| Show A 4 FES PRESS COMMENTS S Indianapolis Journal Mr Ir Smout Smoot la lf not hot a inlet mid and never haY has been lie He liar has ha never inner hail had but Jut ono one wife wire AH All far as its thus this quit ion IR Is concerned therefore lie III hums has not hot violated the tho law and Is not lIot BulJ ct to 10 tiny penalty or atlon The I hI fact act Unit t he IH is a II Mormon mimi and that poly holy polygamy gamy was wai w s formerly taught tumid and IIII practiced heed by hy the tho church and Is U still practiced ProC by Homo comae of ot Us Its does doe not affect Ills hit standing at lit all The only question que that could arise arl o In Ids him case on this thU point Is hi not whether ho theoretically believed In lii It II hut but whether ho lie pi 11 i act Iced It AH At It ItIs Itis Is IH not claimed that ho lie liar has ever hat had moto one olle wife ho Ito Is im immune mune on OIl this point Hut But It u Is l claimed lined that as its nn an apostle In lii the tho church Mr Ir has han taken an nn oath or assumed obligations to tho the hutch In Inconsistent consistent un with his hid obligations as 1111 a States Senator This IH Is It a 1 political ical question and entirely distinct IlI traIn from tho the phase of ot tho the question and from polygamy If It It can be he shown that lull Mr t Smoot has hn assumed n lion to tho time Mormon Church which III la lathe the thu possible event of ot a n conflict would override and nUllity nullify his oath an RII It a i Senator to support tha Constitution of ot the tho United States he lie ought not 1101 to hold haiti holda a n seat leat In thE Sonata nato This seems to 10 bo be botho botho betho tho teal point ut Issue |
