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Show SI Senator Smoot $' ' Tho papers Inst Sunday wcro full "flfc i of Sonator Smoot having swiped his j M " Krent Arlington Memorial Day speech. -'s. " " lll fnco of 'nu fllHt dispatches It '3' appealed that tho senator's critics hud '" succeeded In making a pretty strong j if case. However, he comes back tho jf" following morning with a pretty sat- Jjfc Isfactory nnswer that tho "poem of liisplrntion" and tho description of tho v ' ' battle taken from Darling's orntlon y1' Wuro "ot cl"lmt)(1 as n'8 ow" uut r wore shown In parentheslfl. ; Vi' 'r,1 senator's address wns printed A u" t'lo government and a copy sent to ' ' H'ls paper. A copy of the National Tribune, tho organ of tho old soldiers, f. iilso contains a verbatim conv of ilm 1 p " oration, together with the addresses ) in full of President Wilson and Spenk- H ' Clurk, mado on tho samo occasion. P: They bear out Senator Smoofs con- Rf lontlon, showing tho parts complained 111 i of '" quotation marks, m W suspect them Is an anninnB back Be of all this hub-bub, for Senator fit Smoot s uddrens was tho culmination if J of ono or tho greatest victories ever TU ,w,m " nly one over his enemies. It Si' '1 fr',,sh U'o minds of nil how most ft!, of tne ro'orm forces In Amerlcn IJI w"ro irrnycd against the sonator Sli maintaining his sent. For sovoral If y?" tho light wns waged, gradually Hi wining strength till It appeared that II j Utah might looso nil of Its ropresen- I I tntlveo. Tho great chargo mado ngalnst f J him nnd about tho only ono nttompted if ' to bo proven In tho months of time II tnkon nnd hundreds of volumes of i testimony given, was that ho was an M , allon and u representative of u troa- : ' fpnnblo organization. So groat wns 'hfllr success nnd tho pressure that iWn.1 br.0UKht ,0 DCur tlmt almost ouo- half of tho great United States son- n , ntors voted to oust him from his Heat. H and wo suspect thnt had it not boon for IB tho lnlluonco brought to bear by ProBl- D uont Roosovolt, sevornl sonntors who H ..otc'!.,n ,,,B fnvor woul'I havo voted 13 L' l'.th0,r wny ,und Woul( liavo changed KB tho llunl result. I Now comes tho Mordacl parallol. Instead or being tho tronsonnblo ron- reaontatlvo of nn alien organization, it ho Is given tho sent of honor on tho k 1 "!oat Patriotic day, In most loynl of I! , ' .. u11 organizations, In their eolobmtlon 1 K .n . ono ni08t snered spot In nil II y America. Hfiv .uThR Qrand Armjr of tho Ropubllc Is Mi ' tho ono organization composed or men JtK ' who coiiBccratod tholr Hvcb for freeing free-ing uom nnd tho llfo of tho nation. Their mm ; ono groat day of all ilnya Is Momorlal Wm f- Dny:n,ld their Mecca, their Bhrlno of gm Y worship, to which all faces turn in MM rororonco, tho center of all patriotic mm Inspiration, la Arlington Comotory, mlM whoro nro burled so many of their Wm comradoB who gnvo tholr lives thnt Mi tholr country might llvo. On this H snored spot on this sacred day this Eft most patriotic organization Invited mn President WUflon nnd Speaker Clark Mwl to mnko uddresses, but Senator Iteed I Smoot of Utah was Invited to bo tho WHS orator of tho day. In Introducing the Wf prosldont of tho United Stntes, Com-gS Com-gS mnudor Glceson simply Bnid, "I have Hrir tho honor to present ns tho' noxt ISM sponkor tho Prosldont of tho United mm. Statoa. When tho chairman Intro-i Intro-i s duccd Senator Smoot ho Bald, "I now mm havo tho honor of introducing to you mm as tho orator of tho day n man who Is i no Btrangor to you, a patriotic stntcB-U stntcB-U man, who by his nets and votes has H proven thnt ho Is n truo friend or tho H votorans, nnd intends thnt they ahull mg nt till times bo ralrly treated, honored aB und sustained by tho nation. I pro-m pro-m sont tho Hon. Iteed Smoot, United M StatoB senator from Utah." IBl .V.1"0 'nklB this llttlo deaortatlon. HRI which Is not intended to intluenco any M ono In his vote, wo will nlso inako a Hi , row remarks about a recent assault If our county commissioners, which Wa wo think, too, is without Justification. H A certain paper has recently worked am ltseir Into u rury becauso tho commls- me slonors hnvo boon making somo good B rondB In tho north end of Utnh county, VV ulloglng that Provo and vicinity Is MM bolng noglected, nil of which Is rot H puro rot. mm Truo, tho commissioners by grading, . H rolling and Hprlnkllng hnvo made the mm best county road over constructed bo- I twoqn Lohl nnd Amorlcnn Fork. Hut H for years, while Provo was riding a across tho bench on a smooth shale j ; county road nnd to tho mouth of Provo mm canyon on n boulevard constructed J under tho supervision of n government MM expert, nnd nil at tho expenso or tho B county taxes, Lohl and Amorlcnn Fork W cltlzons woro travollng ovor county , Mi roads up to tho hubs in mud. or ro- ,' ' m cunt years tho county commissioners El hnvo at lpast tried to bo ralr. Wo B bollovo In n squaro doal. Provo ubuuI- ' ly gets ovorything In sight, but np- WM pnrently the present commissioners m aro trying to do tho squnro thing. So much for Senator Smoot; so much for tho county commlsslouors. " o |