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Show 1 A Poor Nominating Speech i q ENATOR BADGER, in nominating Apostle j Smoot for re-election to the Senate, told how the apostle had won not only the friendship, but the active support of the President of the United Slates. That is a fact so interesting interest-ing that it seems a p'ty that Senator Badger did not elaborate a little on that portion of his theme. "Was it a political of religious trade? Was it a mere vulgar bargain to see that the state, undet priestly orders, should go for the Re-, Re-, publican candidate for President in 1908, or did it go further, into the deeper religious mysteries of the Latter-Day cieed? 1 1 For instance, did the Senator undertake to Wr have-toe President, by proxy, baptized for a f baker's dozen of dead Saintesses, for Theodore l in kingdom como, that, arriving there, he might renew his arguments against race suicide? This thought is suggested by the well-known fact that no one has ever done anything that we have ever heard of, anything good, we mean, that the President Presi-dent has not sought to try it. Or was the contract merely to have a few (l baptisms to save the President himself, lest that r old Dutch Reformed creed might, as he lived it, I , prove insufficient on the final balancing of the ft books? Jb Or was the bargain simply to put the Theo- f1 dore of the United Statqs in a.ccord with the Theo- m dore of Abyssinia, in case, in the pursuit of F game, the President should enter the dominions of that dusky descendant of old man, Solomon, who, in his day, was something of a trump him- A self? i Senator Badger must see that in the crucial . moment he let down badly in leliearslng Sen ator Smoot's accomplishments, and achievements. f It is quite possible that a six-act comic opera might be written around the Senator's grand- I stand play to win the President to his side, and J in this the member from Cache certainly made a f mistake, because when some Elder Penrose, j twenty-five years hence, with the unswerving F truthfulness which for forty years has been such a distinguishing feature of the writings of our Apostle Penrose, undertakes to depiefhow, when the friendless Apostle Smoot was assailed by enemies in Washington, he had the divine gr.ico f and grand strategy to enlist the great Theodore In his behalf, and after that It was easy; there I should also be filed a bill of particulars, showing how he did it. Was it for value received in this world, or for a certain rewaid when a strict ac-" ac-" counting is to bo held above, where, in case our v now President gets the worst of the balfuice- ! sheet and calls St. Peter a liar, It won't go, un less ho can pioduce other assets? These aie (epoch-making days, and the charm which Senator and Apostle Smoot used, through which to make the President of the United States, see the ciown- Ing virtues of polygamy, and which caused Sen ator Hopkins to fall down in woiship before the a purity of the soul of the senior Utah Senator, L should be magnified, that the work of redeeming ' this sin-bowed earth may be hastened, even if in r the Senator's merchandise n Pi oyo. theie is included in-cluded an article of Valley Tan, Which would, if applied, take the hair off the back of a dog. I We confess to disappointment in Senator I Badger. We had hoped that his speech, nomi nating Senator Smoot to succeed himself, wo-ild f tmagmujjaamvggmMtamaaaet r T-ltr -jiTrr'f T" " ' ....... ": bubble over with divine giace, and make clear to the wicked Gentiles in this region why Senator Smoot, with God, made a majority. He told us in his speech that the contest over the Apostle's seat cost the United States more than $75,000. He might at least have told us how much it cost the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to be "wonderfully vindicated." |