Show EDITORIAL NOTES 0 THE SMOOT CASE in view of the fact that so much ie is bi be ing published by the papers throughout the state regarding the candidacy of the hon hol reed smoot for united states sen ator we give pace space to the following edi tonal sentiment entime nt which is 18 taken from the bozeman Boze raan mont chronicle chroni ath e a paper which has ever been loyal to the p principles r of democracy and wh eh ie edited by man who has no interest whatever in dominant church of utah the ministerial association of salt lake city has determined to commence a campaign against apostle smoot who appears to hare have a safe majority in the next legislature in favor of his election to represent tep reseat the state in the united states senate there teems seems to be no doubt in any persons mine that he will be ole 1 ted tei but encouraged by their sue ceis cess in un beating mr roberts who wai was elected to congress from utah and who had several wives which he claimed to have married before the admission of utah as a state the anti ant mormons are after apostle smoot and hope to haye hiye him expelled from the senate because he Is to a it mormon they are likely to find they have undertaken der taken an impossible talk task there is one very vital point of difference in the two oases cases to begin with apostle smoot only has one wife and is not accused of ever having exceeded the limit the theory on which mr roberts oberta lt was ex belled from congress was that he had broken the laws of utah it will be dim cuatto cult to show that apostle smoot has broken any laws of utah or any other states ai As far as can be seen from the purport of the dispatch from salt labs the op politics position to apostle smoot rests solely on the fact that his religious faith dees not suit his critics he says that he was an american citizen before he was a mor mon men and the answer seems sufficient he ile anno announces inces bis his candidacy for united states senator openly we always thought t that the lower house of congress very much exceeded the croper exercise of their powers when expelled from cong congress poss mr roberts who was the choice of the p people eople of utah as their represents presenta re tive but the house is not the senate the latter body is far more conservative in its action ard we imagine that they will tiep 19 be likely to respond to any effort on the anti mormon to un seat bin tf if he is once elected by the legislature of utah according to its jaet last issue the miner is 11 not tot altogether with the pros pres ent nt county administration we would like our readers to demera ber tha by paying tor for the reporter one year in advance they get the semi week ly tubule free tor for the same period every question of importance before the american people was handled with the writer a charitte characteristic ristie frankness and clearness in president roosevelt i a ms men sage saga to congress tuesday ty the war which has been conducted by the reporter for the last year against the amny peddler peddlers etc who visit the camp regularly for the purpose of disposing of all kind kino of goods has at last resulted in the bassage by the council of an ordnance ordis ance which it enforced will protect the home merchant against out side gratteri grat the new now ordinance ordin anee is not ae as complete as we wold would nave have like to have seen it but wa w must moat be thankful for small favors now ow it in is the duty of the city officers to see that this measure is enforced to the letter |