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Show SOMETHING FOR MR. SMOOT. So our ancient friend from Idaho, Senator Fred T. Dubois, has joined forces with the wicked wick-ed Philistines, against our beloved fellow citizen, Senator Reed Smoot, and would hurl the estimable estima-ble Provoite back against the watch towers of ZIon. Senator Smoot is now in a position to say with that other great statesman, the stabbed Caesar, Et tu, Brute!" It is not necessary to turn any mental somersaults somer-saults to arrive at the reason for the Idaho senator's sen-ator's antagonistic attitude towards the Utah apostle. Mr. Dubois attributes the disastrous defeat de-feat of the Democrats in Idaho a year ago, in an election which involved the naming of a United States Senator, largely to the political influence used in the southern portion of the state by Apostle Apos-tle John Henry Smith and ore Apostle Cowley and to the church whisperings of one Stake President Pres-ident Budge in Bear Lake. Re believes that these Republican potentates were there as the direct di-rect emissaries of the church president, and believes be-lieves that their influence alone was sufficient to give the Mormons the balance of power in the state. If such influence was used, Senator Dubois felt the same mightily, as witness his precipitate flight from Idaho on the afternoon of the day of election, when he could see the attenuated shad- B ows of coming defeat. He and the Democratic B leaders in Idaho claim that the church influence fl went farther than that, and that the fine Italian B hand of church diplomacy was witnessed in the fl selection of Mr. Heyburn as United States Sen- B ator after the Republican victory. They go so B far as to intimate that there was a thorough un- B derstanding between Senator Heyburn and the B president of the church, and that when votes B were needed they were taken from Mr. W. E. fl Borah by the church and presented to Mr. Hey- Bl burn. B This may or may 'not be true, although thero K is considerable evidence that there is much jus- H tice in the contention. At all' events it givesSen-H givesSen-H ator Dubois an unctious oppoiUinity to retaliate B on the church by wielding his bludgeon in favor H of the unseating of the Mormon Senator. Further, H Senator Dubois is in status quo where he has H nothing to lose politically by antagonizing the B Saints. He is in the senate for the long term BM and probably believes that he has no chance of M succeeding himself, even if the Democrats were B victorious in the state at some time in the hazy BM future. H So there you are, Mr. Smoot. Probably this BB will enlighten you in your lone fight against an BB avalanche of adverse petitions and senatorial ani-H ani-H mositv. By the same deductic u, you will prob-B prob-B ably receive the earnest and strenuous support Hl of Senator Heyburn. |