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Show FRANK i STEPHENS I Active in Polities, lint Docs Not Recollect Hovr lie Voted on Important Matter. CITIZENS- MOVEMENT IS jjfl ONLY RAIT FOR GENTILES Criminal Editor Unusually Tame Since Going to Smoot's Hyphen. ! BY MAC. jH ' One of the jukes of the campaign is the attempt of Frank B. Stephens to S petsuadc the people of Salt Lake Ciiv that he is made up of the stuff that can ! lead the public to believe that he can point the way to a needed reform in Salt Lake City. Stephens is as full of ll reforms as Debs, Belva Lockwood, or "Bill'' King. And there is no one who 'IH has accused either of these as being steadfa'st to any principles they havo ;H advocated. iiflfl Have the people of Salt Lake forgot- ' ten when Frank Stephens was on tho (IH stand defending Reed Smoot before the senate committee ! If that is not ample -H proof that Stephens has a very faulty memory about what he does politically. .HH we would like to have him or some of i'l his fiiends cite something that would 1 ho more illuminating. Here, is the ex- '1 tract from the record as it will be ll found in vol. '', pages 370 and 371, of ftl the proceedings before the senate com- il mil lee at 'Washington: Mr. Taylor Brigham Roberts w? a -1 elected to congress in 1S9S? '1 Mr. Stephens I think so. -H Mr. Tayler Did .you voto for him? Mr. Stephens 1.' am unable to sav whether X did nor not. I deliberated on !H that for a long time. . Mr. Tayler You do not know wheth il cr you did or not Mr. Stephens I do not, as I say, at this time know wlmthcr 'I voted the -H straight ticket; but 1 recall that I host- tatctU iH Mr. Tayler lie had threo wives, had il he not? Mr. Stephens Tie was reputed to ;fl have three wives. -1 Mr. Tayler Do 3-011 think it was an Sl outrage that the vague rumors that :;H floated through the air and which only ripened into repute should be developed .H and shown to be a fact that a man with three wives was sent to congress? il Mr. Stephens I never so designated Either Mr. Stephens, was stalling jH while he was on the witness stand, or 'M else he lias so little conception of tho importance of political action that he -H would not be a safe leader in public 'H affairs. Aud this brings to mind the recent '1 fiasco known as the "'Citizens' Reform , Movement. " If there is nothing else to discredit that from the standpoint of sincority. the very fact that Presi- 'dent Nephi L. Morris of the Salt Lake . stake of Zion. chief shouter of the ' "federal bunch'' last year, has sane- :'H tioned it and has appeared on the platform in support of it. That sane timouious saint almost yelled his head -1 oil' last year iu a successful effort to drive Mormon Democrats into the sup- port of the local Republican ticket. 'M I lis minions are now scouring Salt Lake City in an endeavor to persuade. Il Gentiles to support, the Citizens' move- IH mcnt, when he knows very well that . IH at the last moment lie will advise every member of his church to quietly 'M drop' the Citizens' movement and go in VH a body to the church-Republicans. W B It is hard to understand how he ever I W pulled George Lawrence into such a U matter. Councilman Hall got there be ' HH cause lie naturally gravitates toward ll tl-.ings that are anti-Amcricau. Pol it - HH ical principles have no abiding place 'H in his fanatical mind. But George 'H Lawrence has been accredited with reasonably good judgment aud sinceri- ' IPI ty and -iho history of tho Lawrence Llfi family's persemtions by tho Mormon iflffJ hierarchy is too fresh in his mind to KM warrant "any one believing that George W Mt can possibly credit the Mormon leaders "ffl of the Citizens' movement with un- HH thing that looks like genuine desire for mM municipal reform. Senator Siiuot's hyphenated sheet treated the Citizens" movement ojiMto . shabbily, though it's dollars to dime? JH that every Mormon in Hint movement "1 lias already been given to uuderslauct . that that was a part of the play. It mmm was also a part of the plav, no doubt 'H when President Morris look a fall out of tho defunct Smoot "Mouth" for its combination with the breweries and liquor dealers last year. Men in tho church are set apart lo do those things and it may be said that they an H adepts in turning jtiut such a trick as tMMu A good manv peoplo arc commentinp, on the fact that tho "criminal cdi-tor" cdi-tor" of the hyphenated sheet has been pretty thoroughly gagged since ho took the editorial stool in that newspaper; .sanclorum. No one will believe that IH he has exhausted his vials of wrath tH and billingsgate. Such things issue 'H from him as poisonous blood is said te ooze from the pores of an infuriated hippopotamus. He has uiidoubtcdlv boon called off to appease the Demo-crats Demo-crats whom Smoot and .Tackling hoped : to deliver when they tricked Senator MMm Clark into the sale of the Salt Lake , MmU Herald. It was a wise move to ga il the ' criminal editor." Tt was his ma- lil lignant assaults upon every one who ll disagreed with him that had more to do with the closing of the "Mouth" Hum any othe. cause. This, was pre- dieted several years ago and it came to iH pass precisely as foretold. If per-chance per-chance ho sliould adopt the same pol-icv pol-icv editorially with the hyphenated shoot, the owners of that newspaper H will be badly bent if not broke with- Mmm in a shorter time than it took the owners of the "Mouth" to cry , "enough." Tho American rout est "for mayor I seems to be. confined to Lippman and Continued on Pago Two. REFORMER STEPHENS HAS A BAD MEMORY Continued from Pago One. McMillan, now that Mayor Brnnsford has concluded to kcop out of the con-tost. con-tost. A great per cent of tho radicate are supporters of Linpinan, while the McMillan forces are Iargel3' among (he conservatives. At the primaries it will be determined whother or not the ma-jorit3' ma-jorit3' of the Americans want a radical polic3' or a conservative one during the next administration. And it is a toss-up toss-up today as to which side will develop the most strength. If the officers of the Jaw arc not vigilant vigi-lant in searching out the guilt3' ones in the poisoning of the Kaisers, they will not be wortly of public confidence and respect. It does -not appear that an attempt was made to poison that unfortunate man and his wife, but it docs seem that the poison was purchased pur-chased with felonious intent 13' some one, and oven if tho intended victim escaped, there is sufficient ground for action that, may lead to the punishment of sonic despicable wretch. After a flourish and a lot of noise-making, noise-making, Missionar3' Eldredge had to retire re-tire as manager of the Grand theater, and from all reports ho left nothing bohiiul but a bad smell and a large number of unsettled debts. No, Senator Smoot has never yet had the ''goat fever." Even that disease exorcises a sense of proprict3' iis to whom it attacks. Some of tho good friends of President Presi-dent Smith excuse his periodical outbursts out-bursts by the statement that he is an irritable old man. And come to think of it, wlt3' should not a man with five or more wives and a baker's dozen of illegitimate children be irritable? The brand of sin nnd disobedience fo law that rests upon his prophetic brow is calculated (0 keep him in anything but an amiable frame of mind, when he reflects that most men understand him. And, 1)3' tho wa3', will President Smith attempt to entertain Mr. Taft, and if so, which one tif his wives will he have by his sido? No, not even the president of the United States will be given (ho key to (he temple. Kven the great Taft would contaminate that "holy place." |