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Show Vou 3; No. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 20. President Smiths Testimony From the evidence taken thus far that they will get. Hew right to the in the investigation of the charges line all through the Inquiry. Let no that have been made against Senator guilty man escape. If it is a crime to Smoot, it looks as if the question of practice polygamy it is also a crime polygamy would be quite thoroughly to purchase senatorships. If polygamy inquired into. The answers made by means a debauching of the homo, the president of the Mormon church, corruption and purchase and ecclesiasadmitting that he is living with his tical influence mean the debauching five wives, and had had children by of a state. Let us have the truth, them since the manifesto, was no no matter who it hurts. Thus far the doubt a surprise to the people east polygamists seem to be very frank in but it has been generally known here admitting the facts; let us see if the all of the time, and, as President corruptionists, the openly charged Smith states, has been tolerated, even corruptionists; the corruptionists who though forbidden by the laws of this have not denied and cannot deny the state. It is very likely that other allegations made, will be equally as polygamists will be examined and frank. If they are not, there is plenwill make the same admissions. These ty of evidence at hand to convict them admissions will doubtless cause the and perjury can then be added to their same sensations in the east as did other sins. this first, one and the effect will no Probe the matter. Senators, grave infinancial to the doubt be adverse and reverend. Go down to the very terests of this state, for the time be- bottom and let us have the business ing. all exposed to the light of day. Never But this investigation having start- mind who is hurt. The integrity of a ed, we desire to have the same con- sovereign state demands it. The peotinue until the end. Let the inquiry ple of Utah want it. Spare no effort. proceed on this and other lines. We If Utah is on trial give Utah a show believe the senate committee will do to demonstrate that the masses of its duty in the matter. But lest they her people are honest and well inten-tioneand to demonstrate also that forget. Truth again directs attention to the position that it has hitherto those who have been posing as her taken; viz, that the committee should friends and who have profited by her make a searching inquiry into the neglect to guard herself properly manner in which Tom Kearns was should be exhibited in their true light. elected to the United States senate, There is a great diversity of opinion and how church Influence was sought as to what effect the admissions of by politicians of national fame as well President Smith will have on the as those of local repute. Let Tom Sinoot case. It is not charged that Kearns be put on the stand; let W. A. Smoot is or ever was a polygamist. Clark, of Montana, and Saint Louis The charge that he, as an apostle of Kerens, be put on the stand to the Mormon church took fearful tell the infamous story of how a oaths against the national governwas bought and how another ment has been dropped. ,The only was sought to be obtained for the thing that remains so far as Smoot is d, sen-atorsh- ip notorious Perry Heath. Let President Smith be asked how he protested against the election of Kearns and let him describe the efforts that Hanna, Heath and Kearns has made to secure church influence since. It is stated by the press and by the Kearns organs here that it is not Smoot who is on trial, but that all Utah is on trial. If that be so then give Utah a chance. This investigation will mean nothing else than a great cleansing of the moral atmosphere if permitted to proceed on those lines. Dig up everything and let us have done with it. As we have before remarked, the innocent need fear nothing; the guilty deserve all to be the concerned appears connived at he that charge the polygaand encouraged mous relations of a number of his brother apostles and other high church officials. The Protestants hope to so connect him with those living In that relation that the senate will consider him particeps criminls and unfit to occupy a seat in the senate. It is very unlikely they will succeed. The people of Utah have never heard of any actions or words of Smoot tending to show that he aided or abetted any one in breaking any law. If others have broken the law they did it on their own responsibility and how Smoot can be held responsible for the Puice 5, lii04. acts of others is not clear to tho minds of most people. The emphatic declaration of President Smith that no polygamous marriages have taken place with the knowledge or consent of the church since the issuance of the manifesto, all but a few cranks and fanatics believe to be true. The Protestants have three cases of what they claim to be polygamous marriages since the manifesto, (only three in fourteen years, and that after the most thorough search), and they will fall down utterly in their attempts to prove these cases, those of Abraham H. Cannon, Tcasdale and Mathews. There are more cases of bigamy, polygamy, or whatever it may be called, population considered, in every other state in the Union than there has been in Utah since the manifesto. That those who had a plurality of wives before tho manifesto have continued to cohabit with them was well known and not denied, and it was well understood that such should be left undisturbed. They are fast dying out and in a few years very, very few will bo left. The great point is that polygamous marriages have ceased. President Smiths frankness and straightforwardness on the witness stand was very favorably commented on even by those opposed to the seating of Smoot. Ills willingness to tell all will add greatly to the weight of his testimony. o STATE POLITIC8. If any Republican thinks for a that Perry S. Heath is down and out of the political game, then that Republican is mistaken. Perry is hot and he foot after a "vindication, wants to go as delegate to the national convention just as badly as he did before he resigned the secretaryship of the national committee. Ho believes if Utah will only send him as a delegate that the country at large will look upon the actions of the state as being an evidence of the good faith the people place in him. That if elected he can say to the party: You see the people in my adopted home decline to believe any of the cargos made against me and they have sent me here as an evidence of the confidence they repose in me. Now as a matter of cold fact the political situation in this state, in so far as the Republican party is concerned, is badly- mixed. With the nine Republican, members of the city council making political capital for the Dem mo-me- - nt 5 Cknts ocrats at every meeting; with tho scrap between tho Kearns and factions going on; with the Smoot investigation in progress, a thing that is bound to cause disaffection principally in the ranks of the party in power, which Is responsidle for the said Investigation, it is going to require a great deal of cool headed work this fall to keep tho stato from casting its votes for the electors named by tho Democratic state convention. The course taken by the Tribune and its evening ally Is not doing the party any good either. But there is a method In the work of the Tribune. That paper is not egging on the nine councilmcn In their silly fight against tho mayor because it believes it will do the party any good; but because it will tend to demoralize it. Perry Heath does not want a united Republican party in this state; he wants a disunited party. If tho organization can be split up Into several factions the better chance he will have in winning. A united party means that Perry would be relegated; a disunited party means that he might win by a scratch. Truth has told the Republicans in tho past what would happen to their organization if they continued to tic up with Kearns and Heath. Every prediction that Truth has made has been verified, as its readers well know. Truth states that the decadence of Republicans began in Utah when the praty elected Tom Kearns; when the Tribune passed into the hands and under tho management of Heath. The party has been losing ground ever since. Is it not so? Who can stand up and intelligently deny that statement. Truth will add that just so sure as Kearns is permitted to dictate its policies and urge its members to acts that are nothing short of political suicide, just so sure will the party go down to defeat. Although this fall the organization will have the prestige that attaches to the national campaign; although in many instances the voters may be led to forget the minor offices in their enthusiasm for the head of the ticket, yet in the aggregate the masses will turn from the party of their choice because of its undeserving leaders; its tainted generals and will turn to the Democracy for relief. With this fellow Glasmann standing as the leader of tho crowd that professes to be the disciples of Lincoln, up in Weber county; with Kearns, Heath, Bruce Johnson and the unsavory gang repudiated at the polls by anti-Kear- ns |