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Show Needs A School-Master. We stated last week that Senator Smoot came to this town two years ago, named the officers to fill the various stae offices, named men whom none but he could have thought of, that he, with the approval of the first presidency, forced the nomination, and election of those men solely by the grace of God; that is, that the rank and file of the Mormon church were given instructions that enough of them should vote for those candidates candi-dates to elect them, and they would have been elected if it had required every Mormon vots in the state. To this the Smoot paper asks "if It Is fair to write so that the other fellow does not know what you are trying to say?" The old Yankee way of answering questions was sometimes to ask another. In the same way, we ask the Smoot paper pa-per if it is fair to bring men here who cannot understand patent facts that everybody else does, and for every plain statement of fact made, for them to demand drawings and specifications, ana if possible a blue print, that they may be erlu-cated? erlu-cated? If the editor of our contemporary will go to its stockholders, that is, the chief ones, and ask in confidence if what the Weekly said is not true, we will get enlightened. If they decline, let him go to Governor Wells. The governor win tell him. The governor had the audacity to believe be-lieve that he was so popular that oven the Mormon Mor-mon church could not beat him for the nomination nomina-tion two years ago. The people wanted him. It looked as though he had a walkover. He was told by a friend two weeks before the nomination that he was butting his head against a stone wall; that he would be beaten in convention, not by a large majority, but by enough, and that he would be beaten if it took every Mormon vote ln the convention to beat him. He did not believe it. Up to the morning of the convention he was con-fident con-fident and he went into that convention positively certain of the nomination. But he was just beaten by about ten votes. The News that evening told how gallant a run he made, that he wasn't beaten much. But the governor knew that night that It was arrange! to just beat him, and that had It been necessary every Mormon in that convention would have voted against him. It is a little bit pitiful for Mr. Smoot's editor to come here two years later and ask what a paper pa-per means by stating some simple facts which transpired two years ago. |