loose. Tho Mormon Vr a secret, oath-bound organizati laining a solidarity weU-nirt bio. In 1S57 a company of im some 125 in number, were ri mm through Mormon instigation ana3 Mormon leadership at the Va Meadow. Men, women md (? wore treacherously butcher ono of the crimes of a cenhrr it took the government twenrt' ' to bring to the bar of justice tki of tho church fanatics Trho L and then slew in cold hloon thi $ tain Meadow immigrants, 8nrt the influence of. the church in til 1 of Brigham Young, prophet of u sination and rapine, and the trt of the Mormon chiefs. The laws of Utah were uoi'il for the Mormon hierarchy jui'J, church friends. 4 Our St. Louib contemporary jj:. forgiven for its championship tf on the premise that he, perwyi above reproach. But there is jS for this" insulting paragraph at tho mon and women of tin 2 who look with horror on MoraJ Why, then. Is there a crowds li'i of his (Smoofs) oxpulalon f rom 1 In tho Senate? Because he is tL and a high official in his churtT head and front of his offending hii extent, no more. A handful of bS Utah, supplemented by a fowoj loads of fanatics outside of UuXa their attack upon him even btkk Utah "Legislature elected him, hti his election eeemed to be prohibit' have continued that siseault to tfi) Tt may be that the place has in Mormonism thiB day ii u atcd. But when the president j Mormon church himself hrstajr mits his own devotion to tie 4 sensuousness of the east. Trhat W logically expect from 'his faii When the Republican party and we thank the OiobefDemuaA recalling the circumstance, oai first pronouncements was a dtilin against slaver' and polvjjaniT, " relics of barbarism." What iu', done to drive both thses monitrtrcji from the Amercari continent tui b" the Republican jparty. Bit' work is not 3'qt finished, everj man must admit, whon in h 1 of Our Lord 1.906, fifty years fcti ing tho time when the Repuhhuif entered into the destinies of tot u the chief priest of the MorraoiJ can maintain an oath before 3 ca too of the American Senate ft lives n shameless and an adda life undor tho sanction of Mia and b3' the approval of AlraigMrj Reed Smoot ought to be t'ri from the Senate. Not becauK Reed Smoot, nor yet beeatiM iii Mormon, but for tho reason tk is the direct and unquestioned scntative of the Mormon hierwdj which ho is a part and parcel, i . . i |
