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Show The promise now is that the chief effort of tue Smoot investigation committee will be to determine whether the Mormon church is or is t a menace to our Government, in the matter of controlling the votes of its adherents. Ap. r Smoot's answer led up to this very question l' ' that Is the real question to be decided, the rei question that should be decided once for all. We all know that this dictation has been exercised a thousand times. We know that the claim of Its rightfulness is under the tenet' of obedience in the Mormon faith. The trouble will be to establish absolute truth ot its exercise for the matter is hedged about with secrecy and will be clinched, if needs be, by direct perjury. Still we would recommend recom-mend that the manner of Senator Kearn's election elec-tion be brought before the committee and a showing made of how he, his absolute fitness for the place not then having been understood, drew the royal prize. |