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Show A THOROUGHBRED. When Elder Hober M. "Wells is presented pre-sented by Elder James T. Hammond as the leader of an opposition fo Apostle Reed Smoot in tho Republican quorum of tho church, those who are experienced in tho ecclesiastical procoodings and tho political arrangements and rearrangements rearrange-ments of tho church are compelled to smile aB do oldtimors when an ancient ,-joko is cracked at. tho now minstrel I show. Is it seriously supposed for even ono serious moment that Elder Hebor M. Wells can obtain the Republican nomination nom-ination to Congress If so, then it must bo understood that for some roa-son roa-son Aposjlo Reed Smoot desireB to have Elder Wells in preference to Elder Howell at tho scat of government for Elder Wells could not obtain tho nomination nom-ination from the Republican quorum without tho full and free consent, nay without the hearty co-operation of Apostle Reed Smoot, And suppose El der Wells wcro to gain this scorning nscondancy for tho moment, were he to apparently defeat tho pretended Smoot candidate for the Congressional nomination, and were ho to bo eloetcd nnd sent to tho Halls of Congress by a trusting constituency; is it to bo imagined imag-ined for ono moment that he would bo any less amenable than Hon. Joseph Howell has been to tho wishes of tho hierarchy? Whoever thinks so merely imagines a vain thing. . Remember lhat Heber M. Wells was Governor of this Stnte of Utah for nine years, and during dur-ing that tlmo ho never signed a bill which tho hierarchy desired that he should veto, nnd never vetoed a bill that the hierarchy desired that he should sign. Enough is enough. And sometimes that kind of enough is too much. Of all-around volunteered dovotion and drafted defense, compelled submission submis-sion nnd free-will support, ever given by one man to a sot of bosses, tho people peo-ple of Utah can point with a kind of shame-faced prido to the record of the one Governor of this State np to the time thnt John C. Cutler Btepped in and over-crowded the Governor's chair. It is a part of the inside (and not such vory close inside at that) history of the church and State conjunction in Utah that Elder and Governor Heber M. Wells did not know up to within a fow hours of the time of his world-resounding world-resounding veto wa3 published, whether ho was going to Bign tho Evans bill or whether ho was going to veto it. The friends of tho measure thought that he would sign it, and were, like himself, him-self, waiting the preparation of the messago in which would bo given to tho world tho weighty reasons for his signature. The opponents of the measure meas-ure thought that ho would "veto it, and wero, like himsolf, waiting tho preparation prepa-ration of the message in which the equally strong reasons would bo given why it should not be permitted to become be-come a law. The men who wanted it vetoed and the men who wanted it signed (that is, a few of tho highest ones of each class,) went into a socret conclave, known as a meeting of the apostles with the first presidency; and out of that conference came the determination deter-mination that tho bill should bo vetoed, nnd with tho determination came tho veto message. In speaking of tho Evans bill, of course reference is made to tho so-called Evans polygamy or anti-polygamy bill, as it was alternately called, which was passed through the Utah Legislature in the year 1901. With such a pleasant gentleman as Governor Heber M. Wells as a competitor com-petitor for church direction and desire for being directed, even the plastic Mr. Howell is a mere alfalfa fed horse compared com-pared with a trained and properly nurtured nur-tured race horse. As an obeyer of tho will of the priesthood, Elder Heber M. Well3 is a thoroughbred. |