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Show NOT A PARTISAN MATTER. Under the heading "An Altered Case," Mr. Bryan's Commoner has the subjoined: The Omaha Bee, a Republican paper says: "Apostle Reed Smoot has landed on the nomination nom-ination for the United States Senate from Utah with both feet. The other Senators down at Washington may not like his company, but they will not be able to help themselves." A Democrat Demo-crat who happened to be a Mormon was elected to the house. He was denied a seat in that body. Mr. Smoot is a Republican, who happens to be a Mormon. Will the fact that Mr. Smoot is a Republican Re-publican entitle him to admission to a Republican Congress in spite of the fact that Republican leaders insisted only a little while ago that o Democrat should be unseated because he was a Mormon? That is not honest journalism. Mr. Bryan knows that Mr. Roberts was rejected by practically practi-cally the unanimous vote of the House, that he was elected to succeed a Democrat who was a Mormon and to whom there was no opposition. Hence it was not a partisan matter in the least More, Mr. Roberts was rejected because he was an active, persistent and defiant polygamist. The senator-elect from Utah is not known to be a polygamist. but he ought not to be seated because he is an apostle of the Mormon church one of the fifteen men who control the entiie Mormon people in all lands, and that control aims at nothing less than the overthrow of this republic, re-public, and the erection on the free soil of the United States of precisely such a government as were the ancient despotisms of Asia which were the very antipodes of "a government of the peo. pie, by the people and for the people." He should be rejected on another count which is that high in ecclesiastical office as he is, he is still subject to the head of the church in all things temporal as well as spiritual, and his obligation to obey that head of the church is more profound than ncould possibly be his oath of office as Sen. ator, for by those obligations he has expatriated himself and his highest fealty is no longer to the government of this republic. . Finally, he should be rejected because the whole working machinery of the church was put in motion to secure his election solely because he was an apostle, and it was a notice served on all Mormons that if they would seek preferment the only possible path must be through abject obedience to the rulers of this kingdom who founds its claim to rule upon a purported divine concession con-cession received by regular succession from Al-"mighty Al-"mighty God. |