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Show WAITING FOR TOE SM00T VERDICT. ; It is expected that the rote on the question of Senator Smoot's expulsion will be taken on Wednesday. Wednes-day. The result cannot be anticipated. It may he that politics may interpose and retain him ; it may be that the directness of the evidence may prevail 1 It is a, matter of much concernment to Utah. If he is retained the blow will fall heaviest upon his fellow churchmen the rank and file in Utah. By it they will be made to "see that their only chance for success, financial or political, must depend upon their obedience obedi-ence to the priestly rulers who control Utah. , It will have little effect upon Gentiles, because some of them have never sought anything but a square deal, while the others will be quite content to accept favors of the leaders in future, as they have in the past. If Mr. Smoot is denied his seat, it will be a notice to all his brother ecclesiastics that they can no longer do the two-horse act with the Government, thai; they must be . either" Americans or non-Americans, and as non-Americans cannot claim through a slave election a seat where the lawmakers of the Nation Na-tion sit. 1 If he is retained it will encourage Joseph. F. Smith to continue, through the Juvenile Instructor or in any other way that may be agreeable to him, to direct this people how to vote, this year for Republicans, Republi-cans, next for Democrats; to continue his direction j of Legislatures and City Councils, to the more ostentatiously osten-tatiously manifest his power over the politics of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. ) j In some States office-holders are obliged, under the law, to make public the amount of their cam- paign expenses. It is too bad that no showing is made (of what Mr. Smoot's expenditures have been. Not in the election, for that was r foreordained, but the amount that has been necessary to retain his hold upon his chair, in . the Senate1. That really .ought to be given, because then it would be easy to give the proper credits how much to the Lord, how much to the tithing fund. Of course we never can obtain j that, for-"Kings never make an accounting to themselves." them-selves." j A protest was filed against seating Mr. Smoot. Every indictment in that protest has been absolutely sustained. This being true we can all await the re-. re-. suit philosophically. If against Mr. Smoot then it will be auspicious of a better day for Utah; if in his favor then it will mean that the work of emancipating emancipat-ing Utah must go on. |