Show UTAH SENATORS OVERLOOK SLANDERS Without ing His Prays for the Legislators Whom He On February Paden of Salt Lake City opened the Utah State Senate with The Utah state senators probably overlooked Paden's past In any other under the Paden would be branded as the greatest and most sauve hypocrite and Utah-hater and enemy in If Pad-en's prayers had been answered since he came to every former Mormon who supports his would be in every Mormon voter would be and the people of Utah would be through the world as and as lewd and sensual but Paden's prayers' are like the sinkers on fish they go down and not is again invited to open the Utah senate with prayer it is well to let the people know just how much the Utah Senators forgave in him whom they permitted him to call on the Almighty at the opening of one of the Says Jurors Decide by Here is a small portion of the record On November Paden said in the Philadelphia all the thousand and one phases of this Mormon matter the one which most interests the investigator is the principle of present-day At first glance this seems merely a matter of doctrine or of church When I was told in Salt Lake City of its practical bearings administration of the it became a different thing Here is a way a Gentile business man put it to I do not Gentile and by a member of a Protestant mean a for this man is not who not a In Utah everybody Mormon is a Paradoxically Jews are there even said my a Mormon is on trial for a crime with twelve Mormons in the jury and in some parts of the state the people are almost solidly The evidence is But along conies one of the priesthood who testifies that lie lias received a that the accused is settles The latter-day revelation is accepted as final by a good and see how this peculiar tenet enables them to nullify all laws and sacred I tell continued growing somewhat if the mons once get control of the judiciary in this state and have everything I shall hire a special train to carry me and my family beyond the borders as quickly as steam can make a locomotive Clear Case of In the above what an traitorous falsehood Padden people He x tion a case in all the history- of Utah where a culprit was released on a Mormon where a revelation was ever used to- influence a jury or and yet he said it is present-day revelation that has a- practical bearing on courts of He cannot mention a Mormon judge who ever let a revelation interfere with his He- further says that the Mormons of everything else in this state but the How about the Salt Lake City wholesale jobbing More Old Paden stated at a. large anti-Utah meeting in D. polygamous living instead of dying out as claimed by the Mormon Church has been more practiced in the last five years than in the twenty-five previous On February 1907 in Paden succeeded in getting the follow- t Ihfe Presbyterian Ministers' Association of Philadelphia its profound appreciation of the-efforts of Paden ito save our country from the grace of retaining in the United States Senate an apostle of Mor- monism its blasphemy of God and its defiance of the laws of the Think of Paden offering a prayer before the Utah State who had just re-elected to the United Slates Senate a man claims defies the laws of our j At an early date we i shall publish a general statement the Presbyterian preachers Utah sent broadcast in Octo- L This Here is another statement from as the Philadelphia Press dubbed The reporter said in the i marvel j the matter especially as he recalls the old days I the Mountain Meadow massa-A J ere and other crude exhibitions uj Mormon temporal and i j as he told me of the limits to RJ which the endowment house oaths Sometimes he would read from his voluminous array of substantiation of his i The judicial cast of i mind strong within but even he was careful and couSer- I have heard blood ling statements' from missionary concerning Mormonism and they evidently were not half iU as well posted as this soft spoken man who looks' much more like V a poet than a Some-ill thing of this sort was mentioned reasons for he have to go H back and live with these The man in Philadelphia or New York may utter all sorts of gen- eral condemnations of Mormon- ism without ever being called to but every word I speak g in the east through the press will II straight back Salt Lake f where I must 's statements are now hack Lake and if he does not 1 substantiate he will be If as- a bearer of false wit-h. and a traitor to the women and children of A Crafty 1 jn Paden went-to New Pennsylvania 1 arid other states to help keep Senator Smoot of the This was after the John L. Leilich had sworn that Senator Smoot was a Paden tried by innuendo to impress upon the people that the John L. Leilich told the In the-Philadelphia Press of Paden said I give paragraph in its' the charge that Smoot a polygamist Paden said that he himself was an he has no proof that Smoot is- a polygamist and neither he nor the Ministerial association is willing to make or endorse such a Utah consider is remarkable if not incredible that a man should be a member of the Mormon apostolate and yet not live in polygamous The majority of the other twelve apostles and President Joseph F. says known to be doing Said On November in an interview in the the reporter is Apostle Smoot a have never said was the not say until I have had in my possession evidence which would be accepted by the senate committee on elections and I have heard and I have also heard and some persons make the unqualified assertion that he but the Ministerial association refuses to endorse any such we cannot see how Apostle Smoot can live his religion or go on to perfection as a member of the supreme body of the church without doing as most of his fellow apostles openly practice He would only be in accord with the Dres-ent teachings and practices of his church were he to do Revenue the The John L. Leilich made an unqualified statement that Senator Smoot was a polygamist Paden tried to him on circumstantial evidence and make the world believe It is to all that not a married There are many places where they do not employ married Suppose that Paden should apply for such a and someone would Dr Paden ask Senator carried And Senator Smoot should am an heard tins and I have and some persons I have heard make the unqualified statement that he Utah consider it that a man incredible if of the Ministerial member should be a association and yet not in the married how Preacher Paden we cannot see can live his religion and replenish the or go on to perfection as a member of the Ministerial association without doing as they all do f-they are all married except Preacher the T- God said it is not good that man should be I will make him an helpmeet for And the much married Solomon said in his a wife a good and favor of the and for that reason people believe that Preacher Paden a wife somewhere perhaps out in Preacher Paden cannot be living in accordance with the laws of God and the association unless he has a Senator Smoot could gets this last statement verified by every Presbyterian old maid in Salt Lake |