Show WESTERN WHISPERS Tacoma Ledger Some Home of ot those Mormon Apostles must bo be accomplished diplomats diplomat to have hae kept I the tho peace of their numerous families Washington Standard It Is h now proposed to expel Senator Smoot because o Apostle Smith has hM live five neweN whew weN nod and Apostle Somebody Else hns has I 45 15 5 children Lund Wash Wa h Lender Leader cl clIlIa IlIa Ihie Smoot Snoot Investigation lute has become i inn an nn Investigation of the tho Mormon ChUrch It has hail b been on cn established that the tho pa limo practice of ot polygamy did not RO go out of ot fashion with the conferring of statehood upon Utah and amid the el adduced also o sho shows s that the au tics of f that state tn Ie have ha e been strangely blind as ns to what was vas going on about them Mr Smoot however stilt still appears to have havo a n right to a n seat In lii time tho Senate Ida Tribune I i As n a matter nuttIer of ot fuel fact there Is not In Idaho a fairly Intelligent mann man who I has ha any attention to public nf nt fairs who did dill not hot know knol before Irest President dent deo Smith said It Il as well ns us ho now nol nolt t that thai practically all tho the Mormons who wha Vh took plural wives prior to the manifesto lila continued to 10 cohabit with them thern It was si os as virtually so nominated In limo tho bond And If It those polygamous are chargeable with violet violat violating ing In tho the letter of ot n a public pledge those thome who arc are now no seeking to 10 disturb them may mo with equal Justice bo 10 charged mild and condemned for tor treachery fo to the tho spirit of ot a II covenant just ns as binding and little less formal and notorious Ashland pr Or Tidings The Tue opponents of oC Mr Smoot have beEn attempting to show that as ns nn an apostle of oC the Mormon Church his imie sote Is III controlled by that organization cal that consequently ho he ought not to sit In tile the t 10 Senate They tire oro relying even een more moro upon an nn au outburst of ot popular tee feel feeling teeIng ing log against the Utah Senator as us an nil oil oin da chat representative of n a church whose practices ft have been revealed In time till testimony of oC Its head hend President Joseph JosephF JosephP F P Smith the tue seer revelator und cod pro uro prophet phet phot There Is no need to prove any charge If It of the tue Senators should decide to expel Mr Smoot they can carm do HO without moro more ado While name iome of ot the testimony In iii the thO care has hns hail had time the effect of oC alienating tome Ollie of oC gen Een olor ator Smoots colleagues from his sup support support port it h is doubtful If It two ot of tho the members will go co against him The Thu at nt attempt attempt tempt of Dt Refuter Benator Dubols Dubois and others to 10 work wort political advantage through tho tio proceedings Is III not Injuring SmoOts chancre chances of or retaining his seat I Seattle Mall and Herald It s seems Items ems that there thero Is a 1 tendency to lose lopo tho point Involved In the tIme Smoot senatorial content while perusing l tile the testimony of ot the tho various Mormon lI The Tho I all flee Ileo thinks that some of ot tho tile eastern newspapers are hiding having mild convulsions over oer the tho testimony ot of President Smith of ot the Mormon Church In which he admits that Hint tin ho hf Is still stilt a 1 polygamist t with live five separate families Some of ot these pa papers papers pers maintain that Senator Smoot should be expelled because he Is an nn of oC officer fleet In nn atm organization which permits Its omeerA and members to live In Iii open violation of or tho the law mis and ond defends them In such Much lawbreaking This however U la a II narrow view 11 of the tho question and andas andas as thE tho case Is stated 11 by President Smith there thero are extenuating circum circumstances circumstances stances After plural marriage had been de lie declared dared elured Illegal by the tile court of oC last resort tho the Mormon Church In Ill ISM ISDO Issued on an manifesto forbidding such nuch marriages according to the tes tell testimony of ot President Smith no such have since place been performed It II time tho consent or knowledge o of oC the tho Church There Thero were however many Mormons with plural wives who found they III must either violate the law lais or cr abandon time the families they had imad al ut always ways regarded as nil legitimate and legal Under such sueh circumstances It Is III not strange that many of ot them thorn preferred to face the tho law rather than discard tI their own children and abandon mothers whom they lied had always considered Ie le legal gal partners According to the timo num number ber of ot hns hus been I educed through natural causes from several to 10 only a n tots fow hundred the tho only ones JIleK 1110 remaining are arc those who vim tOok look plural wives prior linac to t 1890 2810 All of ot this testimony however hoVer seems to hwo but little II lIe hearing upon tIme the case at Is III Issue Issue sue Rue rot foi Senator Smoot can caim hardly bo be behold hold held for tor tIle the acts ot or other members of ot his church It If It can all bo Im shown that ho he Is III II a violator nf rut the tile law how against t polygamy he lIe should bo he expelled from froni thu senate hut hilt ills his moro lIero position In the t o church which countenances po Is lx not nol to 10 warrant his 1111 expulsion He lie tins holt even oen tho the right to believe bellec In polygamy all ns a n divine 1110 Institution tion lion for tor ho he Is not miot amenable to the Iho law how IIII If It ho lie refrains from teaching or oi ing It Under the charges filed loll against Mr lr Smoot there thoro are just JURt two grounds upon which he could be bo justly Justl expelled FIrst if It it cnn caim be bo shown that ho imo proc tico polygamy H If It It ell can bo be shown that hat t his position po In lii tho ttO church Is such as to 10 with tho the free tree exer of t his imis duties dUlies as nil n a senator So far tar tho time proceedings of tho time senate committee seems to have little or noth log ing In to do IJO with tho the charges char filed against t Mr h Smoot |