Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-10-15 | Page 6 | Buttonholed Legislators

BUTTONHOLED LEGISLATORS. Ir. Worthlngton What, if anything, had you lo do with bringing about the passage of the blil by the Idaho legislature, legisla-ture, culled the sugar bounty bill? Apostle John Henry Smith I do not remember to have hud anything to do with It, only as a stockholder In the concerns. con-cerns. There was an effort made to secure se-cure a bounty by the legislature. I In no wav labored, as I remember, for Ic. or had" any part but In BUTTONHOLING LEGISLATORS ON THE SUBJECT. Testimony at Washington, page 2D7. That was all, wasn't it? And how littlel All that Joseph F. Smith and the other leaders of the church did at the recent conference was to "buttonhole" "button-hole" tho saints in this campaign for tho re-election of Apostle Reed Smoot to tho Senate, and of Elder Joseph Howell to the House of Representatives. Representa-tives. t But John Henr3"'s buttonholing in Idaho appears to have been more exquisitely ex-quisitely effective, even if that was the only part he took in the passage of the sugar bounty bill. Is the concerted hierarchical hier-archical buttonholing of tho saints at conference to have a similar effect in success so far as Reed Smoot and .Joseph Howell are concerned? If so, what, think -ou,is the poor "Demo- crat" to do'? In Utah ho has no home, because over- time ho imagines that ho has found a soft spot, the soft spot is taken away from him by the ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical powers that be. In Utah he hns no comfort, for as soon as ho-selects ho-selects a candidato who he thinks would bo able to place him' on the political polit-ical oasy street, the prophets send a man to said candidato to ougago in prayor with him, a.nd after the little seanco is ovor the "Democrat,'-' poor fellow, has lost his savor. But it must bo understood that this is in no wiso to be considered- as political polit-ical activity or interferonco on the part of tho brethren. The-, as Apostle John Henry Smith intimates, aro morel' buttonholing but-tonholing the political situation here not actually influencing it.