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Show SMOOT'S LACK OF STAMm f The Chairman- In your churdi , Li omy Is there any method by whujr?!, president can be deposed? nicl1 Apostle Smoot Yes; there la The Chairman What? ' i .. Apostlo Smoot If ho commit nv i ohrlstlanllko act. or in any way A1 , or form does anything that woti'viT him for that place, he can be triM lk the same- as any member of tho IV Ti Tho Chalnnan-And If found 1 p fe' AposUe Smoot And if found SFt can be removed from thc cluircl 1 ' Tho Chairman And from hE' ..J, Apostlo Smoot And from hg Ji dc-ncy. Testimony in Snioot cai ?v til umo 3. pa go I'SC. TM t It is notorious, as indicated In testimony of Apostlo Reed Smoot lb$ self, that ho had never visited fij' homes of Apostlo John W. Tavlor u v Mathias. F. Cowlc-. but that be 2' nevertheless convinced that they fp living iu violation of tho law and etj In' thc manifesto. B3' the same evid' j1 we are told that Smool has visited multiple home of Joseph ?. Smith, ty that he professed not to know 'tv Smith was in the same status with t& t apostles named. In this saa0 mony we are informed that Smoot oii' complaint against Taylor and Cm)(t J'f. but that he kept quiet about Smitl'j iff transgressions. 1 igfi Nov.-, why this discrimination? Over four years havo passed iaj i" Joseph F. Smith, president of the J'-mon J'-mon church, confessed to all the weiK that he was guilty of unchriitUii!j $f conduct, because he declined to retf ' obedience to tho alleged reTelatitKp from the Almighty. At that tiss jf-p seph F. Smith also admitted titt had done things which unfitted bii'us9 for the presidency, on account of ifffcfo fact that ho had brought into tcctJo$lf(& eleveu unfortunate illegitimates. Hiltj1 has neither been tried for his fcllta 5bc nor investigated as to his pereoaol tt'Kr, ness to retain the church president;. ifjsV Apostle Smoot knows that Smiti jjj''3'. not a fit man to Bit iu tbo htfEg: place appointed to his church. IfiSf, had no other evidence than his cjXf. visits to the prophet's home afford, iJ?' would be porfectly aware of the (Ji situation; but he has tho confessions ml tho man himself to bring home coiiniI'E tion. Why docs he not move atrial; Smith us he says ho proceeded apiaJigj Taylor and Cowley? It is uielea fibhn Smoot, as an apostle, to plead thitjc47 is tho duty of thc bishop to mlitlte investigation against any member fc thc hierarchy, because his pretended site iii tion iu the Taylor and Cowley eajjf13. casts that evasion to tho four tomtit t The facts are these, and wt 4rf&j5j Smoot, Smith, the Dcseret News, orMjbaH other mouthpiece of the lawbreaken.'iy prove to tho contrary by any isasoujlCj, evidence: The Nation, and CocpjiiJwK were satisfied that tho Mormon chuifc-,j was harboring new polygamiEts Jfc' winkiug at new polygamy. Smoot, apostle, and consequently a TCspouMptatV officer of tho church, had been fartA1' upon this Slate by the polygamom t Jji'-C" as United Stales Senator. Hu it-, tlcship made him a party loallf&eK punished polygamous crimes in 'toJWfcjjjJ mon church. Under the circum-littAfis j, his Seuatorship was in grave- fljf1 A sacrifico must bo made iu hjpwjjBeit cal show against polyganiists lo tho apostlo-Scnalor Taylor and f&a Icy, notorious for their offensw, 'M-lo 'M-lo bo used as political whiicvraii W; Smoot. Tho daub was applied, atd "whited sepulchre" was Eavcd tp.,, pob'gamist master. And a coinpouent part of tho buiHfcjif ij' is the immunity of Smith from afoMfc by Smoot within the church, alK1 security of Smoot by Smith afi3iutA political enemy within. HBW |
